1994 4 Arab terrorist founded guilty of bombing the World Trade Center

1994 Space shuttle STS-62 (Columbia 16), launches into orbit

1994 Toronto actor John Candy dies at 43 of a heart attack while filming Wagons East on location in Mexico

1995 Blind teenage boy receives a 'Bionic Eye' at a Washington Hospital

1995 George Foreman loses WBA boxing title, refusing to fight Tony Tucker

1995 Michael Johnson runs world record 400 meter indoor (44.63 seconds)

1997 Brazil Senate allows women to wear slacks

1997 Comet Hale-Bopp directly above the Sun (1.04 AU)

1997 President Clinton bans federally funded human cloning research

1997 Zeya Start-1 launched (Russia)

1999 A military jury in North Carolina clears a Marine pilot of reckless endangerment charges when his jet severed a gondola cable in the Alps, sending 20 people to their deaths.

1999 Retired US Supreme Court Justice Harry A. Blackmun, author of a 1973 decision legalizing abortion, dies in Arlington, VA, at age 90.

1789 First Congress of the United States held in New York

1861 Abraham Lincoln becomes the 16th President of the United States

1959 Pioneer 4 becomes the first American spacecraft to flyby the Moon

1980 Robert Mugabe forms Zimbabwe's first black government

1678 The birth of Antonio Vivaldi, Italian composer

1924 The birth of Marlon Brando, American actor

2005 The car of released Italian hostage Giuliana Sgrena is fired on by US soldiers in Iraq, causing the death of one passenger and injuring two more.

2005 United Nations warns that about 90 million Africans could be infected by the HIV virus in the future without further action against the spread of the disease.2006 The final contact attempt with Pioneer 10 receives no response.

2006 Prince Sverre Magnus of Norway was christened by Bishop Ole Christian Kvarme at the chapel inside The Royal Palace in Oslo.

2007 Parliamentary elections take place in Estonia and in Abkhazia.

2009 e International Criminal Court (ICC) issues an arre warrant for Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir for war crimes and crimes again humanity in Darfur. Al-Bashir is e fir sitting head of ate to be indicted by e ICC since its eablishment in 2002.

2009 e International Criminal Court (ICC) issues an arre warrant for Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir for war crimes and crimes again humanity in Darfur. Al-Bashir is e fir sitting head of ate to be indicted by e ICC since its eablishment in 2002.

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