1986 Soyuz T-15 carries 2 cosmonauts to Soviet space station Mir

1986 Space probe Giotto encounters Halley's Comet

1987 John Gotti is acquitted of racketeering

1988 14th People's Choice Awards Fatal Attraction, Bill Cosby win

1989 27th shuttle, Discovery 8, launched, first woman to do the countdown

1989 FDA orders recall of all Chilean fruit in US

1989 US space shuttle STS-29 launched

1990 Nicholoas Braithwaite elected premier of Grenada

1991 Exxon pays $1-billion dollars in fines & cleanup of Valdez oil spill (Prince William Sound, Alaska)

1992 570 die in a Turkish earthquake

1992 Martina Navratilova & Judy Nelson settle their galamony suit

1993 Blizzard of '93 hits north-east US

1994 33.3% of Austria votes for ultra-right FPÖ

1994 Cuba Godding Jr (26) weds Sara Kapfer (26)

1994 Oil tank/airship crash at Bosporus (huge fire/15+ killed)

1994 President Mangope of Bophuthaswana deposed

1995 9th Soul Train Music Awards Boyz II Men, Anita Baker win

1995 Anti fascist Kazakhstan anti-parliament forms

1995 Hungarian Forint devalued 9%

1995 Istanbul police shoot dead 16 Alawitische demonstrators

1996 At Dunblane, a thirteenth century village on the edge of the Scottish Highlands, forty-three-year-old Thomas Hamilton bursts into the gymnasium of the Dunblane Primary School with four guns, and opens fire on a kindergarten class. Sixteen children and their teacher, Gwenne Mayor, are killed before Hamilton turns the gun on himself

1996 Sri Lanka beat India in World Cup semi as riots stop play

1927 The British army ceases using the lance as an official weapon

1930 Pluto discovered

1938 Nazi Germany invade Austria, making it a German Reich province

1855 The birth of Percival Lowell, American astronomer

1860 The birth of Hugo Wolf, Austrian composer

1884 The birth of Sir Hugh Walpole, English novelist

1939 The birth of Terence Brady, Playwright and novelist

1939 The birth of Neil Sedaka, Popular singer/songwriter

2005 First round of Central African Republic elections.

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