1992 First Belgian in the space, Dirk Frimout on Atlantis Space Shuttle STS-45 (Atlantis 11) launches into space

1992 Sudanese Boeing 707 crashes on mountain Hymettos at Athens; 5-6 die

1993 Ezer Weizman elected President of Israel

1994 "Carousel" opens at Beaumont Theater NYC for 322 performances

1994 F-16 collides with C-130 Hercules above AFB in North Carolina, 120 die

1994 Robert F Kennedy Jr divorces Emily Black

1996 16th Golden Raspberry Awards Showgirls wins

1996 Eastenders star Michael French is reported to be a homosexual

1996 Laura Davies wins LPGA Standard Register Ping Golf Tournament

1996 MTA raises NYC bridge tolls to $3.50 each way

1996 U.S. astronaut Shannon Lucid safely transfers to the Russian space station Mir from the U.S. space shuttle Atlantis for a planned five-month stay.

1997 69th Academy Awards "The English Patient", Tom Cruise &Frances McDormand win

1997 Australian parliament overturns world's first &only euthanasia law

2000 Two 18-year-old boys are arrested in Britain on charges of breaking into e-commerce Internet sites in five countries, stealing information on more than 26,000 credit card accounts and posting some of it on the Web

1926 The first Safeway's Supermarket opens in Maryland, USA

1887 The birth of Fatty Arbuckle, American silent film actor

1930 The birth of Steve McQueen, American actor

1947 The birth of Alan Sugar, British business Tycoon (Amstrad)

2005 The Tulip Revolution in Kyrgyzstan reaches its climax with the overthrow of president Askar Akayev.

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