1985 France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island

1987 Gary Hart quits democratic presidential race (Donna Rice affair)

1988 François Mitterrand elected President of France

1988 Mike Tyson crashes his $183,000 Bently on Varick St in NYC

1989 Paul McCartney releases "My Brave Face" & "Ferry Cross the Mersey"

1989 US space shuttle STS-30 lands

1991 CIA director William H Webster resigns

1993 16 year old Keron Thomas disguises himself as a motorman & takes NYC subway train & 2,000 passengers on a 3 hour ride

1993 Lennox Lewis beats Tony Tucker in 12 for heavyweight boxing title

1994 500th commentary by Andy Rooney on 60 Minutes

1994 Ernesto Pérez Balladares elected President of Panama

1994 José Maria Figueres becomes President of Costa Rica

1994 President Clinton announces US will no longer repatriate boat people

1996 South Africa's Const Assembly adopts permanent post-apartheid constitution

1997 Tea Leoni & David Duchovny wed in Greenwich Village

1902 The volcano Mount Pelee, in the Caribbean, erupts, killing 30,000 people

1911 Iceland gives the vote to women

1933 Gandhi, in India, begins a hunger strike in protest against the British

1945 Victory In Europe Day (VE Day) declared

1950 American General MacArthur becomes comander of the UN forces in Korea

1984 The USSR and Warsaw Pact countries announce they will boycott the Los Angeles Olympics

1698 The birth of Henry Baker, English naturalist

1884 The birth of Harry S. Truman, 33rd US President

1926 The birth of David Attenborough, English director

1940 The birth of Peter Benchley, British Author

1946 The birth of Candice Bergen, American actress

2007 Devolved government is restored to Northern Ireland, with Ian Paisley as First Minister and Martin McGuinness as Deputy First Minister.

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