1988 The U S Supreme Court rules that police can search discarded garbage without a search warrant

1988 US Supreme Court rules trash may be searched without a warrant

1989 Russian President Mikhail Gorbachev and Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping meet in Beijing, ending a 30-year rift between the two Communist powers

1990 Dominican Republic President Joaquín Ricardo Balaguer re-elected

1990 Sammy Davis, Jr. entertainer died on this day

1990 St.-Amable Quebec, fire breaks out at Quebec's largest tire dump (3 million tires) near Montreal; rages for four days before being put out.

1991 Queen Elizabeth II becomes the first British monarch to address the U S Congress

1992 "Smells Like Nirvana" by Weird Al Yankovic hits #35

1992 Polls show Perot, Bush & Clinton could be in a deadlock

1992 US space shuttle STS-49 lands (maiden voyage of Endeavour)

1993 Farmer Sugeng finds 1.2 million year old Pithecanthropus IX skull

1993 Judd Nelson pleads no contest to kicking Kim Evans in the head

1993 Süleyman Demirel elected President of Turkey

1994 Jacqueline Onassis admitted to the hospital for cancer treatment

1994 Joaquín Balaguer (86) elected President of Dominican Republic

1994 Tennis star Jennifer Capriati arrested on possession of marijuana

1995 Japanese police arrest cult leader Shoko Asahara & charged him with Nerve-gas attack on Tokyo's subways two months earlier

1997 Brandi Sherwood, (Idaho) replaces Brook Lee (Miss Universe) as Miss USA

1770 The Dauphin of France and Marie Antoinette get married

1804 Napoleon declared Emperor of France

1920 Switzerland joins the League of Nations

1929 The first ever Academy Awards (Oscars) are held

1985 Sinn Fein wins its first seats in the Northern Ireland local elections

1905 The birth of Henry Fonda, American oscar winning film actor

1955 The birth of Debra Winger, American film actress

2005 Sony officially unveiled its PlayStation 3 game console at an E3 conference.

2005 George Galloway appears before a U.S. Senate committee, to answer allegations of making money from the Iraqi Oil-for-Food Programme.2007 Nicolas Sarkozy officially became President of the French Republic after taking over from Jacques Chirac.

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