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1991 Richard Thorpe director (MGM), dies at 95. 
1991 US minimum wage goes from $3.80 to $4.25 per hour.
1991 Warsaw Pact officially disolves
1991 Martha Graham, US, choreographer (Appalachian Spring), dies at 96.
1992 Juanito soccer star (Madrid Real 1977-87), dies at 37 in car crash
1992 NFL decides to stay with 17 week sched instead of expanded 18 games.
1993 Alan Kulwicki, stock car racer, dies in plane crash at 38
1994 Leon Degrelle, Belgium general, dies.
1995 Cheryl Waltz, author/film producer, dies at 50
1996 Alfredo Nobre Coast, PM of Portugal (1978), dies.
2009 Croatia and Albania joined NATO.
2011 After protests against the burning of the Quran turned violent, a mob attacked a United Nations compound in Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan and killed thirteen people, including eight foreign workers.
2012 Plane crash in Western Siberia results in the deaths of at least 31 people ( UTair Aviation ATR-72)
2013 9 people are killed by a suicide bombing in Tikrit, Iraq
2014 NATO suspends all practical civilian and military cooperation with Russia.
2017 Bob Dylan receives his Nobel Prize for Literature at a private ceremony in Stockholm.
2017 Chinese leaders announce plans to build city in Xiongan New Area, 3x size of New York.
2019 Japanese government announces the name of a new era 'Reiwa' for the next Emperor, Crown Prince Naruhito Learn More >>
2020 US President Donald Trump says the US Strategic National Stockpile is almost depleted amid widespread shortages of medical equipment to fight Coronavirus COVID-19
2020 [COVID-19 pandemic] China reports 130 asymptomatic cases of COVID-19, its inaugural reported asymptomatic cases
2020 In this year, [COVID-19 pandemic] Yemen's internationally recognised government releases more than 470 of its prisoners amid concerns of the spread of the virus in Yemen's overcrowded jails. The United Nations Human Rights Council has called for the release of all political prisoners
2021 Seven democracy protesters convicted for unauthorized assembly in Hong Kong including Martin Lee and Jimmy Lai.
2024 Seven aid workers from World Central Kitchen are killed in an Israeli attack in Deir al Balah, Gaza, prompting condemnation and an apology from Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu [1].
2024 Israel attacks the Iranian embassy in Damascus, killing 16 people.
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