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1990 Liberals and Parti Quebecois team up to pass motion rejecting any modifications to Meech Lake accord; hours before Newfoundland rejection. 
1990 Newfoundland Legislature votes to rescind support for Meech Lake accord
1990 Nancy Hawkes, (1946 best dress woman), dies at 73
1991 Former child actor Adam Rich arrested for breaking into a pharmacy
1991 Bill Ponsford, cricketer (Test avg 48 22, 1st-class avg 65 18), dies
1992 Britain Radio Authority licenses Virgin and TV-AM radio licenses
1992 Futurist/author Isaac Asimov dies at age 72 of heart and kidney failure in New York.
1992 Isaac Asimov science fiction writer (I Robot), dies at 72.
1992 The Goderich Exeter Railway commences operations over the former CN line between Stratford Junction and Goderich and from Clinton Junction to Centralia in Ontario
1992 Voting begins on choice of Elvis postage stamps
1992 Isaac Asimov, Sci-Fi author (I Robot), dies from kidney failure at 72.
1993 Branch Navy Hospital Adak responds to crash of civilian Chinese airline providing lifesaving treatment and medical evacuation of 89 injured passengers. Only one passenger out of 265 passengers died
1993 Divya Bharati, "Baby Doll" Indian Bollywood actress (Diwana), dies at 19 by mysteriously falling from her husband's apartment
1994 Agatha Uwilingiyimana, Rwanda/1st female PM in Africa, assassinated
1995 Vieno J Sukselainen, PM of Finland (1959-61), dies
1996 Greer Garson, actress (Goodbye Mr Chips), dies at 92.
1997 Jack Kent Cooke, NFL owner (Wash Redskins), dies at 84.
2005 inaugural 13th root calculation of a 200-digit number, computed by the Frenchman Alexis Lemaire.
2005 Rainier III of Monaco dies, succeeded by his son Albert II.
2007 Severe clashes between two rival factions erupted in Parachinar, a tribal area of Pakistan bordering the famous Tora Bora Heights.
2009 A magnitude 6.3 earquake rikes near L'Aquila, Italy, killing at lea 253
2012 US F-18 Hornet crashes into side of apartment building in Virginia with no fatalities.
2012 The National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad unilaterally declares the independence of Azawad from Mali.
2013 22 people are killed and 60 are injured by a suicide bombing at an election campaign tent in Baquba, Iraq
2014 Viktor Orbán's Fidesz is re-elected Prime Minister of Hungary
2017 Chinese President Xi Jinping arrives in Florida for talks with US President Donald Trump
2017 In response to a suspected chemical weapons attack on a rebel-held town, the U.S. military launches 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles at an air base in Syria. Russia describes the strikes as an "aggression", adding they significantly damage U.S.-Russia ties
2018 A semi-truck collides with a bus carrying the Humboldt Broncos ice hockey junior team in Saskatchewan, Canada, killing 16 and injuring 13 people.
2020 Japanese Prime Minister ShinzÃ
 Abe announces state of emergency in seven prefectures and a nearly $1 trillion stimulus package as coronavirus COVID-19 cases climb.
2020 The United States designates the Russian Imperial Movement as a terrorist organization and imposes sanctions on its leaders; it is the inaugural white supremacist group the U.S. has designated as a terrorist organization
2021 Jeff Bezos , worth $177 billion, tops Forbes Billionaires list of 2755 people, including new entry Kim Kardashian.
2024 Peter Pellegrini is elected President of Slovakia in the second round of the Slovak presidential election
2025 In this year, MLS Cup: Inter Miami claims their inaugural championship with 3-1 win over Vancouver Whitecaps at Chase Stadium in Fort Lauderdale, Florida
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