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1988 Frederick Loewe, US composer (My Fair Lady), dies at 84. 
1989 African National Congress (ANC) opens office in Amsterdam
1989 Iran's Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini offers $1 million-$3 million bounty on Salman Rushdie's death due to his novel, "Satanic Verses".
1989 Robin Givens is granted a divorce from Mike Tyson in Dominican Republic.
1989 Union Carbide agrees to pay $470 million damages for Bhopol disaster.
1989 World's inaugural satellite Skyphone opens
1990 An Indian Airlines jetliner crashes while landing in southern India, killing 94 passengers and crew
1990 Perrier recalls 160 million bottles of sparkling water after traces of benzene, a carcinogen, are are discovered in some.
1990 Space probe Voyager 1 takes photograph of entire solar system
1990 Graeme Hole, cricketer (18 Tests for Australia, 789 runs), dies
1991 Air raid shelter at Baghdad bombed killing 300
1991 Arno Breker, German sculptor (Third Reich), dies at 90
1992 Cease fire in Somalia begins
1992 Angelique Pettyjohn, actress (Biohazard), dies of cancer at 48.
1993 Fire in Linxi department store in Tangshan China, results in the deaths of 79.
1993 Buddy Pepper, composer, dies of heart failure at 70
1994 Grateful Dead's Jerry Garcia (51) weds Deborah Koons
1994 Christopher Lasch, author (Culture of Narcissism), dies at 61
1995 Roseanne weds bodyguard Ben Thomas
1995 Alberto Burri, Ital physician/sculptor/painter, dies at 79.
1996 Bob Paisley, football manager, dies at 77.
1997 Abitibi-Price and Stone-Consolidated announce a $2.3 billion merger, creating the world's largest newsprint maker.
1999 John Ehrlichman, presidential advisor during the Nixon administration and imprisoned for his role in the Watergate scandal, dies in Atlanta, at age 73.
1999 Quebec Railway Corporation takes over the former CN Mont Joli and Matane subdivisions linking Matane to Riviere du Loup, QC. The Matane sub. was the former Canada and Gulf Terminal Railway.
2000 Tornadoes rip through southwestern Georgia just after midnight, killing 19 people and injuring more than 100 others
2003 Dolly the sheep, inaugural mammal to be cloned from an adult cell dies young form a progressive lung disease aged 6
2005 A massive suicide bomb blast in central Beirut killed Lebanon's former prime minister Rafik Hariri and at least 15 other people. At least 135 other people were also hurt.
2005 Around 59 people were killed and 20 injured in a fire at a mosque in Tehran, Iran
2011 The 2011 Bahraini uprising commenced.
2013 A suicide bombing results in the deaths of 4 police officer and injures 5 in Dagestan.
2014 Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta steps down after less than a year in office
2018 South African President Jacob Zuma steps down from office.
2018 Ex-student Nikolas Cruz guns down 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, Florida, before being captured
2018 In this year, Winter Olympics: American snowboarder Shaun White claims an unprecedented third halfpipe gold medal (previous 2006, 2010)
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