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1986 USSR launches Mir space station into Earth orbit. 
1986 Adolfo Celi, actor (Thunderball), dies at 63
1987 Anti-smoking ad airs for inaugural time on TV, featuring Yul Brynner
1987 Minnesota sheriff office arrest FBI most wanted, Thomas G Harrelson.
1987 Reagan lifts trade boycott against Poland.
1989 Jaap van de Merwe, Dutch journalist/cabareter (Hadjememaar), dies
1990 Police kill 8 demonstrators for multi party system in Nepal
1990 Soyuz TM-9 lands.
1990 Michael Powell, Engl director (Life and Death of Col Blimp), dies at 84
1991 Peggy Mondo, actress (Who's Minding the Store), dies at 50
1992 North and South Korea officially end their 40 year confrontation
1992 Chet Leaming, dies after brief illness at 66.
1993 Kenya Moore, 22, (Michigan), crowned 42nd Miss USA
1993 Gerhard Gesell, judge (Pentagon Papers), dies of liver cancer at 82.
1994 Derek Jarman, actor/director (Tempest), dies of AIDS at 52.
1995 Linford Christie runs world record 200 meter indoor (20.25 seconds)
1995 Calder Willingham, novelist/Scriptwriter, dies at 72.
1996 Brenda Bruce, actress (December Bride, Nightmare), dies at 77.
1997 Chinese Communist revolutionary Deng Xiaoping dies.
1997 FCC makes available 311 for non-emergency calls and 711 for hearing or speech-impaired emergency calls
1997 Deng Xiaoping, head (Chinese Communist Party), dies at 92.
1998 Soyuz TM-26 lands
1998 US hockey team destroys their rooms at Olympics village in Japan.
2005 Suicide bombers killed more than 30 people in Iraq as Shia Muslims mark Ashura, their holiest day.
2006 Pasta de Conchos mine disaster: Sixty-five miners become trapped underground after an explosion in Nueva Rosita, Mexico; all 65 die.
2012 44 people killed in prison brawl in Apocada, Mexico, between two rival drug cartels
2012 Iran suspends oil exports to Britain and France following sanctions put in place by the European Union and the United States in January
2013 12 people are killed and 11 are injured after a Yemeni Air Force plane crashes in Sana'a.
2014 2014 BRIT Awards: David Bowie, Ellie Goulding, and Arctic Monkeys win.
2018 Syrian government forces bombard Gouta in deadliest day in 3 years, killing over 100 civilians.
2018 At least 17 killed when a garbage mound collapses in Maputo, Mozambique
2018 Nigeria says 110 girls missing, presumed kidnapped by Boko Haram after attack on school in Dapchi, Yobe state
2019 Bernie Sanders announces he is running for President for a second time
2021 The United States officially rejoins the Paris Agreement, 107 days after leaving
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