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1985  ADM of Amsterdam declares bankruptcy   

1985  Canned and bottled Cherry Coke introduced by Coca-Cola   

1985  Mickey Mouse welcomed in China.   

1985  Elizabeth Julesberg, author (Dick and Jane), dies   

1986  Jordanian King Hussein severs ties with PLO   

1986  The U.S. Senate votes to outlaw genocide, an act that took 37 years to ratify   

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   

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1473  Nicolaus copernicus: Polish mathematician and astronomer   

1526  Charles de l'ecluse: Flemish botanist   

1552  Melchior klesl: Austrian cardinal and statesman   

1588  Pieter de carpentier: Flemish gov-gen of dutch east-indies   

1611  Andries de graeff: Mayor of amsterdam (1657..71)   

1616  Jacques de saint-luc: Composer   

1630  Shivaji: Founder of the maratha empire   

1660  Friedrich hoffmann: German physician and chemist   

0197  Death of D clodius septimus albinus: Roman bequest in england,   

0440  Mesrop mashtots: Armenian monk, theologian and linguist (b. 361/362)   

1133  Death of Irene ducaena: Wife of alexius i comnenus (b. 1066)   

1260  Boniface: Of lausanne, belgian bishop/saint,   

1401  William sawtree: 1st english religious martyr, burned in london   

1414  Death of Thomas arundel: Archbishop of canterbury/chancellor of england,   

1545  Death of Pierre brully: [peter brulius], calvinist minister, burned to death   

1553  Erasmus reinhold: German mathematician,