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1986 Voyager 2, inaugural Uranus fly-by. 
1987 29th Grammy Awards Higher Love, Graceland, Bruce Hornsby win
1987 Radio personality Larry King suffers a heart attack.
1988 Matti Nykanen is recorded as becoming winter Olympics inaugural triple gold medalist.
1988 South African apartheid regime bans the UDF
1988 Supreme Court votes 8-0 Jerry Falwell cannot collect for Hustler parody
1988 Irwan Chanin, US theater builder, dies at 96.
1989 150-million-year-old fossil egg (oldest dinosaur embryo) are discovered
1989 In this year, Margaret Ray are discovered in David Letterman's home, claims to be his wife
1989 US Boeing 747 loses parts of roof over Pacific, 9 die
1990 Publisher Malcolm Forbes dies in Far Hills, NJ, at age 70.
1990 Johnnie Ray, singer (Cry), dies of liver failure at 61
1991 "Those Were The Days" closes at Edison Theater NYC after 126 performances.
1991 In its inaugural free elections since the collapse of communism, Lithuania rejects the Communist Party.
1991 US and allies begin a ground war assault on Iraqi troops.
1991 George Gobel, Chicago, comedian (George Gobel Show), dies at 71
1992 Kay Loring, dies after long illness
1993 35th Grammy Awards Tears in Heaven-Eric Clapton claims
1993 Bobby Moore, English soccer team capt (World champs 1966), dies.
1994 Dinah Shore, singer (Chevrolet), dies of cancer at 76
1995 Dow-Jones hits record 4011.74
1995 Richard Nicholson, musician, dies at 89.
1996 Cuba downs 2 US planes
1996 Anna Larina, revolutionary, dies at 82
1997 Deng Xiaoping, leader of China, cremated (died Feb 19th)
1997 South Africa announces it is constructing largest modern day blimp
1997 Isabelle Harriet Lucas, actress/singer (Outland, Comics), dies at 69
1998 Elton John knighted.
1998 Henny Youngman, comedian (Take my wife please), dies at 92
1999 R and B artist Lauryn Hill picks up a record five Grammys, including Album of the Year and Best New Artist.
2011 Final Launch of Space Shuttle Discovery (OV-103)
2013 10 Chadian soldiers and 28 Muslim insurgents are killed in conflict in Adrar des Ifoghas, Mali.
2014 Pope Francis creates a second Secretariat with the power to audit any Vatican agency at any time
2018 UN Security Council passes resolution for 30 day ceasefire in Syria.
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