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1985  27th Grammy Awards What's Love Got to Do With It, Cyndi Lauper win   

1986  Former Philippines President Ferdinand E Marcos fled in defeat.   

1986  Goaltending great Jacques Plante 1929-1986 dies at his home near Geneva at age 57   

1987  NASA launches GEOS-H   

1987  The inaugural release of Beatles compact discs.   

1987  The Tower Commission report is issued, chiding President Reagan for his national security staff's actions in the Iran-Contra affair   

1987  USSR resumes nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR.   

1988  Christa Rotherburger (GDR) skates ladies world record 1000 meter (1 17.65).   

1988  Christa Rotherburger (GDR) skates ladies world record 1000 meter (1:17.65)   

1989  "Jerome Robbins' Broadway" opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 634 performances.   

1989  California court throws out most of Margo Adams's $12 million breach-of- contract suit against Red Sox third baseman Wade Boggs.   

1989  Lowest barometric pressure in Netherlands (95.5 hPa).   

1990  President Daniel Ortega of Nicaragua concedes defeat to election opponent, Violeta Barrios de Chamorro.   

1990  USSR agrees to withdraw all 73500 troops from Czechoslovakia by July, 1991.   

1990  Cornell Gunther, US musician (Coasters, Poison Ivy), dies at 53.   

1991  Asanka Gurusinha scores twin Test Cricket tons vs New Zealand (119 and 102).   

1991  Bill Veeck and Tony Lazzeri elected to Baseball Hall of Fame.   

1991  During the Gulf War, Kuwait City is liberated and Iraq begins its withdrawl   

1991  Kuwaiti resistance leaders declare they have control of their capital.   

1992  Irish Supreme Court rules 14 year old rape victim may get an abortion.   

1992  Gerrit Schulte, "Crazy Cyclist", Dutch 6-days bicyclist, dies at 76.   

1993  2nd tallest building in world, NYC World Trade Center bombed, 7 die   

1993  Allan Border beats Gavaskar's record for most Test Cricket runs 10123.   

1993  Six people die and more than a thousand are injured when Islamic extremists explode a bomb in the parking garage of the World Trade Center in New York City.   

1993  Terrorist bomb explosion under the World Trade Center, New York.   

1993  Constance Ford, US actress (Another World, Burden Hunt), dies at 64.   

1994  Actor Dolph Lundgren (34) weds Anette Qviberg in Stockholm.   

1994  Avery Fisher, US audio manufacturer (1st hi-fi), dies at 87.   

1995  Barings, England's oldest investment banking company, fails after a securities broker loses over $1 billion gambling on Tokyo stock prices.   

1996  Audrey Angers, charity pioneer   

1997  39th Grammy Awards Change the World Babyface, Beck and LeAnn Rimes win   

1997  David Doyle, actor (Charlie's Angels), dies at 67.   

1998  Oprah Winfrey beats Texas cattlemen in beef trial.   

1998  Total solar eclipse in Venezuela-Pacific Ocean.   

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1361  Wenceslas of bohemia: Holy roman catholic german emperor (1378-1400)   

1587  Stefano landi: Italian composer   

1588  Nicolaus erich: Composer   

1671  Anthony ashley-cooper: 3rd earl of shaftesbury, english politician and philosopher   

1672  Antoine augustine calmet: French theologian   

1675  Johann philipp treiber: Composer   

1677  Nicola fago: Composer   

1686  Godefroi l count d'estrades: French diplomat   

1076  Godfried iii: With the hump, duke of neth-lutherian, murdered   

1154  Death of Rogier ii guiscard: King of sicily (1101-54),   

1200  Symeon: Former serbian ruler and saint   

1266  Manfred: Bastard son of emperor frederik ii/king of sicily,   

1324  Dino compagni: Italian silk seller/poet/chronicler,   

1360  Roger mortimer: 2nd earl of march, english military leader (b. 1328)   

1538  Death of Worp van thabor: Frisian abbott of thabor (chronicon frisiae),   

1552  Death of Heinrich faber: German composer