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1991  Iraq rejects peace proposal from Egyptian President Hosi Mubarak   

1992  Boutros Boutros-Ghali is recorded as becoming UN Secretary-General.   

1992  Bush is inaugural US President to address Australian Parliament.   

1992  Europe breaks down trade barriers.   

1992  International Space Year begins   

1992  New York City NY transit fare increases from $1.15 to $1.25.   

1993  12 member European Economic Community set up vast free trade zone.   

1993  Cigarette advertisements are banned in New York City NY's MTA.   

1993  Czechoslovakia separates into Czech Republic (Bohemia) and Slovakia   

1993  Czechoslovakia split into two separate states.   

1993  Czechoslovakia splits into two new countries, the Czech Republic and Slovakia.   

1993  Harry Connick Jr arrested at a New York airport for gun possession.   

1994  Actor Cesar Romero dies in Santa Monica, CA, at age 86   

1994  Bill Gates, Microsoft CEO, marries Marilyn French.   

1994  Howard Stern's New Year's Eve Beauty Pageant.   

1994  International Year of Family   

1994  Microsoft CEO Bill Gates (38) marries Melinda French (29)   

1994  North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) comes into force   

1994  The North American Free Trade Agreement comes into force.   

1995  Austria, Finland and Sweden act to join European Union   

1995  Centennial of Canadian Mounties presence in Canada's Yukon Territory   

1995  Fernando Henrique Cardoso installed as President of Brazil.   

1995  International Year of Tolerance.   

1995  Last "Far Side" by cartoonist Gary Larson (started 1980)   

1995  Raman Lamba and Ravi Sehgal score 464 for inaugural wicket for Delhi.   

1996  After 27 years, Betty Rubble debuts as a Flintstone vitamin.   

1998  All California bars, clubs and card rooms must be smoke-free.   

1998  Mongolia switches from a 46 hour to 40 hour work week   

1998  The Ontario Southland Railway takes over the operation of the Guelph Junction Railway (formerly the Goderich subdivision) which had been leased by CP from the City of Guelph since 1888. The Ontario Southland also took over the 3.1 mile remnant of the CP owned Guelph and Goderich Railway   

1998  US Census Bureau estimates population at 268921733.   

1999  International Year of Elderly   

2006  Russia cuts natural gas to Ukraine over a price dispute.   

2007  Adam Air Flight 574, a routine domestic flight in Indonesia, disappears; debris are are discovered 10 days later, but the aircraft remains missing   

2007  Angola joins OPEC   

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0766  Ali al-rida: Shia imam   

1387  Charles: The angry one, king of navarra (1349-87)   

1431  Alexander vi [rodrigo borgia]: Spanish/italian pope (1492-1503)   

1449  Lorenzo de'medici: [the magnificent] of florence   

1449  Lorenzo de' medici: Italian statesman   

1467  Sigismund i: The old, king of poland   

1481  Huldrych zwingli: Swiss protestant reformer   

1484  Huldrych zwingli: Swiss protestant leader   

0379  Basilius the great: Of caesarea, saint (moralia),   

0404  Death of Telemachus: Roman monk, murdered   

0898  Death of Odo: Earl of paris/king of france (888-98),   

0962  Boudouin iii: Count of flanders,   

1204  Death of King haakon iii of norway: King haakon iii of norway (c. 1170)   

1387  Death of Karel de boze: King of navarra (1349-87),   

1502  Gregorius xiii: [ugo buoncampagni], italy, pope (1572-85),   

1515  Death of Louis xii: "the justified" king of france (1498-1515),