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1987 Chinese/Vietnamese border fights, 1500 killed. 
1987 New Nicaraguan constitution takes effect.
1987 Sir Rudolf Bing (of New York Met Opera) marries Lady Carroll Douglass
1987 Arthur Lake, actor (Dagwood-Blondie), dies at 81
1988 English Earl of St Andrews marries Sylvana Tomaselli.
1988 US male Figure Skating championship won by Brian Boitano.
1989 "Pat Sajak Show" premieres on CBS
1989 Johnny Bench and Carl Yastrzemski elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
1990 64th US manned space mission STS 32 (Columbia 10) launches into orbit
1990 Supreme Court strikes down Dallas' ordinance imposing strict zoning on sexually oriented businesses.
1990 The space shuttle Columbia leaves earth on a ten-day mission to, among other things, retrieve a drifting satellite.
1991 Baker and Aziz meet in Geneva; talks fail to defuse the gulf crisis
1991 Baseball officially bans Pete Rose from being elected to Hall of Fame
1992 Steve Brodie, actor (Desperate, Bodyguard), dies of cancer at 72.
1993 Alois Brunner, German/Syrian commandant of KZ-Lower Drancy, dies.
1994 Gunda Niemann skates world record (167.282 points).
1994 Rintje Ritsma skates world record (156.201 points).
1995 British comedian Peter Cook dies in London at age 57
1995 Ecuador and Peru involve in boundary fight
1995 Worker accidentally cuts electrical wires at Newark Airport
1997 Former Toronto Argonauts and LA Kings owner Bruce McNall sentenced to five years, 10 months in prison and ordered to repay $5 million for bank fraud.
1997 Heart attacks sends Frank Sinatra back to hospital
1997 Twenty-nine people are killed when a Comair commuter plane crashes 18 miles from the Detroit Metropolitan Airport.
1998 Anatoly Karpov defeats Viswanathan Anand to retain chess title
1998 Anatoly Solovyov and Pavel Vinogradov spacewalk record 3 hours 8 minutes
1998 Decapitated head of Danish Little Mermaid is returned.
1998 Hockey News selects Wayne Gretzky best NHL player ever.
1998 Over 100 teams of linemen arrive from Detroit and other parts of the US to help clean up after the ice storm; 1.3 million homes still without electricity in Quebec and Eastern Ontario.
2005 Mahmoud Abbas is elected to succeed Yasser Arafat as Palestinian Authority president in the Palestinian election.2006 The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above 11000 for the inaugural time since jun 7, 2001, closing at 11011.90.
2005 The same storm which pounded the US earlier in the month hit England and Scandinavia, leaving 13 dead with widespread flooding and power cuts.
2006 The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above 11000 for the inaugural time since jun 7, 2001, closing at 11011.90.
2007 In this year, An AerianTur-M Antonov An-26 crashes in Balad, Iraq. The Islamic Army in Iraq claims to have shot it down
2007 War in Somalia: U.S. planes conduct air strikes in Somalia against suspected terrorists.
2011 Southern Sudan holds a referendum on independence. The Sudanese electorate votes in favour of independence, paving the way for the creation of the new state in July
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