Page 9: Historical Events In January - 14
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1985 16 indicted by US for granting sanctuary to Central American refugees. 

1985 Martina Navratilova is 3rd to win 100 tennis tournaments (Connors and Evert). 

1985 Jetta Goudal, French actress (White Gold), dies at 86 

1986 Constitution of Guatemala takes effect. 

1986 Donna Reed, actress (Donna Reed Show, Dallas), dies of cancer at 64 

1987 Douglas Sirk, director (Zu Neuen Ufern, Boefje), dies at 86 

1988 Georgy M Malenkov, PM of USSR (1953-55), dies at 86 

1989 1000 muslims burn Rushdies' "Satanic Verses" in Bradford England 

1989 29 year old French woman gives birth to sextuplets in Paris 

1989 Former Belgian premier Paul Vanden Boeynants kidnapped. 

1990 "Simpsons" premiered on Fox-TV 

1990 11th ACE Cable Awards 

1990 Perez de Cuellar says he has lost all hope for peace in the Gulf 

1990 David Arkin, actor (I Love You Alice B Toklas), dies. 

1991 "Barbara DeAngelis Show" premieres on CBS-TV 

1991 Tyne Daly arrested for drunk driving in Van Nuys CA 

1991 Valentin Pavlov become new premier of USSR. 

1991 Sallah Kharaf, [Abu Iyad], co-founder (Al-Fatah), assassinated. 

1993 David Letterman announces his show is moving from NBC to CBS. 

1993 Polish ferry boat capsizes in storm, 50 die 

1994 Kathleen Kinmont files for divorce from Lorenzo Lamas. 

1994 Russian manned space craft TM-17, lands 

1995 10000s South Africans attend state funeral of Joe Slovo 

1998 100th episode of "Ellen," airs 

1998 Charles Barkley pleads not guilty to an assault charge 

1999 House prosecutors request U.S. President Bill Clinton's removal from office, during post-impeachment proceedings in the Senate. 

2005 The Huygens probe lands on Titan, largest moon of Saturn. 

2006 A natural gas explosion in a coal mine results in the deaths of eight in Romania. 

2007 Nazanin Fatehi, a 19 year old Iranian girl previously sentenced to death for killing a man she claimed tried to rape her niece, is exonerated, as her re-trial comes to an end. 

2007 In this year, The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement officially formally adopts the Red Crystal as a non-religious emblem for use in its overseas operations 

2011 Arab Spring: The Tunisian government falls after a month of increasingly violent protests; President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali flees to Saudi Arabia after 23 years in power 

2011 Stampede near Sabarimala in Kerala, India results in the deaths of 104 devotees and injures 100 more 

2012 Suicide bomber results in the deaths of 53 and injures 130 in Basra, Iraq. 

2014 American journalist David Satter is expelled from Russia 

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