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1987 Hu Yaobang steps down as head of China's Communist Party, accepting blame for policy mistakes stemming from student turmoil. 
1987 Earl Wilson, Bdwy columnist (Midnight Earl), dies in Yonkers at 79.
1988 4th Soap Opera Digest Awards - Days of Our Live claims.
1988 Jimmy "The Greek" Snyder fired from CBS for racial remarks
1989 Police arrest writer Vaclav Havel in Prague
1989 In this year, Three days of riots begin in Miami after a police officer shoots and results in the deaths of a black motorcyclist, which also claims the life of the passenger in the ensuing crash.
1989 USSR announces plan for 2-year manned mission to Mars
1989 Pierre Boileau, screenwriter (Vertigo), dies at 82.
1990 2 Bank of Credit and Commerce members plea guilty to money laundering.
1990 Canadian Rail Operating Rules are approved by the Minister of Transport.
1990 Moscow rushed 11000 more troops to Azerbaijan and Armenia to reinforce soldiers trying to quell deadly ethnic violence
1990 The Soviet Union sends 11000 reinforcements to the Caucasus to end the civil war between Armenians and Azerbaijanis
1991 Operation 'Desert Storm' begins against Iraq, for its invasion of Kuwait.
1991 Operation Desert Storm begins - US and 27 allies attack Iraq for occupying Kuwait (US times)
1991 The Persian Gulf War began with the allied bombing of Baghdad. President Bush drew the largest TV audience in history with an address to the nation on the commencement of hostilities against Iraq.
1991 The White House announces the start of Operation Desert Storm to drive Iraqi troops from Kuwait.
1992 Representatives of the El Salvadoran government and rebels sign a pact in Mexico City ending 12 years of civil war
1992 Roselle Novelle, silent film actress, dies at 95.
1993 Windsor Castle was reopened just two months after a fire swept through the British landmark
1994 At a joint news conference in Geneva with President Clinton, Syrian President Hafez Assad indicated a willingness to negotiate a peace treaty with Israel.
1994 Syria declares its commitment to peace with Israel.
1995 Former federal minister Ros Kelly, brought down over her administration of sports grants, steps down from Australian parliament
1996 New South Wales Premier Bob Carr announces that the state's next governor will be part-time and Government House to be turned over to public use
1997 A bomb exploded at an Atlanta building housing an abortion clinic. An hour later, after investigators and others had come to the scene, a second bomb went off, injuring six people
1997 Ennis Cosby, the son of entertainer Bill Cosby, was shot to death while changing a tire on a freeway exit ramp in Los Angeles.
1998 Investigators for special counsel Kenneth Starr questioned former White House intern Monica Lewinsky about allegations that she had an affair with President Clinton.
2000 Ricardo Lagos is elected Chile's inaugural socialist president since Salvador Allende, whose government was toppled in a bloody 1973 military coup led by Gen Augusto Pinochet
2001 Environmental activists and local authorities in a town in El Salvador where a mountainside buried an entire neighbourhood say deforestation and greed contributed to the earthquake disaster
2001 President Laurent Kabila of the Democratic Republic of the Congo was shot to death, reportedly by one of his bodyguards, who in turn was killed by other bodyguards.
2003 President George W. Bush called the Michigan affirmative action program unconstitutional.
2004 NASA announced plans to cancel further space shuttle missions to repair and upgrade the Hubble Space Telescope, an act that would condemn the Hubble to mechanical failure in the next two years.
2005 Adriana Iliescu gives birth at 66, the oldest woman in the world to do so
2005 In this year, Armed militants kill 1 person and wound 8 people in the Gush Katif settlement, Gaza Strip. Hamas claims responsibility.Confirmation needed.
2013 24 people are dead after three car bombs exploded in Idlib Governorate, Syria.
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