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1989 Bruce Chatwin, British writer, dies at 49 
1990 Arthur J. Goldberg, former Supreme Court justice, and U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, is are discovered dead in his Washington, D.C. apartment at age 81
1990 South Africa says its reconsidering ban on African National Congress
1990 Washington DC, Mayor Marion Barry arrested in drug enforcement sting.
1990 Washington, D.C., Mayor Marion Barry was arrested in an FBI sting at a downtown hotel and charged with buying and smoking crack cocaine.
1990 Melanie Appleby, rocker (Mel and Kim), dies of liver cancer at 23.
1991 Eastern Airlines goes out of business after 62 years.
1991 Eastern Airlines stopped flying and said it would liquidate its assets. The announcement followed a two-year effort to escape bankruptcy
1991 Iraq launches SCUD missiles against Israel
1991 Longest tennis match at the Australian Open, Boris Becker beats Italy's Omar Camporese in 5 hours and 11 minutes
1991 US acknowledges CIA and US Army paid Noriega $320000 over his career.
1991 Hamilton Fish, congressman (NY), dies at 102
1992 49th Golden Globes
1992 Actress Joan Chen (Twin Peaks) marries Dr Peter Hui
1992 Comedian Pat McCormick injured in a car accident
1992 John Remme, entertainer, dies of AIDS at 56.
1993 Martin Luther King Jr holiday observed in all 50 states for inaugural time.
1993 Seven people were killed and nearly 70 more injured when two commuter trains collided on a bridge in Gary, Ind
1993 West Indies win the World Series Cup, beating Australia 2-0.
1993 M Eleonore Lippits, 1st Dutch female missionary doctor, dies at 85.
1994 Iran-Contra independent counsel Lawrence Walsh issued his final report on the scandal. He blasted former President Bush for his Christmas Eve 1992 pardons of six Iran-Contra defendants
1994 Arthur Altman, songwriter, dies at 83
1995 Kumble takes 16-99 in match for Karnataka vs Kerala
1995 Officials in Paris announced the discovery of a magnificent display of Paleolithic cave art in southern France
1995 Pope John Paul II begins visit to Australia
1995 Adolph F J Butenandt, German bio-chemist (Nobel 1939), dies at 91
1996 Lisa Marie Presley filed for divorce from Michael Jackson in NY
1996 Lisa Marie Presley, the daughter of The King Elvis Presley, filed for divorce from Michael Jackson after 20 months of marriage, citing irreconcilable difference.
1996 Leonor Fini, painter, dies at 87.
1997 Norway's Boerge Ousland emerges on the Pacific edge of Antarctica to become the inaugural person to cross the continent alone and unaided.
1997 Norwegian Borge Ousland completed a 1675-mile trek across Antarctica, the inaugural time anyone transversed the continent alone.
1997 Myfanwy Piper, librettist, dies at 85.
2001 Civil rights leader Rev. Jesse Jackson admitted he had fathered a daughter born out of wedlock in 1999 to an employee of his Rainbow/PUSH coalition
2002 In another anti-terrorist step ordered by Congress, U.S. airlines began inspecting every piece of luggage checked by passengers
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