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1989 Astronomers discover pulsar in remnants of Supernova 1987A (LMC). 
1989 Candace Thomas marries Steve Garvey
1989 IBM announces earnings up 10.4% in 1988.
1989 Otis Redding, Dion, Rolling Stones, Temptations and Stevie Wonder inducted into Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
1989 West Indies beat Australia 2-1 to win the World Series Cup
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
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