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1991 Don Beddoe, actor (Bullwhip, Loophole, Texas), dies at 87 
1992 A new Bulgarian President is elected in the countries inaugural free elections.
1992 Cerebral Palsy telethon raises 23500000
1992 IBM announces a nearly $5B loss for 1992
1992 Nature Boy Ric Flair is recorded as becoming WWF champ at Royal Rumble
1992 Rowdy Roddy Piper beats Mountie to become WWF Intercontinental Champ
1993 Celebrities ranging from Barbra Streisand to Michael Jackson to a reunited Fleetwood Mac threw a nationally televised pre-inaugural bash for President-elect Clinton
1993 Israel recognizes PLO.
1993 Israel recognizes PLO as no longer criminal
1993 Robert M Gates, ends term as 15th director of CIA
1993 STS-54 (Endeavour) lands
1993 Chris Street, basketball player, dies at 20
1994 -20ºF (-29ºC) (5 32 AM) coldest day ever recorded in Cleveland OH.
1994 -36ºF (-38ºC) in New Whiteland IN (state record).
1995 Jean-Claude Juncker (28) sworn in as premier of Luxembourg
1995 Pope John Paul II beatifies Mother Mary McKillop before crowd of 120000 at Randwick racecourse in Sydney.
1995 Russian forces captured the presidential palace in the rebel republic of Chechnya.
1995 Eugene Fuller, polymath/linguist, dies at 80.
1996 NHL approves move of Winnipeg Jets to Phoenix
1996 Bernard Baily, comic artist, dies at 79.
1997 Two bombs exploded at a Tulsa, Okla., abortion clinic that had been bombed two weeks earlier
1997 Adriana Caseloti, voice (Snow White), dies at 70
1998 Rock 'n' roll pioneer Carl Perkins, whose hit song Blue Suede Shoes helped lift Elvis Presley to stardom, dies aged 65
1998 The CN line bewteen Moncton, NB and Mont-Joli, Que is transferred to the Quebec Railway Corporation, through its wholly owned subsidiaries as follows New Brunswick East Coast Railway between Pacific Junction, near Moncton, and Campbellton, NB. Matapedia Railway between Campbellton, NB and Mont-Joli, QC
1998 Carl Perkins, singer/songwriter, dies at 65.
1998 The CN line bewteen Moncton, NB and Mont-Joli, Que is transferred to the Quebec Railway Corporation, through its wholly owned subsidiaries as follows: New Brunswick East Coast Railway between Pacific Junction, near Moncton, and Campbellton, NB. Matapedia Railway between Campbellton, NB and Mont-Joli, QC.
1999 NATO warned Yugoslav Pres. Slobodan Milosevic that he must honor the 1998 cease-fire negotiated with the rebels in Kosovo or face air strikes
2000 Film star Hedy Lamarr, 86, are discovered dead in her Florida home.
2001 President Clinton announced he had made a deal with the independent prosecutor that would prevent him from being indicted after he left office
2003 Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said the Bush administration might allow Saddam Hussein to seek safe haven in another country as a way to avoid war.
2004 In this year, U.S. military authorities denied Afghan claims that a U.S. helicopter attack killed 11 civilians, including four children, saying instead that five Taliban fighters were the only fatalities
2007 Israel released $100 million in frozen assets to President Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestinian National Authority in order to bolster the president's position. [2]
2012 FBI shuts down Megaupload.com for alleged copyright infringement, hacker group Anonymous responds by attacking government and entertainment industry websites.
2013 4 climbers are killed by an avalanche in Glen Coe, Scotland
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