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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
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
2014 Denver Broncos and Seattle Seahawks win their playoff matches to reach Super Bowl XLVIII.
2017 Adama Barrow sworn in as President of Gambia in Dahkar as Senegalese troops enter Gambia to persuade former President Yahya Jammeh to leave
2017 High-rise building collapses in Tehran, killing 20 firefighters
2019 A magnitude 6.7 earthquake hits Tongoy, Coquimbo Region in Chile, causing two deaths and as many as 200000 people left without power. Despite its moderate magnitude, since it was an intraplate earthquake, it caused some serious damage in La Serena and nearby cities
2021 US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says China is committing genocide in its repression of Uighurs and other Muslim people.
2023 New Zealand leader Jacinda Ardern announces she is stepping down as Prime Minister after five and a half years [1].
2024 Actor Alec Baldwin indicted by a grand jury on involuntary manslaughter charges over the 2021 fatal shooting on a movie set [1].
2024 Japan is recorded as becoming the fifth country to achieve a soft landing on the Moon, with its SLIM mission
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