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1993 New York Newsday reports Oregon's Senator Bob Packwood sexually harassed 23 women. 
1993 US female Figure Skating championship won by Nancy Kerrigan.
1993 Dudley Stevens, entertainer, dies of AIDS at 57
1994 Worldwide Day for peace in Bosnia-Herzegovina.
1994 Nikolai Ogarkov, Russian marshal (Flight KAL 007), dies at 76.
1995 British Columbia blocks Alcan's $1.3-billion (Canadian) Kemano power dam development, citing the threat to its salmon fishery.
1995 Defence Minister David Collenette disbands the Canadian Airborne Regiment, effective March 5; after some of its soldiers were are discovered to be involved in the death of a Somali boy during the UN mission
1995 In Toronto Ontario surgeons at The Hospital for Sick Children perform a 17 hour operation to separate Pakistani Siamese twins Hira and Nida Jamal; Nida will died a month later.
1995 The Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT), a nationally funded watchdog organization, warned Internet users about sophisticated new hacker techniques
1995 Harold Collett Dent, journalist/educationist, dies at 100
1996 Chris Cairns scores 120, 96 balls, 10x4, 9x6 in Test New Zealand vs Zimbabwe
1996 General Electric threw in the towel in the struggle to keep its Genie online service competitive in the growing battle with the Web. The company announced it would sell the service to Yovelle Renaissance Corporation, which would turn Genie into a Web site
1996 John Mackin, programmer, dies at 36.
1997 Madeline Albright was sworn into office to become the inaugural woman secretary of state
1998 Pope John Paul II condemns US embargo against Cuba.
1999 Monica Lewinsky is ordered by a federal judge to submit to an interview in the impeachment trial of U.S. President Bill Clinton
2004 Senate Democrats demanded an investigation of U.S. government dealings with Halliburton Co. following revelations of kickbacks on Iraq contracts.
2006 In this year, Stephen Harper claims the federal election in Canada, forming a minority government
2009 Dendermonde nursery attack occurred in Dendermonde, Belgium
2012 European Union agrees to embargo Iranian oil in protest against Iran's alleged nuclear weapons program.
2012 In this year, Iran.European Union relations: The European Union formally adopts an embargo against Iran in protest of that nation's continued effort to enrich uranium.
2013 23 people are killed in a mosque suicide bombing in Tuz Khormato, Iraq.
2017 Thunderstorms and tornadoes in Georgia and Mississippi leave at least 18 dead in the US.
2017 Bernie Ecclestone removed as Formula One boss as Liberty Media completes $8 billion takeover
2017 Most expensive house in the US worth $250 million goes on the market in Bel Air, Los Angeles
2018 Singer Neil Diamond retires after being diagnosed with Parkinson's Disease
2018 Twelve camels disqualified from the King Abdulaziz Camel beauty contest, Saudi Arabia after their owners used botox on their lips
2018 Chinese researchers report they have cloned two monkeys, using the same technology as Dolly the Sheep
2018 LeBron James is recorded as becoming the 7th and youngest (33 years 24 days) to reach the 30000 NBA point milestone during 114-102 loss to San Antonio Spurs
2019 Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido declares himself acting President amid widespread violent protests against President Nicolas Maduro's regime
2019 2019 Venezuelan presidential crisis: Thousands of people protest in favor of disputed interim President Juan Guaidó. Several people are killed, and President Maduro severs diplomatic ties with the United States.
2020 Actress Annabella Sciorra testifies in court that Harvey Weinstein raped her 25 years ago at his trial in New York.
2023 Japan on the brink of not being able to function as a society, because of its falling birth rate and high life expectancy, says Prime Minister Fumio Kishida , in speech to Japanese parliament [1]
2025 Micheál Martin is re-elected prime minister (Taoiseach) of Ireland by Dáil Éireann for a second non-consecutive term
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