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1991 Battle for Khafji in Saudi Arabia (ends after 3 days) 
1991 Robert Gibson flies record 27040 feet altitude
1992 MTA raised tolls on most New York City NY bridges from $2.50 to $3.00.
1992 Sportscaster Howard Cosell retires
1992 Mel Hein, NFL center (NY Giants), dies at 82
1994 Dow Jones hits a record 3978.36
1994 German based BMW buys Rover cars from British Aerospace for 800 million.
1994 Pierre Boulle, French writer (Executioner), dies at 81
1995 George Abbott, playwright/actor/producer (Damn Yankees), dies at 105.
1996 Gustave Solomon, mathematician, dies at 65.
1997 A state of emergency has been lifted in Durham, Ontario where flooding earlier this month forced the evacuation of 120 homes and businesses. The waters of the Saugeen River have finally stabilized. Damage is estimated at 1.1 million dollars, and 15 families are still unable to return home
1997 The U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln, a Nimitz class aircraft carrier with a flight deck the size of three football fields, is paying a courtesy visit to Victoria British Columbia today
1997 Eve Lister, actress/singer (No Limit, Hyde Park), dies at 84
1998 STS 89 (Endeavour 12) lands
1999 The Denver Broncos repeat as NFL champions, defeating the Atlanta Falcons 34-19 in Super Bowl XXXIII
2001 The Montreal Canadians Hockey team is sold by Molsons to an American
2006 Samuel Alito is sworn in as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
2007 Delta Air Lines creditors officially reject US Airways' hostile takeover bid
2007 The Mooninite scare occurs in Boston when devices used in a guerrilla marketing campaign for the animated television series Aqua Teen Hunger Force are mistaken for improvised explosive devices.
2009 In Kenya, at lea 113 people are killed and over 200 injured following an oil spillage ignition in Molo, days after a massive fire at a Nakumatt supermarket in Nairobi killed at lea 25 people.
2013 300 people are injured in a train collision in Pretoria, South Africa
2017 Romanian government passes emergency decree to release prisoners and decriminalise corruption charges, triggering huge protests in Bucharest.
2017 US President Donald Trump fires Attorney General Sally Yates after she instructs Justice Department officials not to defend Trump's travel ban
2018 trump administration formally suspends the Clean Water Act.
2018 Houston guard James Harden is recorded as becoming inaugural player in NBA history to log a 60-point triple-double with 60 points, 10 rebounds, 11 assists, 4 steals and a block in Rockets' 114-107 win over Orlando Magic.
2018 A total lunar eclipse takes place. The Moon appears as supermoon, with perigee being on January 30. It is also the inaugural blue moon eclipse since 1983. It was also referred to as the super blue blood moon.
2020 The United Kingdom and Gibraltar formally withdraw from the European Union, beginning an 11-month transition period.
2021 Widespread protests in Russia against detention of opposition leader Alexei Navalny and the government with 5000 people arrested.
2021 Nguyá»…n Phú Trá»ng is re-elected for a third five-year term as the General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam.
2023 Pope Francis lands in Kinshasa on a visit to the Democratic Republic of Congo, inaugural papal visit to the country since 1985 [1].
2024 Caitlin Clark posts 35 points and 10 assists for Iowa against Northwestern, breaking the Big Ten all-time scoring record.
2024 Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and social media companies Discord, TikTok, X and Snap reprimanded before a US congressional hearing for not doing enough to protect children online [1]
2024 US clean energy advisor John Podesta succeeds John Kerry as the Biden administration's global representative on climate [1].
2024 Sultan of Johor Ibrahim Iskandar ascends the throne as the 17th Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia.
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