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1986 16th Easter Seal Telethon raises $30100000 
1986 NASA announces searchers are discovered remains of Challenger astronauts.
1986 Soviet probe Vega 2 flies by Halley's Comet at 8030 km.
1986 Ned Calmer, TV host (In the inaugural Person), dies at 78.
1987 Chrysler Corporation offered to buy American Motors Corporation on this day.
1988 President Reagan presides at unveiling of Knute Rockne stamp
1988 Kurt Georg Kiesinger, West German chancellor (1966-69), dies at 83
1989 Eastern Airlines files for bankruptcy.
1989 Senate rejects Bush's nomination of John Tower as Defense Secretary
1989 Soviet Union officially submits to jurisdiction of the World Court
1989 Robert Mapplethorpe, US photographer, dies at 42
1990 Dr Antonia Novello sworn-in as inaugural hispanic/female US surgeon general.
1990 In St. John's Newfoundland Premier Clyde Wells confirms he will rescind Newfoundland's approval of the Meech Lake Accord; approved by the previous Peckford administration; this will effectively kill the Accord
1991 US 70th manned space mission STS 39 (Discovery 12) launches into orbit
1992 Felipe Turich, actor (Lawless), dies
1993 Rodney King in court says he thinks he heard cops yell racial slurs.
1993 Ad van Gessel, Dutch actor (Everything For Our Soldiers), dies.
1994 IRA launch inaugural of 3 mortar attacks on London's Heathrow Airport.
1994 Charles Bukowski, author/poet, dies of leukemia at 73.
1995 Baseball awards a franchise to Tampa Bay Devil Rays.
1995 In the Atlantic, Fisheries Minister Brian Tobin orders Canadian fisheries patrol vessel to seize a Spanish trawler for illegally taking undersized turbot outside Canada's 200-mile offshore limit
1995 Mexican peso worth 7.55 pesos to a dollar (record)
1995 President Konstantine Karamanlis (88) of Greece, steps down
1995 Ian Ballantine, publisher, dies of heart attack at 79.
1996 Alan Hugh Iliffe, psychologist, dies at 77
1997 Notorius B I G, [Biggie Small, Chris Walkin], rapper, shot dead at 24.
2006 NASA's Cassini-Huygens spacecraft discovers geysers of a liquid substance shooting from Saturn's moon Enceladus, signaling a possible presence of water
2011 Space Shuttle Discovery makes its final landing after 39 flights
2012 Senior members of hacking group Lulz Sec are arrested, including one member of the FBI, in the United States, United Kingdom and Ireland.
2013 19 people are killed in two suicide bombings in Kabul, Afghanistan
2018 The 2018 Winter Paralympics are held in Pyeongchang, South Korea
2018 President of the United States Donald Trump accepts an invitation from North Korean leader Kim Jong-un for a meeting in May to discuss the denuclearisation of North Korea
2020 Italy announces it is locking down the whole country due to spike in coronavirus COVID-19 cases with 10040 cases and 630 deaths Learn More.
2020 International share prices fall sharply in response to a Russo-Saudi oil price war and the impact of COVID-19. The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) plunges more than 2000 points, the largest fall in its history up to that point.
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