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1994 In this year, Laura Davies claims LPGA Standard Register Ping Golf Tournament. 
1994 Mashonaland U-24 beat Matabeleland on inaugural inn to win Logan Cup.
1994 Wrestlemania X at Madison Square Garden New York, Bret Hart pins Yokozuna.
1994 Zulu-king Goodwill Zwelithini founds realm in South Africa.
1995 Beatles song, "Free As A Bird", with late John Lennon as lead singer, is released, inaugural Fab Four single in more than 30 years.
1995 Dow-Jones hits 4083.68 (record).
1995 In Tokyo, Japan, at the height of the morning rush hour, five two-man terrorist teams from the Aum Shinrikyo religious cult, riding on separate subway trains, converge at the Kasumigaseki station and secretly release lethal sarin gas into the air.
1995 Poison Gas released in Tokyo subway 12 killed, 4700 injured
1995 Merv Harvey, cricketer (scored 12 and 31 in Test Aus v Eng 46-47), dies
1996 Erik and Lyle Menendez are discovered guilty of killing their parents
1996 UK admits humans can catch CJD (Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease aka Mad Cow Disease)
1997 Tobacco company Liggett admits cigarettes are addictive
2005 At least 250 people in Japan are injured and at least one killed by when a magnitude 7 earthquake struck west of Kyushu Island, just 9km (5.5 miles) below the ocean floor
2006 Tropical Cyclone Larry makes landfall in Queensland, Australia
2012 50 people are killed and 240 injured in a wave of terror attacks across 10 cities in Iraq.
2013 In this year, Pierre Deligne claims the 2013 Abel Prize in mathematics.
2017 Indian rivers Yamuna and the Ganges declared "living entities" by court in the state of Uttarakhand
2018 Actress Cynthia Nixon announces she will run for New York Governor
2018 Saudi Arabia’s crown prince Mohammed bin Salman meets with US President Donald Trump at the White House.
2019 The Walt Disney Company acquires Rupert Murdoch 's 21st Century Fox entertainment business for $71 billion.
2019 Europe's antitrust regulators fine Google 1.49 billion euros ($1.7 billion) for freezing out rivals in the online advertising business. The ruling brings to nearly $10 billion the fines imposed against Google by the European Union.
2019 Disney acquires the rights to 21st Century Fox leaving out a few assets to be spun-off to the newly formed Fox Corporation
2020 After 20 years with the New England Patriots, six-time Super Bowl winning quarterback Tom Brady officially agrees to move to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on a 2-year $50m guaranteed deal.
2020 [COVID-19 pandemic] The worldwide death toll from COVID-19 surpasses 10000 as the total number of cases reaches a quarter of a million.
2020 [COVID-19 pandemic] Bhadla Solar Park is commissioned and is recorded as becoming world's largest solar park.
2021 Turkish President Recep Tayyip ErdoÄŸan announces his country's withdrawal from the Istanbul Convention, the inaugural country to do so.
2023 In this year, The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) releases the synthesis report of its Sixth Assessment Report on climate change
2024 British singer-songwriter Elton John and lyricist Bernie Taupin receive Library of Congress Gershwin Prize at the White House in Washington, D.C
2024 Vaughan Gething confirmed as Welsh new inaugural minister and the inaugural black leader of a national government in Europe [1].
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