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1991 Conor Clapton, Eric Clapton's son, falls out of 53rd floor window at 5 

1992 Janice Pennington is awarded $1.3M for accident on Price is Right set 

1992 Noriega's wife Felicidad arrested for stealing buttons from dresses 

1992 Avonne Taylor, actress (My Best Girl, Honor Among Lovers), dies at 93 

1993 IRA-bomb results in the deaths of 3 year old in Warrington England. 

1993 Morton Downey Jr weds Lori Krebs. 

1993 Claudia Yeltsin, mother of Russian president Yeltsin, dies at 85. 

1994 14th Golden Raspberry Awards Indecent Proposal claims. 

1994 In this year, Brett Hart claims WWF championship at Wrestlemania X. 

1994 El Salvador's inaugural Presidential election following 12-year-old civil war. 

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. 

1994 14th Golden Raspberry Awards: Indecent Proposal claims. 

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 

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