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1986 Heart's "These Dreams", single goes #1 

1986 Karin Kania skates ladies world record 1500 meter (1 9.30) 

1986 Kurt Browning (Canada) is recorded as becoming inaugural skater to land a quadruple jump 

1986 Trevor Berbick beats Pinklon Thomas in 15 for heavyweight boxing title. 

1986 World Ice Dance Championship in Geneva won by Natalia Bestemianova and Andrei Bukin (USSR) 

1986 Charles Starrett, actor (Silver Streak, Jungle Bride), dies 

1986 Karin Kania skates ladies world record 1500 meter (1 :9.30) 

1987 American singer Michael Jackson, the "King of Pop," arrived in Japan at the start of his world tour 

1987 Joan Shawlee, actress (Abbott and Costello Show), dies at 58 

1988 Congress overrides Reagan's veto of sweeping civil rights bill 

1989 US Supreme Court upholds 1 person 1 vote rule of New York NY Board of Estimate 

1990 Anchorage jury finds Captain Hazelwood innocent of Valdez oil spill. 

1990 The Major League umpires announce that they will boycott exhibition games. 

1991 Law enforcement officers raid fraternities at University of Virginia seizing drugs 

1991 Pamela Smart (HS teacher) are discovered guilty in New Hampshire of manipulating her student-lover to kill her husband. 

1991 Police fire on pro-democracy protesters in Bamako, Mali, killing 30, in violence that leads up to the overthrow of dictator General Moussa Traore. 

1991 Gloria Holden, actress (Dracula's Daughter, Test Pilot), dies at 73. 

1992 England beat South Africa in rain-ruined cricket World Cup semi final 

1992 US Air New York to Cleveland crashes on take off at La Guardia, 27 die. 

1993 Intel introduces Pentium-processor (80586) 64 bits-60 MHz-100+ MIPS 

1993 Cec Pepper, cricketer (NSW and Commonwealth XI leggie), dies 

1994 Dutch Ambassador to US christens a new tulip (the Hillary Clinton) 

1994 South African Government/ANC take power in Ciskei homeland. 

1994 Soyuz TM-21 lands. 

1994 Dan Hartman, US singer/songwriter (Love Sensations), dies at 42 

1995 Deputy Governor of Bank of England, Rupert Pennant-Rea, steps down following revelations of his affair with a freelance journalist 

1995 In Buenos Aires Argentina Victoria BC rower Silken Laumann 1965- tests positive for banned stimulant ephedrine at the Pan-American Games 

1995 Peter Woods, newsreader, dies at 64 

1996 Cheryl Depew, of Florida, crowned 13th Miss Hawaiian Tropic International. 

1996 STS 76 (Atlantis 16), launches into orbit 

1996 Claude Mauriac, writer, dies at 81. 

1997 Comet Hale-Bopp Closest Approach to Earth (1.315 AU). 

1999 RaiLink Ltd.takes over operation of the CN Coronado, Bonnyville, and Lac La Biche subdivisions, northeast of Edmonton. The line extends from St. Paul Junction, immediately north of Edmonton, to Boyle and northeast to Grande Centre and Elk Point. It also connects with RaiLink's existing Lakeland and Waterways line at Boyle 

2006 ETA declares a permanent ceasefire in their campaign for Basque independence from Spain 

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