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1987 Dean Paul Martin, musician/tennis pro, killed in plane crash at 29 
1989 2 Utah scientists claim they have produced fusion at room temperature
1989 Joel Steinberg sentenced to 25 years for killing his adopted daughter.
1990 Former Exxon Valdez Captain Joseph Hazelwood ordered to help clean up Prince William Sound and pay $50000 in restitution for 1989 oil spill
1991 20 Tornadoes kill 5 in Tennessee
1991 Dominic Bellissimo, created buffalo chicken wings, dies at 68.
1992 WordStar announced it would buy Delrina Corporation, makers of a fax program called WinFax.
1992 Friedrich A von Hayek, British economist (Road to Serfdom), dies at 92.
1993 Belgian government of Dehaene, steps down.
1993 Hans Werner Richter, German writer/founder (Gruppe 47), dies at 84.
1994 Amy Fisher's lover, Joey Buttafuoco, released from jail after 4 months and 9 days.
1994 Howard Stern formally announces his Libertarian run for New York Governor
1994 Russian Airbus A-310 crashes in Siberia (74-75 killed).
1994 Alvara del Portillo, Spanish Opus Dei bishop, dies at 80.
1995 Dollar equals 88.41 yen (record).
1995 Alan Barton, singer (Smokie, Black Lace), dies in a bus crash.
1997 17th Golden Raspberry Awards Striptease claims
1997 Wrestlemania XIII in Chicago, Undertaker beats Psycho Sid for title
1997 17th Golden Raspberry Awards: Striptease claims
1998 70th Academy Awards Titanic, Jack Nicholson, Helen Hunt win
1998 70th Academy Awards: Titanic, Jack Nicholson, Helen Hunt win
2000 Papua New Guinea agrees to create an autonomous government on Bougainville island and says it may hold a referendum on independence following autonomy;.
2005 The United States' 11th Circuit Court of Appeals' 2-1 decision refuses to order the reinsertion of Terri Schiavo's feeding tube.
2007 Eight human skeletons are discovered in Fort Myers, Florida, later linked to suspected serial killer Daniel Conahan.
2007 Naval forces of Iran's Revolutionary Guard seize Royal Navy personnel in disputed Iran-Iraq waters
2012 African Union suspends Mali's membership following a coup.
2013 20 people are killed and 200 are injured by a tornado in Brahmanbaria, Bangladesh.
2018 A Sahara sandstorm turns snow in Sochi, Russia, orange in one of the largest-ever transfers of desert sand
2018 Peru's Congress swears in Vice-President MartÃn Vizcarra as the new President after Pedro Pablo Kuczynski resigned amid corruption scandal
2018 An Islamic terrorist attack in Carcassonne and Trèbes, France, results in the deaths of five people, including the perpetrator.
2019 Italy signs up to China's Belt and Road Initiative with deals signed in Rome between Italian Deputy Prime Minister Luigi Di Maio and Chinese President Xi Jinping.
2019 The final territory of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, located in Al-Baghuz Fawqani, Syria, is liberated
2019 An estimated 400000 people march in central London in protest against Brexit
2020 Immediate global ceasefire to fight coronavirus COVID-19 called for by UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres.
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