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1986 Horse racing legend Bill Shoemaker became the oldest jockey to win the the Kentucky Derby. 
1986 NASA launches Goes-G, it failed to achieve orbit
1986 Robert Alda, actor (Dan Lewis-Supertrain), dies at 72
1987 Miami Herald reports a woman spent Friday and Saturday with Gary Hart
1987 Dicky Fuller, cricketer (one Test for WI 1935, one run, 0-12), dies.
1988 4200 kg Colombian cocaine in seized at Tarpon Springs FL
1988 Jasper Johns' "Diver" sold for $4200000.
1989 Christine Jorgensen, 1st transsexual, dies at 62
1990 Pimen, [Sergei Irzyekov], patriarch of Rus-orthodox church, dies at 79.
1991 356th and final episode of CBS 2nd longest running series Dallas, 2nd only to Gunsmoke.
1991 Andy Williams weds Debbie Hass.
1991 Brian Mulroney 1939- promises 500-job GST processing centre for Summerside to help community hard hit by closing of Canadian Forces Base.
1991 Gerrit Mik, child psychiatrist/Dutch MP (D66), dies
1992 Beverly Hills 90210's Gabrielle Carteris marries Charles Isaacs.
1992 Elizabeth Lennox, radio singer, dies of heart seizure at 98.
1993 "Kiss of the Spider Woman" opens at Broadhurst NYC for 906 performances.
1994 29th Academy of Country Music Awards Garth Brooks claims
1994 US space probe Clementine launched
1994 Gustaaf AWC baron van Hemert Dingshof, mayor of Maarn, dies at 78.
1994 29th Academy of Country Music Awards: Garth Brooks claims
1995 Australia beat West Indies to regain the Frank Worrell Cricket Trophy.
1995 Michael Horden, actor (Fool, Green Man, Scoop), dies at 83.
1996 In Western Nei Mongol, China a 6.0 earthquake killed at least 18 people, 300 injured and extensive damage in the Baotou area
1996 Jack Weston, actor (Ishtar, Rad, Cuba), dies of lymphoma at 71
1997 Garry Kasparov begins chess match with IBM supercomputer Deep Blue.
1998 RaiLink-MacKenzie Northern takes over the operation of the CN line from Smith, AB to Hay River, NWT
2005 At least 32 people are killed and nine others injured when three two-story buildings in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore collapsed after gas cylinders stored in one of them exploded.
2007 Local government elections in Scotland and most of England.
2007 Madeleine McCann is abducted, the story receives extensive media coverage
2007 National Assembly for Wales elections 2007.
2007 Scottish Parliament election, 2007: The Scottish National Party became the largest party in Scotland for the inaugural time in their history
2013 Aorun zhaoi, a Theropod dinosaur, dating from 161 million years ago, is discovered in China.
2014 In this year, California Chrome ridden by Victor Espinoza claims the 2014 Kentucky Derby.
2018 Indian government confirms around 110 people have died in dust storms in Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh in the last 9 days.
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