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1968 Lurleen Burns, wife of George Wallace/gov of Alabama, dies at 41 
1970 Carlos Estrada, composer, dies at 60.
1971 Willem Banning, Dutch theologist/sociologist (Karl Marx), dies at 83
1973 US President Nixon denies all knowledge of the Watergate affair
1977 Irwin Fischer, composer, dies at 73
1981 Mieczyslaw Kolinski, composer, dies at 79
1982 Alfred Adam, dies at 72
1983 Peter Edel, writer, dies
1985 Dawn Addams, actress (Alan Young Show, Star Maidens), dies at 54
1986 Gaston Deferre, French politician, dies at 75
1987 Colin Blakely, dies at 56.
1988 Harris Glenn Divine, dies of natural leads to at 42.
1989 Guy Williams, actor (Zorro, Lost in Space), dies in Argentina at 65
1990 Jessica James, actress (Spring Break), dies of breast cancer at 60.
1993 Mary Philbin, actress (Phantom of the Opera), dies at 89
1994 The Channel Tunnel opened by the British Queen and French President Mitterand.
1994 Clement Greenberg, US art critic (Art and Culture), dies at 85.
1995 Ernest H Martin, impressario, dies at 75
1996 Albert Meltzer, anarchist, dies at 76.
2005 Plane Crash in Lockhart River, Australia results in the deaths of 15 people
2006 Richard Carleton, Australian news reporter (b.1943)
2007 Chinese slave scandal.
2010 Scientists conducting the Neanderthal genome project announce that they have sequenced enough of the Neanderthal genome to suggest that Neanderthals and humans may have interbred.
2012 NATO air strike results in the deaths of 14 and woulds 6 civilians in Afghanistan's Badghis Province
2013 55 people are killed by a Boko Haram attack in Nigeria
2014 Fighting between pro-Russian and Kiev forces continue amid fears internationally of a civil war in the Ukraine
2017 In this year, Emmanuel Macron claims France's presidential election defeating Marine Le Pen.
2017 MTV is recorded as becoming 1st major awards show to adopt gender-neutral categories - Emma Watson best film actor, Millie Bobby Brown best TV actor.
2017 “Baahubali 2: The Conclusion†is recorded as becoming the highest grossing Indian box-office film ever earning $120 million
2018 Vladimir Putin is sworn in as Russian President for another 6 years.
2018 More mudslides in Rwanda kill 18 people bringing the year's death toll to 200.
2018 Global tourism accounts for 8% of the world's carbon emissions according to a University of Sydney study
2018 In this year, World Snooker Championship: Welshman Mark Williams claims beating John Higgins 18-16 in Sheffield and, as promised, does his press conference in the nude
2018 Iran-Contra figure Oliver North announced as the new President of the US National Rifle Association.
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