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1985 20th Academy of Country Music Awards Alabama and Judds win. 
1985 France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island.
1985 Dolph Sweet, actor (Gil McGowan-Another World), dies at 74.
1985 20th Academy of Country Music Awards: Alabama and Judds win.
1987 Gary Hart quits democratic presidential race (Donna Rice affair)
1987 Pam Ewing, (Victoria Principal) character on Dallas, is killed off.
1988 Mike Tyson crashes his $183000 Bently on Varick St in NYC.
1988 Robert A Heinlein, sci-fi writer (Friday), dies of heart failure at 80.
1989 In this year, Paul McCartney releases "My Brave Face" and "Ferry Cross the Mersey".
1989 US space shuttle STS-30 lands.
1990 Tomas O'Fiach, [Tomas Seamus Fee], Irish cardinal-archbishop, dies.
1991 CIA director William H Webster steps down.
1991 Jean Langlais, composer, dies at 84.
1992 Addeke H Boerma, dir-gen (FAO), dies at 80
1993 16 year old Keron Thomas disguises himself as a motorman and takes NYC subway train and 2000 passengers on a 3 hour ride
1993 Lennox Lewis beats Tony Tucker in 12 for heavyweight boxing title
1993 Kees Deenik, singer/conductor
1994 500th commentary by Andy Rooney on 60 Minutes
1994 President Clinton announces US will no longer repatriate boat people.
1994 Cobina W "Coby" Molenaar, peace activist, dies at 88
1995 Carroll Best, bluegrass banjo, dies at 63.
1996 In this year, South Africa's Const Assembly formally adopts permanent post-apartheid constitution.
1997 Tea Leoni and David Duchovny wed in Greenwich Village.
2007 Devolved government is restored to Northern Ireland, with Ian Paisley as inaugural Minister and Martin McGuinness as Deputy inaugural Minister
2018 President Trump pulls the US out of the multilateral Iran nuclear deal
2018 Ebola outbreak declared in north-west Democratic Republic of Congo with 2 confirmed cases and 17 deaths
2018 Paris St-Germain seals the French domestic football treble with a 2-0 win over 3rd Div Les Herbiers in the French Cup Final at the Stade de France.
2018 Seattle Mariners MLB left-hander James Paxton hurls a no-hitter in a 5-0 win over the Blue Jays in Toronto.
2018 Largest-ever wave at 23.8m recorded in the South Hemisphere at Campbell Island by New Zealand scientists.
2018 U.S. President Donald Trump announces his intention to withdraw the United States from the Iranian nuclear agreement.
2018 The Eurovision Song Contest 2018 is held in Lisbon, Portugal, and is won by Israeli entrant Netta Barzilai with the song "Toy".
2021 Tesla chief executive Tesla Elon Musk hosts "Saturday Night Live" in the US
2023 Disney live-action film musical "The Little Mermaid" starring Halle Bailey and Melissa Mccarthy , directed by Robb Marshall, premieres in the US [1]
2024 In this year, In North Macedonian elections, the right-wing party VMRO-DPMNE claims in a landslide in the parliamentary elections, while its presidential candidate Gordana Siljanovska-Davkova is elected as the inaugural female president of the country in the second round of the presidential election.
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