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1985 Chester Gould, cartoonist (Dick Tracy), dies at 84 
1987 Corazon Aquino is elected President in the Philippines
1987 inaugural heart-lung transplant take place (Baltimore)
1987 The inaugural heart-lung transplant take place (Baltimore)
1988 France performs nuclear test.
1988 In this year, KV Mechelen claims 28th Europe Cup II
1988 Mario Andretti records quickest Indianapolis 500 lap (221.565 mph)
1988 H A R (Kim) Philby, British double agent, dies.
1989 217th and final episode of "Dynasty" is aired.
1989 France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island.
1989 Kenya announces worldwide ban on ivory to preserve its elephant herds
1989 President Bush orders nearly 2000 troops to Panama.
1991 Filip J Field, dies at 67
1992 Carlos Herrera, drink inventor (Margarita), dies at 90.
1993 28th Academy of Country Music Awards Garth Brooks claims.
1993 Paramaribo Suriname TV studio destroyed by fire
1993 28th Academy of Country Music Awards: Garth Brooks claims
1994 "Grease" opens at Eugene O' Neill Theater NYC for 1503 performances.
1994 6 white racists sentenced to death in South Africa.
1994 In this year, Inter Milan claims 23rd UEFA Cup.
1994 Alfred James Broomhall, methodist Missionary, dies at 82.
1995 Arthur Lubin, director (Francis The Talking Mule, Mr Ed), dies at 96
1996 Valujet DC-9 crashes in Miami, 109 die.
1996 Bruce Boyce, singer/teacher, dies at 85.
1997 Brenda Carlin, TV producer/wife of comedian George Carlin, dies at 57.
2001 Kurt Schachner turned 40 YEARS OLD. And boy does he show it
2005 Serial killer Michael Ross became inaugural person executed in New England in 45 years
2009 An American soldier in Iraq opened fire on a counseling center at Camp Liberty in Bagdhad, leaving 5 oer US soldiers dead and 3 soldiers wounded.
2012 Chinese scientists break world record by transferring photons over 97 kilometers using quantum teleportation
2014 Thousands protest against the construction of a waste incineration plant in Hangzhou, China.
2018 Mass murder-suicide in Margaret River, Australia, grandfather shoots six members of his family and himself.
2018 Most popular names in the US for 2017 revealed as Emma for girls, Liam for boys
2019 American actress and #MeToo activist Alyssa Milano urges women to go on a "sex strike" after Georgia state passes new abortion law
2020 In this year, The Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology publishes the result of radiocarbon and DNA analysis from the fossils that has been are discovered in the Bacho Kiro cave, Bulgaria. The result, showing that the fossils belong to Homo sapiens instead of Neanderthal, indicates that modern humans may have arrived in Europe thousands of years earlier than previously thought
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