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1989 Retired British pilot Jack Mann is kidnapped by Islamic fundamentalists. 
1989 Joe Valdez Caballero, creator of hard taco, shell, dies at 81
1990 3rd time Saturday Night Live uses time delay (Andrew Dice Clay hosts).
1990 Comic Relief '90 (4th one) raises $4.7 million.
1990 Nora Dunn and Sinead O'Connor boycott Saturday Night Live to protest Andrew "Dice" Clay's hosting
1991 A new cancer drug is announced, which can only be are discovered in bark of a rare tree in the Pacific Northwest.
1992 The inaugural Belgian woman (Ingrid Baeyens) to ascend Mount Everest.
1992 Joe Burke, president (KC Royals), dies at 68, dies
1993 Final episode of 6 year run of ABC's "Wonder Years" in Netherlands.
1993 Last broadcast of "Cheers" on NBC-TV.
1993 NBC TV airs the final episode of the hit comedy Cheers
1993 In this year, Parma claims 33rd Europe Cup II
1994 Alfred Lane Beit, connoisseur, dies at 91.
1995 Dow Jones for 5th straight day of the week sets a new record (4430.59).
1997 14 North Koreans defect to South Korea
1997 Russia and Chechnya sign peace deal after 400 years of conflict.
1997 Susie Maroney, 22, of Australia, is inaugural to swim from Cuba to Florida.
1997 Tornado narrowly misses downtown Miami.
2005 An election was held in the Cayman Islands 7 months later than originally scheduled due to Hurricane Ivan. It resulted in a change of government, with the United Democratic Party giving four seats to the then-opposition People's Progressive Movement in the 15 member Legislative Assembly
2007 The final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2007 is held in Helsinki, resulting in Serbia's inaugural victory.
2010 Afriqiyah Airways Flight 771 crashes at runway at Tripoli International Airport in Libya, killing 103 of the 104 people on board
2012 The discovery of a missing Mayan calender piece disproves 2012 Armageddon.
2012 aug 12 - The 2012 World Expo takes place in Yeosu, South Korea.
2013 Pope Francis canonizes the 813 martyrs of Otranto as Saints
2014 Voters in Ukraine reject rule from Kiev.
2017 Brazil declares end to Zika national emergency as cases decrease
2017 In this year, Former One Direction singer Harry Styles releases his self-titled debut solo album.
2017 Computers around the world are hit by a large-scale ransomware cyberattack, which goes on to affect at least 150 countries.
2018 63rd Eurovision song contest won by Netta from Israel in Lisbon, Portugal.
2018 Insurgent group attacks the town of Muse, Myanmar, killing at least 19 people, Ta’ang National Liberation Army claim responsibility.
2019 In this year, May 2019 Gulf of Oman incident: Four commercial ships, including two Saudi Aramco oil tankers, are damaged near the port of Fujairah in the Gulf of Oman. The United Arab Emirates claims the incident was a "sabotage attack", while an early United States assessment reportedly blames Iran for the attack. The incident occurs during a time of regional tensions between the U.S. and Iran, with the U.S. just weeks prior deploying strategic bombers, a carrier strike group and other military assets to the Persian Gulf following intelligence reports of an alleged plot by Iran to attack U.S. forces in the region
2020 Russia's confirmed cases of coronavirus COVID-19 reach 232000, 2nd highest in the world, a day after President Vladimir Putin eased the country's lockdown.
2020 Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi announces a $260 million economic rescue package, worth 10% of GDP.
2020 Gunmen storm a maternity hospital and kill 24 people, including two newborn babies, in Dashte Barchi, a majority-Shia neighborhood of Kabul, Afghanistan. In a separate incident in Kuz Kunar, 32 people are killed at a funeral by a suicide bomber
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