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1989 Toonces The Cat takes the wheel on Saturday Night Live. 
1989 Walter McConnel, 57, is oldest to reach 27000' Mount Everest top.
1989 Anton Diffring, actor (Zeppelin, Fahrenheit 451), dies at 70
1990 An estimated 2 million people across China protest Martial Law.
1990 Hubble Space Telescope sends inaugural photograph's from space
1990 The Hubble Space Telescope sends its inaugural photographs back to Earth
1991 Chicago Bull Michael Jordan, named NBA's MVP
1991 Soviet parliament approves law allowing citizens to travel abroad
1991 The Soviet government begins allowing citizens to leave the country if they wished.
1991 Julian Orbon De Soto, composer, dies at 65
1992 In this year, FC Barcelona claims 373 Europe Cup 1 at London.
1992 India launches its inaugural satellite independently.
1992 Rap singer raps 597 syllables in 55.12 seconds
1992 Roger Keith Coleman, American convict
1993 10 meter meteor comes within 150000 km of Earth (1993KA)
1993 274th and final "Cheers" on NBC.
1993 Ukraine Premier Leonid Koetsjma steps down
1993 Max Klein, inventor (paint by numbers), dies at 77.
1994 Bobcat Goldthwait charged with misdemeanors for fire on Tonight Show.
1994 Dallas Pratt, collector, dies at 79.
1995 CBS News fires co-anchor Connie Chung.
1996 Eric Davidson, comedy scriptwriter, dies at 65
1997 Virgilio Boat, president of Colombia (1986-90), dies.
2006 In this year, Finland's Lordi claims the 2006 Eurovision Song Contest held in Athens.
2007 Clashes in Tripoli, Lebanon, spark the 2007 Lebanon conflict.
2007 The ruler of Dubai, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum makes the largest single charitable donation in modern history, committing €7.41 billion to an educational foundation in the Middle East
2010 Scientists announce that they have created a functional synthetic genome
2012 Tomislav Nikolić elected president of Serbia
2013 133 people are killed and 283 are injured in a continued wave of insurgency in Iraq
2017 In this year, 142nd Preakness Stakes: Javier Castellano aboard Cloud Computing claims in 1 minute 55.98 seconds.
2017 In this year, US President Donald Trump starts his 1st foreign trip arriving in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
2018 Two cyclists attacked by a cougar, 1 dies, in North Bend, Washington State
2018 In this year, President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela claims a second term in an election marked by boycotts and acussations of vote rigging.
2018 K-pop boy band BTS are the inaugural Koreans to perform at the Billboard Music Awards
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