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1985 Cyclone ravages Bangladesh; 11000 killed 
1985 Harold Hecht, choreographer, dies at 77 of cancer.
1986 95-year-old woman scores a hole-in-one in Florida
1986 Ferry boat Shamia sinks on Maghna River Bangladesh, 600 killed.
1986 Hands Across America - 7 million people hold hands from California to New York.
1986 Kansas City Royal George Brett gets his 2000th hit
1986 Virgilio Barco elected President of Colombia
1986 Chester Bowles, US senator/ambassador, dies at 85
1988 In this year, PSV claims Europe Cup.
1989 Eastern Airlines graduates its inaugural class of non-union pilots.
1989 Mikhail Gorbachev elected Executive President in the Soviet Union.
1989 Weird Al Yankovic records "She Drives Like Crazy".
1990 Vic Tayback, actor (Mel-Alice), dies of a heart attack at 60.
1991 "People Are Still Having Sex" by LaTour hits #35
1991 Israel evacuates 14000 Ethiopian Jews.
1991 Dorothy Davis Bostwick, entertainer, dies.
1992 Jay Leno is recorded as becoming permanent host of "The Tonight Show".
1992 Oscar Luigi Scalfaro elected President of Italy
1992 Danny Biasone, persuaded NBA to use 24 second clock, dies at 83.
1993 Dan Seymour, actor (Bombs over Burma, Intrigue, Watusi), dies at 78
1994 Eric Gale, guitarist, dies at 55.
1995 Dany Robin, actress (Follow the Boys, Topaz, Julietta), dies at 68.
1996 Jennifer Maria Holsten, 18, crowned Miss Filipino-American
1996 Bernard Charles Sendall, deputy director general of ITA, dies at 83
1997 Muhammad Fadhel, PM of Iraq (1953-54), dies.
2005 Liverpool F.C. win the UEFA Champions League by defeating AC Milan 3-2 in a penalty shootout in Istanbul.
2005 The Acting Chief Executive of Hong Kong, Donald Tsang, resigned for participating in the Chief Executive Election in July. As a result, Henry Tang and Michael Suen had become the Acting Chief Executive and Acting Chief Secretary for Administration respectively.2007 Ozeki Hakuho clinches the Emperor's Cup at the Summer Grand Sumo Tournament (Natsu Basho) in Tokyo, Japan.
2007 Danish former professional bicyclist Bjarne Riis admitted to having used doping when winning the 1996 Tour de France.
2007 Ozeki Hakuho clinches the Emperor's Cup at the Summer Grand Sumo Tournament (Natsu Basho) in Tokyo, Japan.
2009 Nor Korea allegedly tes its second nuclear device. Following e nuclear te, Pyongyang also conducted several missile tes bulding tensions in e international community
2012 Up to 116 people are massacred, including women and children, by the Syrian army in Houla, in the Homs province
2013 17 children are killed by a gas cylinder explosion on a school bus in Gujrat, Pakistan.
2014 Petro Poroshenk is elected President of the Ukraine.
2017 Pitched battles between Islamic State-linked militants and Philippine government troops in and around Marawi, leave 43 dead, with thousands fleeing.
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