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1986  Norway Showcase groundbreaking   

1986  President Reagan orderes 2 Poseidon-class submarines be dismantled.   

1986  Gaston Duribreux, Flemish writer (Sour Dove), dies at 82.   

1987  Jim and Tammy Bakker appear on "Nightline" after PTL scandal.   

1987  In this year, Postage claims 32nd Europe Cup 1 in Vienna   

1988  Senate ratified a treaty eliminating medium-range nuclear missiles   

1988  Florida Friebus, actress (Bob Newhart Show), dies of a stroke at 79.   

1989  Jack Starrett, director/actor (Chase, Nightwish, 1st Blood), dies   

1990  In this year, Jan Stephenson claims J C Penney LPGA Golf Skins Game   

1990  Poland holds its inaugural free elections in over fifty years.   

1990  Radical Democratic Party holds inaugural political meetings in Moscow   

1991  Austrian Boeing 767-300 explodes at Bangkok, 223 die   

1991  Ed Dodd, cartoonist (Mark Trail), dies at 88   

1992  Daniel Robberechts, Belgian writer (Aankomen in Avignon), dies at 55   

1993  Dale Murphy ends carreer at 398 homeruns   

1993  Mafia bombs Uffizi-museum in Florence, results in the deaths of 6   

1993  Jan Wiley, actress (Underdog, Brute Man, She Wolf of London), dies.   

1994  Alexander Solzhenitsyn returned to Russia after 20 years in exile   

1994  Final broadcast of Arsenio Hall talk show   

1994  Flintstones live action movie opens in theaters   

1994  Larry King ended his radio show.   

1994  Nobel Prize-winner Alexander Solzhenitsyn returns to Russia, ending two decades of exile.   

1994  Radio conservative Rush Limbaugh (43) weds Marta Fitzgerald (35).   

1994  Norman Cook, British museum curator, dies at 87.   

1995  Actor Christopher Reeve (Superman) is paralyzed after an accident during an equestrian event in Charlottesville, VA.   

1995  C W Stubblefield, music Promoter, dies at 64.   

1996  Albert "Pud" Brown, clarinetist/saxophonist, dies at 79.   

1997  Judge finds Pamela Lee not guilty of breaking a contract.   

1997  Major league revenue sharing begins, New York Yankees pay out most $28 million.   

1997  Marv Albert pleads innocent to charges of sexually assault   

1997  Russian President Boris Yeltsin signs a historic treaty with NATO.   

1997  The inaugural all female (20 British women) team reaches North Pole.   

2006  A magnitude 6.3 earthquake strikes central Java in Indonesia, killing more than 6000, injuring at least 36000 and leaving some 1.5 million people homeless.   

2006  The inaugural demonstration for gay rights in Moscow is broken up by the police.   

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1332  Ibn khaldun: Tunis, arab historian/sociologist (muqaddimah)   

1519  Girolamo mei: Italian historian   

1576  Caspar schoppe: German scholar   

1595  Benedictus carpzovius: [benedikt carpzov], german lawyer   

1601  Antoine daniel: Jesuit missionary and martyr   

1623  William petty: English scientist and philosopher   

1626  William ii: Prince of orange/stadholder   

1651  Louis-antoine: Cardinal de noailles, french cardinal   

0366  Death of Procopius: Roman usurper (b. 326)   

0735  Death of Bede: English historian and theologian (b. 672 or 673)   

0866  Death of Ordono i: King of asturia (850-66),   

0927  Symeon: Czar of bulgaria ( -927)   

1039  Dirk iii hierosolymita: Count of holland,   

1178  Death of Godfried van rhenen: Bishop of utrecht,   

1444  Death of John beaufort: 1st duke of somerset, english military leader (b. 1404)   

1508  Ludovico sforza [il moro]: Italian duke of milan,