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Wednesday, 21 January 2026
1988 A group of some of the world's most powerful companies engaged in a protracted struggle to acquire a rather hefty prize--RJR Nabisco. 
1988 Cyclone lashes Bangladesh, Eastern India; 317 killed.
1988 NYC furrier sues Mike Tyson for $92000 for non payment of purchase.
1988 Soviets stop jamming Radio Liberty; inaugural time in 38 years.
1988 UN General Assembly (151-2) censures US for refusing PLO's Arafat visa
1989 Alfred Herrhausen, German CEO (Deutsche Bank), murdered at 59
1990 Actor Burt Lancaster suffers a stroke.
1990 Bush proposes US-Iraq meeting to avoid war.
1990 Hilde Spiel, writer, dies at 78.
1991 93 cars and11 truck accident near San Francisco during a dust storm, 17 die
1991 Rob Pilatus, 27, of Milli-Vanilli attempts suicide
1991 P G Z (Zin) Harris, cricketer (9 Tests for NZ 1962-65), dies
1992 Jorge Donn, dancer, dies after long illness at 45.
1993 Brady bill signed into law
1993 Bob Wolf, agent (New Kids on the Block, Larry Bird), dies
1994 Connie Conrad Henry Kirnon Kay, jazz Drummer, dies at 67
1995 Hopper Levett, Kent cricket wicketkeeper (1930-47, Test 1934), dies.
1996 Dan Flavin, minimalist sculptor, dies at 63
1997 Clare Lucy Madeleine Evans, historian, dies at 37
1998 NBC announced it would purchase a minority stake in iVillage, an Internet company producing popular sites for women, such as Parent Soup.
1998 The White House unveiled its sweeping electronic commerce agenda on this day in 1998.
2000 South and North Korean relatives who have been separated for half a century are reunited in the North Korean capital of Pyongyang.
2005 Surgeons in France carry out the inaugural human face transplant
2006 South Africa is recorded as becoming the fifth nation to legalize gay marriage.
2006 Typhoon Durian triggers a massive mudslide and results in the deaths of hundreds of people in the Philippines.
2006 Windows Vista, the newest version of operating system from Microsoft, released for volume license customers.
2007 The 2007 Atlantic Hurricane Season officially ends.
2014 Australia experiences its hottest spring and second-hottest November recorded
2017 Def Jam founder Russell Simmons steps down from his companies after allegations of sexual misconduct.
2017 Disney announces it has cast Chinese actress Liu Yifei to play Mulan in up-coming live action film
2017 World's longest recorded rainbow - 8 hrs 58 min in Taipei's Yangmingshan mountain range
2018 magnitude 7.0 earthquake near Anchorage, Alaska.
2018 Marriot Hotels reveal massive data breach - 500 million guests affected in one of largest-ever company hacks
2019 22 people (two civilians, four police officers and 16 drug dealers) are killed in a shootout in Villa Unión, Coahuila, Mexico, the largest such crime in the country's history
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