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1986 Antonin Scalia is recorded as becoming a Supreme Court Justice 

1986 Bobby (Patrick Duffy) returns to Dallas, his death is attributed to his wife Pam's bad dream (erases all of last season). 

1986 William Rehnquist is recorded as becoming Chief Justice of the Supreme Court 

1988 Canada`s Ben Johnson stripped of his 100-m gold failing drug test. 

1988 NYC's Rockefeller Center declared a national landmark 

1988 Polish communist party picks propaganda chief Rakowski as new PM. 

1988 US space shuttle STS-26 launched. 

1989 Pavlos Bakoyannis, Greek parliament leader, murdered in Rome 

1990 Motion Picture Assn of America creates new NC-17 rating 

1990 Soviet parliament agrees on bill allowing religious practices. 

1990 Alberto Moravia, Italian writer (Woman in Red), dies at 82 

1991 2 year experimental Biosphere 2 in Oracle Arizona begins. 

1992 Ralph Manheim, translator (Mein Kampf), dies at 85. 

1993 James Boyden, British Labour MP (1959-79), dies at 82 

1994 Jessie Kesson, author, dies at 77 

1996 U.S. astronaut Shannon Lucid returned to earth after six months in orbit aboard the Russian space station Mir. 

1996 Geoffrey Wilkinson, chemist, dies at 75. 

2005 Death of Jerry Juhl, writer 

2005 U.S. army reservist Lynndie England is convicted by a military jury on six of seven counts in connection with the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal. 

2005 Helen Cresswell, British author. 

2006 Diet of Japan elects Shinzo Abe as new Prime Minister of Japan succeeding Junichiro Koizumi 

2007 Emperor Akihito formally swears in Yasuo Fukuda as the 91st Prime Minister of Japan. 

2007 inaugural confirmed deaths resulting from the Myanmar military's crackdown on weeks long anti-government protests. Buddhist monks are arrested and Internet access is cut from the public.[20] 

2007 In southern Vietnam the Can Tho Bridge, which is under construction, collapses, killing scores of workers. 

2012 Syrian army massacres 40 civilians in Thiabieh, Damascus. 

2014 World Health Organisations estimates that Ebola death toll has reached 3091. 

2017 Saudi Arabia announces it is overturning its ban on women driving - last country in the world to do so 

2017 Fights break out in Uganda's parliament during debate to raise presidential age limit. 

2017 World's second-largest gem-quality diamond, the "Lesedi La Rona", sells for $53m 

2021 The 2021 German federal election is held, with the Social Democratic Party beating out the CDU/CSU coalition.[204][205]. 

2023 Donald Trump are discovered guilty of fraud by inflating his assets in a civil case was brought by New York attorney general Letitia James [1] 

2024 Hurricane Helene, the deadliest Atlantic hurricane since Hurricane Maria in 2017, makes landfall in Florida as a category four hurricane. It has a death toll of 236 and leaves more than 685 missing. 

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