2011 A Border Collie has reportedly learned 1022 words and can act in accordance with the citation of those words
2010 Over 700 former Tamil Tigers are released by the Sri Lankan army after completing a rehabilitation program
2007 Apple Computer unveils the revolutionary iPhone
2005 Mahmoud Abbas is elected as Palestinian Authority President
1998 Anatoly Karpov defeats Viswanathan Anand to retain chess title
1998 Anatoly Solovyov and Pavel Vinogradov spacewalk record 3 hours 8 minutes
1998 Decapitated head of Danish Little Mermaid is returned
1998 Hockey News selects Wayne Gretzky best NHL player ever
1997 Heart attacks sends Frank Sinatra back to hospital
1995 Ecuador and Peru involve in boundary fight
1995 Worker accidentally cuts electrial wires at Newark Airport
1994 14th United Negro College Fund raises $11,000,000
1994 Gunda Niemann skates world record (167.282 pts)
1994 Rintje Ritsma skates world record (156.201 points)
1993 Franziska van Almsick swims world record 100 m free style (53.33)
1991 Baker and Aziz meet in Geneva; talks fail to defuse gulf crisis
1991 Baseball officially bans Pete Rose from being elected to Hall of Fame
1991 Dean Smith of North Carolina is 6th to win 700 career coaching basketball games
1990 64th U.S. manned space mission STS-32 (Columbia 10) launches into orbit
1990 Boston Celtics worst ever (6 pts in 2nd vs New Jersey Nets) and lose 87-78
1990 Jim Palmer and Joe Morgan elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
1990 Supreme Court strikes down Dallas' ordinance imposing strict zoning on sexually oriented businesses
1989 "Pat Sajak Show" premieres on CBS
1989 Johnny Bench and Carl Yastrzemski elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
1988 August Wilson's "Piano Lesson," premieres in Boston
1988 English earl of St. Andrews marries Sylvana Tomaselli
1988 U.S. Male Figure Skating championship won by Brian Boitano
1987 Chinese/Vietnamese border fights, 1500 killed
1987 New Nicaraguan constitution takes effect
1987 Sir Rudolph Bing (of New York Met Opera) marries Lady Carroll Douglass
1986 New York Islanders greatest shutout margin (9-0) vs Pittsburgh Penguins
1985 Flames set NHL record 264th regular season game without being shut-out
1984 Braves pitcher Pascual Perez is arrested for cocaine possession
1984 EAA moves operations to Oshkosh
1984 John Lennon releases "Nobody Told Me"
1983 British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher visits Falkland Islands
1982 5.9 earthquake in New England and Canada; 1st since 1855
1982 Steve D'Innocenzo scores 3 hockey goals in 12 sec in Mass HS game
1981 Francisco Balsamao elected President of Portugal
1980 63 beheaded in Mecca, Saudi Arabia
1979 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to WS Merwin
1979 High-school player Daryl Moreau makes 126th consecutive free throws
1979 K-Mart pulls Steve Martin's "Let's Get Small" for being in "bad taste"
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