So here are some important dates that landed on my birthday! Enjoy....
- 1986 Personal posting - Jessica Lynn H. is born in detroit MI - USA
- 1986 58th Academy Awards: "Out of Africa", William Hurt & Geraldine Page win
- 1986 NASA publishes "Strategy for Safely Returning the Space Shuttle to Flight Status"
- 1986 Suriname army Captain Etienne Boerenveen arrested for cocaine smuggling
- 1986 US & Libya clash in Gulf of Sidra
- 1987 First Soul Train Music Awards: Janet Jackson, Luther Vandross win
- 1987 Western Australia win the Sheffield Shield by drawing cricket final vs Victoria
- 1988 Quarterback Dan Fouts retires
- 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill: In Alaska's Prince William Sound the Exxon Valdez spills 240,000 barrels (42,000 m) of petroleum after running aground.
- 1989 Mary Martin in "Peter Pan", first time seen on TV since 1973
- 1989 The worst oil spill to ever occur in U.S. territory begins after the supertanker Exxon Valdez, owned and operated by the Exxon Corporation, runs aground on a reef in Prince William Sound in southern Alaska
- 1990 Indian troops leave Sri Lanka
- 1991 11th Golden Raspberry Awards: Ford Fairlane & Ghosts Can't Do It win
- 1991 In liberated Kuwait, banks reopen
- 1991 Wrestlemania VII in Los Angeles, Hulk Hogan pins Sergeant Slaughter for championship
- 1992 First Belgian in the space, Dirk Frimout on Atlantis Space Shuttle STS-45 (Atlantis 11) launches into space
- 1992 Sudanese Boeing 707 crashes on mountain Hymettos at Athens; 5-6 die
- 1993 Ezer Weizman elected President of Israel
- 1993 Personal posting - Jessica Lynn Is born
- 1993 Personal posting - Susej Maria Taveras Urena was born. - USA
- 1993 Personal posting - Kyle Morrison was born - USA
- 1994 "Carousel" opens at Beaumont Theater NYC for 322 performances
- 1994 F-16 collides with C-130 Hercules above AFB in North Carolina, 120 die
- 1994 Robert F Kennedy Jr divorces Emily Black
- 1996 16th Golden Raspberry Awards: Showgirls wins
- 1996 Eastenders star Michael French is reported to be a homosexual
- 1996 MTA raises NYC bridge tolls to $3.50 each way
- 1996 U.S. astronaut Shannon Lucid safely transfers to the Russian space station Mir from the U.S. space shuttle Atlantis for a planned five-month stay.
- 1997 69th Academy Awards: "The English Patient", Tom Cruise & Frances McDormand win
- 1997 Australian parliament overturns world's first & only euthanasia law
- 1998 Jonesboro massacre: In Jonesboro, Arkansas, two boys (aged 11 and 13 years) fire upon students at Westside Middle School; four students and one teacher are killed and 10 injured.
- 1998 Tornado sweeps through Dantan in India killing 250 people and injuring 3000 others.
- 1999 Kosovo War: NATO commences air bombardment against Yugoslavia, marking the first time NATO has attacked a sovereign country.
- 1999 Mont Blanc Tunnel Fire: 39 people died when a Belgian transport truck carrying flour and margarine caught fire in Mont Blanc Tunnel.
- 2000 The S&P 500 reaches an all-time high of 1527.46.
- 2000 Two 18-year-old boys are arrested in Britain on charges of breaking into e-commerce Internet sites in five countries, stealing information on more than 26,000 credit card accounts and posting some of it on the Web
- 2003 The Arab League votes 21-1 in favor of a resolution demanding the immediate and unconditional removal of U.S. and British soldiers from Iraq.
- 2006 Long-term protests in Belarus are broken by police.
- 2006 Pope Benedict XVI adds 15 men to the College of Cardinals, in the first consistory of his Pontificate
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