2015 | GM issues a recall of over 81,000 vehicles due to potential power steering problems; 2006 and 2007 models of the Pontiac G6, Chevrolet Malibu, and Malibu Maxx are affected.
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2014 | The Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System, now the world’s largest solar energy plant, opens in the Mojave Desert; the $2.2 billion plant, owned by Google, NRG Energy, and BrightSource energy, spans five square miles and can provide power to 140,000 homes |
2014 | Italy’s Prime Minister, Enrico Letta resigns following friction within his own Democratic party |
2013 | Bankrupt carrier, American Airlines and U.S. Airways merge, forming the world’s largest air carrier, to trade under the name, American Airlines |
2013 | U.S. Senate Republicans filibuster the nomination of Chuck Hagel as U.S. Secretary of Defense, demanding answers to questions about President Obama and Benghazi |
2012 | A new statue of Kim Jong-il, North Korea’s late leader is unveiled in the capital of Pyongyang |
2012 | Love letters written between poets Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning are published online by Wellesley College and Baylor University |
2011 | Palestinian Authority cabinet members resign and Prime Minister Salam Fayyad will select new ministers at the request of President Mahmoud Abbas |
2011 | China reports its trade surplus for January is $6.5 billion; the figure is less than expected |
2010 | Viktor Yanukovych is declared the official winner of Ukraine’s presidential election |
2001 | Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) spacecraft becomes first vehicle to land on an asteroid (433 Eros) |
1995 | Roseanne weds bodyguard Ben Thomas |
1995 | Wellington 2-498d and 4-475 beat Canterbury 496 and 2-476d |
1994 | Alexander Golubev skates Olympic record 500m (36.33) |
1994 | Grateful Dead’s Jerry Garcia (51) weds Deborah Koons |
1993 | Fire in Linxi department store in Tangshan China, kills 79 |
1992 | Andre Cason runs world record 6 m indoor (6.41 sec) |
1992 | Cease fire in Somalia begins |
1992 | Kieren John Perkins swims world record 800m freestyle (7:46.60) |
1992 | Merlene Ottey runs world record 60m indoor (6.96 sec) |
1991 | “Mule Bone” opens at Ethel Barrymore Theater New York City for 67 performances |
1991 | NL Cy Young winner Doug Drabek wins record $3 mil salary arbitration |
1990 | Alan Ayckbourn’s “Man of the Moment,” premieres in London |
1990 | Perrier recalls 160 million bottles of sparkling water after traces of benzene, a carcinogen, are found in some |
1990 | Space probe Voyager 1 takes photograph of entire solar system |
1989 | African National Congress (ANC) opens office in Amsterdam |
1989 | Boxer Mike Tyson divorces actress Robin Givens |
1989 | Khomeini orders Moslems to murder “Satanic Verses” novelist Rushdie |
1989 | Robin Givens is granted a divorce from Mike Tyson in Dom Rep |
1989 | Union Carbide agrees to pay $470 mill damages for Bhopol disaster |
1989 | World’s 1st satellite Skyphone opens |
1988 | 49th PGA Seniors Golf Championship: Gary Player |
1988 | Alfredo Stroessner re-elected president of Paraguay |
1988 | Bobby Allison at 50 becomes oldest driver to win Daytona 500 |
1988 | General hospital star Jackie Zeman marries Glenn Gorden |
1988 | Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Sarasota Golf Classic |
1987 | 53,745 largest NBA crowd to date-Philadelphia at Detroit |
1985 | Hostage CNN reporter Jeremy Levin is released in Beirut |
1984 | Singer Elton John marries Renate Blauel in Sydney, Australia |
1982 | “Night of 100 Stars” takes place at New York’s Radio City Music Hall |
1982 | Hollis Stacy wins LPGA S&H Golf Classic |
1980 | “West Side Story” opens at Minskoff Theater New York City for 341 performances |
1980 | 13th Winter Olympic games open in Lake Placid, New York |
1980 | U.S. launches Solar Maximum Mission Observatory to study solar flares |
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