1986: Madonna and Sean Penn at Berlin Film Festival,Berlin ,Germany
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2014 The banking industry is losing ground as non-banking companies such as Apple, Google and TMobile develop their own payment methods and financial products that circumvent the need for banking services
2013 Estonia becomes the first country in the world to establish a national electric car charging network , with cars charging in less than 30 minutes
2013 The Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences award is established by Mark Zuckerburg of Facebook, Sergey Brin of Google and venture capitalize Yuri Milner; the prize rewards excellence in life sciences, with 11 awards and $3 million in prizes
2013 Nigeria's secret police said they have broken up a terrorist group backed by "Iranian handlers" who wanted to assassinate a former military ruler and gather intelligence about locations frequented by Americans and Israelis. A suicide bombing in Maiduguri killed three civilians and injured soldiers.
2012 Scientists regenerated specimens from Silene stenophylla, a 31,800 year old piece of fruit, substantially surpassing previous records for the oldest plant regenerated
2012 In Nigeria some 30 people were killed when suspected Islamists opened fire and set off bombs at a market in the northeastern city of Maiduguri.
2011 Rebel leader Yoweri Museveni continues his 30-year rule after being re-elected President of Uganda; the opposition claims the election was a 'sham'
2010 At least 32 people are dead and 68 injured from floods and mudslides on the island of Madeira, Portugal
2009 Nigeria ordered its customs service and security and environmental agencies to clamp down on illegal imports of potentially toxic electronic waste.
2007 Nigeria's court of appeal ruled that President Olusegun Obasanjo had no legal power to sack of his deputy president for having joined an opposition party.
2006 In Nigeria militants in southern Nigeria destroyed an oil pipeline and blew up a boat in violence that has cut about 20 percent of crude production in Africa's oil giant.
1999 In Nigeria National Assembly elections were scheduled. 469 seats in a bicameral legislature were vied for by 3 parties. 360 members were for the House of Representatives and 109 were for senators.
1994 Pope John Paul II demands juristic discrimination of homosexuals
1992 Orthodox patriarch Shenouda III visits Netherlands
1991 8 African Americans won Grammy Awards
1991 33rd Grammy Awards: Another Day in Paradise, Mariah Carey
1988 500 die in heavy rains in Rio de Janeiro Brazil
1986 Madonna and Sean Penn attended the premiere of his film At Close Range at the Berlin Film Festival in Berlin, Germany.Madonna contributed Live To Tell to the At Close Range soundtrack. Live To Tell was written by Patrick Leonard and Madonna, and was released as the first single from her True Blue album in March 1986.
1986 Mike Tyson sexually harasses a woman in Albany, New York
1978 Egypt announces it is pulling its diplomats out of Cyprus
1975 Margaret Thatcher elected leader of British Conservative Party
1971 General Idi Amin Dada appointed president of Uganda
1963 NBA legend Charles Barkley was born
1952 African Queen opens at Capitol Theater in New York City
1929 Writer Wallace Thurman’s play opened in Harlem
1927 legendary actor Sidney Poitier was born
1895 Abolitionist Frederick Douglass died
1890 Amsterdam Theater destroyed by fire
1873 University of California gets its 1st Med School (UC/SF)
1547 King Edward VI of England was enthroned following death of Henry VIII
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