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1991 - Lenore Strunsky Gershwin, widow of Ira Gershwin, dies at age 90.

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1992 - The Republican National Convention in Houston, Texas renominates U.S. President George H.W. Bush and Vice President Dan Quayle. Pat Buchanan, one of Bush's opponents in the primaries, delivers a controversial convention speech, in which he refers to a "religious war" in the country.

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1992 - Kristiansund's connection to the main land of Norway, Krifast, opens.

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1993 - Birth of Brianna and Brittany McConnell, American twin actors.

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1993 - Death of Bernard Delfgaauw, Dutch philosopher (born 1912).

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1994 - In Honolulu, Hawaii, during a circus international performance at the Neal Blaisdell Arena, a female elephant named Tyke crushes her trainer Allen Campbell to death before hundreds of horrified spectators.

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1997 - Souhane massacre in Algeria; over 60 people killed, 15 kidnapped.

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1998 - The Supreme Court of Canada states Quebec cannot legally secede from Canada without the federal government's approval.

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1998 - The United States military launches cruise missile attacks against alleged Al-Qaeda camps in Afghanistan and a suspected chemical plant in Sudan in retaliation for the August 7 bombings of American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. The al-Shifa pharmaceutical factory in Khartoum is destroyed in the attack.

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2001 - Death of Fred Hoyle, British astronomer and science fiction writer (born 1915).

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