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History of 22 November
1990 - U.S. President George H.W. Bush, his wife, Barbara, and other congressional leaders shared Thanksgiving dinner with U.S. troops in Saudi Arabia.
1990 - British Prime Minister...
History of 21 November
1992 - U.S. Senator Bob Packwood, issued an apology but refused to discuss allegations that he'd made unwelcome sexual advances toward 10 women in past years.
1993...
History of 19 November
1990 - NATO and the Warsaw Pact signed a treaty of nonaggression.
1993 - The U.S. Senate approved a sweeping $22.3 billion anti-crime measure.
1994 - The U.N....
History of 18 November
1993 - The U.S. House of Representatives joined the U.S. Senate in approving legislation aimed at protecting abortion facilities, staff and patients.
1993 - American Airlines flight attendants went...
History of 17 November
1982 - The Empire State Building was added to the National Register of Historical Places.
1988 - Benazir Bhutto became the first woman leader of...
History of 14 November
1990 - Simon and Schuster announced it had dropped plans to publish Bret Easton Ellis novel "American Psycho."
1991 - After 13 years in exile...
History of 2 September
1991 - The U.S. formally recognized the independence of Lithuania, Lativa and Estonia.
1992 - The U.S. and Russia agreed to a joint venture to build a space station.
1996...
History of 1 September
1997 - In France, the prosecutor's office announced that the driver of the car, in which Britain's Princess Diana was killed, was over the...
History of 8 August
1990 - American forces began positioning in Saudia Arabia.
1991 - John McCarthy, a British TV producer, was released by his Lebanese kidnappers. He had...
History of 2 April
History of 2 April
1990 - Iraqi President Saddam Hussein threatened to incinerate half of Israel with chemical weapons if Israel joined a conspiracy...
History of 12 September
1991 - The space shuttle Discovery took
off on a mission to deploy an observatory that was to study the Earth's ozone
layer.1992 - Police in Peru captured
Shining...
History of 11 September
1990 - U.S. President Bush
vowed "Saddam Hussein will fail" while addressing Congress on the
Persian Gulf crisis. In the speech Bush spoke of an objective of a...