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<!---1980 - The United Nations Security Council votes 14-0 that member states should not recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. 1982 - Hyde Park and Regents Park bombings: The Provisional IRA detonates two bombs in Hyde Park and Regents Park in central London, killing eight soldiers, wounding forty-seven people, and leading to the deaths of seven horses. 1983 - The Israeli cabinet votes to withdraw troops from Beirut but to remain in southern Lebanon. 1984 - Officials of the Miss America pageant ask Vanessa Lynn Williams to quit after Penthouse published nude photos of her. 1985 - The government of Aruba passes legislation to secede from the Netherlands Antilles. 1986 - In South Africa, police fire tear gas into a church service for families of those held under the government's emergency decrees. 1986 - In Cambridge, Gerald Amirault of the Fells Acres Day Care Center is convicted of molesting nine children. 1987 - President Ronald Reagan appoints Larry Kramer, co-founder of Gay Men's Health Crisis, to a federal panel on AIDS. 1987 - UN Security Council Resolution 598, condemning the Iran-Iraq War and demanding cease-fire, is unanimously adopted. 1989 - Photographer Robert Mapplethorpe's show opens at Washington, D.C.'s Project for the Arts after the Smithsonian Institution's Corcoran Gallery cancels it. 1989 - Burma's ruling junta puts opposition leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi under house arrest. 1990 - Haiti asks the US to send observers to monitor its upcoming elections. 1990 - A Provisional Irish Republican Army bomb explodes at the International Stock Exchange in London. 1992 - Václav Havel resigns as president of Czechoslovakia. 1992 - A TU-154 cargo plane crashes in the suburbs of Tbilisi, Georgia, killing forty. 1994 - Israel's Shimon Peres visits Jordan, the highest ranking Israeli official to do so 1994 - Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9's Fragment Q1 hits Jupiter. 1995 - The Regents of the University of California vote to end all affirmative action in the UC system by 1997. 1996 - In Spain, an ETA bomb at an airport kills 35 1998 - Two hundred aid workers from CARE International, Doctors Without Borders and other aid groups leave Afghanistan on orders of the Taliban. 1999 - Falun Gong is officially banned and defined as an "evil cult" (xiejiao) by the Chinese government, and a large-scale persecution of its practitioners is launched. 2000 - The leaders of Salt Lake City's bid to win the 2002 Winter Olympics are indicted by a federal grand jury for bribery, fraud, and racketeering. 2000 - In Zimbabwe, Parliament opens its new session and seats opposition members for the first time in a decade. 2000 - Terrorist Carlos the Jackal sues France in the European Court of Human Rights for allegedly torturing him. 2001 - The London Stock Exchange goes public. 2001 - Italy: The 27th Annual G8 summit opens in Genoa. An Italian protester in Genoa, Carlo Giuliani, is shot by police. 2002 - South America: A fire in a discotheque in Lima, Peru kills over twenty-five. 2003 - Richard Sambrook, the Director of BBC News, reveals that David Kelly was the source of claims that Downing Street had "sexed up" the "Dodgy Dossier". 2003 - France: Sixteen people are injured after two bombs explode outside a tax office in Nice. 2005 - Canada becomes the fourth country in the world to legalize same-sex marriage, after the bill C-38 receives its Royal Assent. 2005 - In China's Shaanxi province, a coal mine explosion kills two dozen. --->