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Wednesday, 01 December 2021

2001

Captain Bill Compton brings Trans World Airlines Flight 220, an MD-83, into St. Louis International Airport bringing to an end 76 years of TWA operations following TWA's purchase by American Airlines.

1998

Exxon announces a $73.7 billion USD deal to buy Mobil, thus creating Exxon-Mobil, the world's largest company.

1991

Cold War: Ukrainian voters overwhelmingly approve a referendum for independence from the Soviet Union.

1990

Channel Tunnel sections started from the United Kingdom and France meet 40 metres beneath the seabed.

1989

Cold War: East Germany's parliament abolishes the constitutional provision granting the communist party the leading role in the state.

The right-wing military rebel ''Reform the Armed forces Movement'' attempts to oust Philippine President Corazon Aquino in a failed bloody coup d'état.

1988

Benazir Bhutto is appointed Prime Minister of Pakistan.

1982

At the University of Utah, Barney Clark becomes the first person to receive a permanent artificial heart.

Anish Sharma was born (Ambala City, Haryana, India).

1981

A Yugoslavian Inex Adria Aviopromet DC-9 crashes in Corsica killing all 180 people on-board.

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