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Wednesday, 22 January 2025

2006

Evo Morales is inaugurated as President of Bolivia, becoming the country's first indigenous president.

2002

Kmart becomes the largest retailer in United States history to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.

1999

Australian missionary Graham Staines and his two sons are burned alive by radical Hindus while sleeping in their car in Eastern India.

1995

Israeli-Palestinian conflict: Beit Lid massacre

1992

Rebel forces occupy Zaire's national radio station in Kinshasa and broadcast a demand for the government's resignation.

1991

Gulf War: Three SCUDs and one Patriot missile hit Ramat Gan in Israel, injuring 96 people. Three elderly people die of heart attacks.

1990

Robert Tappan Morris, Jr. is convicted of releasing the 1988 Internet Computer worm.

1987

Pennsylvania politician R. Budd Dwyer shoots and kills himself at a press conference on live national television, leading to debates on boundaries in journalism.

1984

The Apple Macintosh, the first consumer computer to popularize the computer mouse and the graphical user interface, is introduced during Super Bowl XVIII with its famous ''"1984"'' television commercial.

1973

The Supreme Court of the United States delivers its decision in Roe v. Wade, legalizing elective abortion in all fifty states.

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