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Also in 1995, Buckingham Palace confirmed that Queen Elizabeth II had sent letters to her son, Prince Charles, and his estranged wife, Princess Diana, urging them to seek a divorce as quickly as possible.

In 1996, guerrillas in Peru took an estimated 380 hostages at the Japanese ambassador's residence.

In 1998, Iraqi President Saddam Hussein declared that the four-night U.S.-British bombing campaign of his country was a victory for Iraq over the enemies of God and humanity.

Also in 1998, a Houston woman gave birth to seven more babies after delivering the first infant 12 days earlier. They were the only known set of octuplets to be born alive in the United States. The smallest baby died a week later.

In 1999, Macau reverted to Chinese rule.

In 2001, Argentine President Fernando de la Rua resigned amid mass protest demonstrations but chaos continued in his troubled country.

 

In 2009, a nor'easter stretching from Maine to Maryland broke snow records in Philadelphia and Washington and paralyzed the mid-Atlantic. December snowfall records fell in Philadelphia, which got 22.9 inches of snow, and in Washington, with 15 inches.

In 2010, a boat loaded with 90 people from Christmas Island seeking asylum in Australia slammed into rocks along the island. Authorities said there were 42 survivors.

In 2011, 10 people were killed in confrontations between protesters and security forces in Egypt.

Also in 2011 the Kepler, NASA's orbiting space observatory, reported discovering the first two Earth-size planets outside the solar system but both orbit too closely to a sun-like star to have water on the surface.


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