2012 – North Korea agrees to suspend uranium enrichment and nuclear and long-range missile tests in return for US food aid.2008 – Misha Defonseca admits to fabricating her memoir, Misha: A Mémoire of the Holocaust Years, in which she claims to have lived with a pack of wolves in the woods during the Holocaust.2008 – The United Kingdom's Ministry of Defence withdraws Prince Harry from a tour of Afghanistan after news of his deployment is leaked to foreign media.2004 – Jean-Bertrand Aristide is removed as president of Haiti following a coup.2000 – Chechens attack a guard post near Ulus Kert, eventually killing 84 Russian paratroopers during the Second Chechen War.1996 – The Siege of Sarajevo officially ends.1996 – Faucett Flight 251 crashes in the Andes all 123 passengers and crew are killed.1992 – First day of Bosnia and Herzegovina independence referendum.1988 – Svend Robinson becomes the first member of the House of Commons of Canada to come out as gay.1988 – South African archbishop Desmond Tutu is arrested along with 100 other clergymen during a five-day anti- apartheid demonstration in Cape Town.1984 – Pierre Trudeau announces his retirement as Liberal Party leader and Prime Minister of Canada.1980 – Gordie Howe of the Hartford Whalers makes NHL history as he scores his 800th goal.
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