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2020

First documented case of a person being re-infected with COVID-19 a second time, a Hong Kong man four months after first infection.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announces that for the 1st time 1 billion people logged into Facebook.

Steve Jobs resigns as CEO of Apple Inc., and is succeeded by Tim Cook, as a result of his illness.

Air Transat Flight 236 runs out of fuel over the Atlantic Ocean (en route to Lisbon from Toronto) and makes an emergency landing in the Azores.

Microsoft debuts Windows 95.

Hurricane Andrew hits South Florida, making landfall at Elliott Key and later Homestead; 44 die and $25 billion in damage is recorded.

Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as head of USSR Communist Party.

Pete Rose, the manager of the Cincinnati Reds, was banned from baseball for life after being accused of gambling on baseball.

Mark David Chapman is sentenced to 20 yrs to life for John Lennon’s murder.

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) went into effect.

Workers start pouring concrete for Panama Canal.

Thomas Edison patents motion picture camera.

Cornelius Swarthout patents stove-top waffle iron.

1st potato chips prepared by chef George Crum at Moon’s Lake House, near Saratoga Springs, New York.

The printing of the Gutenberg Bible was completed.

Mount Vesuvius erupted killing approximately 20,000 people. The cities of Pompeii, Stabiae and Herculaneum were buried in volcanic ash.