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1986 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan announces that former Senator John Tower, former Secretary of State Edmund Muskie, and former National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft will serve as members of the Special Review Board looking into the Iran-Contra arms scandal (they became known as the Tower Commission). Reagan denies involvement in the scandal.

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1990 - Matsushita purchases MCA for $6.6 billion.

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2004 - An oil tanker sppills as much as 1.8 million litres of crude oil into the Delaware River between Philadelphia and southern New Jersey, USA.

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2006 - US Judge James Robertson orders the US Treasury to change the dollar bill.

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2008 - Death of the oldest living person, Edna Parker of Shelbyville, Indiana, at age 115.

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