On this day — February 6

El Salvador and Honduras to send asylum seekers back to their home countries.

a super heavy launch vehicle, makes its maiden flight.

killing 117 people.

leaving 112 people dead.

Russia captures Grozny, Chechnya, forcing the separatist Chechen Republic of Ichkeria government into exile.

Floods in the Willamette Valley of Oregon, United States, causes over US$500 million in property damage throughout the Pacific Northwest.

This is the deadliest aviation accident involving a Boeing 757.

thus marking the beginning of the overthrow of communism in Eastern Europe.

one of the worst Nor'easters in New England history, hit the region, with sustained winds of 65 mph and snowfall of four inches an hour.

Lockheed Corporation president Carl Kotchian admits that the company had paid out approximately $3 million in bribes to the office of Japanese Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka.