Name The Year: Azerbaijan SSR joins the USSR (1st time).?

Questions

On This Day In January 1996 - Former French president ______ Mitterrand died at age 79.?

On This Day In January 1997 - Mister Rogers received a star on the ______ Walk of Fame.?

On This Day In January 1998 - Ramzi Yousef was sentenced to life in prison for his role of mastermind behind the World Trade Center ______ in New York.?

On This Day In January 1998 - ______ announced that they had discovered that galaxies were accelerating and moving apart and at faster speeds.?

On This Day In January 1999 - The top two executives of Salt Lake City's ______ Organizing Committee resigned amid disclosures that civic boosters had given cash to members of the International Olympic Committee.?