1980 Wayne Gretzky becomes first teenager to score 50 goals in a season

1981 A Gilmore &P Kilmartin discovers asteroid #3400

1982 Argentina seizes Malvinas (Falklands) Islands the start of the war with England

1984 Georgetown beats Houston for NCAA basketball title

1986 4 US passengers killed by bomb at TWA counter Athens Airport Greece

1986 George Corley Wallace (Gov-D-Ala) announces retirement plans

1987 Buddy Rich drummer/orch leader (Away We Go), dies at 69

1989 Wrestlemania V-Hulk Hogan beats Randy "Macho Man" Savage

1992 Country singer Wynonna Judd's first appearance as a single act

1992 In Guelph Ontario a stable fire kills 69 horses at Mohawk Raceway; worst racetrack fire in Canadian history.

1992 John Gotti found guilty in death of Paul Castallanos

1992 Space Shuttle STS-45 (Atlantis 11) lands

1995 More than 80 top Australian rugby league players sign with Super League

2000 French archaeologists announce they have discovered the remains of a 4,000-year-old queen's pyramid south of Cairo, complete with texts of special prayers previously found only with kings

1792 Congress establishes the US mint to coin American money

1801 During the naval battle of Copenhagen, Nelson ignores a signal to withdraw by putting the telescope to his blind eye

1958 National Advisory Council on Aeronautics renamed NASA

1966 Soviet Union's Luna 10 becomes spacecraft to orbit Moon

1982 Argentinian forces invade the British run Falkland Islands

1725 The birth of Giacomo Casanova, Italian lover, writer and philosopher

1805 The birth of Hans Christian Andersen, Danish author of fairy tales

1840 The birth of Emile Zola, French author

1891 The birth of Max Ernst, German painter

1914 The birth of Sir Alec Guinness, English actor of stage and screen

2005 Pope John Paul II dies; over 4 million people travel to the Vatican to mourn him.

2005 Death of Pope John Paul II (b. 1920)2007 Smoke ban in enclosed places in Wales

2007 The Solomon Islands is shaken by a magnitude 8.1 earthquake, and hit by a subsequent tsunami.

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