1982 M Watt discovers asteroid #2687

1983 A lone suicide bomber kills 63, at the US Embassy in Lebanon

1983 Joan Benoit set a women's record for the Boston Marathon

1983 KMO-AM in Tacoma Wash changes call letters to KAMT (now KKMO)

1983 N G Thomas discovers asteroid #2933 Amber, #3151 Talbot & #3561 Devine

1984 Challenger flies back to Kennedy Space Center via Kelly AFB

1984 John Lee Mahin screenwriter, dies of emphysema at 81

1984 Michael Jackson faced surgery in Los Angeles. Doctors performed scalp surgery to repair damage done after the megastar’s hair caught fire during the filming of a Pepsi commercial on January 27. Jackson was hospitalized and recuperated for months before he could return to work.

1985 In Yunnan Province, China a 5.8 quake resulted in Twenty-three people killed, 300 injured and damage in the Luquan-Xundian area

1987 An unconscous skydiver is rescued by another diver in mid-air

1987 Pat Knauff, France sets 1-leg downhill ski speed record (115.012 mph)

1988 Barbra Striesand records "Warm All Over"

1989 Zimbabwe gains independence

1990 Bankruptcy court forces Frank Lorenzo to give up Eastern Airlines

1990 On the Minahassa Peninsula a 7.4 quake resulted in at least 3 people killed and 25 people injured. More than 1,140 houses damaged in the Bolaang-Gorontalo area

1991 Congress ends railroad worker 1 day strike

1993 In Peru a 6.3 earthquake centered centered about 70 kilometers northeast of Lima, killed six people

1999 NATO launches its most active day of airstrikes in its assault on Yugoslavia,

1775 American colonial patriot Paul Revere made his famous ride from Lexington to Concord, Massachusetts, warning the American people that the British “redcoats” had landed and will soon arrive

1906 An earthquake, followed by fire, destroys most of San Francisco, killing 3000 people

1934 First Laundromat opens in the United States. Now you can wash your dirty laundry in public

1949 Republic of Ireland created

1480 The birth of Lucrezia Borgia, Duchess of Ferrara

1882 The birth of Leopold Stokowski, British composer

1922 The birth of Barbara Hale, American actress

1947 The birth of James Woods, American actor

2005 Five people die in ethnic clashes in Iran's south-west Khuzestan province.

2006 Festivities and memorials across the Bay Area mark the 100th anniversary of the Great San Francisco Earthquake and Fire

2007 32 Chinese steel workers are burnt to death in the Qinghe Special Steel Corporation disaster.

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