1977 The Plymouth Horizon was introduced on this day. It was the first American-made small car with front-wheel drive. Technical advances in drive technology had reduced the size and cost of front-wheel drive systems.

1978 Pioneer Venus 1 begins orbiting Venus

1983 12 killed by a car bomb shattering 9-story building in west Beirut

1983 Los Angeles Dodger pitcher Steve Howe is suspended for 1 year for cocaine use

1985 Beverly McLachlin is the first woman appointed to the B.C. Court of Appeal, the province's highest court

1985 Dow Jones Industrial Average rose above the 1,500 level for first time

1988 Shuttle Atlantis launches world's first nuclear-war-fighting satellite

1990 Former Noriega aide Luis del Cid pleads guilty

1990 The Canadian Broadcast Corp. cuts its spending by $108 million, slashes 1100 jobs and closes or reduces regiona news bureaus to 11 stations

1991 Charles Keating Jr (Lincoln Savings & Loan fraud), found guilty

1991 New York Daily News files for protection under chapter 11 dec06

1996 Newspapers reported that Microsoft had struck deals with several computer makers that would give it a significant advantage The companies would not be allowed to use Windows unless Microsoft's screen came up immediately when users logged on. Hey mine does

1997 High-speed modem makers and longtime rivals 3Com and Rockwell International tentatively agreed to end their bitter feud over technical standards

1766 The founder of the famous London auctioneers, James Christie, holds his first sale

1872 The vessel 'Marie Celeste' is found abandoned in the Atlantic, no trace of her crew was ever found

1933 In America, prohibition is repealed after over 13 years

1945 In the 'Bermuda Triangle' five US Navy bombers, on a training flight, disappear without trace

1756 The birth of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Austrian composer

1839 The birth of George Armstrong Custer, Killed at the battle of 'The Little Bighorn'

1901 The birth of Walt Disney, US cartoon and film producer

1906 The birth of Otto Preminger, German director

2006 The military seizes power in Fiji by means of a coup d'état led by Commodore Josaia Voreqe "Frank" Bainimarama.

2007 19-year old Robert A. Hawkins shoots eight people dead and injures five at the Westroads Mall in Omaha, Nebraska, then commits suicide.

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