1968 Beatles' "Beatles-The White Album," goes #1 & stays #1 for 9 weeks

1970 Paul Rose, his brother Jacques Rose, and Francis Simard captured at 4;30 am in tunnel under farmhouse near Montreal; suspected FLQ terrorists, kidnappers and murderers of Quebec Labour Minister Pierre Laporte

1973 Gulag Archipelago, an expose' of the Soviet prison system, is published by Alexander Solzhenitsyn.

1974 More than 5,200 people killed in Pakistan earthquake

1975 Red Army beats New York Rangers 7-3 at MSG

1975 Rob Niedermayer hockey player, was born at Cassiar, British Columbia

1981 Elizabeth Jordan Carr, the first US test-tube baby, is born in Norfolk, Virginia.

1984 TV soap "The Edge of Night" ends 28 year run

1985 Warring Lebanese Moslem & Christian leaders sign peace agreement

1987 In Arkansas R Gene Simmons kills 16

1988 US 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals affirms Yonkers is guilty of racism

1990 2 die in a NYC subway accident

1991 Irene the Icon of the Greek Orthodox church returns after being stolen

1991 Ted Turner is named Time Magazine Man of the Year

1993 Timmins, Ontario country singer Shania Twain marries her producer Robert John "Mutt& Lang.

1999 Clayton Moore, star of the 1950s TV show The Lone Ranger, dies in Los Angeles at age 85.dec29

2000 Montgomery Ward announces it is closing 250 stores and laying off 37,000 workers

1065 Westminster Abbey opens

1904 First weather reports published

1963 Last ever broadcast of 'That Was The Week That Was'

1992 The UN continues to protect the Kurds in Iraq from the Iraqi military

1856 The birth of Woodrow Wilson, Former (28th) US President

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