1982 Senegal & Gambia form loose confederation (Senegambia)

1983 New channels first available on cable as pay TV launched in Canada; First Choice, Superchannel and C-Channel allyou got to do is PAY

1983 USSR performs underground nuclear test

1984 China & Netherlands regain diplomatic relations

1984 Ravindara Mhatrem, Indian diplomat, kidnapped in England (killed 0203)

1985 -61ºF (-52ºC), Maybell CO (state record)

1985 -69ºF (-56ºC), Peter's Sink UT (state record)

1985 Azharuddin scores 3rd Test century in 3rd Test Cricket (122 vs England)

1985 US female Figure Skating championship won by Tiffany Chin

1986 Dick James, music publisher for the Beatles from 1962-70, dies in London at age 58.

1986 Singer Diana Ross marries Norwegian businessman Arne Naess in Switzerland

1987 163 day strike against Deere & Company ends, workers accept wage freeze

1989 Comet Schwassmann-Wachmann 1 at perihelion

1989 Princess Diana of England visits New York NY

1990 CN Rail commences cabooseless train operations.

1991 35 people die when a USAir jetliner crashes atop a commuter plane at Los Angeles International Airport.

1991 Afghanistan/Pakistan hit by earthquake, 1,200 die

1991 Craig McDermott takes 8-97 vs England at the WACA

1991 President F W de Klerk, says he would repeal all apartheid laws

1992 Uniondale, New York Denis Potvin's #5 becomes first number retired by the New York Islanders

1993 New York Judge Sol Wachtler indicted for harassing Joy Silverman

1993 Soyuz TM-16 lands

1994 Jeff Gillooly, Tonya Harding's ex-husband, pleads guilty to taking part in an attack on figure skater Nancy Kerrigan.

1994 Large meteorite falls near Kusaie, Pacific Ocean

1995 Amtrak New York-Tampa run ends

1995 Andy & Grant Flower make 269 stand vs Pakistan, brotherly record

1995 Belgium's TV channel VT4 goes on the air

1996 Toronto Stock Exchange 300 index breaks through the symbolic 5,000 mark for the first time, our Dow Jones

1998 "Street Corner Symphony," closes at Brooks Atkinson NYC after 79 performances

1998 86th Australian Mens Tennis Petr Korda beats Marcelo Rios (6-2 6-2 6-2)

1998 Australian Mixed Doubles Tennis J Gimelstob & V Williams beat Suk & Sukova (6-2 6-1)

2000 Scientists at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico say they have traced the origin of the AIDS virus to around 1930.

1790 Supreme Court convenes for the first time

1965 Martin Luther King Jr and 700 demonstrators arrested in Selma, Alabama

1991 South African president F W de Klerk says he would repeal all apartheid laws

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