1967 "Purple Haze" recorded by Jimi Hendrix

1969 The Palestine National Congress appointed Yasser Arafat head of PLO

1972 11th Winter Olympics games opens in Sapporo Japan (1st in Asia)

1972 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

1973 Dr Hook's "Cover of "Rolling Stone"" enters Top 40 &peaks at #6

1973 President Nixon signs Endangered Species Act into law

1979 "YMCA" by Village People peaks at #2 on pop singles chart

1979 US female Figure Skating championship won by Linda Fratianne

1979 US male Figure Skating championship won by Charles Tickner

1980 Muhammed Ali tours Africa as President Carter's envoy

1981 Gro Harlem Brundtland elected premier of Norway

1982 Columbia Shuttle moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating for STS-3 mission

1982 Greatest helicopter lift, 56,888 kg, Podmoscovnoe, USSR

1982 Porn star John Holmes ordered to stand trial for murder

1983 US female Figure Skating championship won by Rosalynn Sumners

1984 10th Space Shuttle Mission (41B)-Challenger 4 launched

1984 The first baby conceived by embryo transplant born in Long Beach CA

1985 "Harrigan 'n Hart" closes at Longacre Theater NYC after 5 performances

1986 President Reagan announces formation of Committee on Challenger Accident

1987 San Diego Yacht Club celebrates return of America's Cup

1989 Uruguayan president Alfredo Stroessner is overthrown in a military coup.

1992 Defense opens calling Noriega "our ally in the war on drugs"

1992 Labor strike at Royal Canadian Mint ends

1992 Maximum New York State unemployment benefits raised to $300 per week

1993 Cincinnati Reds owner Marge Schott suspended for 1 year due to racist comments

1993 Federal trial of 4 police officers charged with civil rights violations in videotaped beating of Rodney King begins in Los Angeles CA

1993 General Hospital's Tristan Rogers convicted of drunk driving

1994 "Les Miserables," opens at Kallang Theatre, Singapore

1994 Actor Jean-Claude van Damme (32) weds Darcy Lapier (28) in Bangkok

1994 President Bill Clinton lifts US trade embargo against Vietnam

1994 STS-60 (Discovery) launches into orbit

1995 Air Force Lt. Colonel Eileen Collins becomes the first woman commander of a U.S. space mission as the shuttle Discovery blasts off from Cape Kennedy.

1995 STS 63 (Discovery 19), launches into orbit

1997 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Detroit MI on WKRK 97.1 FM

1998 Mary Kay LeTourneau, 36, former teacher, violates probation with 14 year-old father of her baby

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