1971 South Vietnamese troops invade Laos

1973 Mushtaq &Asif Iqbal make 350 stand for 4th wicket vs New Zealand

1973 The Senate names the seven members of a special committee to investigate the Watergate scandal.

1974 "Good Times," debuts on CBS TV

1974 Ringo Starr releases "You're 16"

1974 Soap opera "The Secret Storm" ends a 20 year run

1974 The three-man crew of the NASA space station, Skylab, return to Earth after completing a lengthy 84-day mission.

1975 1800 Unification church couples' wed in Korea

1976 Hua Guofeng becomes premier of China PR

1977 Earthquake in San Francisco CA, at 5.0, strongest since 1966

1977 Hustler publisher Larry Flynt sentenced

1978 Crown Prince Sad Abdallah al-Salim Al Sabah becomes PM of Kuwait

1978 U.S. senate deliberations are broadcast live on radio for the first time.

1979 The Secretary of the Navy announced that the helicopter portion of the Navy's LAMPS MK III was to be known officially as the Seahawk

1979 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

1980 Former NHL president Clarence Campbell found guilty of conspiring to give Senator Louis Giguère a benefit in connection with a contract for airport duty-free shops

1981 US female Figure Skating championship won by Elaine Zayak

1981 US male Figure Skating championship won by Scott Hamilton

1983 Champion thoroughbred Shergar kidnapped in Ireland; never found Lloyds of London pays $10.6 million insurance

1983 Eric Peters sets transatlantic sailboat record (E-W)-46 days

1984 14th Winter Olympics games opens in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia

1984 First time 8 people in space

1984 Soyuz T-10 launches with crew of 3 to Salyut 7

1985 Bruce Morris, Marshall University, makes a 92' 5¼" basketball shot

1985 First-class cricket debut of Jimmy Adams (age 17), Jamaica vs Barbados

1985 Opposition leader Kim Dae Jung returns to South-Korea

1985 The Dukes of Hazzard ended its 6-1/2 year run on CBS television\

1986 A head on collision between a freight train and a passenger train near Hinton, Alberta claims 23 lives.

1986 US male Figure Skating championship won by Brian Boitano

1987 The West beat the East in the NBA All-Star Game. A record was set for total points scored. The West won 154-149 in overtime.

1988 NASA launches DOD-2

1989 144 people die when a Boeing 707 jetliner crashes into a fog-shrouded mountain in the Azores.

1989 5 cm of snow falls in outskirts of Los Angeles

1990 "60 Minutes" commentator Andy Rooney suspended by CBS for racial remarks attributed to him by a gay magazine

1992 "I'm Too Sexy" by Right Said Fred peaks at #1

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