1966 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR

1968 US sends 10,500 additional soldiers to Vietnam

1969 Mary Hopkin's Postcard album on Apple is released

1969 Suriname government of Pengel resigns

1970 Man-eating tiger is reported to have killed 48, 80 km from New Delhi

1971 12,000 South Vietnamese troops cross into Laos

1971 Golfing Vice President Spiro Agnew hits 2 tee shots into the crowd, injuring 2

1972 "Grease" opens on Broadway

1972 11th Winter Olympics games close at Sapporo, Japan

1973 US dollar devalues 10%

1974 Dissident Nobel writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn expelled from USSR

1975 Cyprus premier Denktash proclaims Turkish-Cypriot Federation

1976 Dorothy Hamill wins Olympics figure-skating gold, Innsbruck, Austria

1976 Peter Casserly of New Zealand hand-sheers record 353 lambs in 9 holes

1977 Eric Heiden is 1st American to win world speed skating championship

1977 Pam Higgins wins LPGA American Cancer Society Golf Classic

1978 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

1979 2nd Emmy Sports Award presentation

1979 Washington State's Hood Canal Bridge breaks up in windstorm

1980 Apollo Computer Inc incorporated

1980 New Zealand beats West Indies by one wicket in cricket at Dunedin

1980 Opening ceremonies for the 13th Winter Olympics begin in Lake Placid, New York.

1981 Longest sentence published by New York Times-1286 words

1982 Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon" is on the charts for 402nd week

1983 Australia beats New Zealand 2-0 to win World Series Cup

1983 World Boxing Council becomes 1st to cut boxing from 15 to 12 rounds

1984 6 year old Texan Stormie Jones gets 1st heart &liver transplant

1984 Konstantin Chernenko is selected as general secretary of the Soviet Communist Party Central Committee, after the death of Yuri Andropov.

1985 Dow Jones closes at 1297.92 (record high) after topping 1300 earlier

1985 Polish police arrests 7 Solidarity leaders

1988 15th Winter Olympics games open at Calgary, Canada

1988 European Community plans removal of inner boundaries on Jan 1, 1992

1988 The 15th Winter Olympics opens in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

1989 Kidnapped Belgian Premier Vanden Boeynants freed

1989 Oklahoma football player Charles Thompson is charged with selling cocaine; he is later sentenced to 2 years in prison

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