1978 England all out 64 for first loss to New Zealand in cricket (Boycott Captain)

1978 Escaped mass murderer Ted Bundy recaptured, Pensacola FL

1978 In a split decision, Leon Spinks takes the heavyweight boxing champion title away from defending champ Muhammad Ali.

1978 Zaire revises constitution

1979 21st Grammy Awards Just the Way You Are, Taste of Honey win

1979 Paul Shirley (21) of Australia, sucked a lifesaver for 4 hours 40 minutes

1979 Temple City Kazoo Orchestra appears on Mike Douglas Show

1979 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

1980 Eric Heiden skates Olympics record 500 meter in 38.03 seconds

1981 Rocket-powered ice sled attains 399 kph, Lake George NY

1982 Eighty-four workers die when an oil drilling rig sinks off the coast of Newfoundland during a storm.

1982 Off the Newfoundlandthe oil drilling rig Ocean Ranger capsizes and sinks in 18 m waves during a fierce storm on the Grand Banks 315 km east of St. John's; all 84 crewmen, 56 of whom are Newfoundlanders, drown in worst marine disaster in Canada

1984 500,000 Iranian soldiers move into Iraq

1985 STS 51-E vehicle moves to launch pad

1985 World chess championship match abandoned-Karpov 25, Kasparov 23

1986 Ferdinand Marcos wins rigged Philippines presidential election

1987 ABC-TV begins broadcasting "Amerika" mini-series

1987 Craig Stadler disqualified from Andy Williams Open for kneeling on a towel to make a shot

1987 Nikolai Guljajev becomes world champion skater

1988 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

1989 Israel attacks border strip Taba near Egypt

1989 The last Soviet troops leave Afghanistan, ending nine years of military involvement.

1990 Baseball owners lock out players

1990 U.S. President George Bush meets with Bolivian, Colombian, and Peruvian leaders at an anti-drug summit in Colombia.

1991 Freighter with dynamite explodes in Phang Nga Thailand, 120 die

1992 100th episode of "Cops" airs on the Fox Network

1992 Jeffrey Dahmer found sane & guilty of killing 15 boys

1993 Bombings by Mafia drug lords kill 14 in Bogotá Colombia

1994 US asks Aristide to adopt a peace plan from Haiti

1995 Burundi premier Anatole Kanyenkiko, resigns

1995 Dow-Jones closes at record 3986.17

1995 Population of People's Republic of China hits 1.2 billion

1996 Prime Minister Jean Chrétien scuffles with a protestor disrupting Flag Day ceremonies

1997 US female Figure Skating championship won by Tara Lipinski

1997 US male Figure Skating championship won by Todd Eldridge

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