1982 Assembled STS-3 vehicle moves from Vandenberg AFB to launch pad

1982 Lee Majors & Farrah Fawcett Majors divorce

1984 Bill Johnson becomes first American to win Olympics downhill skiing gold

1984 Canada's Brian Orser wins Silver Medal in Figure Skating at the same Olympics; highest Olympic award ever to a Canadian male

1984 In Sarajevo Bosnia Canada's Gaetan Boucher wins second Gold Medal in Speedskating at the 14th Winter Games

1985 Livingston Bramble defeats Ray "Boom Boom" Mancini to win WBA champion

1986 French air force bombs Ouadi Doum airport in Chad

1986 Hein Vergeer becomes world champion skater

1986 Mário Soares (Socialist) elected Portugal's first civilian president

1987 John Demjanjuk, accused of being "Ivan the Terrible" trial begins

1988 First documented combat action by US military advisors in El Salvador

1989 Egypt, Iraq, Jordan & North Yemen form common market

1989 Jane Fonda & Tom Hayden separate after 16 years of marriage

1989 William Hayden becomes governor-General of Australia

1991 Dutch PPR, Political Party Radicals, disbands

1991 US female Figure Skating championship won by Tonya Harding

1992 Former silver Goodyear blimps are now painted yellow & blue

1994 6.5 earthquake strikes SE Sumatra, kills 200

1994 Over 200 people die as a powerful earthquake rocks the Indonesian island of Sumatra.

1994 Premier Alfonso Bustamente ends government in Peru

1996 Gary Kirsten scores 188 for South Africa vs UAE at Rawalpindi

1997 At age 25, Jeff Gordon is youngest winner in Daytona 500 history

1998 Tellabs Inc acquires Coherent Communications Systems for $670 million

1999 Testimony begins in the Jasper, TX, murder trial of John William King, charged in the dragging death of James Byrd, Jr.

0374 9th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet

0600 Pope Gregory the Great decrees saying "God bless You" is the correct response to a sneeze

1349 Jews are expelled from Burgsdorf Switzerland

1486 Diet of Frankfort

1512 Battle at Valeggio French troops beat Venetianen

1559 Pope Paul IV calls for deposition of sovereigns supporting heresy

1641 English king Charles I accept Triennial Act

1655 Dutch Grand Pensionary advisor Johan de Witt marries Wendela Bicker

1659 First known check (£400), it is now (on display at Westminster Abbey

1666 Netherlands & Brandenburg sign treaty

1677 Earl of Shaftesbury arrested/confined in London Tower

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