1974 The S-3A Viking ASW aircraft was officially introduced in the Navy in ceremonies at NAS North Island VS-41 accepted the first aircaraft

1975 Margaret Thatcher elected leader of British Conservative Party

1975 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR

1978 4th People's Choice Awards Star Wars, Carol Burnett &Bob Hope

1978 Egypt announces it is pulling its diplomats out of Cyprus

1981 Flight readiness firing of Columbia's main engines; 20 seconds

1983 Japan launches Tenma satellite to study x-rays (450/570 km)

1986 Mike Tyson sexually harasses a woman in Albany NY

1987 Bomb blamed on Unabomber explodes by computer store in Salt Lake City

1987 David Hartman quits ABC's "Good Morning America," after 11 years

1988 500 die in heavy rains in Rio de Janeiro Brazil

1988 Brian Boitano wins Olympics gold medal in figure skating at Winter Olympics in Calgary, Alberta

1988 Peter Kalikow purchases New York Post from Rupert Murdoch for $37.6 million

1989 Total eclipse of the Moon

1992 Orthodox patriarch Shenouda III visits Netherlands

1992 Ross Perot says he'll run for President on Larry King Show

1994 3 Afghans take 70 Pakistani children hostage

1994 Pope John Paul II demands juristic discrimination of homosexuals

1998 Tara Lipinski wins Olympics figure skating gold medal

1998 UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan lands in Baghdad, for peace negotiations

1999 Fifteen-year-old U.S. figure skater Tara Lipinski becomes the youngest gold medal winner in Winter Olympics history, as she wins the ladies figure skating category at Nagano, Japan.

1811 Austria declares itself bankrupt

1962 John Glenn, the American astronaut, orbits the Earth three times

1986 The Channel Tunnel project was given the official go ahead

1991 Slovenia dissolves all its links with the former Yugoslavia

1694 The birth of Voltaire, French writer and scientist

1898 The birth of Enzo Ferrari, Italian car manufacturer

1904 The birth of Alexei Kosygin, Former Prime Minister of the USSR

1925 The birth of Robert Altman American director

1927 The birth of Sidney Poitier, American actor and director

2005 Spanish referendum on the Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe, passing it by a substantial margin, but on a low turnout.

2005 Early Legislative elections in Portugal resulted in a landslide victory for José Sócrates and the Socialist Party.

2005 Death of Sandra Dee, American actress (b. 1944)

2005 Death of Hunter S. Thompson, American "gonzo" journalist (b. 1937)

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