1980 USA beats USSR in Olympics hockey 4-3 en route to a gold medal

1982 NYC Mayor Koch announces he will run for New York governor (unsuccessful)

1983 Harold Washington wins Chicago's Democratic mayoral primary

1983 Hindus kill 3000 Moslems in Assam, India

1984 Brothers Anton & Peter Stastny score 8 points each for NHL Québec

1987 Pop artist Andy Warhol dies in New York City at age 58.

1989 31st Grammy Awards Don't Worry Be Happy, Faith, Tracy Chapman

1989 Fins ministry of Public health installs sex vacation to thwart stress

1989 New York Lotto pays $26.9 million to one winner (#s are 1-5-12-19-44-50)

1989 The first Spanish commercial on network TV (Pepsi-Cola-CBS Grammy Award)

1989 UK physicist Stephen Hawking calls Star Wars a "deliberate fraud"

1989 US authors demonstrate against Iranian death treats against Salman Rushdee, author of "Satanic Rituals"

1990 First day India vs New Zealand cricket at Auckland New Zealand 5-78 at lunch, 9-387 stumps

1990 Grain carrier collides with Polish fishing vessel in Vancouver Harbour; spilling 40,000 litres of diesel fuel

1991 Actor Bill Bixby (57) weds Laura Michael (32)

1991 Bush & US Gulf War allies give Iraq 24 hours to begin Kuwait withdrawal

1991 Kelli McCarty, 21, (Kansas), crowned 40th Miss USA

1991 Test Cricket debut of Sanath Jayasuriya, vs New Zealand at Hamilton

1992 Barry Diller resigns as CEO of Fox

1992 Ed McMahon, 69, weds Pamela Hurn, 37

1992 Rockers Kurt Cobain (Nirvana) & Courtney Love (Hole), wed

1993 Vinod Kambli scores 224 vs England at Bombay, 411 balls, 23 fours

1994 Health Canada project finds traces of cigarette smoke compounds in fetal hair; first biochemical proof that even offspring of non-smoking mothers are affected by passive smoke Ladies there is a reason to quit smoking

1994 Paul Martin tables his first Budget as Finance Minister; wants to cut deficit from $45 to 39 billion; cuts tobacco taxes to curb smuggling; announces four military bases to close.

1995 Algiers police kill at least 99 prison rioters

1995 Bloc Quebecois leader Lucien Bouchard returns to the House of Commons where MPs give him a standing ovation; he had lost part of his leg to the so-called flesh-eating disease in late 1993

1996 Actress Halle Berry files for divorce from David Justice

1996 STS 75 (Columbia 19), launches into orbit

1998 "King & I," closes at Neil Simon Theater NYC after 781 performances

1998 18th Winter Olympics games close at Nagano Japan

1879 Frank Woolworth opens his first 'Woolworths' store in Utica, New York state

1980 Martial Law declared in Kabul by Soviet occupation forces

1982 Britain and US sent ships to Persian Gulf following Iranian offensive

1991 Iraq begins setting fire to Kuwait's oil installations

1994 Iraq begins flooding its southern marshes to destroy the Shia Muslims living there

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