1973 Gold goes up $10 overnight to record $95 an ounce in London

1974 Teri Garr appears on Bob Newhart Show in "Confessions of an Orth"

1975 Amy Alcott wins LPGA Orange Blossom Golf Classic

1976 Owners announce spring training won't open without a labor contract

1978 20th Grammy Awards Hotel California, Fleetwood Mac, Debbie Boone win

1979 "Sarava" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 140 performances

1979 Cameron Mclanahan is born in California

1979 Frank Peterson Jr named first black general in Marine Corps

1979 George Harrison releases "George Harrison" album

1979 W.A.C. Bennett dies at age 78; Premier of British Columbia from 1952 to 1972

1980 13th Winter Olympics games close at Lake Placid NY

1980 Eric Heiden wins all 5 speed skating golds at Lake Placid Olympics

1980 France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island

1980 Oil tanker explosion off Pilos, Greece, causes 37-million-gallon spill

1981 People magazine features drug ordeal of Mackenzie & Papa John Phillips

1981 Spanish coup under Lieutenant-Colonel Antonio Tejero Molina fails

1982 Michael Frayn's "Noises Off," premieres in London

1983 25th Grammy Awards Rosanna, Toto IV, Men at Work win

1983 USFL New Jersey Generals sign Heisman winner Herschel Walker (3 years-$5 million)

1985 Indiana basketball coach Bobby Knight throws a chair during a game

1985 US Senate confirms Edwin Meese III as Attorney General

1986 Despite losing, Red Sox Wade Boggs gets largest arbitration ($1.35M)

1986 Mary Beth Zimmerman wins LPGA Standard Register/Samaritan Golf Classic

1986 Nelli Fiere-Cooman runs world record 60 meter indoor (7.00 seconds)

1987 Dick Howser retires from managing Kansas City Royals, due to brain tumor

1987 Russian Writers Union accepts Boris Pasternak posthumous as member

1987 Supernova 1987A in LMC first seen; first naked-eye supernova since 1604

1988 15th Winter Olympics games opens in Calgary, Alberta

1988 Chicago gives Cubs right to install lights & play up to 18 night games

1988 Yvonne van Gennip skates female record 3k (4 11.94)

1990 Ian Smith 173 New Zealand vs India, 136 balls, world record for no 9 bat

1990 Jose Napoleon Duarte, former Salvadoran president, dies at age 64.

1991 Greg Haugen scores a split decision over Hector "Macho" Camacho

1991 Military coup in Thailand, Premier Choonhaven arrested

1991 North Carolina is first NCAA basketball team to win 1,500 games

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