1979 Highest price ever paid for a pig, $42,500, Stamford TX

1979 War between North & South Yemen begins

1980 The U.S. hockey team beats Finland 4-2, to win the gold medal at the Winter Olympic Games in Lake Placid, NY.

1981 Buckingham Palace announces the engagement of Prince Charles to Lady Diana Spencer.

1981 Jean Harris is convicted of murdering Scarsdale diet doctor Tarnower

1982 24th Grammy Awards Betty Davis Eyes, Double Fantasy win

1983 A U.S. congressional report condemns the internment of Japanese-Americans during WWII.

1983 Dow Jones closes above 1100 mark for first time

1983 USSR performs underground nuclear test

1984 Iraq resumes air attack on Iran

1985 Birendra, Bir Bikram Shah Dev crowned King of Nepal

1985 Yul Brynner reprised his role in "The King & I"

1986 Texas Air buys Eastern Airlines for $676 million

1986 Voyager 2, first Uranus fly-by

1987 29th Grammy Awards Higher Love, Graceland, Bruce Hornsby win

1987 Radio personality Larry King suffers a heart attack

1988 Matti Nykanen becomes winter Olympics first triple gold medalist

1988 South African apartheid regime bans the UDF

1988 Supreme Court votes 8-0 Jerry Falwell cannot collect for Hustler parody

1989 150-million-year-old fossil egg (oldest dinosaur embryo) found

1989 Margaret Ray found in David Letterman's home, claims to be his wife

1989 US Boeing 747 loses parts of roof over Pacific, 9 die

1989 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

1990 Publisher Malcolm Forbes dies in Far Hills, NJ, at age 70.

1991 "Those Were The Days" closes at Edison Theater NYC after 126 performances

1991 US & allies begin a ground war assault on Iraqi troops

1993 35th Grammy Awards Tears in Heaven-Eric Clapton wins

1995 Dow-Jones hits record 4011.74

1996 Cuba downs 2 US planes

1997 Deng Xiaoping, leader of China, cremated (died Feb 19th)

1997 South Africa announces it is constructing largest modern day blimp

1998 Elton John knighted

1999 R&B artist Lauryn Hill picks up a record five Grammys, including Album of the Year and Best New Artist.

1938 Nylon's first commercial use, in toothbrush bristles

1946 Juan Peron elected as the President of Argentina

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