1968 430 Unification Church couples wed in Korea

1968 Makarios re-elected President of Cyprus

1969 Beatles begin recording for the Abbey Road album

1969 Mariner 6 launched for fly-by of Mars

1971 "Oh! Calcutta!" opens at Belasco Theater NYC for 1,316 performances

1972 Ontario Hydro opens $75 million Pickering nuclear power plant; has been the largest single producer of electricity in the world

1972 Paul McCartney releases "Give Ireland back to the Irish" single

1973 Juan Corona sentenced to 25 life sentences for 25 murders

1977 Oil tanker explosion west of Honolulu spills 31 million gallons

1977 Soyuz 24 returns to Earth

1979 Soyuz 32 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station

1980 Coup ousts PM Henck Arron of Suriname

1981 L Calvo Sotelo elected premier of Spain

1981 The Calgary Flames score 11 goals against New York Islanders

1981 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

1982 Final episode of "The Lawrence Welk Show" airs

1982 House of Commons starts inquiry into bank profits, in wake of record interest rates

1982 Record speed for a snowmobile (239 kph)

1984 Oil fire in Cubatao Brazil kills 500

1986 Iran conquerors Iraq peninsula Fao

1986 Philippine President Ferdinand E. Marcos flees after 20 years of rule, following that country's national election; Corazon Aquino was elected successor.

1986 Thousands of Egyptian military police riot, destroy 2 luxury hotel

1987 US Supreme Court upholds (5-4) affirmative action

1988 Bruce Springsteen "Tunnel of Love Tour," begins in Worcester MA

1988 South Korea adopts constitution

1989 First independent blue-collar labor union in Communist Hungary forms

1989 Lowest barometric pressure in Netherlands (956.7 mbar at De Bilt)

1989 Mike Tyson TKOs Frank Bruno in 5 for heavyweight boxing title

1989 Rob Boyd wins a World Cup downhill race in home town of Whistler; first Canadian to win a FIS World Cup Ski race in Canada

1990 Australia beat Pakistan 2-0 to win the Cricket World Series Cup

1990 Nicaraguans vote out Sandinistas

1990 On a BBC taped interview, rock star Stevie Nicks breaks down, saying that she will never have children &no man can stand her for long

1991 28 Americans are killed in the Gulf War when an Iraqi Scud missile hits their barracks in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.

1994 Baruch Goldstein shoots and kills 29 worshippers inside the Tomb of the Patriarchs in the West Bank. He is later beaten to death by survivors.

1994 Jersey Joe Walcott, world heavyweight boxing champ (1951-52), dies in Camden, NJ, at age 80.

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