1977 First flight of Space Shuttle (atop a Boeing 747)

1978 Ira Levin's "Deathtrap," premieres in New York NY

1979 A total eclipse of the sun casts a huge shadow from Oregon to North Dakota.

1979 Total solar eclipse crosses western Canada, casting a moving shadow 250 km wide

1980 Egypt & Israel exchange ambassadors for the first time

1980 Military coup under Desi Bouterse in Suriname

1980 R Hadlee scores Test Cricket century vs Roberts, Garner, Holding, Croft

1981 3 Anglican missionaries detained in Iran since August 1980 are released

1981 French Train à Grande Vitesse averages 380 kph on trial run

1982 Test Cricket debut of Martin Crowe, vs Australia Wellington, run out 9

1983 Michael Jackson's "Thriller" album goes to #1 & stays #1 for 37 weeks

1984 Last US marines in multinational peace-keeping force in Lebanon left Beirut

1984 Pak Awang (84) marries 80th spouse

1984 Reverend Jesse Jackson acknowledges that he called NYC, "Hymietown"

1984 Robert Penn Warren, Pulitzer Prize winner, named first US poet laureate

1985 27th Grammy Awards What's Love Got to Do With It, Cyndi Lauper win

1986 Former Philippines President Ferdinand E Marcos fled in defeat

1986 Goaltending great Jacques Plante 1929-1986 dies at his home near Geneva at age 57

1987 NASA launches GEOS-H

1987 The first release of Beatles compact discs

1987 The Tower Commission report is issued, chiding President Reagan for his national security staff's actions in the Iran-Contra affair.

1987 USSR resumes nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR

1988 Christa Rotherburger (GDR) skates ladies world record 1000 meter (1 17.65)

1989 "Jerome Robbins' Broadway" opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 634 performances

1989 California court throws out most of Margo Adams's $12 million breach-of- contract suit against Red Sox third baseman Wade Boggs

1989 Lowest barometric pressure in Netherlands (95.5 hPa)

1990 President Daniel Ortega of Nicaragua concedes defeat to election opponent, Violeta Barrios de Chamorro.

1990 USSR agrees to withdraw all 73,500 troops from Czechoslovakia by July, 1991

1991 Asanka Gurusinha scores twin Test Cricket tons vs New Zealand (119 & 102)

1991 Bill Veeck & Tony Lazzeri elected to Baseball Hall of Fame

1991 Kuwaiti resistance leaders declare they have control of their capital

1992 Irish Supreme Court rules 14 year old rape victim may get an abortion

1993 2nd tallest building in world, NYC World Trade Center bombed, 7 die

1993 Allan Border beats Gavaskar's record for most Test Cricket runs 10,123

1993 Six people die and more than a thousand are injured when Islamic extremists explode a bomb in the parking garage of the World Trade Center in New York City.

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