1975 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

1976 18th Grammy Awards Love Will Keep Us Together, Natalie Cole win

1976 Ceuta & Melilla (Spanish Morocco) are last European African possession

1977 A killer whale born in captivity at Marineland, Los Angeles CA

1977 Harbor strike in Rotterdam/Amsterdam ends

1978 The Department of Defense authorized fullscale development of the Sikorsky Aircraft's SH-60B LAMPS MK III helicopter. The aircraft was designed primarily for antisubmarine and antiship missions and to be deployed aboard frigates, destroyers and cruisers.

1979 Ernest Thompson's "On Golden Pond," premieres in New York NY

1980 "The Well-Tuned Piano" by La Monte Young premieres (takes 4 hours 12 minutes)

1980 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

1981 China PR throws out Netherlands ambassador due to submarine sale to Taiwan

1982 AT&T looses record $7 BILLION for fiscal year ending on this day

1982 FALN (PR Nationalist Group) bombs Wall Street

1983 Final TV episode of "MASH" airs (CBS); record 125 million watch

1983 Statistics Canada reports Canadian Gross National Product fell 4.8% in 1982; sharpest decline since 1933

1984 26th Grammy Awards Beat It, Michael Jackson wins 8

1984 Pierre Elliott Trudeau 1919- goes for a walk in an Ottawa blizzard and decides to resign; announces decision the following day; Canada's 15th Prime Minister

1985 In Toronto Ontario, publisher Ernst Zundel convicted for distributing hate literature in a book that said the mass extermination of Jews in Germany in World War II never occurred

1986 European Economic Community sign "Special Act" for Europe free trade

1986 Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme is assassinated in Stockholm.

1988 15th Winter Olympics games close at Calgary, Canada

1988 Anti-Armenian pogrom in Azerbaijan, 30 killed

1989 Gretchen Polhemus, 23, (Texas), crowned 38th Miss USA

1989 Memo by Brian Gumbel criticizing Today Show co-workers becomes public

1990 Dutch police seize 3,000 kg of cocaine

1990 The space shuttle Atlantis launches from Cape Canaveral, to place a spy satellite in orbit.

1991 US & allied forces grant Iraq a cease fire

1993 7th American Comedy Award Seinfeld wins

1993 Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms agents attempt to serve warrants on the Branch Davidians at a compound near Waco, TX, triggering a 51-day siege.

1993 Tony Curtis weds Lisa Deutsch as his 4th wife

1994 Brady Law, imposing a wait-period to buy a hand-gun, went into effect

1995 Denver International Airport opens.

1995 In Fredericton New Brunswick, a judicial report on sexual abuse of boys at Kingsclear Training Centre released; critical of bureaucratic indifference that allowed abuse to continue for almost 30 years

1995 US Marines land in Somalia to protect the retreating UN peacekeeping force.

1996 38th Grammy Awards Jagged Little Pill-Alanis Morisette wins

1997 Earthquake in Pakistan, kills 45

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