1974 Dutch government rations gasoline

1975 Gary Geld &Peter Udell's musical "Shenandoah" premieres at Alvin Theater New York City NY for 1050 performances

1975 Led Zeppelin fans riot before Boston concert, causing $30,000 damage

1977 Human Rights Charter '77 established in Prague

1978 Angola revises its constitution

1979 Vietnamese forces capture Phnom Penh from Khmer Rouge

1980 Minnesota ends Philadelphia Flyers' NHL record 35 game unbeaten streak ends

1982 "Fame" premieres on NBC TV

1983 Reagan ends US arms embargo against Guatemala

1984 Train wreck near Medicine Hat, Alberta releases dangerous gases, forcing evacuation of 800 people

1985 Japanese space probe Sakigake launched to Halley's comet

1985 Lou Brock &Hoyt Wilhelm, elected to Baseball's Hall of Fame

1986 Netherlands Bank issues 250 guilder notes

1986 STS 61-C mission scrubbed at T -9m because of weather problems

1986 US President Reagan proclaims economic sanctions against Libya

1987 French airplanes harass Libyan positions in Duadi Doum

1989 Akhito becomes emperor of Japan

1989 British Midland Boeing 737 crashes on Motorway

1989 International Conference on Limitation of Chemical Weapons opens in Paris

1990 Tower Of Pisa closed to the public after leaning too far

1991 Haiti coup defeated

1991 Soviet paratroopers sent to Baltic Republics

1991 The TV series Blossom debuts

1992 AT&T releases video-telephone ($1499)

1992 In Los Angeles Capitol Records decides not to renew Anne Murray's contract;

1992 Last day of Test cricket for Imran Khan

1993 The U.S. EPA classifies environmental tobacco smoke as a carcinogen.

1994 About 3.4 million litres of heating oil blacken beaches on Puerto Rico when a barge runs aground.

1994 United Express commuter plane crashes in Ohio, killing 5

1994 US female Figure Skating championship won by Tonya Harding

1995 The New Brunswick Southern Railway commences operation over former CP trackage from McAdam to Saint John, N.B. with a branch from McAdam to St. Stephen.

1996 16th United Negro College Fund raises $12,600,000

1996 Keiko the killer whale star from the movie Free Willy retures from performing

1997 Newt Gingrich, narrowly re-elected speaker of the House

1999 The impeachment trial of President Bill Clinton opens in the U.S. Senate.

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