1975 Judge Sirica orders release of Watergate's John W Dean III, Herbert W Kalmbach & Jeb Stuart Magruder from prison

1976 Franklin Mint strikes first gold coins for Netherlands Antilles

1978 Israel's Cabinet votes to `strengthen' settlements in occupied Sinai

1979 512 die as oil tanker Bantry Bay blows up

1979 Argentina & Chile sign Beagle Canal accord

1979 Today Show gets a new theme song

1979 Vietnamese troops overtook Khmer Rouge & occupy Phnom Penh

1981 India all out 63 in one-day international vs Australia

1982 American Telephone & Telegraph agrees to be broken up in settlement of an anti-trust suit filed in 1974.

1982 AT&T agrees to divest itself of the 22 Bell System companies

1982 Justice Department withdraws antitrust suit against IBM, pending since 1969

1982 Statistics Canada reports Canada's unemployment rate at 987,000 or 8.6% of the work force; highest since figures first taken in 1946.

1985 Japan launches Sakigake space probe to Halley's Comet

1986 President Reagan freezes Libyan assets in the US

1987 The Dow Jones industrial average closes at over 2000 points for the first time.

1988 Dow Jones down 140.58 points

1988 Hewlett-Packard introduces the HP-28S Advanced Scientific Calculator

1988 US female Figure Skating championship won by Debi Thomas

1989 Boeing 737-400 crashes in England, 46 die

1989 Soviet Union promises to eliminate stockpiles of chemical weapons

1990 Canada formally joins the Organization of American States (OAS) as its 33rd member.

1991 Gaylord Perry, Ferguson Jenkins & Rod Carew elected to Hall of Fame

1992 US President George Bush gets ill & vomits on Japanese prime minister's lap during Japanese tour

1993 Elvis Presley Commemorative Postage Stamp goes on sale

1993 NBC offers "Tonight Show" to David Letterman

1994 Rintje Ritsma skates world record 1500m (1 51.60)

1994 Russian manned space craft TM-18, launches into orbit

1994 US male Figure Skating championship won by Scott Davis

1995 "Guys & Dolls" closes at Martin Beck Theater New York City NY after 1143 performances

1996 Blizzard buries eastern US causing at least 50 deaths

1996 Fisheries Minister Brian Tobin announces he is quitting federal politics to run for the job of provincial Liberal leader and Premier of Newfoundland, only to return and get a plum government posting

1996 For first time in 25 years no one is elected to Baseball Hall of Fame

1998 National Defence deploys 4,000 soldiers to help Hydro-Quebec with the worst ice storm damage; 1.3 million households will lose power in Eastern Ontario and Quebec.

1998 Roseanne files for divorce from 3rd husband Ben Thomas

1998 Unabomber suspect Theodore Kaczynski asks to act as his own lawyer

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