1982 5.9 earthquake in New England & Canada; first since 1855

1982 Three moderate earthquakes measuring 5.5 to 4.9 on the Richter scale shake New Brunswick and New England

1983 British PM Margaret Thatcher visits the Falkland Islands

1984 "TV's Bloopers & Practical Jokes" premieres on NBC TV (Whoops)

1984 "WHERE’S THE BEEF?" Clara Peller was first seen by TV viewers this day in the famous and successful commercial campaign for Wendy’s fast-food chain

1984 EAA moves operations to Oshkosh

1984 John Lennon releases "Nobody Told Me"

1985 Calgary Flames set NHL record 264th regular season game without being shut-out

1985 The Calgary Flames set NHL record 264th regular season game without being shut-out

1986 After 10 years of sales (and a lawsuit from rival Polaroid), Kodak discontinues its line of instant cameras.

1987 Chinese/Vietnamese border fights, 1500 killed

1987 New Nicaraguan constitution takes effect

1987 Sir Rudolf Bing (of New York Met Opera) marries Lady Carroll Douglass

1988 English Earl of St Andrews marries Sylvana Tomaselli

1988 US male Figure Skating championship won by Brian Boitano

1989 "Pat Sajak Show" premieres on CBS

1989 Johnny Bench & Carl Yastrzemski elected to Baseball Hall of Fame

1990 64th US manned space mission STS 32 (Columbia 10) launches into orbit

1990 Supreme Court strikes down Dallas' ordinance imposing strict zoning on sexually oriented businesses

1990 The space shuttle Columbia leaves earth on a ten-day mission to, among other things, retrieve a drifting satellite.

1991 Baker & Aziz meet in Geneva; talks fail to defuse the gulf crisis

1991 Baseball officially bans Pete Rose from being elected to Hall of Fame

1994 Gunda Niemann skates world record (167.282 points)

1994 Rintje Ritsma skates world record (156.201 points)

1995 British comedian Peter Cook dies in London at age 57.

1995 Ecuador & Peru involve in boundary fight

1995 Worker accidentally cuts electrical wires at Newark Airport

1997 Twenty-nine people are killed when a Comair commuter plane crashes 18 miles from the Detroit Metropolitan Airport.

1997 Former Toronto Argonauts and LA Kings owner Bruce McNall sentenced to five years, 10 months in prison and ordered to repay $5 million for bank fraud

1997 Heart attacks sends Frank Sinatra back to hospital

1998 Anatoly Karpov defeats Viswanathan Anand to retain chess title

1998 Anatoly Solovyov & Pavel Vinogradov spacewalk record 3 hours 8 minutes

1998 Decapitated head of Danish Little Mermaid is returned

1998 Hockey News selects Wayne Gretzky best NHL player ever

1998 Over 100 teams of linemen arrive from Detroit and other parts of the US to help clean up after the ice storm; 1.3 million homes still without electricity in Quebec and Eastern Ontario

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