1978 Soyuz 27 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station

1978 The USSR sends two cosmonauts into orbit to rendezvous with the Salyut Six space laboratory.

1979 Entertainer of the Year Awards

1980 Former AFL-CIO president George Meany dies in Washington, DC at age 85.

1980 Last broadcast of "Rockford Files" on NBC

1981 El Salvador guerrilla group FMLN opens "general offensive"

1982 -17ºF (27.2ºC) in Braemar Grampian (equals UK record)

1983 In Los Angeles, the Fraggle Rock children's show debuts on HBO; partly produced in Toronto by Jim Henson

1984 Argentine ex-president/General Bignone arrested

1984 Bulgarian Tupolev 134 crashes at Sofia airport in Bulgaria, 50 die

1984 Clara Peller first asks, "Where's the Beef?"

1984 The U.S. and the Vatican establish diplomatic relations for the first time since 1867.

1984 US establishes full diplomatic relations with Vatican after 117 years

1985 Daniel Ortega Saavedra inaugurated as President of Nicaragua

1986 Palau signs Compact of Free Association with US

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

1990 China lifts martial law (imposed after Tiananmen Square massacre)

1990 NCAA approves random drug testing for college football players

1990 Time Inc. aquired Warner Communications for the tidy little sum of $14.1 billion. Thus began Time Warner, one of the world’s largest media and entertainment conglomerates.

1991 Japan ends routine fingerprinting of all adult ethnic Koreans

1991 US Congress begins debate on Persian Gulf crisis

1992 8th Soap Opera Digest Awards

1994 Trial of Lorena Bobbitt who cut off her husband's penis, begins

1994 Ukraine says it will give up world's 3rd largest nuclear arsenal

1994 Uzbekistan & Kazakhstan agrees to abolish trade tariffs

1995 "Late Late Show" with Tom Snyder premieres on CBS at 12 30 AM

1996 Israel frees hundreds of Palestinian prisoners

1997 4,000th episode of "Entertainment Tonight"

1997 Dow Corning provides $295 billion to settle breast implant suits

1997 Italy's new 1,000 lire coin shows divided Germany on map

1997 Right-winger Arnoldo Aleman sworn in as President of Nicaragua

1870 John D Rockefeller incorporates Standard Oil

1920 The League of Nations holds its first meeting in Geneva, Switzerland

1951 UN headquarters opens in New York, NY

1775 The birth of Andre-Marie Ampere, French physicist

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