1978 Bee Gees' "Saturday Night Fever" album goes #1 for 24 weeks

1979 Neptune becomes outermost planet (Pluto moves closer)

1979 Price of gold increases to record $875 troy ounce

1980 Canada expels three diplomats from the Soviet Embassy in Ottawa for spying; caught buying secret information from an American citizen in Ottawa.

1980 Gold hits record $850 an ounce

1980 Gold reaches intra-day historic high price of $870 in New York.

1981 Bernhard Goetz is assaulted for first time on a New York subway train

1983 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Anthony E Hecht

1983 In Regina Saskatchewan Joanne Wilson found murdered in her garage; ex-wife of politician Colin Thatcher, son of ex-Premier Ross Thatcher, who will be found guilty of first-degree murder

1983 Reagan certifies El Salvador human-rights abuses have decreased making country eligible for US military aid

1984 US male Figure Skating championship won by Scott Hamilton

1985 -19ºF (-28ºC), Caesar's Head SC (state record)

1985 -34ºF (-37ºC), Mt Mitchell NC (state record)

1985 Bomb attack on Borobudur temple in Java

1985 Dennis Potvin ties Bobby Orr's career record of 270 NHL goals

1986 100 participate in Nude Olympics race in 38ºF (3ºC), Indiana

1986 Allison J Brown, 17, of Oklahoma, crowned 4th Miss Teen USA

1986 Bomb attack in East-Beirut, 27 killed

1987 Archbishop's envoy Terry Waite disappears in Lebanon

1987 BB King donates his 7,000 record collection to University of Mississippi

1988 US accept immigration of 30,000 US-Vietnamese children

1989 A woman is assaulted & raped in the room of an Oklahoma football player

1989 In St John's Newfoundland Tory Brian Peckford resigns after 10 years as Newfoundland Premier; replaced by Clyde Wells after election

1990 Bob Goodenow succeeds Alan Eagleson as NHL players association executive director

1990 Washington, D.C., Mayor Marion Barry said he would seek help but did not publicly concede he had used illegal drugs. He left the next day for a treatment program in Florida.

1991 CBS News correspondent Bob Simon captured by Iraqis in Persian Gulf

1991 Iraq announced that it would use hostages as human shields against allied warplanes.

1992 The Supreme Court of Canada starts review of David Milgaard murder conviction in the death of Saskatoon nursing aide Gail Miller; he will be freed April 16th, after 22 years in jail, when the Court finds a miscarriage of justice

1993 It was announced that Hillary Clinton would work out of a White House office near the Oval Office, an unprecedented move in first lady history.

1993 Nigerian singer Fela Kuti arrested on suspicion of murder

1994 Dow Jones passes 3900 (record 3,914.20)

1994 Lorena Bobbitt found temporarily insane for chopping off spouse's penis

1994 Lorena Bobbitt was found innocent by reason of insanity in the June 1993 attack on her husband, John. She had cut off his penis while he slept. The organ was surgically reattached.

1995 52th Golden Globes Forrest Gump, Tom Hanks, Jessica Lange, Brad Pitt

1995 Calgary Police charge Dorothy Joudrie with attempted murder after the shooting of her estranged husband, oil executive Earl Joudrie, at her home in Calgary

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