1973 Helgafell, island of Heimaey Iceland erupts for first time in 7,000 years

1973 Jordan Air crash at Kano, Nigeria kills 176 Moslem pilgrims

1973 Neil Young interrupts his concert to read a message handed to him, announcing the signing of the Vietnam peace accord. "Peace has come," he says; after ten minutes of audience celebration, he launches into his single, Southern Man

1973 President Nixon announced that U.S. troops would cease fighting in Vietnam at midnight Jan. 27.

1973 U.S. President Richard Nixon announces the end of U.S. involvement in Vietnam.

1974 The first edition of women's magazine "Story"

1975 "Barney Miller" premieres on ABC TV

1975 The situation comedy Barney Miller, starring Hal Linden in the title role, debuts ABC TV.

1976 Ian Redpath hits his only 2 sixes in Cricket Tests, vs West Indies Adelaide

1976 Washington Capitals end 25 game winless streak (0-22-3) beat New York Rangers 7-5

1977 $1.5-million Serge Lepage dress exhibited, Paris

1977 Miniseries "Roots" premieres on ABC

1978 Belgian industrial Haron Empain kidnapped in Paris

1979 Willie Mays elected to Baseball Hall of Fame

1980 President Carter reinstated the Selective Service System.

1981 Jochem Bird elected mayor of West Berlin

1982 World Airways DC-10 skids at Boston Logan Airport killing 2

1983 "A-Team" with Mr T premieres on NBC

1983 Björn Borg announces his retirement from tennis

1983 Cerebral Palsy telethon raises $14,700,000

1983 Russian radioactive satellite falls into Indian Ocean

1984 Greatest unpaced 1-hour bicycle distance, F Moser (Italy), 51.15 km

1984 Hulk Hogan defeats Iron Sheik to become WWF champ

1984 Stuart & Lillian Kelly of Brantford collect $13,890,588.80 for winning ticket in Lotto 6-49; largest to date

1985 Britains House of Lords debate first televised

1986 Columbia returns to Kennedy Space Center via Davis-Monthan AFB

1986 The first induction of Rock 'N' Roll Hall of Fame (Chuck Berry, James Brown, Ray Charles, Domino, Everly Brothers, Buddy Holly, Jerry Lee Lewis &Elvis Presley)

1987 Dow Jones rises 64 points then drops 110 points (44.15 point loss)

1987 Japan first exceeds military spending cap of 1% of GNP ($23 billion)

1988 45th Golden Globes Last Emperor, Sally Kirkland, Michael Douglas

1988 62nd Australian Women's Tennis Steffi Graf beats Chris Evert (61 76)

1988 Experimental airplane Voyager, piloted by Dick Rutan &Jeana Yeager, complete first nonstop, round-the-world flight without refueling lands

1988 Sandinista missiles downed a cargo plane that was dropping U.S.-financed supplies to Contra rebels in southeastern Nicaragua. Four crewmen were killed.

1989 Challenge to "who is a Jew" law filed in Israeli Supreme Court

1989 Surrealist painter Salvador Dali dies at age 84.

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