1970 Movie rating system modifies "M" rating to "PG"

1973 The Vietnam peace accords are signed in Paris.

1973 US &Vietnam sign cease-fire, ending longest US war &military draft

1973 US female Figure Skating championship won by Janet Lynn (her 5th consecutive win)

1973 US male Figure Skating championship won by Gordon McKellen Jr

1973 William Rogers &Nguyen Duy Trinh sign US-N Vietnam treaty

1976 "Laverne &Shirley" spin-off from "Happy Days" premieres on ABC TV

1976 Morocco-Algeria battles in Westerly Sahara

1976 Viv Richards scores his first Test century against Australia

1977 President Carter pardons most Vietnam War draft evaders

1977 The first broadcast of "Roots" mini-series on ABC TV

1977 The Vatican reiterates that the Roman Catholic Church does not allow women to enter the priesthood.

1979 36th Golden Globes Midnight Express, Jon Voight &Jane Fonda

1982 Mauno Koivisto installed as President of Finland

1982 Roberto S Cordova installed as President of Honduras

1982 West Indies beat Australia 3-1 to win World Series Cup

1983 World's longest subaqueous tunnel (53.90 km) opens, Honshu-Hokkaid

1984 John &Yoko release "Milk &Honey" album

1984 Michael Jackson is burned during filming for Pepsi commercial

1984 Pop singer Michael Jackson is hospitalized when his hair catches fire while filming a Pepsi commercial in Los Angeles.

1985 15th Space Shuttle (51-C) Mission-Discovery 3 returns to Earth

1986 13th American Music Award Whitney Houston, Huey Lewis &Crystal Gayle

1987 Midnight Rockers beat Buddy Rose &Doug Somers for AWA World Tag Team

1988 Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approves nomination of Judge Anthony M Kennedy to US Supreme Court

1989 German war criminals Fischer &Austrian der Fünten freed

1989 Oklahoma's linebacker, Mark VanKeirsblilck assaults an Oklahoma grad student

1990 Dissolution of Polish communist party

1990 Four top aides of executed dictator Nicolae Ceausescu go on trial in Romania, charged with genocide.

1992 19th American Music Award C &C Music Factory, Michael Bolton win

1992 Jane Fonda undergoes arthroscopic surgery on her right knee

1992 Mike Tyson goes on trial for rape (he is found guilty)

1992 Presidential candidate Bill Clinton (D) &Genifer Flowers accuse each other of lying over her assertion they had a 12-year affair

1993 DC-3 crashes in Kinshasa, killing 12

1994 Carlos Reina succeeds President Callejas in Honduras

1994 Romanian social-democrats form government with anti-Semites

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