1961 Republic of Rwanda proclaimed

1962 Johanne Relleke gets stung by bees 2,443 times in Rhodesia &survives

1963 -34ºF (-37ºC), Cynthiana KY (state record)

1965 The Who make their first appearance on British TV

1967 Rolling Stones release "Let's Spend the Night Together"

1970 Lubomír Strougal succeeds Cernik as premier of Czechoslovakia

1973 "Barnaby Jones" premieres on CBS TV

1973 Ron Howard appears on M*AS*H in "Sometimes You Hear the Bullet"

1978 "Fantasy Island" starring Ricardo Montalban premieres on ABC TV

1978 Ted Nugent autographs a fan's arm with his knife

1980 37th Golden Globes Dustin Hoffman &Sally Field wins

1981 Olympic Glory tanker at Galveston Bay, Texas, spills 1 million gallons of oil in a ship collision

1981 William J Casey becomes the 13th director of CIA (until 1987)

1982 Italian special forces rescue U.S. Brigadier General James L. Dozier, who had been kidnapped by the Red Brigades.

1982 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

1984 Record 295,000 dominoes toppled, Fuerth, West Germany

1986 "Uptown... It's Hot!" opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater New York City NY for 24 performances

1986 25th Space Shuttle (51L)-Challenger 10 explodes 73 seconds after liftoff

1986 Angolan Unity Leader Jonas Savimbi visits Washington, DC

1987 US Foreign minister George Shultz meets ANC-leader Oliver Tambo

1988 Canada's Supreme court declares anti-abortion law unconstitutional

1989 46th Golden Globes Rain Man, Working Girl

1990 "Independent on Sunday" begins publishing in London

1990 East German agreement to form all-party government

1991 "A Closer Look" with Faith Daniels premieres on NBC-TV

1991 18th American Music Award M C Hammer &Janet Jackson

1991 Dictator Siad Barre flees Somalia ending 22 year rule

1994 Helicopter crashes into office building in San Jose CA, 1 dead

1997 Pasadena, Texas is cleaning up after a tornado touched down on the city's main drag

1997 The Monday afternoon rush hour turned into a demolition derby as freezing rain pelted streets from Vancouver to Hope. Hundreds of accidents were reported throughout the LowerMainland. The most spectacular was a 15 vehicle, after it lost control on the slippery hill.

1998 Michelangelo, "Christ &the Woman of Samaria," sold for $7.4 million

1999 The Ford Motor Company announces that it is buying the automobile division of Sweden's Volvo manufacturing company for $6.45 billion.

1918 Leon Trotsky becomes leader of red army

1932 Japanese forces occupy Shanghai, and then goes on to invade the rest of China

1935 Iceland is the first country to legalise abortion

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