1966 US female Figure Skating championship won by Peggy Fleming

1966 US male Figure Skating championship won by Scott Allen

1967 In Ottawa Terrorists bomb Yugoslav Embassy in Ottawa and Consulate in Toronto

1968 Nauru adopts constitution

1969 Jimi Hendrix &Peter Townshend wage a battle of guitars

1969 Sheahan &Connolly hang on for exciting draw Australia vs West Indies

1970 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakstan/Semipalatinsk USSR

1971 Test debut of Dennis Keith Lillee, vs England at Adelaide

1975 First Annual Comedy Awards of the Year hosted by Alan King

1975 W I win Fifth Test against India to take exciting series 3-2

1976 Zeiss planetarium in Hague destroyed by fire

1979 Brenda Spencer kills 2, inspires Boomtown Rats "I Don't Like Mondays"

1979 Chinese Vice Premier Deng Xiaoping is welcomed to the White House by U.S. President Jimmy Carter Carter, as the two countries re-establish formal relations.

1979 Chinese vice-premier Deng Xiaoping visits Washington DC

1979 President Carter commuted Patricia Hearst's 7 year sentence to 2 years

1980 6 Iranian held US hostages escape with help of the Canadians

1980 Antonio Molina composer, dies at 85

1980 Jimmy Durante New York City NY, singer/comedian (Ink-a-dink-a-doo, Palooka, The Jimmy Durante Show), dies at 86

1981 Cozy Cole rocker (Topsy Part II), dies

1983 "Down Under" by Men At Work hit #1 on UK pop chart

1983 40th Golden Globes Gandhi, ET &Tootsie win

1984 Actress Lynda Carter (Wonder Woman) marries Robert Altman

1984 Frances Goodrich (Diary of Anne Frank), dies from lung cancer at 93

1984 President Reagan formally announces he will seek a 2nd term

1984 Space Shuttle 41-B (STS-11) Challenger launched

1985 Jari Kurri of Edmonton Oilers scores 100th point of season in game 39

1985 New Brunswick Premier Richard Hatfield found not guilty of possession of marijuana, claims it was planted?

1986 193.8 million shares traded in New York Stock Exchange

1986 Leif Erickson actor (John-High Chaparral), dies at 74

1986 Scientists in Nova Scotia report the largest fossil find in North America 100,000 pieces of bone belonging to dinosaurs, reptiles and fish.

1986 Yoweri Museveni sworn in as President of Uganda

1987 Ivo Lhotka-Kalinski composer, dies at 73

1987 Lisa files for separation from husband New York Met Darryl Strawberry

1987 William J Casey, ends term as 13th director of CIA

1988 Bantcho Bantchevsky US opera singer, commits suicide

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