1971 "My Sweet Lord" by George Harrison hit #1 on UK pop chart

1971 American astronauts Alan B. Shepard, Jr., Edgar Mitchell and Stuart Roosa blast off to the moon aboard apollo 14.

1971 Apollo 14 launched, first landing in lunar highlands

1971 US female Figure Skating championship won by Janet Lynn

1971 US male Figure Skating championship won by John Misha Petkevich

1972 Aretha Franklin sings at Mahalia Jackson's funeral

1972 Birenda, becomes leader of Nepal

1972 Military coup ousts civilian government of Ghana

1972 US launches HEOS A-2 for interplanetary observations (396/244,998)

1975 Barry Manilow's "Mandy" goes gold

1975 John Lennon releases "#9 Dream"

1976 "Love Rollercoaster" by Ohio Players hits #1

1976 Lance Gibbs becomes highest Test wicket-taker at 308

1977 Frenchman François Claustre freed, after 33 months as hostage in Chad

1978 Israel turns 3 military outposts in West Bank into civilian settlements

1980 Ontario to rebate up to $700 in sales tax for purchasers of 1979 model cars; effort to help slumping car sales

1980 Police storm occupied Spanish embassy in Guatemala City, killing 41

1981 "The Tide Is High" by Blondie hits #1

1981 38th Golden Globes Ordinary People, Coal Miner's Daughter

1981 Gaetan Boucher 1958- skates the 1000m in a world record time of 1:13.39; native of Charlesbourg, Quebec will go on to win gold in the 1000m and 1500m, and a bronze in the 500m at the 1984 Sarajevo Winter Olympics

1981 Gaetan Boucher skates world record 1000m (1 13.39)

1982 10 Arabian oryx (extinct except in zoos) released in Oman

1982 In Ottawa Ontario Pierre Elliott Trudeau urges end to Polish martial law on the 'Let Poland be Poland' TV broadcast; supporting the Polish Solidarity movement

1982 US male Figure Skating championship won by Scott Hamilton

1984 Edwin Newman retires from NBC News after 35 years with the network

1984 NBC TV news reporter Edwin Newman retires after 35 years with the network.

1984 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

1985 South African President PW Botha offers to free Mandela if he denounces violence

1986 Mary Lund of Minnesota, is first female recipient of an artificial heart

1986 Ohio records a 5.0 earthquake seventeen people treated for minor injuries and some damage (VI) sustained in the Painesville-Mentor area.

1987 44th Golden Globes Platoon, Marlee Matlin win

1987 Cut-price airline People Express flies its last flights before becoming part of Continental Airlines.

1987 United Steelworkers union ratified a concessionary contract with USX Corp

1988 Barge sinks near Anacortes WA, spills 70,000 gallons of oil

1990 George Cohon, head of Canadian franchise subsidiary opens first McDonald's fast-food restaurant in Pushkin Square, the world's biggest McDonald's Moscow Russia

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