1983 Tornado tears through Louisiana, injuring 33 people

1984 NASA launches Landsat-D Prime (Landsat 5) to thematic map the Earth

1984 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR

1985 Liza Minnelli enters Betty Ford Drug Center

1985 Pentagon accepts theory that atomic war would cause a nuclear winter

1987 Jane Geddes wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open

1988 Courtney Gibbs Eplin, 21, (Texas), crowned 37th Miss USA

1988 Iraq says it launched 16 missiles into Tehran

1988 Pontiac announces the end of the Fiero automobile

1988 Wayne Gretzky passes Gordie Howe with his record 1,050th NHL assist

1989 Ben Johnson's coach testifies Johnson began using steroids in 1981

1989 Comet du Toit at perihelion

1989 Julianne Phillips &Bruce Springsteen divorce

1990 Luis Alberto Lacelle sworn in as President of Uruguay

1991 US Embassy in Kuwait officially reopens

1993 Authorities in Waco TX negotiate with Branch Davidians

1993 George Steinbenner is reinstated as owner of New York Yankees

1993 New expansion NHL team, owned by Disney, is named the Mighty Ducks

1994 36th Grammy Awards I Will Always Love You, Toni Braxton win

1994 Martti Ahtisaari inaugurated as President of Finland

1994 Senate rejectes a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution

1995 37th Grammy Awards All I Want to Do, Streets of Philadelphia, Sheryl Crow

1995 Belgium ends military conscript

1995 Jozef Oleksy succeeds Waldemar Pawlak on as premier of Poland

1995 Julio María Sanguinetti sworn in as President of Uruguay

1995 Part of Houston begins using new area code 261

1995 Ukraine premier Vitaly Massol, resigns

1996 New toll-free 888 area code introduced

1996 Plans approved allowing traffic cameras High Harrington &Shap England

1997 5th annual ESPY Awards shown on TV

1780 Pennsylvania becomes the first American state to abolish slavery

1932 The baby son of Charles Lindbergh is kidnapped

1954 First American hydrogen bomb test on the island of Bikini

1966 First ever (crash) landing on Venus took place by the soviet probe Venus 3

1978 Coffin of Charles Chaplin stolen, only months after being buried

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