1972 Pioneer 10 launched for Jupiter flyby

1973 "Black September" terrorists occupy Saudi Embassy in Khartoum

1974 16th Grammy Awards Killing Me Softly &Bette Midler win

1974 First class postage raised from 8¢ to 10¢

1974 Grand jury concludes President Nixon is involved in Watergate cover-up

1974 Greg Chappell makes 247 vs New Zealand, 410 minutes, 29 fours 1 six

1974 US first-class postage stamps jump to 10 cents (from 8 cents) .

1976 Walt Disney World logged its 50 millionth guest, it wasn't me

1977 Bette Davis is first woman to receive Life Achievement Award

1977 Future Tonight Show host Jay Leno debuts with host Johnny Carson

1977 Libya amends constitution

1978 Soyuz 28 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 Czechoslovakian) to Salyut 6

1978 The first of many broadcasts of the evening soap "Dallas" on CBS TV

1981 Aircraft hijacked by 3 Pakistani terrorists

1981 Howard Stern begins broadcasting on WWDC in Washington DC

1982 Terror group "The Illuminated Path" frees 260 prisoners in Peru

1983 Compact Disc recordings developed by Phillips &Sony introduced

1983 Final episode of MASH; 125,000,000 viewers

1983 USSR performs underground nuclear test

1984 Iran offensive against Iraq fails

1985 US approves screening test for AIDS

1986 English Protesters try to stop Land Rover motor company being sold to US

1988 Dutch Liberal Party merged with SDP

1989 12 European nations agree to ban chlorofluorocarbon production by 2000

1989 Exxon Houston runs aground in Hawaii, spills 117,000 gallons of oil

1989 Madonna's "Like a Prayer" premieres on worldwide Pepsi commercial

1989 New York Met Darryl Strawberry swings at teammate Keith Hernandez

1990 A grenade attack at a Panama discotheque kills a US soldier and injures 28 other people.

1990 Greyhound Bus goes on strike

1990 More than 6,000 bus drivers go on strike against US transportation company Greyhound.

1991 UN votes in favor of US resolutions for cease fire with Iraq

1993 Claudette Colbert, suffers a stroke at 89

1993 Salman Rushdie divorces Marianne Wiggins

1994 Branch Davidian cult leader David Koresh promises to surrender if taped statement is broadcast; it is, but he doesn't

1994 Miami begins a latin walk of fame, first star for Gloria Estefan

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