1977 Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin meets President Carter

1978 Belgian baron Charles Bracht kidnapped

1978 Canuck's Ron Sedlbauer fails on 5th penalty shot against Islanders

1978 Dutch 2nd Chamber votes against neutron bomb

1979 USS Constellation and her escort ships were ordered to the Gulf of Aden in response to the conflict between North and South Yemen.

1981 The first homicide at Disneyland, 18 year old is stabbed to death

1982 Beth Daniel wins LPGA American Express Sun City Golf Classic

1983 TNN (The Nashville Network) begins on Cable TV

1985 IBM-PC DOS Version 3.1 (update) released

1986 South-Africa emergency crisis in Brabant &Limburg ends

1987 Gavaskar becomes first cricket batsman to score 10,000 Test runs

1987 Mike Tyson beats Bonecrusher Smith in 12 for heavyweight boxing title

1987 World Boxing Council (WBC) heavyweight champ, "Iron" Mike Tyson, became the youngest heavyweight titlist ever as he beat James Smith in a decision during a 12-round bout in Las Vegas.

1988 Howard Stern's first pay-per-view "Underpants &Negligee Party"

1989 Iran drops diplomatic relations with Britain over Salman Rushdie's book "The Satanic Verses"

1989 Partial eclipse of the Sun (Hawaii, NW North America, Greenland)

1990 3 passengers killed &162 injured as subway train derails (Philadelphia)

1991 Iraq continues to explode oil fields in Kuwait

1993 Diff'rent Stroke actor Todd Bridges arrested for stabbing a tenant

1994 8th American Comedy Awards Carrot Top wins

1994 ANC chief Nelson Mandela rejects demand by white right-wingers for separate homeland in South Africa

1994 Charles Taylor resigns as President of Liberia

1994 Navy issues first orders to women assigned aboard combat ship, USS Eisenhower

1994 US Navy issues first permanent order assigning women on combat ship

1995 Dollar worth 1.5330 Dutch guilder (record)

1995 New York becomes 38th state to have the death penalty

1996 British Steel in Workington wins Lithuanian multi-million £ order

1996 Magic Johnson is 2nd NBA player to reach 10,000 career assists

1996 The first surface photos of Pluto (photographed by Hubble Space Telescope)

1997 11th Soul Train Music Awards

1997 5 sue Japanese Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto, because his smoking has violated the country's constitution guaranteeing a wholesome life

1997 Athens, Buenos Aires, Cape Town, Rome &Stockholm are finalists for 2004 Olympics site

0973 The Holy Roman Emperor Otto I dies May 7 at age 60 after an 11-year reign

1274 2nd Council of Lyons (14th ecumenical council) opens

1355 1,200 Jews of Toledo Spain killed by Count Henry of Trastamara

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