1977 34 Israelis killed by Palestinians on the Tel Aviv-Haifa highway

1977 Moslems hold 130 hostages in Washington DC

1978 Bobby Hull of the Winnipeg Jets joined Gordie Howe by getting career goal number 1,000 in a game against the Quebec Nordiques.

1978 Terrorists attack mail truck at Tel Aviv, 45 killed

1979 Randy Hold receives 67 minutes in penalties in a 60 minute NHL hockey game

1980 Rod Marsh bowls 10 overs for 51 runs in dull Australia vs Pakistan cricket draw

1981 Chile constitution takes effect, Augusto Pinochet 2nd term begins

1982 Failed military coup under Rambocus/Hawker in Suriname

1982 Harrison Williams (Senator-Democrat-NJ) resigned rather than face expulsion

1982 Menachem Begin &Anwar Sadat sign peace treaty in Washington DC

1983 World Ice Dance Championship in Helsinki Finland won by Jayne Torvill &Christopher Dean (Great Britain)

1983 World Ice Pairs Figure Skating Championship in Helsinki won by Elena Valova &Oleg Vasiliev (USSR)

1983 World Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Helsinki won by Rosalynn Sumners (USA)

1983 World Men's Figure Skating Championship in Helsinki won by Scott Hamilton (USA)

1984 In the Magdalen Islands seal hunter damage helicopter chartered by International Fund for Animal Welfare protesters.

1985 Mikhail S Gorbachev replaces Konstantin Chernenko as Soviet leader

1986 187.27 million shares traded in New York Stock Exchange

1986 Japanese probe Sakigake flies by Halley's Comet at 6.8 millionkm

1986 Popsicle announced its plan to end the traditional twin-stick frozen treat for a flatter, one-stick model.

1987 Actor, singer, dancer, comedian, broadcaster and American entertainment icon, Danny Kaye, died in Los Angeles at the age of 74.

1987 Wayne Gretzky scores 1,500th NHL point

1988 The £1 note ceases to be legal tender, replaced by £1 coin (a big run on belts to kep one's pants up)

1988 Utrecht conservatory destroyed by fire

1990 16th People's Choice Awards

1990 Lithuania declares it's Independence

1991 Janet Jackson signs $40M three album deal with Virgin records

1991 John Smith, amateur wrestler, wins James E Sullivan Award

1991 Monica Seles ends Steffi Graf's streak of 186 weeks ranked as #1

1992 Environment Canada starts issuing weekly ozone warnings

1994 Eduardo Frei succeeds Patricio Aylwin as President of Chile

1995 President Nazarbajev disbands Kazakhstan parliament

1995 Sinn Fein party leader, Gerry Adams, arrives in US

1996 America Online agreed to use Netscape as the primary Web browser offered to its subscribers in a deal signed this day

1996 Chris Harris scores 130 in losing New Zealand side vs Australia, World Cup

1996 Mark Waugh scores 110 vs New Zealand for his third century of the World Cup

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