1976 South African troops leave Angola

1977 Chile President Pinochet bans Christian-Democratic Party

1977 Egypt's Anwar Sadat pledges to regain Arab territory from Israel

1978 Eric Heiden skates world record 1000 meter (1 14.99)

1978 Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Sunstar Golf Classic

1980 Jury finds John Wayne Gacy guilty of murdering 33 in Chicago

1981 Soyuz T-4 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station

1981 Walter R T Witschey installs world's largest sundial, Richmond VA

1982 1st-class debut of Courtney Walsh, Jamaica vs Leeward Islands

1982 PLO chief Yassar Arafat appears on "Nightline"

1984 British ice dancing team, Torvill &Dean, become first skaters to receive 9 perfect 6.0s in world championships

1984 National Union of Mine Workers in England begin a 51 week strike

1986 210.25 million shares traded in New York Stock Exchange

1986 Giotto encounters Comet Halley

1986 Susan Butcher wins 1,158 mile Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race

1987 "Les Miserables" opens at Broadway/Imperial NYC for 4000+ performances

1987 Federal judge dismisses lawsuits sought by Oliver North

1987 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR

1987 World Ice Dance Championship in Cincinnati won by Bestemianova &Bukin (USSR)

1987 World Ice Pairs Figure Skating Championship in Cincinnati won by E Gordeeva &Grinkov (USSR)

1987 World Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Cincinnati won by Katarina Witt (German Democratic Republic)

1987 World Men's Figure Skating Championship in Cincinnati won by Brian Orser (Canada)

1989 15th People's Choice Awards

1989 2 cyanide-contaminated Chilean grapes found (Philadelphia)

1989 Madagascar AREMA party wins parliamentary election

1990 Los Angeles Raiders announce they were returning to Oakland

1991 5th Soul Train Music Awards

1993 317 killed by bomb attacks in Bombay

1993 Entertainment Tonight's 3,000th show

1993 Inkhata leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi begins 2½ week speech

1993 North Korea announced its withdrawal from the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty

1994 Church of England ordains first 33 women priests

1995 Congress party loses India national election

1995 Lara scores 139 in ODI vs Australia at Port-of-Spain

1995 Sprinter Melinda Gainsford becomes the first Australian to win a world sprint title in more than 30 years

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