1979 World Ice Dance Championship at Vienna won by N Linichuk and G Karponosov USSR

1981 FC Lisse, Dutch soccer team forms

1982 4 Dutch TV crew members shot dead in El Salvador

1982 Following the failure of Argentinean diplomatic efforts to reclaim the Falkland Islands from the British, an Argentine warship lands a party of "scrap dealers" on South Georgia Island, a dependency of the Falkland Islands British crown colony

1983 9th People's Choice Awards

1985 Brian Mulroney 1939- welcomes President Ronald Reagan to a Canada-US Summit meeting in the Chateau Frontenac; called the Shamrock Summit because of their common Irish ancestry and the date - St. Patrick's Day.

1985 IBM surprised the computer industry by announcing the termination of its PC Jr., a watered-down version of its popular IBM PC

1985 Near Coast of Central Chile a 6.6 earthquake caused one person died from a heart attack at Santiago

1986 Haemers gang robs gold transport in Belgium of 35 million BF

1987 IBM releases PC-DOS version 3.3 (but Windows is on the way)

1987 Sunil Gavaskar ends his Test career with an inning of 96 vs Pakistan

1987 Torrential rains and mudslides in Tajikistan, Soviet Union, destroy dam, killing 19 people and leaving nine others missing.

1988 Iran says Iraq uses poison gas

1989 Dorothy Cudahy is first female grand marshal of St Patrick Day Parade

1991 Former Australian governor-general Sir John Kerr, who dismissed the Whitlam Labor government in 1975, dies in Sydney aged 76.

1991 Irish Lesbians and Gays march in St Patrick Day parade

1991 New Jersey raises turnpike tolls 70%

1991 USSR holds a referendum to determine if they should stay together; 9 of 15 Soviet representatives officially approve new union treaty

1992 18th People's Choice Awards Garth Brooks and Reba McEntire

1992 De Klerk wins a white only referendum

1992 Islamic Jihad truck bombs Israeli Embassy in Buenos Aires Argentina killing 29

1992 Russian manned space craft TM-14, launches into orbit

1993 86 killed by bomb attack in Calcutta

1994 Iran transport aircraft crashes in Azerbaijan (32 killed)

1995 British £ hits 2.4545 to Dutch guilder (record)

1995 Sinn-Fein leader Gerry Adams visits White House

1995 US approves first chicken pox vaccine, Varivax by Merck and Co

1996 Mike Tyson beat Frank Bruno in 3rd round to gain Heavyweight title

1996 Sri Lanka beat Australia by 7 wickets to win the World Cup

1997 CNN begins Spanish broadcasts

1998 USA Women's Hockey Team beats Canada for first Olympics Gold medal

2001 AUSTRALIA has its first woman police chief, with Christine Nixon today appointed Victoria's new police commissioner.

1337 Edward the Black Prince becomes Duke of Cornwall, the first ever British 'Duke'

1649 Cromwell abolishes the monarchy and declares England a Commonwealth

1945 American forces defeat the Japanese at the battle of Iwo Jima

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