1971 Tom Jones, "She's a Lady", goes gold

1972 America's LP "America" goes #1

1973 Majid Khan & Mushtaq Mohammad both out for 99 in Test vs England

1974 Barbra Streisand records the album "Butterfly"

1975 Faisal ibn Abd al-Aziz, king of Saudi-Arabia (1964-75), shot by nephew

1976 "My Fair Lady" opens at St James Theater NYC for 384 performances

1976 Argentine military junta bans leftist political parties

1977 In another part of Turkey a 5.2 earthquake killed 30, injured some, and caused considerable damage in the Lice-Palu area.

1977 In Turkey a 4.8 earthquake jolted the northeastern part of Turkey, killed at least one, injured several,

1979 Major riot at Bourda prevents day's play in WSC Supertest

1982 Wayne Gretzky becomes first NHL to score 200 points in a season

1983 In the Damavand-Amol area of Iran a5.2 quake killed 30 people and injured 61 , many homes damaged and landslides in the .

1985 57th Academy Awards "Amadeus", F Murray Abraham & Sally Field win

1985 Edwin Meese III becomes US Attorney General

1987 Supreme Court rules women/minorities may get jobs if less qualified

1988 NASA launches space vehicle S-206

1988 Robin Givens demands full access to husband Mike Tyson's money

1990 10th Golden Raspberry Awards Star Trek V wins

1990 Fire in illegal NYC social club, kills 87

1990 in the Puntarenas and San Jose areas of Costa Rica, a 7.0 earthquake injured 10 and damaged 60 building severely

1991 63rd Academy Awards "Dance with Wolves", Jeremy Irons & Kathy Bates win

1992 British scientists find new largest perfect number (2 756839 -1 2 756839)

1992 Pakistan defeats England by 22 runs to win World Cup

1992 Russian manned space craft TM-14, lands

1995 Boxer Mike Tyson released from jail after serving 3 years

1996 68th Academy Awards "Braveheart", Nicholas Cage & Susan Sarandon win

1996 Comet C/1996 B2 (Hyakutake) approaches within 0.1018 AUs of Earth

1996 US issues newly-redesigned $100 bill

1996 World Ice Dance Championship in Edmonton won by Gritshuk & Platov (Russia)

1997 The Australian Senate votes to overturn the Northern Territory's Rights of the Terminally Ill law, the world's only law allowing terminally ill patients to commit suicide with a doctor's help

1306 Robert the Bruce crowned King of the Scots

1807 Slave trade in England abolished by the British Parliament

1925 Greece becomes a republic when King George is deposed

1957 Treaty of Rome signed by six nations, to establish the European Economic Community

1867 The birth of Arturo Toscanini, Italian conductor

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