1980 TSE Index drops 5.3%, biggest one day loss since 1940; after attempt by Hunt Brothers of Texas to corner silver market and yup I boought silver at $50.00 U.S.

1981 John Lennon releases "Watching the Wheels" in UK

1982 "Best Little Whorehouse..." closes at 46th St NYC after 1577 performances

1982 Imran takes 14-116 for cricket match vs Sri Lanka at Lahore

1983 Larry Holmes beats Lucien Rodriguez in 12 for heavyweight boxing title

1984 Near North Coast of New Guinea, Papua a 6.8 quake injured 11 people and many buildings destroyed on Karkar. Minor

1985 Billy Dee Williams receives a star on Hollywood Walk of Fame

1986 Disney-MGM Studio Tour ground breaking

1987 President Habré's troops reconquer Faya Largeau Chad

1988 World Ice Dance Championship in Budapest won by Bestemianova & Bukin (USSR)

1988 Wrestlemania IV at Trump Plaza, "Macho Man" Savage pins Ted Dibiase

1989 Delhi beat Bengal by innings & 210 to win Cricket's Ranji Trophy

1989 First half-black soap opera, "Generations", premieres on NBC-TV

1990 Bus accidentally touches high voltage wire in Karagpur India; 21 die

1990 New South Wales beat Queensland by 345 runs to win Sheffield Shield Final

1990 Provincial finance ministers decline to help Ottawa collect GST, but later some can be "BOUGHT"

1991 New Kids on the Block's Donnie Wahlberg arrested on arson charges in Kentucky

1992 Bruce Springsteen releases "Human Touch" & "Lucky Town"

1994 Church in Piedmont AL collapses in tornado, 19 killed

1994 Radio personality Rush Limbaugh weds wife #3, Marta Fitzgerald

1994 World Ice Dance Championship in Chiba Japan won by Gritschuk & Platov (Russia)

1995 67th Academy Awards "Forest Gump", Tom Hanks & Jessica Lange win

1995 Bell Canada says it will slash 10,000 jobs over three years while spending $1.7-billion to remake Canada's largest phone company

1995 The Tragically Hip win Juno awards for entertainer and group of the year.

1996 "State Fair", opens at Music Box Theater NYC for 118 performances

1997 "Young Man From Atlanta", opens at Longacre NYC for 85 performances

1997 39 cult members in California commit mass suicide (Hale-Bopp)

1997 Martin Luther King's son meets with James Earl Ray

1794 United States Navy founded

1914 The first successful blood transfusion is performed

1948 Nikita Krushchev becomes the new leader of the Soviet Union

1845 The birth of Wilhelm von Rontgen, German discoverer of X-Rays

1863 The birth of Sir Henry Royce, The motor car designer of Rolls Royce fame

1897 The birth of Gloria Swanson, American actress

1927 The birth of Mstislav Rostropovich, Russian cellist and conductor

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