1972 North Vietnamese troops enter South Vietnam

1972 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

1973 Ellsworth Bunker resigns as US ambassador to South Vietnam

1974 Labor is swept from office in Western Australian state elections and Liberal leader Charles Court becomes premier

1976 Israel kills 6 Palestinians protesting land confiscation

1976 Ottawa announces plans to immunize about 12 million Canadians against 'swine flu' in the autumn.

1980 Mark Medoff's "Children of a Lesser God", premieres in New York NY

1981 President Reagan shot and wounded by John W Hinckley Jr

1982 John Pielmeier's "Agnes of God", premieres in New York NY

1982 The third space shuttle mission-Columbia 3 lands at White Sands NM

1983 Ray Cooney's "Run for your Wives", premieres in London

1983 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR

1984 US ends participation in multinational Lebanon peace force

1985 Sally Anne Atkinson becomes Lord Mayor of Brisbane, the first Liberal and first woman to do so.

1987 59th Academy Awards "Platoon", Paul Newman and Marlee Matlin win

1987 Vincent van Gogh's "Sunflowers" sells for record £22.5M ($39.7 million)

1988 second Soul Train Music Awards

1990 Riot police in Quebec City break up demonstration by 2,000 marchers against university tuition fee increases;

1991 Last issue of Dutch Newspaper "Vrÿe Folk" (Free People)

1991 William Kennedy Smith allegedly rapes a woman (found not guilty)

1992 64th Academy Awards (Silent of the Lambs sweeps with Best Picture, Anthony Hopkins as Best Actor and Jodie Foster as Best Actress)

1992 PJ Patterson, resigns as 6th Prime Minister of Jamaica

1993 French government of Balladur forms

1993 Jamaican premier Percival Patterson wins parliamentary election

1996 Prince Edward and girl-friend Sophie Rhys-Jones visited Greystoke Castle

1999 A jury in Portland, Oregon, orders Philip Morris to pay $US81 million to the family of a man who died of lung cancer after smoking Marlboros for four decades.

1842 Ether first used as an anaesthetic during an operation

1867 Alaska purchased from Russia for 7.2 million dollars, by America

1981 US President Ronald Reagan wounded in an assassination attempt

1746 The birth of Francisco de Goya, Spanish artist

1853 The birth of Vincent Van Gogh, Dutch painter

1880 The birth of Sean O'Casey, Irish playwright

2005 Death of Fred Korematsu, Japanese-American civil rights activist (b. 1919)

2006 The first Brazilian astronaut, Marcos Pontes, goes to space in a Russian Soyuz spacecraft, Soyuz TMA-8, at 2:29:00 CET.

2006 The al-Dana capsizes off the coast of Bahrain, killing at least 48 people.

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