1973 Chicago's Sears Tower, world's tallest building (443 meters), topped out

1976 Pulitzer prize awarded to Saul Bellow (Humboldt's Gift)

1978 "Sun Day" - solar energy events are held in US

1978 Anderlecht wins 18th Europe Cup II

1978 Last cricket test match appearance for Bobby Simpson, at Kingston

1978 West Indies all set to lose cricket test vs Australia at Kingston till riots end game

1979 Margaret Thatcher becomes Britain's first female prime minister

1979 The Yukon River submerges Dawson under more than two metres of water; downtown declared a disaster area.

1982 ABC's All Talk network begins on radio (2 west coast stations)

1982 New York Times reports that military will get 25% of NASA's budget

1982 President Reagan begins 5 minute weekly radio broadcasts

1983 Soviet leader Andropov decreases nuclear weapons in Europe

1983 US bishops condemn nuclear weapons

1986 Air Lanka crashes, killing 22

1986 Horse racing legend Bill Shoemaker became the oldest jockey to win the the Kentucky Derby.

1986 NASA launches Goes-G, it failed to achieve orbit

1987 Miami Herald reports a woman spent Friday &Saturday with Gary Hart

1988 4,200 kg Colombian cocaine in seized at Tarpon Springs FL

1988 Jasper Johns' "Diver" sold for $4,200,000

1991 356th &final episode of CBS 2nd longest running series Dallas, 2nd only to Gunsmoke

1991 Andy Williams weds Debbie Hass

1991 Brian Mulroney 1939- promises 500-job GST processing centre for Summerside to help community hard hit by closing of Canadian Forces Base.

1992 Beverly Hills 90210's Gabrielle Carteris marries Charles Isaacs

1993 "Kiss of the Spider Woman" opens at Broadhurst NYC for 906 performances

1994 29th Academy of Country Music Awards Garth Brooks wins

1994 US space probe Clementine launched

1995 Australia beat West Indies to regain the Frank Worrell Cricket Trophy

1996 In Western Nei Mongol, China a 6.0 earthquake killed at least 18 people, 300 injured and extensive damage in the Baotou area.

1997 Garry Kasparov begins chess match with IBM supercomputer Deep Blue

1998 RaiLink-MacKenzie Northern takes over the operation of the CN line from Smith, AB to Hay River, NWT.

1841 New Zealand becomes a British colony

1906 The Sinai peninsula becomes Egyptian territory

1949 A ten nations conference in London forms the Council of Europe

1933 The birth of James Brown, American singer

1947 The birth of Doug Hemming, American actor

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