1978 Commerce Department announces that hurricane names will no longer be exclusively female

1978 The U S National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) decides that hurricanes will no longer be given only female names

1979 Chris Evert's 125-match winning streak on clay comes to an end

1980 The first nonstop crossing of US via balloon (Maxie Anderson & son Chris)

1982 FC Barcelona wins 22nd Europe Cup II

1982 In Fatima Portugal, a Spanish priest with a bayonet is stopped prior to his attempt to attack Pope John Paul II

1982 Pulitzer prize awarded to John Updike (Rabbit is Rich)

1983 Julie Lynne Hayek, (California), crowned 32nd Miss USA

1983 Stanley Cup New York Islanders beat Edmonton Oilers, 4 games to 0

1984 "White Horse" by Laid Back hits #26

1984 Discovery moves to Vandenberg Air Force Base for mating of STS 41-D

1984 France performs nuclear test

1984 Joe Lucius scored his 13th hole-in-one on the same hole

1984 South Africa prisoner Nelson Mandela sees his wife for first time in 22 years

1984 World of Rivers world exposition opens in New Orleans

1985 Amy Eilberg is ordained in New York as first woman Conservative rabbi

1986 Fred Markham (US), unpaced & unaided by wind, is first to pedal 65 mph on a level course, Big Sand Flat CA

1986 Kristeen Garcia is born.

1986 President Reagan appoints Dr James C Fletcher NASA Administrator

1989 "Entertainment Tonight" performs their 2,000th TV performance

1989 Retired British pilot Jack Mann is kidnapped by Islamic fundamentalists

1990 3rd time Saturday Night Live uses time delay (Andrew Dice Clay hosts)

1990 Comic Relief '90 (4th one) raises $4.7 million

1990 Nora Dunn & Sinead O'Connor boycott Saturday Night Live to protest Andrew "Dice" Clay's hosting

1991 A new cancer drug is announced, which can only be found in bark of a rare tree in the Pacific Northwest

1992 The first Belgian woman (Ingrid Baeyens) to ascend Mount Everest

1993 Final episode of 6 year run of ABC's "Wonder Years" in Netherlands

1993 Last broadcast of "Cheers" on NBC-TV

1993 NBC TV airs the final episode of the hit comedy Cheers

1993 Parma wins 33rd Europe Cup II

1995 Dow Jones for 5th straight day of the week sets a new record (4430.59)

1997 14 North Koreans defect to South Korea

1997 Russia & Chechnya sign peace deal after 400 years of conflict

1997 Susie Maroney, 22, of Australia, is first to swim from Cuba to Florida

1997 Tornado narrowly misses downtown Miami

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