1976 Lowell Thomas ends 46 years as radio network reporter

1976 Oil tanker Urqui Ola explodes off Spanish coast

1977 English football international Bobby Moore retires

1977 Netherlands State Delta Kappa Gamma Society forms

1977 Stanley Cup Montréal Canadiens sweep Boston Bruins in 4 games

1980 Department of Health & Human Services begins operation

1980 Valencia wins 20th Europe Cup II

1981 NASA launches space vehicle S-192

1981 The Bank of Canada raises lending rate to further record high of 18.98%.

1982 Braniff International Airways files for bankruptcy after 52 years in business, a victim of over-expansion and a weak economy. It is the first major U.S. airline to fold.

1982 British troops return in force to the Falklands, fierce fighting brings heavy casualties to both sides in the next few weeks

1982 Guinea adopts constitution

1984 19th Academy of Country Music Awards Alabama wins

1985 Northwest of Madagascar a6.4 quake was felt at Mtwara and Newala, Tanzania and in the Mocimbao da Praia area, Mozambique. Believed to be the largest instrumentally located hypocenter in this area

1986 Institute for War documents publishes Anne Franks complete diary

1987 "Little Shop of Horrors" is released in Germany

1987 Colt revolver (Peacemaker) of 1873 sells for $242,000

1989 "Moonlighting", TV Crime Drama last airs on ABC

1989 Demonstration for democratic reforms in Beijing's Tiananmen square continue

1989 Final TV episode of "Family Ties" airs

1989 Matt Gilliam was born!

1990 Dow Jones average hits a record 2,821.53

1991 42 die in a train collision is Japan

1991 Angry truckers blockade Parliament Hill; say they can't compete due to higher Canadian taxes than US

1991 Robert M Gates becomes head of CIA

1991 Winnie Mandela sentenced to 6 years for complicity in kidnapping & beating of four youths, one of whom died, She is freed pending appeal

1991 World's Largest Burrito created at 1,126 lbs

1994 FA cup final at Wembley Stadium London

1994 Mayflower Madame Sydney Biddle Barrows (42) weds Darnay Hoffman (46)

1995 Dalai Lama proclaims 6-year-old Gedhun Choekyi Nyima 11th reincarnation of Panchen Lama, Tibet's 2nd most senior spiritual leader

1998 Last episode of Seinfeld on NBC (commercials are $2 million for 30 seconds)

1998 Microsoft agrees to delay shipping Windows 98 for several days while it negotiates with federal government and 20 states in attempt to forestall antitrust lawsuits.

1610 Henry IV of France assassinated

1940 Rotterdam, in Holland, captured by German forces during WW2

1948 Jewish provisional government formed as British Mandate for Palestine ends

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