1976 Gold ownership legalized in Australia

1976 Liverpool wins 5th UEFA Cup at Bridge

1976 Senate establishes permanent Select Committee on Intelligence

1976 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR

1977 "Smokey &the Bandit" premieres

1979 "In The Navy" by Village People hits #3

1979 Guitarist Eric Clapton marries Patti Boyd

1979 The President announced he had instructed the U.S. Seventh Fleet to aid the Vietnamese "boat people" and assist them to safety

1980 Ringo &Barbara Bach are involved in a car crash

1982 IFK Göteborg wins 11th UEFA Cup at Göteborg

1982 Sophia Loren jailed in Naples for tax evasion

1983 NASA launches Intelsat V

1983 Weird Al Yankovic gives live performance at Wax Museum in Washington DC

1984 "King Of Suede" by Weird Al Yankovic hits #62

1984 STS 41-D vehicle moves to launch pad

1986 Anti-apartheid activist Hélène Pastoors sentenced to 10 years in South Africa

1988 Carlos Lehder Rivas, of Colombia's Medellín drug cartel, is convicted in Florida for smuggling more than 3 tons of cocaine into US

1989 Dow Jones average passes 2,500 mark for first time, closes at 2,501.1

1989 Sue Ellen (Linda Gray) last appearance on Dallas

1991 Willy T Ribbs becomes first black driver to make Indianapolis 500

1992 27th Amendment ratified, prohibits Congress from raising its salary

1992 Amy Fisher shoots Mary Jo Buttafuoco in Massapequa Long Island New York

1992 Englishman Dave Gauder, 224 lbs, pulls 196 ton jumbo jet, 3 inches

1992 Ric Flair wins NWA wrestling title

1992 Vice President Dan Quayle sites Murphy Brown as a poor example of family values

1993 Boeing 727 crashes into mountain at Medellín Colombia, kills 132

1993 Dow Jones closes above 3,500 for first time (3,500.03)

1993 Juventus wins 22th UEFA Cup at Torino

1994 Final Episode of LA Law after 8 year run

1994 Omar Sharif suffers a mild heart attack

1994 Tennis star Jennifer Capriati (18), checks into a drug rehab center

1995 World's youngest doctor, Balamurali Ambati, 17, graduates Mount Sinai

1996 STS 77 (Endeavour 11), launches into orbit

1568 Mary, queen of Scots, arrested.

1649 England declared a Commonwealth

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