1972 Ton Sijbrands becomes world checker champion

1972 US President Nixon begins visit Moscow

1973 Emmy News & Documentaries Award presentation

1973 President Nixon confesses his role in Watergate cover-up

1973 U S President Richard Nixon confesses his role in the Watergate cover-up

1974 Ruffian begins her racing career as a filly & dies 14 months later

1974 Soccer team Veendam forms

1974 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

1976 NASA launches space vehicle S-179

1977 Final European scheduled run of the Orient Express (94 years)

1979 Canadians elect conservatives, Joseph Clark replaces Pierre Trudeau but not for long

1979 Commencement of first ICC Trophy (PNG vs East Africa & Singapore vs Argentina)

1979 The first of two McDonnell Douglas AV-8C Harriers arrived at NATC, Patuxent River for service acceptance trials

1980 Marlo Thomas & Phil Donahue marry

1981 Soyuz 40 returns to Earth

1985 Real Madrid wins 14th UEFA Cup at Madrid

1985 US sailor Michael L Walker arrested for spying for USSR

1987 30 killed in a Texas tornado

1988 Károly Grósz succeeds party leader János Kádár in Hungary

1990 Andre Dawson sets record being intentionally walked 5 times

1990 Dow Jones average hits a record 2,852.23

1990 Microsoft releases Windows 3.0(I think there is trend here!)

1990 North & South Yemen merge to form Republic of Yemen

1990 The final episode of Newhart airs on CBS TV

1991 Inter Milan wins 20th UEFA Cup at Rome

1991 NFL Owners agree to add 2 teams in 1994

1991 Roh Jai Bong resigns as premier of South Korea

1992 California Angels are involved in a bus crash in New Jersey

1992 India launches its Agni rocket

1992 Johnny Carson's final appearance as host of the Tonight Show

1993 Riddick Bowe TKOs Jesse Ferguson in 2 for heavyweight boxing title

1995 Laverne & Shirley 20th anniversary reunionn special, televised

1998 In Central Bolivia a 6.6 earthquake at least 105 people killed and 150 injured in the Aiquile-Totora area.

1972 Ceylon becomes the Republic of Sri Lanka

1988 Hungarian Communist Party leader ousted

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