1976 Utah Supreme Court OKs execution of convicted murderer Gary Gilmore

1978 Israel's top negotiators broke away from Middle East peace talks

1979 CP Rail no. 54 suffers a hot axle box and derails 24 cars containing dangerous commodities, in Mississaugua, Ont. Almost a quarter of a million people were evacuated for periods of up to five days.

1980 Dan Rather refuses to pay his cabbie, CBS pays the $12.55 fare

1982 Leonid Brezhnev Russian leader of the Communist Party died

1982 Leonid I Brezhnev Soviet first sect, dies of a heart attack at 75

1982 Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev dies at age 75.

1982 The Vietnam Veterans Memorial opens to visitors in Wahsington, D.C.

1984 Sudie Bond actress, dies at 56 of a respiratory ailment

1985 Pelle Lindbergh Philadelphia Flyer's goalie, dies in drunk driving accident

1986 River Rhine (Germany) polluted by chemical spill

1988 China confirms earthquake death toll will rise above current 938

1988 NY's MTA announces it may replace tokens with credit card type passes

1989 Germans begin punching holes in the Berlin Wall

1989 Guerrillas battle with government forces in El Salvador

1989 Word Perfect 5.1 is shipped great word processor but not windows!

1990 Lebanon releases 2 French hostages (Camille Sontag & Marcel Coudari)

1991 Marty Glickman broadcasts his 1,000th football game

1998 "The Legend of Mulan" becomes the first commercially available DVD to include a DTS audio track

1775 United States Marine Corps founded

1871 Henry Stanley, sent to locate the missing missionary David Livingstone, finally found him

1928 Hirohito crowned Emperor of Japan, aged 27

1989 East German border guards begin to dismantle parts of the 'Berlin Wall'

1483 The birth of Martin Luther, German religious reformer

1925 The birth of Richard Burton, Welsh actor

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