1976 Soyuz 23 (Russian) returns to Earth

1978 Polish Cardinal Karol Wojtyla elected supreme pontiff-John Paul II

1982 Mt Palomar Observatory first to detect Halley's comet on 13th return

1984 Desmond Tutu, black Anglican Bishop, wins the Nobel Peace Prize

1985 Intel introduces 32-bit 80386 microcomputer chip(more power more power!!)

1986 US govt closes down due to budget problems

1987 175-kph winds cause blackout in London, much of southern England

1987 Jessica McClure rescued 58 hrs after falling 22 feet into a well shaft

1990 US forces reach 200,000 in the Persian Gulf

1991 George Jo Hennard, 35, kills 23 & himself & wounds 20 in Texas

1555 An English protestant, Nicholas Ridley, is burned at the stake for heresy

1793 The Queen of France, Marie Antoinette, is found guilty of treason and executed by guillotine in Paris

1815 Napoleon Bonaparte exiled to St Helena, an island in the Atlantic

1984 Bishop Desmond Tutu awarded the Nobel peace prize

1854 The birth of Oscar Wilde, Irish born novelist and playwright

1888 The birth of Eugene O'Neill, American playwright and Nobel prize winner for literature

2005 U.S. Helicopters and warplanes bomb two villages near Ramadi in western Iraq, killing about 70 people.

2006 The last MASH (Mobile Army Surgical Hospital) was decommissioned.

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