1979 1984 summer LA Olympic coverage sold to ABC for $225 million

1980 Andrew Crawford is born

1980 Cuban govt closes Mariel Harbor ending "freedom flotilla"

1980 Soyuz 38 returns to Earth

1983 Australia II wins America's Cup yacht race (1st non-US winner)

1983 Cosmonauts Titov & Strekalov are saved from exploding Soyuz T-10

1984 Britain & China initial agreement return Hong Kong to China in 1997

1984 Pres Reagan vetoes sanctions against South Africa

1986 Antonin Scalia becomes a Supreme Court Justice

1986 Bobby (Patrick Duffy) returns to Dallas, his death is attributed to his wife Pam's bad dream (erases all of last season)

1986 William Rehnquist becomes Chief Justice of the Supreme Court

1988 Canada`s Ben Johnson stripped of his 100-m gold failing drug test

1988 NYC's Rockefeller Center declared a national landmark

1988 Polish communist party picks propaganda chief Rakowski as new PM

1988 US space shuttle STS-26 launched

1990 Motion Picture Assn of America creates new NC-17 rating

1991 2 year experimental Biosphere 2 in Oracle Arizona begins

1996 U.S. astronaut Shannon Lucid returned to earth after six months in orbit aboard the Russian space station Mir

1887 Gramophone patented in Germany

1984 UK agrees to hand over the soverignty of Hong Kong to China in 1999

1990 Soviet parliament agrees on bill allowing religious practices

1888 The birth of T.S Eliot, Poet and playwright

1898 The birth of George Gershwin, American composer

2005 Death of Jerry Juhl, writer

2005 U.S. army reservist Lynndie England is convicted by a military jury on six of seven counts in connection with the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal.

2006 Diet of Japan elects Shinzo Abe as new Prime Minister of Japan succeeding Junichiro Koizumi.

2007 Emperor Akihito formally swears in Yasuo Fukuda as the 91st Prime Minister of Japan.

2007 First confirmed deaths resulting from the Myanmar military's crackdown on weeks long anti-government protests. Buddhist monks are arrested and Internet access is cut from the public.[20]

2007 In southern Vietnam the Can Tho Bridge, which is under construction, collapses, killing scores of workers.

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