Dec 04 Liza Minnelli's 3rd marriage (Mark Gero)

Dec 27 Red Army beats New York Rangers 5-2 at MSG

Dec 30 Rock group, Emerson, Lake & Palmer break up

Dec 03 Eleven people are killed when fans stampede during a concert by The Who at Cincinnati's Riverfront Coliseum.

Dec 31 Winterland Rock Concert Hall in San Francisco closes after 556 concerts

Dec 27 "Knots Landing," premieres on CBS-TV

Dec 12 Rhodesia becomes the independent nation of Zimbabwe

Dec 27 Soviet troops invade Afghanistan, President Hafizullah Amin overthrown

Dec 21 Gary Unger plays in record 914th consecutive NHL game

Dec 12 Gold hits record $462.50 an ounce

Dec 15 Deposed Shah of Iran leaves US for Panama

Dec 03 Christie's auctions a thimble for a record $18,400

Dec 17 Budweiser rocket car reaches 1190 kph (record for wheeled vehicle)

Dec 19 The Senate green lighted a $1.5 billion loan to help put the auto maker Chrysler back on its feet. In the short term, though, the loan did little to staunch the bleeding

Dec 29 Red Army beats New York Islanders 3-2 at Nassau Coliseum

Dec 27 Russia invades Afghanistan

Dec 18 Stanley Barrett first to exceed land sonic speed (739.666 MPH)

Dec 17 Driver Stan Barrett became the first person in the world to travel faster than sound on land. He drove the Budweiser Rocket car at a top speed of 739.666 in a one-way run at Rogers Dry Lake,California.

Dec 15 World Court in Hague rules Iran should release all US hostages

Aug 13 Lou Brock gets his 3,000 career hit

Aug 02 Gilda Radner Live From New York opens on Broadway

Aug 31 Comet Howard-Koomur-Michels collides with the Sun

Aug 01 Thurmon Munson killed in a plane crash at Akron Oh at 32

Aug 01 Gilda Radner Live From New York opens on Broadway

Aug 24 UN's Vienna office begins issuing postage stamps

Aug 23 Bolshoi Ballet dancer Alexander Godunov defects in NYC

Aug 31 Movie actress Sally Rand dies of heart failure at age 76 in Glendora, CAug 31,

Aug 27 An IRA bomb takes the life of British Lord Louis Mountbatten in a boat off the Irish coast.

Aug 30 A U.S. Navy CH-53D Sea Stallion helicopter of VR-24 lifted a 12-foot bronze statue of the Madonna and Child to the top of Mt. Tiberius on Capri, Italy, to replace one which had been destroyed by lightning. The statue was too large to be transported overland.

Aug 17 Vivian Vance actress (Ethel Mertz-I Love Lucy), dies at 72

Aug 06 Kurt Kaszner actor (Cmdr Fitzhugh-Land of the Giants), dies at 65

Aug 19 Crew of Soyuz 32 returns to Earth aboard Soyuz 34 aft 175 d flight

Aug 30 The first prototype of the Navy's SH-60B Seahawk helicopter was unveiled at the Sikorsky Aircraft Division at Stratford, Connecticut

Aug 30 The first recorded occurrence-comet hits sun (energy=1 mil hydrogen bombs)

Aug 23 Soviet Bolshoi Ballet dancer Alexander Godunov defects to the U.S. during a performance in New York City.

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