Feb 12 Richard Hadlee becomes New Zealand's top wicket-taker with 117

Feb 26 R Hadlee scores Test Cricket century vs Roberts, Garner, Holding, Croft

Feb 29 Gordie Howe becomes first NHL player to score 800 career goals

Feb 01 Sears Radio Theater moves from CBS to Mutual Broadcasting System

Feb 22 Martial Law declared in Kabul by Soviet occupation forces

Feb 16 Continuous traffic jam extends 176 km north of Lyons, France

Feb 05 USS Coral Sea relieved Midway which had been on contingency operations in the Arabian Sea since the Iranian hostage crisis broke out in November 1979.

Feb 27 Robert Mugabe's ZANU-PF wins elections in Zimbabwe

Feb 14 "West Side Story" opens at Minskoff Theater NYC for 341 performances

Feb 21 Eric Heiden skates Olympics record 1500 meter in 1 55.44

Feb 29 Michael Bracey ends 59 hours 55 minutes trapped in an elevator, England

Feb 23 13th Winter Olympics games close at Lake Placid NY

Feb 27 22nd Grammy Awards What a Fool Believe, Streisand-Diamond duet (You Don't Bring Me Flowers)

Feb 14 US launches Solar Maximum Mission Observatory to study solar flares

Feb 23 Oil tanker explosion off Pilos, Greece, causes 37-million-gallon spill

Feb 24 The U.S. hockey team beats Finland 4-2, to win the gold medal at the Winter Olympic Games in Lake Placid, NY.

Feb 23 France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island

Feb 08 Former NHL president Clarence Campbell found guilty of conspiring to give Senator Louis Giguère a benefit in connection with a contract for airport duty-free shops

Feb 15 Eric Heiden skates Olympics record 500 meter in 38.03 seconds

Feb 28 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

Feb 02 FBI releases details of Abscam, a sting operation that targeted 31 elected & public officials for bribes for political favors

Feb 03 Muhammed Ali tours Africa as President Carter's envoy

Feb 28 "The Well-Tuned Piano" by La Monte Young premieres (takes 4 hours 12 minutes)

Feb 18 Pierre Elliott Trudeau's Liberal Party wins Canada's elections

Feb 13 New Zealand beats West Indies by one wicket in cricket at Dunedin

Feb 26 Military coup under Desi Bouterse in Suriname

Feb 19 Eric Heiden skates Olympics record 1000 meter in 1 15.18

Apr 30 Queen Beatrix of Netherlands ascends to the throne

Apr 07 Jimmy Carter breaks relations with Iran during hostage crisis

Apr 09 Soyuz 35 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6

Apr 24 US miltary operation to save 52 hostages in Iran, fails, 8 die

Apr 03 France performs nuclear test

Apr 16 L Brozek discovers asteroid #2696 Magion

Apr 06 Gordie Howe completes a record 26th season

Apr 19 Ethel Wilson actress (Aunt Harriet-Aldrich Family), dies at 88

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