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1981  Valerie Bertinelli marries Eddie Van Halen   

1981  Marie Ney, dies at 85.   

1983  Statistics Canada reports Canada's unemployment rate in March of 13.6% or 1658000 unemployed; a new record   

1983  Dolores Del Rio, actress (Cheyenne Autumn), dies at 78   

1984  Challenger astronauts complete inaugural in space satellite repair.   

1984  Soyuz T-11 returns to Earth   

1985  Enver Hoxha, party leader/premier of Albania, dies at 76.   

1986  Halley's Comet makes closest approach to Earth this trip, 63 M km   

1986  In New York City a Canadian 1921 50 cent piece fetches a record US$22000 at auction.   

1987  Erskine Caldwell, novelist (Tobacco Road), dies at 83   

1988  David Prater, US singer (Sam and Dave-Soul Man), dies in car crash at 50   

1989  Philadelphia Flyers' goalie Ron Hextall scores short-handed into an empty net   

1989  Henk van Galen Last, Dutch journalist, dies at 68   

1990  Harold Ballard dies at age 86; President of Maple Leaf Gardens and the Toronto Maple Leafs since 1961.   

1990  Barbara Ann Miller, dies.   

1991  Ottawa to give $15 million compensation to families of victims of 1985 Air India Flight 182 disaster.   

1991  Space Shuttle STS 37 (Atlantis 8) lands   

1991  UN Security Council issues formal cease fire with Iraq declaration   

1991  Tom Rosqui, dies at 62   

1992  Adele Dixon, singer/actress (Uneasy Virtue), dies of pneumonia at 83.   

1993  Mohammed el-Himi, brigade-general of Egyptian police, murdered.   

1994  Johan Block, Dutch aviation pioneer (Martinair/Transavia), dies at 64   

1996  Daniel Wolf, journalist, dies at 80.   

1997  In Southern Xinjiang, China a 6.2 earthquake occurred, at least 9 people killed, 89 injured, 100000 homeless, thousands of buildings destroyed and 11000 livestock killed in Jiashi County.   

1997  Michael Dorris, writer, commits suicide at 52.   

2006  President of Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad confirms that Iran has successfully produced a few grams of low-grade enriched uranium   

2006  The European Space Agency's Venus Express spaceprobe enters Venus' orbit.   

2007  In this year, Al Qaeda claims responsibility for two bomb blasts in the Algerian capital of Algiers. At least 33 people have been killed and 222 others injured.   

2008  Merlin German, United States Marine.   

2011  Former Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo is arrested in his home in Abidjan by supporters of elected President Alassane Ouattara with support from French forces thereby ending the 2010-2011 Ivorian crisis and civil war   

2011  Minsk Metro bombing.   

2012  magnitude 8.6 earth quack and 8.2 aftershock occurs off the coast of Indonesia   

2013  14 people are killed in clashes between drug traffickers and police in Michoacán, Mexico   

2014  2014 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees: Peter Gabriel, Hall and Oates, KISS, Nirvana, Linda Ronstadt, and Cat Stevens.   

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0146  Septimius severus: Septimius severus (d. 211)   

1370  Frederick i the warlike: Elector of saxony   

1374  Roger mortimer: 4th earl of march   

1492  Marguerite of navarre: Wife of henry ii of navarre   

1586  Pietro della valle: Composer   

1602  Johann neukrantz: Composer   

1638  Diogo diaz melgaz: Composer   

1661  Antoine coypel: French painter/poet   

0678  Donus: Italian pope (676-78),   

1034  Death of Romanus iii argyrus: Byzantine emperor (1028-34), assasinated by wife   

1240  Llywelyn ab iorwerth the great: Monarch of wales (1194-1240),   

1500  Death of Michael t marullus: Greeks poet, drowns   

1512  Death of Gaston de foix: French pretender to navarra throne,   

1554  Death of Thomas wyatt the younger: English rebel (b. 1521)   

1612  Edward wightman: English baptist preacher (b. 1566)   

1626  Marin getaldić: Croatian mathematician (b. 1568)