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1968  France is recorded as becoming a nuclear power, exploding a hydrogen bomb in the South Pacific.   

1968  Cyril Vincent, cricketer (84 wkts slow lefty for S Af 1927-35), dies.   

1970  Bomb results in the deaths of 1 at U of Wisconsin's Army Math Research Center in Madison   

1972  Gordie Howe and Jean Beliveau inducted in Hockey Hall of Fame   

1972  Carlos Wesley "Don" Byas, US jazz saxophonist, dies at 59.   

1973  Billy Greene, actor (Burton-One Man's Family), dies at 76.   

1975  Royal Commission in Australia finds women in public service work in poor conditions and are underpaid and had limited promotion prospect   

1975  Charles H Revson, US cosmetic magnate, dies at 69.   

1976  Soyuz 21 returns to Earth.   

1976  Michael Dewar Head, composer, dies at 76.   

1978  Louis Prima, singer, dies at 66   

1979  UN's Vienna office begins issuing postage stamps   

1981  Mark Chapman begins a life sentence for killing 'Beatles' legend John Lennon   

1981  Mark David Chapman is sentenced to 20 yrs to life for Lennon's murder.   

1981  Mark David Chapman, convicted assassin of ex-Beatle John Lennon, is sentenced in New York to 20-years-to-life in prison.   

1982  Jack Siedle, cricketer (batted in 18 Tests for S Africa), dies   

1983  Jack Somack, actor (Ball Four, Stockard Channing Show), dies at 64.   

1985  STS 51-I mission scrubbed at T -5m because of bad weather   

1985  Paul Creston [Giuseppe/Joseph Guttoveggio], US composer, dies at 78   

1987  Announcement of possible Martian tornadoes.   

1987  Bayard Rustin, US civil rights activist, dies at 77   

1988  Leonard Frey, actor (Tattoo, Magic Christian), dies of AIDS at 49   

1989  Cincinnati Reds manager Pete Rose is banned from baseball for gambling by Commissioner A. Bartlett Giamatti.   

1989  Pete Rose is suspended from baseball for life for gambling   

1989  Voyager 2 flies past Neptune.   

1990  Iraqi troops surround US and other embassies in Kuwait City   

1991  Gorbachev steps down as head of USSR Communist Party   

1991  Ukraine declares independence from the USSR.   

1991  Abel Kivlat, US 1500m runner (Olympic-silver-1912), dies at 99   

1992  Hurricane Andrew hits the Florida coast, killing 20 people and causing billions of dollars in property damage.   

1992  Andreas M Donner, Dutch state leader/jurist (Constitution), dies at 74.   

1993  Professor D B Deodhar, cricketer (Ind non-Test bat o 30s), dies at 101.   

1994  Jason McRoy, downhill MTB racer, dies at 23.   

1995  Microsoft holds a party for 2000 industry dignitaries on its Redmond, WA campus, as it introduces the Windows 95 personal computer operating system to the world. (Our webmaster was one of those who attended the event, along with Bill Gates and Jay Leno.).   

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1113  Geoffrey plantagenet: France, conquered normandy   

1113  Geoffrey of anjou: Count of anjou   

1198  King alexander ii of scotland: King alexander ii of scotland (d. 1249)   

1210  Floris iv: Count of holland   

1358  King john i of castile: King john i of castile (d. 1390)   

1393  Arthur iii: Duke of brittany   

1420  Albrecht van eyb: German humanist/parson (bamberg & eichstattt)   

1531  Ercole bottrigari: Composer   

0079  Pliny the elder: Roman writer and naturalist (b. 23)   

1103  Death of Magnus iii berbein: [blootbeen], king of norway (1093-1103),   

1217  Death of Eustace "the monk": French buccaneer,   

1313  Death of Henry vii: Roman catholic german king/emperor (1308/12-13),   

1371  Eduard: Duke of gelre (1361-71), assasinated   

1540  Girolamo francesco maria mazzola: Italian painter (b. 1503)   

1542  Gasparo contarini: Italian diplomat and cardinal (b. 1483)   

1572  Death of Gaspard de châtillon: Count the coligny, french gen/admiral, beheaded