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Tuesday, 06 October 2026
1970 Frank Smailes, cricketer (England pace bowler Test v India 1946), dies 
1971 John and Yoko release "Happy Xmas (War is Over)" in US
1971 Arthur B Springarn, US NAACP chairman (1940-65), dies at 93
1972 Antonio Segni, Italian PM/pres (1955-57, 59-60, 62-64), dies at 81
1973 Australia grants self-government to Papua New Guinea
1973 David Ben-Gurion, founding father of Israel, dies in Tel Aviv at 87.
1974 Los Angeles Skid Row slasher results in the deaths of inaugural of 8.
1974 Lajos Zilahy, Hungarian/US author (Angry Angel), dies at 83
1975 Nick Kenny, US columnist/songwriter (Nick Kenny Show), dies at 80.
1977 Paul Hardy, Belgian designer (Italian Country, dies at 69
1978 President Carter more than doubles national park system size.
1980 US Justice Department sues Yonkers citing racial discrimination.
1980 Sam Levene, actor (Purple Heart, Designing Women), dies at 75
1981 180 dies as Yugoslav DC-9 jetliner slams into a mountain
1981 HIV/AIDS pandemic in Worldwide killing 32 million+ people
1982 Miguel de la Madrid inaugurated as President of Mexico
1982 Dorothy James, composer, dies on 81st birthday.
1983 Rita Lavelle, former head of EPA, convicted of perjury.
1983 Mirsky, mathematician, dies.
1986 In this year, Paul McCartney releases "Only Love Remains"
1986 Horace Heidt, orch leader (Swift Show Wagon), dies at 85.
1987 Digging begins to link England and France under the English Channel
1987 Donn Fulton Eisele, Col USAF/astronaut, dies of a heart attack at 57
1988 596 dead after cyclone hits Bangladesh, half a million homeless
1988 Benazir Bhutto named inaugural female PM of a Moslem country (Pakistan).
1988 NBC bids record $401M to capture rights to 1992 Barcelona Olympics.
1989 "Day Without Art"-Artists demonstrate against AIDS
1989 East Germany drops the communist monopoly from its constitution
1989 USSR President Mikhail S Gorbachev meets Pope John Paul II at the Vatican.
1989 Alvin Ailey, US choreographer (Blues Suite, Revelations), dies at 58.
1990 Engineers digging a rail tunnel under the English Channel link up between England and France at a point forty meters beneath the seabed, and the island of Britain is connected with the European mainland for the inaugural time since the Ice Age.
1990 Iraq accepts Bush's offer for talks.
1990 Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia hold their inaugural joint session.
1990 Jan H de Groot, Dutch co-founder (Vrij Nederland), dies.
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