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1980 4 American Maryknoll nuns killed by death squads in El Salvador. 
1981 Moscone Convention Center, San Francisco opens at 11 30 AM
1981 Hershy Kay, composer, dies at 62.
1982 A 61 year old American dentist, Dr Barney Clark, is the inaugural human to receive an artificial heart
1982 inaugural permanent artificial heart successfully implanted (University of Utah) in retired dentist Barney Clark; lived 112 days with the Jarvic-7 heart
1982 David Blue, rocker, dies while jogging in Greenwich Village at 41
1983 Atholl Mckinnon, cricketer (S African lefty spinner in 8 Tests), dies.
1985 Alex Courtney, actor (Sword of Justice), dies
1986 Desi Arnaz, actor (Ricky Ricardo-I Love Lucy), dies at 69 of cancer.
1988 5 gunmen who hijacked Soviet Aeroflot jet, surrender in Israel.
1988 STS-27 Atlantis launched (Secret military mission)
1988 UN votes 151-2 (Isr and US) to move PLO debate to Geneva, Britain abstains.
1988 Tata Giacobetti, Italian singer and lyricist (Quartetto Cetra)
1989 V.P. Singh is sworn in as prime minister of India.
1990 inaugural parliamentary election in newly reunified Germany
1990 US 69th manned space mission STS 35 (Columbia 11) launches into orbit
1990 Aaron Copeland, composer (Fanfare for Common Man), dies at 90
1991 Muslim Shiites release US hostage Joseph Cicip
1992 Gary Mascaro, choreographer, dies at 43.
1993 Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar is shot to death in Medellin
1993 Pablo Escobar Gaviria, Colombian drug baron, shot to death at 44.
1994 Donald John Urquhart, librarian, dies at 85.
1995 Francis Joseph Quinn, academic, dies at 90.
1996 Penelope Jessel, politcal activist, dies at 76.
2005 Kenneth Boyd is recorded as becoming the 100th person to be executed in the USA since the re-introduction of capital punishment in 1976.
2006 In Rome, about two million people, led by opposition leader Silvio Berlusconi, demonstrate against Romano Prodi's government.
2006 Stephane Dion is elected the new Leader of the Liberal Party of Canada, on the fourth ballot.
2007 In this year, United Russia claims parliamentary elections in Russia, increasing their majority with 60% of the votes.
2010 NASA announces the discovery of the bacterium GFAJ-1, which may be able to partially replace phosphorous with arsenic in some of its biomolecules
2012 9 people are killed after 30 cars are trapped in Sasago Tunnel, Japan
2014 In this year, Stephen Hawking claims that Artificial Intelligence could be a "threat to mankind" and spell the end of the human race
2017 Egyptian lawyer Nabih al-Wahsh sentenced to 3 years in prison for saying women wearing ripped jeans should be raped.
2018 Trade war truce agreed between US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping at G-20 meeting in Argentina
2018 Andrés Manuel López Obrador is sworn in as President of Mexico
