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1970  L Mendel Rivers, (Rep-D-SC), dies at 65   

1971  Maximilian Raoul Walter Steiner, composer, dies at 83.   

1973  Gulag Archipelago, an expose' of the Soviet prison system, is published by Alexander Solzhenitsyn   

1974  More than 5200 people killed in Pakistan earthquake.   

1975  Red Army beats New York Rangers 7-3 at MSG   

1975  Rob Niedermayer hockey player, was born at Cassiar, British Columbia.   

1976  Freddie King, rocker, dies at 42.   

1978  Harry Winston, US jeweler for the "rich and famous", dies at 82   

1980  Amir Elahi, cricketer, 1st Pakistani Test cricketer to die.   

1981  Elizabeth Jordan Carr, the inaugural US test-tube baby, is born in Norfolk, Virginia.   

1982  Frederick Douglass Hall, composer, dies at 84.   

1983  Dennis Wilson, drummer/singer (Beach Boys), drowns at 39.   

1984  TV soap "The Edge of Night" ends 28 year run.   

1984  Sam Peckinpah, director, dies of cardiac arrest at 59.   

1985  Warring Lebanese Moslem and Christian leaders sign peace agreement.   

1986  Andrei Tarkovsky, dies.   

1987  In Arkansas R Gene Simmons results in the deaths of 16.   

1987  Charles Malik, Lebanon's 1st delegate to UN, dies at 81.   

1988  US 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals affirms Yonkers is guilty of racism   

1988  Hal Ashby, academy-award winning director, dies of cancer at 59   

1989  Robert Wickler, dies   

1990  Ed van der Elsken, Dutch photographer (Sweet Life), dies at 65   

1991  Irene the Icon of the Greek Orthodox church returns after being stolen.   

1991  Ted Turner is named Time Magazine Man of the Year   

1991  Cassandra Harris, actress (For Your Eyes Only), dies of cancer at 39   

1992  The UN continues to protect the Kurds in Iraq from the Iraqi military   

1992  Mort Greene, US songwriter (My Grandfather's Clock), dies at 80   

1993  Timmins, Ontario country singer Shania Twain marries her producer Robert John "Mutt and Lang.   

1993  Howard Caine, dies.   

1994  Julian Belfrage, theatre agent, dies at 60   

1995  Harold Francis Collison, trade unionist, dies at 84.   

1997  George Fleming, cyclist, dies at 80   

1999  Clayton Moore, star of the 1950s TV show The Lone Ranger, dies in Los Angeles at age 85.dec29   

2000  Montgomery Ward announces it is closing 250 stores and laying off 37000 workers.   

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1484  Joachim vadianus: [von watt], swiss physician/mayor of sankt gallen   

1522  Margaret of austria: Regent of the netherlands   

1619  Antoine furetière: French writer   

1631  Ludolf backhuysen: Dutch seascape painter/cartoonist   

1635  Princess elizabeth of england: Princess elizabeth of england (d. 1650)   

1655  Charles cornwallis: 3rd baron cornwallis, first lord of the british admiralty   

1665  George fitzroy: 1st duke of northumberland, british general   

1694  Ceslav vanura: Composer   

0300  Theonas: Patriarch of alexandria   

1367  Death of Ashikaga yoshiakira: Japanese shogun (b. 1330)   

1446  Clemens viii: [aegyd munoz], spanish anti-pope (1423-29),   

1503  Death of Piero di lorenzo de' medici: Ruler of florence (b. 1471)   

1542  Albert pigge: [pighius], dutch theologist/astronomer,   

1622  Francois de sales: French bishop of geneva/writer/saint,   

1663  Death of Francesco maria grimaldi: Italian mathematician and physicist (b. 1618)   

1671  Death of Johann friedrich gronovius: German classical scholar (b. 1611)