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1976  Neville Lindsay, cricketer (S Afr batsman in Test v Aust 1921), dies.   

1977  Pauline Starke, actress (Dante's Inferno, Viking, Sun Up), dies at 76   

1979  "YMCA" by Village People peaks at #2 on pop singles chart.   

1979  US female Figure Skating championship won by Linda Fratianne.   

1979  US male Figure Skating championship won by Charles Tickner   

1979  Jody Gilbert, actress (Willard, Shaggy, Blonde Dynamite), dies   

1980  Muhammed Ali tours Africa as President Carter's envoy   

1981  Gro Harlem Brundtland elected premier of Norway.   

1982  Columbia Shuttle moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating for STS-3 mission   

1982  Greatest helicopter lift, 56888 kg, Podmoscovnoe, USSR.   

1982  Porn star John Holmes ordered to stand trial for murder   

1983  US female Figure Skating championship won by Rosalynn Sumners.   

1984  10th Space Shuttle Mission (41B)-Challenger 4 launched.   

1984  The inaugural baby conceived by embryo transplant born in Long Beach CA   

1984  Anne Townsend, lacrosse/tennis/field hockey star, dies   

1985  "Harrigan 'n Hart" closes at Longacre Theater NYC after 5 performances.   

1986  President Reagan announces formation of Committee on Challenger Accident.   

1987  San Diego Yacht Club celebrates return of America's Cup.   

1989  Twenty villages evacuated in Russia, after high radiation fall-out from the Chernobyl nuclear disaster   

1989  Uruguayan president Alfredo Stroessner is overthrown in a military coup   

1989  John Cassavetes, actor/director (Husbands, Dirty Dozen), dies at 59   

1991  Nancy Kulp, actress (Jane Hathaway-Beverly Hillbillies), dies at 69.   

1992  Defense opens calling Noriega "our ally in the war on drugs"   

1992  Labor strike at Royal Canadian Mint ends.   

1992  Maximum New York State unemployment benefits raised to $300 per week   

1993  Cincinnati Reds owner Marge Schott suspended for 1 year due to racist comments   

1993  Federal trial of 4 police officers charged with civil rights violations in videotaped beating of Rodney King begins in Los Angeles CA.   

1993  General Hospital's Tristan Rogers convicted of drunk driving.   

1993  Karel Goeyvaerts, Flemish composer (8 Horse Bet), dies at 69   

1994  "Les Miserables," opens at Kallang Theatre, Singapore   

1994  Actor Jean-Claude van Damme (32) weds Darcy Lapier (28) in Bangkok   

1994  President Bill Clinton lifts US trade embargo against Vietnam   

1994  STS-60 (Discovery) launches into orbit.   

1995  Air Force Lt. Colonel Eileen Collins is recorded as becoming the inaugural woman commander of a U.S. space mission as the shuttle Discovery blasts off from Cape Kennedy   

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1338  Jeanne de bourbon: Wife of charles v of france   

1368  Charles vi: King of france (1380-1422)   

1525  Giovanni perluigi da palestrina: Composer   

1648  Louis bouteiller: Composer   

1655  Francois fagel: Dutch fieldmarshal, baptized   

1677  Jan santini aichel: Czech architect   

1690  Richard rawlinson: English minister   

1721  Friedrich wilhelm von seydlitz: Prussian general   

0474  Leo i: Byzantine emperor (457-74),   

0619  Laurence of canterbury: 2nd archbishop of canterbury   

0699  Death of Saint werburgh: Saint werburgh   

0865  Death of Ansgar/anscharius/oskar: German 1st (arch)bishop of hamburg/saint,   

1014  Death of King sweyn i of denmark: King sweyn i of denmark   

1116  Death of King coloman of hungary: King coloman of hungary (b. 1070)   

1399  Death of John of ghent: Duke of lancaster/king of castile & leon,   

1428  Ashikaga yoshimochi: Japanese shogun (b. 1386)