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1975 Martyn Green, actor (Gilbert and Sullivan, Mikado), dies at 75. 
1976 Hua Guofeng is recorded as becoming premier of China PR.
1977 Earthquake in San Francisco CA, at 5.0, strongest since 1966.
1977 Hustler publisher Larry Flynt sentenced.
1978 Crown Prince Sad Abdallah al-Salim Al Sabah is recorded as becoming PM of Kuwait
1978 U.S. senate deliberations are broadcast live on radio for the inaugural time
1979 The Secretary of the Navy announced that the helicopter portion of the Navy's LAMPS MK III was to be known officially as the Seahawk
1979 Nikolay Semyonovich Tikhonov, Russian poet, dies at 82
1981 US female Figure Skating championship won by Elaine Zayak
1982 John Hay Whitney, US newspaper magnate, dies at 76
1983 Champion thoroughbred Shergar kidnapped in Ireland; never are discovered Lloyds of London pays $10.6 million insurance
1983 Eric Peters sets transatlantic sailboat record (E-W)-46 days.
1984 14th Winter Olympics games opens in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia.
1984 inaugural time 8 people in space.
1984 Soyuz T-10 launches with crew of 3 to Salyut 7.
1985 Bruce Morris, Marshall University, makes a 92' 5¼" basketball shot.
1985 inaugural-class cricket debut of Jimmy Adams (age 17), Jamaica vs Barbados.
1985 Opposition leader Kim Dae Jung returns to South-Korea
1985 The Dukes of Hazzard ended its 6-1/2 year run on CBS television\.
1985 Marvin Miller, actor (Michael Anthony-Millionaire), dies at 71.
1986 In this year, A head on collision between a freight train and a passenger train near Hinton, Alberta claims 23 lives.
1987 The West beat the East in the NBA All-Star Game. A record was set for total points scored. The West won 154-149 in overtime.
1987 Bronislawa Wajs [Papuscha], writer, dies.
1988 NASA launches DOD-2
1988 Allan Cuthbertson, actor (Running Man, 7th Dawn), dies at 67.
1989 144 people die when a Boeing 707 jetliner crashes into a fog-shrouded mountain in the Azores
1989 5 cm of snow falls in outskirts of Los Angeles
1989 Maurits Kok, Dutch writer/poet (Railroad Strike), dies at 81.
1990 "60 Minutes" commentator Andy Rooney suspended by CBS for racial remarks attributed to him by a gay magazine.
1990 Del Shannon, rock vocalist (Runaway), shoots self at 50
1991 Miran Bux, cricketer (2 Tests for Pakistan 1954-55), dies at 47
1992 "I'm Too Sexy" by Right Said Fred peaks at #1.
1992 16th Winter Olympics games open in Albertville, France
1992 Ulysses spacecraft passes Jupiter.
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