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Thursday, 12 March 2026
1979 2 Iowa girls High School basketball teams play 4 scoreless quarters; the game was won 4-2 in the 4th overtime period 
1979 Japan launches Hakucho x-ray satellite and Corsa-B (550/580 km)
1979 Glendon Gibbs, cricketer (Test Cricket WI v Australia 1955), dies
1980 Eric Heiden skates Olympics record 1500 meter in 1 55.44
1980 Hanni Wenzel is inaugural Liechtensteiner to win Olympics gold (giant slalom)
1980 Chester H Lauck, actor (2 Weeks to Live, Goin' to Town), dies at 78.
1981 "Yorkshire Ripper" Peter Sutcliffe, murderer of 13 women, captured.
1981 Japan launches Hinotori satellite to study solar flares (580/640 k).
1981 NASA launches Comstar D-4.
1982 "Ain't Misbehavin'" closes at Longacre Theater NYC after 1604 performances
1982 "Little Me" closes at Eugene O'Neill Theater NYC after 36 performances
1982 In this year, Beth Daniel claims LPGA Bent Tree Ladies Golf Classic
1983 Donald Davis runs 1 mile backwards in 6 minutes 7.1 seconds.
1983 NBA San Diego Clippers begin a 29 game road losing streak.
1984 Michail A Sholochov, Russian writer (Ocean Don, Nobel 1965), dies
1985 In this year, Evert van Benthem claims 13th Friese 11 city skating race
1985 Largest NBA crowd to date 44970 (Atlanta at Detroit).
1985 Tim Raines is awarded a $12 million salary for 1985 by arbitrator
1985 Eric Herfst, Dutch cabaret performer (Floris), dies at 47
1986 AIDS patient Ryan White returns to classes at Western Middle School
1986 Tennis star Jimmy Connors fined $20000 and suspended for 10 weeks
1987 In this year, Cindy Rarick claims LPGA Tsumura Hawaiian Ladies Golf Open.
1987 Syrian army marches into Beirut.
1988 Actor Dudley Moore marries actress Brogan Lane
1988 Gustafson skates world record 10 km (13 48.20)
1988 Televangelist Jimmy Swaggart confesses his sins to his congregation
1988 Gustafson skates world record 10 km (13:48.20)
1989 Pete Rose meets with Commissioner Ueberroth to discuss his gambling.
1989 US bust Chinese heroin ring, capture record 820 lbs heroin ($1 billion street value)
1990 32nd Grammy Awards Wind Beneath My Wings, Nick of Time win.
1991 Neil Simon's "Lost in Yonkers," premieres at Richard Rodgers Theater in New York NY for 780 performances.
1991 USSR announces Iraq agrees to a proposal to end Persian Gulf War US calls the plan unacceptable
1991 Margot Fonteyn, ballerina (1st lady of British Ballet), dies at 71.
1992 In this year, Kristi Yamaguchi of US claims Olympics gold medal in women's fig skating.
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