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1976 Chou En-lai, China's PM (1949-76), dies of cancer in Beijing at 78 
1978 Israel's Cabinet votes to `strengthen' settlements in occupied Sinai
1979 512 die as oil tanker Bantry Bay blows up
1979 Argentina and Chile sign Beagle Canal accord.
1979 Today Show gets a new theme song.
1979 Vietnamese troops overtook Khmer Rouge and occupy Phnom Penh
1981 India all out 63 in one-day international vs Australia.
1982 American Telephone and Telegraph agrees to be broken up in settlement of an anti-trust suit filed in 1974
1982 AT and T agrees to divest itself of the 22 Bell System companies.
1982 Justice Department withdraws antitrust suit against IBM, pending since 1969
1982 Statistics Canada reports Canada's unemployment rate at 987000 or 8.6% of the work force; highest since figures inaugural taken in 1946.
1985 Japan launches Sakigake space probe to Halley's Comet
1986 President Reagan freezes Libyan assets in the US.
1987 The Dow Jones industrial average closes at over 2000 points for the inaugural time
1988 Dow Jones down 140.58 points.
1988 Hewlett-Packard introduces the HP-28S Advanced Scientific Calculator
1988 US female Figure Skating championship won by Debi Thomas
1989 Boeing 737-400 crashes in England, 46 die.
1989 Soviet Union promises to eliminate stockpiles of chemical weapons.
1990 Canada formally joins the Organization of American States (OAS) as its 33rd member
1991 Gaylord Perry, Ferguson Jenkins and Rod Carew elected to Hall of Fame.
1992 US President George Bush gets ill and vomits on Japanese prime minister's lap during Japanese tour.
1993 Elvis Presley Commemorative Postage Stamp goes on sale
1993 NBC offers "Tonight Show" to David Letterman.
1994 Rintje Ritsma skates world record 1500m (1 51.60).
1994 Russian manned space craft TM-18, launches into orbit.
1994 US male Figure Skating championship won by Scott Davis.
1995 "Guys and Dolls" closes at Martin Beck Theater New York City NY after 1143 performances
1996 Blizzard buries eastern US causing at least 50 deaths
1996 Fisheries Minister Brian Tobin announces he is quitting federal politics to run for the job of provincial Liberal leader and Premier of Newfoundland, only to return and get a plum government posting
1996 For inaugural time in 25 years no one is elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
1998 National Defence deploys 4000 soldiers to help Hydro-Quebec with the worst ice storm damage; 1.3 million households will lose power in Eastern Ontario and Quebec.
1998 Roseanne files for divorce from 3rd husband Ben Thomas
1998 Unabomber suspect Theodore Kaczynski asks to act as his own lawyer.
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