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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
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.
1998 World Trade Center bomber Ramzi Ahmed Yousef sentenced to life
1999 RailAmerica Inc. takes over the operation of the Esquimalt and Nanaimo Railway from CP. The new company, known as E and N Railway Company (1998) Ltd, purchased the line between Port Alberni and Nanaimo and leased the section from Victoria to Nanaimo.
2006 A powerful, magnitude 6.9 earthquake centered off the coast of the Greek island of Kythera shakes much of Greece and is felt throughout the eastern Mediterranean basin
2007 Russian oil supplies to Poland, Germany, and Ukraine are cut as the Russia-Belarus energy dispute escalates; restored 3 days later
2010 The Togo national football team is involved in an attack in Angola, and as a result withdraws from the Africa Cup of Nations
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