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Thursday, 25 June 2026
1976 US-German Helios B solar probe launched into solar orbit. 
1976 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakstan/Semipalatinsk USSR.
1977 Coneheads debut on "Saturday Night Live"
1978 Theodore Bundy results in the deaths of Florida State University co-eds Lisa Levy and Margaret Bowman.
1978 Margaret Bowman and Janet Levy, Chi Omega, FSU, killed by Ted Bundy
1981 "Hill Street Blues" premieres on NBC-TV
1981 Bob Gibson elected to Baseball's Hall of Fame.
1981 Emanuel Celler, (Rep-D-NY, 1923-73), dies at 92.
1982 Red Smith, sportscaster (Pulitzer, Fight Talk), dies at 76.
1983 Dutch political party DS'70 disbands.
1983 Hartford Whalers smallest crowd 4812 (beat Devils) during blizzard
1983 Javed Miandad and Mudassar Nazar make 451 stand vs India.
1983 Thom Syles keeps a life saver intact in his mouth for over 7 hours
1983 Meyer Lansky, reputed mobster, dies in Miami Beach Fla at 80.
1984 Hana Mandlikova ends Martina Navratilova's 54-match winning streak
1985 Civil rights activist Tancredo Neves elected president.
1985 Mike Gatting and Graeme Fowler both scores 200's vs India
1985 Rose Bottle is born
1985 Tancredo Neves is recorded as becoming inaugural elected President of Brazil in 21 years
1986 Living Seas opens at World Showcase in EPCOT, Walt Disney World
1986 James H "Jim" Crowley, US football player (Notre Dame), dies at 83.
1987 Dolores Hawkins, singer (Guy Mitchell Show), dies at 58.
1988 Arab uprising in Israel begins
1988 Jimmy "The Greek" Snyder makes racist remarks about black athletes.
1988 Kiran More stumps five West Indian batsman at Madras, world Test record
1988 Sean MacBride, Ireland, commander of Irish Republican Army, dies at 83
1989 In this year, Big John Studd claims WWF's inaugural Royal Rumble.
1989 Cerberal Palsy telethon raises 22600000.
1989 Wilf Slack, cricketer (whilst bat in Gambia England player 1986), dies.
1990 42 year old George Foreman KOs George Cooney in 2 rounds.
1990 6th Soap Opera Digest Awards - Knots Landing claims.
1990 A computer problem disrupts AT and T's long distance telephone service around the U.S. for nearly nine hours
1990 AT and T experiences long distance problems due to a computer glitch.
1990 Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev declares a state of emergency in parts of Azerbaijan and Armenia, due to increased ethnic violence.
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