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1976 Ad Verhoeven, soccer player (Xerxes, Sparta), dies in crash [or 1/17] 
1977 Australia's worst rail crash, at Granville, Sydney, results in the deaths of 83 when train hits concrete bridge.
1977 Imran Khan takes 12 wickets in match for Pakistan win at the SCG
1977 On his last day as U.S. President, Gerald Ford pardons Iva Toguri D'Aquino, better known to U.S. troops as Tokyo Rose, from her acts of treason during WWII
1977 Carl Zuckmayer, German/Swiss/US playwright (Second Wind), dies at 80
1978 Geoff Boycott captains England for the inaugural time, vs Pakistan Karachi
1978 Roof of 3-year-old Civic Center in Hartford CT collapses (no injuries).
1978 Thiokol conducts 2nd test firing of space shuttle's SRB.
1978 Carl Betz, actor (Alex Stone-Donna Reed Show), dies at 67
1979 Cyril Mockridge, composer, dies at 82.
1980 Gold reaches $1000 an ounce.
1980 Pink Floyd's "The Wall" hits #1
1980 Studio 54 owners Steve Rubell and Ian Schrager sentenced to 3½ years in prison for tax evasion and fined $20000
1980 Cecil Beaton, British photographer, dies at 76.
1981 Iran accepts US offer of $7.9 billion in frozen assets
1981 Iran agrees in principle to the release of 52 Americans held hostage for more than 14 months.
1981 Wendy O Williams arrested in Milwaukee for on-stage obscenity.
1982 Burnet Corwin Tuthill, US composer (Laurentia), dies at 93.
1983 IOC restores Jim Thorpe's Olympic medals 70 years after they were taken from him for being paid $25 in semipro baseball.
1984 Malcolm H Kerr, 9th pres of American U of Beirut, shot dead.
1985 US renounces jurisdiction of World Court despite previous promise
1985 Mahmoud Taha, Sudanese Moslem leader, hanged at 76.
1986 24th Space Shuttle (61-C) Mission-Columbia 7-returns to Earth.
1986 AIDS charity record "That's What Friends are For," hits #1
1986 Fierce fighting in South Yemen's capital city of Aden interrupts evacuation of foreigners.
1986 New York Lotto pays $30.5 million to one winner (#s are 19-20-27-34-41-46)
1986 Claire James, actress (Jack Armstrong), dies
1987 11th Soap Opera Digest Poll Awards - Days of Our Live claims
1988 Airliner crashes in SW China, killing all 108 on board.
1989 Astronomers discover pulsar in remnants of Supernova 1987A (LMC)
1989 Candace Thomas marries Steve Garvey
1989 IBM announces earnings up 10.4% in 1988
1989 Otis Redding, Dion, Rolling Stones, Temptations and Stevie Wonder inducted into Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
1989 West Indies beat Australia 2-1 to win the World Series Cup.
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