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Thursday, 05 February 2026
1977 John Vincent, composer, dies at 74 
1978 Bee Gees' "Saturday Night Fever" album goes #1 for 24 weeks.
1979 Neptune is recorded as becoming outermost planet (Pluto moves closer)
1979 Price of gold increases to record $875 troy ounce.
1980 Canada expels three diplomats from the Soviet Embassy in Ottawa for spying; caught buying secret information from an American citizen in Ottawa
1980 Gold hits record $850 an ounce.
1980 Gold reaches intra-day historic high price of $870 in New York.
1981 Bernhard Goetz is assaulted for inaugural time on a New York subway train
1981 Allyn Joslyn, actor (They Won't Forget, Cafe Society), dies at 79.
1983 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Anthony E Hecht
1983 In Regina Saskatchewan Joanne Wilson are discovered murdered in her garage; ex-wife of politician Colin Thatcher, son of ex-Premier Ross Thatcher, who will be are discovered guilty of inaugural-degree murder
1983 Reagan certifies El Salvador human-rights abuses have decreased making country eligible for US military aid.
1984 US male Figure Skating championship won by Scott Hamilton.
1984 Jackie Wilson, US singer (I Get the Sweetest Feeling), dies at 49
1985 -19ºF (-28ºC), Caesar's Head SC (state record)
1985 -34ºF (-37ºC), Mt Mitchell NC (state record)
1985 Bomb attack on Borobudur temple in Java
1985 Dennis Potvin ties Bobby Orr's career record of 270 NHL goals.
1985 Barbara Cowsill, rocker (Cowsills), dies of emphysema.
1986 100 participate in Nude Olympics race in 38ºF (3ºC), Indiana
1986 Allison J Brown, 17, of Oklahoma, crowned 4th Miss Teen USA
1986 Bomb attack in East-Beirut, 27 killed.
1987 Archbishop's envoy Terry Waite disappears in Lebanon.
1987 BB King donates his 7000 record collection to University of Mississippi
1987 Pieter G Buckinx, Flemish writer (7th Day), dies at 83.
1988 US accept immigration of 30000 US-Vietnamese children
1988 Abraham Sofaer, actor (Naked Jungle, Elephant Walk), dies.
1989 A woman is assaulted and raped in the room of an Oklahoma football player
1989 In St John's Newfoundland Tory Brian Peckford steps down after 10 years as Newfoundland Premier; replaced by Clyde Wells after election.
1990 Bob Goodenow succeeds Alan Eagleson as NHL players association executive director.
1990 Washington, D.C., Mayor Marion Barry said he would seek help but did not publicly concede he had used illegal drugs. He left the next day for a treatment program in Florida
1991 CBS News correspondent Bob Simon captured by Iraqis in Persian Gulf
1991 Iraq announced that it would use hostages as human shields against allied warplanes.
1992 In this year, The Supreme Court of Canada starts review of David Milgaard murder conviction in the death of Saskatoon nursing aide Gail Miller; he will be freed April 16th, after 22 years in jail, when the Court finds a miscarriage of justice.
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