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1977  Walter Baldwin, actor (Gay Amigo), dies at 88   

1978  Marguerite Canal, composer, dies at 87.   

1979  36th Golden Globes Midnight Express, Jon Voight and Jane Fonda.   

1981  Leo Collard, Belgian minister of Education (1946/54-58), dies at 78.   

1982  Mauno Koivisto installed as President of Finland   

1982  Roberto S Cordova installed as President of Honduras   

1982  West Indies beat Australia 3-1 to win World Series Cup   

1982  Iris Korn, actress (Widder-Palmerstown USA), dies at 60   

1983  World's longest subaqueous tunnel (53.90 km) opens, Honshu-Hokkaid   

1983  Louis De Funes, actor/writer (Mad Adv of Rabbi Jacobs), dies at 68   

1984  John and Yoko release "Milk and Honey" album   

1984  Michael Jackson is burned during filming for Pepsi commercial.   

1984  Pop singer Michael Jackson is hospitalized when his hair catches fire while filming a Pepsi commercial in Los Angeles.   

1984  Lou Crosby, TV announcer (Mayor of Hollywood), dies at 72   

1985  15th Space Shuttle (51-C) Mission-Discovery 3 returns to Earth   

1986  13th American Music Award Whitney Houston, Huey Lewis and Crystal Gayle.   

1986  L Ron Hubbard, novelist/founder (Church of Scientology), dies at 74   

1987  Midnight Rockers beat Buddy Rose and Doug Somers for AWA World Tag Team.   

1988  Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approves nomination of Judge Anthony M Kennedy to US Supreme Court.   

1989  Oklahoma's linebacker, Mark VanKeirsblilck assaults an Oklahoma grad student.   

1990  Dissolution of Polish communist party.   

1990  Four top aides of executed dictator Nicolae Ceausescu go on trial in Romania, charged with genocide   

1990  Helen Jerome Eddy, actress (Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm), dies at 92   

1992  19th American Music Award C and C Music Factory, Michael Bolton win.   

1992  Jane Fonda undergoes arthroscopic surgery on her right knee.   

1992  Mike Tyson goes on trial for rape (he is are discovered guilty).   

1992  Presidential candidate Bill Clinton (D) and Genifer Flowers accuse each other of lying over her assertion they had a 12-year affair.   

1992  Francesca Primus, columnist (Back Stage), dies at 45.   

1993  DC-3 crashes in Kinshasa, killing 12.   

1993  Andre "the Giant" Roussimoff, WWF wrestler, dies of heart attack at 49   

1994  Carlos Reina succeeds President Callejas in Honduras.   

1994  Romanian social-democrats form government with anti-Semites   

1994  Claude Akins, actor (Rio Bravo, Lobo), dies of cancer at 75.   

1995  Five thousand mourners gather at the site of the Auschwitz Nazi concentration camp to commemorate the 50th anniversary of its liberation   

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1443  Albert: Duke of saxony   

1546  Joachim iii frederick: Elector (brandenburg)   

1556  Abbas i: "the great," shah of persia (1587-1629)   

1585  Hendrick avercamp: Dutch painter   

1592  Pierre de la barre: Composer   

1603  Harbottle grimston: English politician   

1621  Thomas willis: English physician   

1662  Richard bentley: Oulton, scholar/controversialist   

0098  Marius cocceius nerva: Emperor of rome (96-98),   

0661  Death of Death of ali: The final sunni rashidun and first shia imam.(b. 599 or 600)   

0672  Death of Vitalianus: Pope (657-72)/saint,   

0847  Sergius ii: Pope (844-47),   

1164  Death of Abraham ibn ezra: Poet/philosopher,   

1490  Ashikaga yoshimasa: Japanese shogun (b. 1435)   

1540  Angela merici: Italian monk/monastery,   

1565  Death of Robrecht de berghes: Prince-bishop of liege (1557-64),