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1975 Eagles' "Best of My Love" reaches #1. 
1976 The Alberta Government founds Alberta Heritage Savings Trust Fund with windfall oil royalties.
1976 Jean Martinon, French conductor/composer, dies at 66
1977 In this year, Bank of America formally adopts the name VISA for their credit cards.
1977 US extends territorial waters to 200 miles
1978 Charlie Chaplin's coffin was stolen from a Swiss cemetery.
1978 Coffin of Charles Chaplin stolen, only months after being buried
1979 Dolores Costello, actress (Noah's Ark, Expensive Women), dies at 73.
1980 Hilbert van der Duim is recorded as becoming world champion all-round skater.
1980 Patti Smith and MC5 guitarist Fred Sonic Smith wed in Detroit MI.
1980 Snow falls in the sunshine state of Florida
1980 John Jacob Niles, composer, dies at 87.
1981 "Sophisticated Ladies" opens at Lunt-Fontanne NYC for 767 performances.
1981 Alberta cuts oil production to protest Ottawa's National Energy Policy the federal government replies by a compensation charge as Energy Minister Marc Lalonde matches Alberta cutbacks by a "Lougheed Levy" to subsidize imports
1981 Bobby Sands, IRA member, begins 65-day hunger strike in Maze Prison (he dies)
1981 IRA member Bobby Sands begins a hunger strike at Northern Ireland's Maze Prison. (Sands died 65 days later.)
1981 In this year, Sally Little claims LPGA Olympia Gold Golf Classic.
1982 5th Emmy Sports Awards presentation
1982 Russian spacecraft Venera 14 lands on Venus, sends back data.
1983 Tamara McKinney is recorded as becoming inaugural US woman skier to win the World Cup.
1983 Tornado tears through Louisiana, injuring 33 people
1984 NASA launches Landsat-D Prime (Landsat 5) to thematic map the Earth
1984 Jackie Coogan, actor (Uncle Fester-Addams Family), dies at 69
1985 Liza Minnelli enters Betty Ford Drug Center
1985 Pentagon accepts theory that atomic war would cause a nuclear winter
1985 Eugene List, US concert pianist, dies at 66
1987 In this year, Jane Geddes claims LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open.
1988 Courtney Gibbs Eplin, 21, (Texas), crowned 37th Miss USA.
1988 Iraq says it launched 16 missiles into Tehran
1988 Pontiac announces the end of the Fiero automobile.
1988 Wayne Gretzky passes Gordie Howe with his record 1050th NHL assist.
1988 Jean Le Poulain, actor (Divine), dies at 63
1989 Ben Johnson's coach testifies Johnson began using steroids in 1981.
1989 Comet du Toit at perihelion
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