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1984  Last day of 1st-class cricket for G Chappell, R Marsh, B Laird.   

1984  Western Australia beat Queensland by four wickets to win the Sheffield Shield.   

1984  Dick Whitington, journalist/cricketer (South Aust and AIF bat), dies   

1985  Funeral services held for Konstantin Chernenko (Moscow).   

1986  Soyuz T-15 carries 2 cosmonauts to Soviet space station Mir.   

1986  Space probe Giotto encounters Halley's Comet   

1986  Alvaro Fayad Delgado, Colombian guerilla leader (M-19), dies   

1987  John Gotti is acquitted of racketeering.   

1987  Bernhard Grzimek, West German zoologist, dies at 77   

1988  14th People's Choice Awards Fatal Attraction, Bill Cosby win.   

1988  Olive Carey, actress (Affairs With a Stranger), dies at 92.   

1989  27th shuttle, Discovery 8, launched, inaugural woman to do the countdown   

1989  FDA orders recall of all Chilean fruit in US   

1989  US space shuttle STS-29 launched   

1990  Nicholoas Braithwaite elected premier of Grenada   

1990  Bruno Bettelhelm, Austrian/US psychoanalyst, commits suicide at 86.   

1991  Exxon pays $1-billion dollars in fines and cleanup of Valdez oil spill (Prince William Sound, Alaska)   

1991  Cor Witschge, [Pipo the Clown], Dutch actor (Alicia), dies at 65   

1992  570 die in a Turkish earthquake   

1992  Martina Navratilova and Judy Nelson settle their galamony suit   

1992  Clarence Wright, singer, dies at 84   

1993  Blizzard of '93 hits north-east US   

1993  Ralph Smith Fults, US gangster (Bonnie and Clyde gang), dies at 82   

1994  Cuba Godding Jr (26) weds Sara Kapfer (26)   

1994  Oil tank/airship crash at Bosporus (huge fire/15+ killed)   

1994  President Mangope of Bophuthaswana deposed.   

1995  9th Soul Train Music Awards Boyz II Men, Anita Baker win   

1995  Anti fascist Kazakhstan anti-parliament forms.   

1995  Hungarian Forint devalued 9%.   

1995  Istanbul police shoot dead 16 Alawitische demonstrators   

1996  At Dunblane, a thirteenth century village on the edge of the Scottish Highlands, forty-three-year-old Thomas Hamilton bursts into the gymnasium of the Dunblane Primary School with four guns, and opens fire on a kindergarten class. Sixteen children and their teacher, Gwenne Mayor, are killed before Hamilton turns the gun on himself   

1996  Sri Lanka beat India in World Cup semi as riots stop play   

2005  inaugural round of Central African Republic elections   

2012  19 people are shot dead in a bus attack in Ethiopia.   

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1372  Louis of valois: Duke of orléans, brother of charles vi of france   

1548  Sasbout vosmeer: Dutch catholic theologist/apostole   

1599  Johannes berchmans: Dutch jesuit/saint   

1615  Innocent xii: [antonio pignatelli], pope (1691-1700)   

1683  John theophilus desaguliers: French-british philosopher   

1696  Louis f a d duke de richelieu: French marshal   

1700  James kent: Composer   

1712  Isfrid kayser: Composer   

1202  Mieszko iii: The elder, grand duke of poland (1173-77, 1200-02),   

1271  Henry of almain: English crusader (b. 1235)   

1395  John barbour: Scottish poet   

1516  Death of Vladislav ii jagiello: King of bohemia (1490-1516),   

1558  Death of Jean fernel: French physician/physiologist,   

1569  Lodewijk condé: French prince/co-leader of hugenot,   

1573  Michel de l'hôpital: French statesman   

1604  Death of Arnaud d'ossat: French diplomat and writer (b. 1537)