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1978 George Dickinson, cricketer (8 wickets in 3 Tests for NZ), dies. 
1979 World Ice Dance Championship at Vienna won by N Linichuk and G Karponosov USSR
1979 Merv Inverarity, cricketer (father of John WA player 1925-40), dies
1980 Rudolf G Escher, Dutch composer (Vrai Visage de la Paix), dies at 68.
1981 FC Lisse, Dutch soccer team forms.
1982 4 Dutch TV crew members shot dead in El Salvador
1982 Following the failure of Argentinean diplomatic efforts to reclaim the Falkland Islands from the British, an Argentine warship lands a party of "scrap dealers" on South Georgia Island, a dependency of the Falkland Islands British crown colony.
1982 Hans ter Laag, Dutch sound technician, murdered in El Salvador
1983 9th People's Choice Awards.
1985 Brian Mulroney 1939- welcomes President Ronald Reagan to a Canada-US Summit meeting in the Chateau Frontenac; called the Shamrock Summit because of their common Irish ancestry and the date - St. Patrick's Day.
1985 IBM surprised the computer industry by announcing the termination of its PC Jr., a watered-down version of its popular IBM PC
1985 Near Coast of Central Chile a 6.6 earthquake caused one person died from a heart attack at Santiago.
1985 Dattu Phadkar, cricketer (Indian all-rounder, 31 Tests 1947-58), dies.
1986 Haemers gang robs gold transport in Belgium of 35 million BF.
1986 Hal Buckley, actor (John Quincy-OK Crackerby), dies at 49
1987 In this year, IBM releases PC-DOS version 3.3 (but Windows is on the way)
1987 Sunil Gavaskar ends his Test career with an inning of 96 vs Pakistan
1987 Torrential rains and mudslides in Tajikistan, Soviet Union, destroy dam, killing 19 people and leaving nine others missing
1988 Iran says Iraq uses poison gas
1988 Reg Sinfield, cricketer (one Test for England v Australia 1938), dies
1989 Dorothy Cudahy is inaugural female grand marshal of St Patrick Day Parade.
1989 Merritt Butrick, actor (Shy People, Wired to Kill), dies of AIDS at 29
1990 Germaine Capucine, French actress and fashion model (Rendez-Vous de Juillet), dies at 59
1991 Former Australian governor-general Sir John Kerr, who dismissed the Whitlam Labor government in 1975, dies in Sydney aged 76
1991 Irish Lesbians and Gays march in St Patrick Day parade
1991 New Jersey raises turnpike tolls 70%.
1991 USSR holds a referendum to determine if they should stay together; 9 of 15 Soviet representatives officially approve new union treaty
1992 18th People's Choice Awards Garth Brooks and Reba McEntire.
1992 In this year, De Klerk claims a white only referendum.
1992 Islamic Jihad truck bombs Israeli Embassy in Buenos Aires Argentina killing 29
1992 Russian manned space craft TM-14, launches into orbit
1992 Charles Rea, British actor (Ipcress File), dies at 69.
1993 86 killed by bomb attack in Calcutta.
1994 Iran transport aircraft crashes in Azerbaijan (32 killed)
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