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Saturday, 12 September 2026
1974 Labor is swept from office in Western Australian state elections and Liberal leader Charles Court is recorded as becoming premier 
1974 Ludovicus J Rogier, Dutch historian (Reborn in Freedom), dies at 79.
1975 Ron Lalonde scores the 1st hat trick by a Washington Capital.
1975 Peter Bamm, writer, dies
1976 Israel results in the deaths of 6 Palestinians protesting land confiscation.
1976 Ottawa announces plans to immunize about 12 million Canadians against 'swine flu' in the autumn.
1976 Jacqueline Royaards-Sandberg, actress (Hostage Rights), dies at 99
1977 Levko Mykolayevich Revutsky, composer, dies at 88.
1978 "History of the American Film" opens at ANTA Theater NYC for 21 perfs.
1978 George Paine, lefty cricket spinner (for England in WI 1935), dies
1979 In this year, Airey Neave, a British politician, is killed by a car bomb as he exits the Palace of Westminster. The Irish National Liberation Army claims responsibility
1979 Airey Neave, British MP (Conservatives), killed by terrorist bomb
1980 Mark Medoff's "Children of a Lesser God", premieres in New York NY
1981 President Reagan shot and wounded by John W Hinckley Jr.
1981 US President Ronald Reagan wounded in an assassination attempt.
1981 Dewitt Wallace, US founder (Reader's Digest), dies at 91
1982 John Pielmeier's "Agnes of God", premieres in New York NY
1982 The third space shuttle mission-Columbia 3 lands at White Sands NM.
1983 Ray Cooney's "Run for your Wives", premieres in London
1984 US ends participation in multinational Lebanon peace force.
1984 Peter Yarrall, strongest Englishman/weighed 826 lb (374.7 kg), dies
1985 Sally Anne Atkinson is recorded as becoming Lord Mayor of Brisbane, the inaugural Liberal and inaugural woman to do so
1985 Harold Peary, actor (Herb-Blondie, Willy), dies of heart attack at 76
1986 James Cagney, actor (Yankee Doodle Dandy), dies in NY at 86
1987 59th Academy Awards "Platoon", Paul Newman and Marlee Matlin win
1988 second Soul Train Music Awards
1989 Dort Clark, actor (In Harm's Way), dies
1990 Riot police in Quebec City break up demonstration by 2000 marchers against university tuition fee increases;
1991 William Kennedy Smith allegedly rapes a woman (are discovered not guilty).
1991 Jan Willem Hofstra, Dutch actor/writer (Friends of My Friends), dies
1992 64th Academy Awards (Silent of the Lambs sweeps with Best Picture, Anthony Hopkins as Best Actor and Jodie Foster as Best Actress)
1992 PJ Patterson, steps down as 6th Prime Minister of Jamaica.
1992 Art Hannes, announcer, dies of a respiratory ailment at 72.
1993 French government of Balladur forms
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