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1975 Emmy 2nd Daytime Award and Emmy News and Documentaries Award presentation. 
1976 "Fonz Song" by Heyettes hits #91
1976 "Kentucky Moonrunner" by Cledus Maggard hits #85.
1976 Emmy Creative Arts Award presentation.
1976 Samuel Eliot Morison, US historian (Admiral of Ocean Sea), dies at 88.
1980 Ottawa agrees to extend natural gas pipeline from Montreal to Quebec City
1980 Shawn Weatherly, Sumter SC, crowned 29th Miss USA/Miss Universe-1980
1981 In this year, George Harrison releases "All Those Years Ago" in UK
1981 Soyuz 40 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 Rumanian) to Salyut 6.
1983 Madison Hotel (Boston) destroyed by implosion.
1984 Lionel Charles Robbins, British economist, dies at 85
1985 Jackie Curtis, actor (Underground USA), dies of a drug overdose at 38
1986 Argentine ex-President Galtieri sentenced to 12 years.
1986 Theodore H White, US journalist (Making of Pres, Pulitzer), dies at 71.
1987 John Baur, museum director, dies at 78
1988 Soviet troops begin their withdrawl from Afghanistan.
1988 Andrew Duggan, actor (Jigsaw, Firehouse), dies of cancer at 64
1989 Maxwell House coffee runs ads during "Roe vs Wade" movie despite threat of boycott by right to lifers.
1989 Soviet President Gorbachev in Beijing for inaugural Sino-Soviet summit in 30 years.
1989 John Waldo Green, composer, dies at 80.
1990 "Portrait of Doctor Gachet" by Vincent Van Gogh sold for $825 million
1990 Dow Jones average hits a record 2822.45
1990 Mona Grudt, 19, of Norway, crowned 39th Miss Universe
1991 Angry independent truckers close down 20 km of Highway 401 near Toronto; cause huge traffic jams
1991 In this year, Defense releases docs claiming Noriega was "CIA's man in Panama"
1991 Edith Cresson is recorded as becoming France's inaugural female premier
1991 In this year, Manchester United claims 31th Europe Cup II at Rotterdam
1991 Nepal premier Bhattarai steps down
1991 Bud Freeman, jazz tenor saxophonist, dies of cancer at 84.
1992 Colombo '92 opens in Genoa Italy
1992 In Kyrgyzstan a 6.2 quake resulted in three people killed, 5500 houses completely destroyed and more than 4000 houses damaged.
1992 New York department store chain Alexanders announces closing of all 11 stores.
1992 Bruce Hopkins, performer/director, dies at 44
1993 Jane Seymour and James Kesch marry
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