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1976  USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR.   

1977  "Smokey and the Bandit" premieres.   

1978  George Gladstone, cricketer (one Test WI v England 1930), dies   

1979  "In The Navy" by Village People hits #3.   

1979  Guitarist Eric Clapton marries Patti Boyd.   

1979  The President announced he had instructed the U.S. Seventh Fleet to aid the Vietnamese "boat people" and assist them to safety   

1980  Ringo and Barbara Bach are involved in a car crash.   

1982  Sophia Loren jailed in Naples for tax evasion.   

1983  NASA launches Intelsat V   

1983  Weird Al Yankovic gives live performance at Wax Museum in Washington DC   

1983  Jean Rey, Belgian minister, dies   

1984  "King Of Suede" by Weird Al Yankovic hits #62.   

1984  STS 41-D vehicle moves to launch pad   

1987  Alice B[radley] Sheldon, sci-fi author (Byte Beautiful), dies at 71.   

1988  Virginia Farmer, actresss (Cyrano de Bergerac), dies at 90   

1989  Dow Jones average passes 2500 mark for inaugural time, closes at 2501.1   

1989  Sue Ellen (Linda Gray) last appearance on Dallas   

1989  Able J Herzberg, Russ/Neth lawyer (Eichmann in Jerusalem), dies   

1991  Willy T Ribbs is recorded as becoming inaugural black driver to make Indianapolis 500.   

1991  Douglas L Mays, cartoonist (Punch), dies.   

1992  27th Amendment ratified, prohibits Congress from raising its salary   

1992  Amy Fisher shoots Mary Jo Buttafuoco in Massapequa Long Island New York.   

1992  Englishman Dave Gauder, 224 lbs, pulls 196 ton jumbo jet, 3 inches.   

1992  In this year, Ric Flair claims NWA wrestling title   

1992  Vice President Dan Quayle sites Murphy Brown as a poor example of family values.   

1993  Dow Jones closes above 3500 for inaugural time (3500.03)   

1993  In this year, Juventus claims 22th UEFA Cup at Torino   

1993  Nemesio Antunes, Chilean painter, dies at 75.   

1994  Final Episode of LA Law after 8 year run   

1994  Omar Sharif suffers a mild heart attack   

1994  Tennis star Jennifer Capriati (18), checks into a drug rehab center   

1994  Henry Morgan, TV panalist (To Tell the Truth), dies of cancer at 74.   

1995  World's youngest doctor, Balamurali Ambati, 17, graduates Mount Sinai   

1996  STS 77 (Endeavour 11), launches into orbit   

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1469  Giovanni della robbia: Ital's sculptor   

1611  Innocent xi: [benedetto odescalchi], italy, 240th pope (1676-89)   

1616  Johann jacob froberger: German singer/organist/composer   

1700  José de escandón: Spanish colonial governor   

1724  Augustus hervey: 3rd earl of bristol, british admiral and politician   

1744  Charlotte of mecklenburg-strelitz: Charlotte of mecklenburg-strelitz (d. 1818)   

1746  Johann friedrich peter: Composer   

1755  Gabriele prota: Composer   

0804  Alcuin of york: English scholar,   

0988  Death of Dunstan[us]: English archbishop of canterbury,   

1125  Vladimir monomakh: Russian prince (b. 1053)   

1296  Death of Celestine v: [pietro del murrone], pope (1294),   

1319  Louis d'Évreux: Son of philip iii of france (b. 1276)   

1389  Dmitri donskoi: Grand prince of muscovy (b. 1350)   

1526  Death of Emperor go-kashiwabara of japan: Emperor go-kashiwabara of japan (b. 1464)   

1531  Death of Jan Łaski: Polish statesman and diplomat (b. 1456)