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1971 Martha Vickers, actress (Alimony), dies after long illness at 46. 
1976 Former Georgia Gov Jimmy Carter (D) defeats incumbent Gerald R Ford (R) in race for Presidency
1976 Jimmy Carter elected as the (38th) US President
1977 H E Nossak, writer, dies at 76.
1978 Crew of Soyuz 29 returns to Earth aboard Soyuz 31
1980 Edith Bunker, character on "All in the Family", dies
1982 Lester Roloff, Man of God, preacher
1983 President Reagan signs a bill establishing Martin L King day.
1984 Margie V Barfield, US murderer, 1st woman electricuted in 22 years.
1986 Following intervention of Terry Waite, US hostage David Jacobsen is fred in Beirut after 18 months imprisonment.
1986 Paul Frees, cartoon voice (Boris Badenov), dies at 66.
1988 Computer virus strikes Pentagon, SDI research lab and 6 universities
1988 In this year, Shamir Likud claims election in Israel.
1991 Fran Stevens, singer, dies of cancer in Bronx NY at 72
1992 Hal Roach, producer (Keystone Kops), dies of pneumonia at 100
1993 P A Jacob Mees, Dutch banker (Mees and Hope), dies at about 86
1994 David Feinberg, AIDS activist/author, dies at 37.
1995 Alun Edward Islwyn Pask, rugby International, dies at 58
1996 Ontario L'Orignal Railway (RailTex) commences operation over the former CN line between Glen Robertson, Hawkesbury and L'Orignal, Ont.
1996 Alvaro Gomez Hurtado, Colombian politician, dies.
1997 G Harry Stine, writer, dies at 69
1998 Quebec Gatineau Railway commences operation over the CN Montfort Spur between Mirabel and Saint-Jerome, QC. Access to the CN network is continued through an interchange agreement between CN, OGRY and St.L and H.
1999 "Saving Private Ryan" becomse the inaugural major Spielberg movie to be released on DVD.
2005 Madrid: the Spanish Congress of Deputies approves the admission to formality of the new Catalan Statute of Autonomy with the support of all the groups except the People's Party (PP) that the same day filed an objection of unconstitutionality.
2005 Ferruccio Valcareggi, Italian football player and coach.
2007 Four firefighters feared dead in the 2007 Atherstone fire disaster
2014 60 people were killed and 110 injured by a suicide bombing in Lahore, Pakistan
2017 On This Day and Xiaomi launch a content partnership to display today in history content in Xiaomi's calendar app to users in India.
2017 Jerome Powell nominated by US President Trump to be next Chair of the Federal Reserve
2017 A new species of orangutan is identified in Indonesia, becoming the third known species of orangutan as well as the inaugural great ape to be described for almost a century
2018 Tiger thought to have killed 13 people shot dead after month-long hunt near Pandharkawada, central India.
2020 Johnny Depp loses libel case against UK newspaper "The Sun", which called him a "wife-beater", said he assaulted wife Amber Heard.
2023 Apple Records release the last Beatles song "Now and Then" as a double A-sided single, backed with their inaugural "From Me To You"; the new song was built from an unfinished 1978 John Lennon demo and 1995 attempt to complete it that had been abandoned due to technical issues, resolved by new technology [1]
2023 Bletchley Declaration to assess and manage risks of ‘frontier’ AI signed at AI Safety Summit hosted by Rishi Sunak at Bletchley Park, UK [1]
