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1981 David Guion, composer, dies at 88. 
1982 The outlawing of the 'Solidarity' labour movement leads to widespread strikes and demonstrations in Poland
1982 Peterus van Doorne, Dutch industrialist, dies at 47.
1983 Raymond Aron, French sociologist/political scientist, dies at 78.
1984 Alberta Hunter, US blues singer/composer, dies at 89.
1986 US Senate approved immigration bill prohibiting hiring of illegal aliens and offered amnesty to illegals who entered prior to 1982.
1987 inaugural World Series game in a covered stadium in Minnesota Metrodome
1988 31 reported dead as Ugandan jetliner crashes in fog near Rome.
1988 Phillip Morris announces $11 Billion tender offer for Kraft.
1988 Scottish scientist James Black awarded the Nobel prize for his work on treating angina and blood pressure
1989 Earthquake in SF (6.9) results in the deaths of 67.
1990 Ralph Abernathy, civil rights activist, dies at 64.
1991 J[ames] G Devlin, actor (No Surrender), dies at 84.
1992 Ton Hasebos, cameraman/TV director (Gnome Hasebos), dies
1993 Frank J Del Giudice, US industrial designer (Boeing 747), dies at 77.
1994 Augustus John "Gus" Risman, rugby League Player, dies at 83.
1995 Frenchwoman Jeanne Calment is declared the oldest living person, with a proven age of 120 years and 238 days.
1995 Peter Hinchcliff, historian, dies at 66
1996 Berthold Goldschmidt, composer/conductor, dies at 93
1997 Paul Edwin Zimmer, sci-fi writer, dies of heart attack at 54.
1998 A pipeline explodes in Nigeria when villagers try to siphon off oil. At least 700 die
1999 Former US nurse Orville Lynn Majors is convicted of murdering six patients at a western Indiana hospital; the jury deadlocked on a seventh count. (Majors is serving a 360-year prison sentence.)
2000 Pope John Paul and Britain's Queen Elizabeth meet and speak of their hopes for Christian unity. It is her inaugural visit to the Vatican in 20 years
2005 Jens Stoltenberg is recorded as becoming the Prime Minister of Norway for the second time.
2006 The United States population reaches 300 million based on a United States Census Bureau projection.
2007 Whitehaven, England is recorded as becoming the inaugural place in the United Kingdom to have one of its analogue terrestrial television signals switched off as part of digital switchover.
2012 The exoplanet Alpha Centauri Bb is discovered orbiting Alpha Centauri.
2013 59 people are killed in a wave of attacks on Shia Muslims in Iraq
2017 Islamic State headquarters Raqqa declared under full control of US-led alliance by Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) spokesman Talal Sello after 4 months of fighting.
2017 Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte declares city of Marawi "liberated" from militants.
2017 In this year, American short-story writer George Saunders claims the Man Booker Prize for his inaugural novel "Lincoln in the Bardo"
2017 Syrian Civil War: Raqqa is declared fully liberated from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
2018 India's junior foreign minister MJ Akbar is highest official to resign in #MeToo case after sexual harassment accusations by numerous women
2018 Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch puppeteer Caroll Spinney leaves "Sesame Street" after 50 years
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