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Sunday, 14 June 2026
Jan 21 Neptune is recorded as becoming outermost planet (Pluto moves closer). 
Jan 21 Price of gold increases to record $875 troy ounce.
Jan 22 Ali Hassan Salameh, [Abu Hassan], killed by car bomb; believed to have helped mastermind massacre of 1972 Munich Olympics athletes
Jan 23 Willie Mays elected to Baseball Hall of Fame.
Jan 24 Jerry Damon, comedian (That Was The Week That Was), dies at 51
Jan 25 22.2-km Oshimizu railroad tunnel holed through, central Honshu, Japan.
Jan 25 J Robertson Hare, actor (Fighting Stock), dies at 87
Jan 25 Jean-Luc Pepin and John Robarts release the Report of the Task Force on Canadian Unity; recommend that Quebec should have the power to maintain its language and culture, and that federal powers be reduce.
Jan 25 Pope John Paul II's inaugural overseas trip as supreme pontiff
Jan 26 "The Dukes of Hazzard" premieres on CBS's vast wasteland.
Jan 26 Former U.S. Vice President Nelson A. Rockefeller dies in New York at age 70.
Jan 26 Music Center Vredenburg opens in Utrecht Netherlands
Jan 26 Nelson Rockefeller, former VP and (4X Gov-R-NY), dies at 70
Jan 27 36th Golden Globes Midnight Express, Jon Voight and Jane Fonda.
Jan 29 Brenda Spencer results in the deaths of 2, inspires Boomtown Rats "I Don't Like Mondays"
Jan 29 Chinese Vice Premier Deng Xiaoping is welcomed to the White House by U.S. President Jimmy Carter Carter, as the two countries re-establish formal relations
Jan 29 Chinese vice-premier Deng Xiaoping visits Washington DC.
Jan 29 President Carter commuted Patricia Hearst's 7 year sentence to 2 years.
Jan 30 Iran announces that Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini is returning, ending his exile in France
Jan 30 Rhodesia agrees to new constitution.
Jan 30 Rhodesian whites vote to transfer to majority rule
Feb 01 Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returns to Iran after 15 years in exile
Feb 01 Mort Marshall, actor (Cully-Dumplings), dies at 60.
Feb 01 Newspaper heiress Patty Hearst leaves federal prison when her sentence for bank robbery is commuted by President Jimmy Carter
Feb 01 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR.
Feb 02 Jim Burke, cricketer (Australian opener), commits suicide
Feb 03 "YMCA" by Village People peaks at #2 on pop singles chart.
Feb 03 Jody Gilbert, actress (Willard, Shaggy, Blonde Dynamite), dies.
Feb 03 US female Figure Skating championship won by Linda Fratianne
Feb 03 US male Figure Skating championship won by Charles Tickner
Feb 05 Costliest single periodical ad, $3.2 million, Gulf + Western in Time
Feb 05 Eddie Paynter, cricketer (20 Tests for England, avg 59.23), dies.
Feb 06 Alain Teister, Dutch sculptor/writer, dies at 47
Feb 06 Supreme court of Lahore affirms death sentence against premier Bhutto
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