2011 Archeologists working off the coast of Panama recover six cannons from ships owned by Welsh privateer Henry Morgan
2010 Ejup Ganic, former President of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina is stopped while trying to escape war crime charges, at London Heathrow airport
2005 The Supreme Court rules the death penalty unconstitutional for people who committed crimes before age 18
1998 "Art," opens at Royale Theater New York City
1998 Australian Ladies Masters Golf
1997 "Mandy Patinkin in Concert," opens at Lyceum Theater New York City
1997 5th annual ESPY Awards shown on TV
1996 Lenny Wilkens, winningest coach in NBA, coaches his 1,000th victory
1996 New toll-free 888 area code introduced
1995 37th Grammy Awards: All I Want to Do, Streets of Philadelphia, Sheryl Crow
1995 Belgium ends military conscript
1995 Jozef Oleksy succeeds Waldemar Pawlak on as premier of Poland
1995 Julio Maria Sanguinetti sworn in as president of Uruguay
1995 Part of Houston begins using new area code 261
1995 Ukraine premier Vitaly Massol, resigns
1994 36th Grammy Awards: I Will Always Love You, Toni Braxton wins
1994 Martti Ahtisaari inaugurated as president of Finland
1994 Senate rejectes a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution
1993 George Steinbenner is reinstated as owner of New York Yankees
1993 New expansion NHL team, owned by Disney, is named the Mighty Ducks
1992 "Little Hotel on the Side" closes at Belasco New York City after 41 performances
1992 "Visit" closes at Criterion Theater New York City after 45 performances
1992 Jenny Thompson swims 100m freestyle world record (1:01.40)
1992 Nelson Diebel swims 100m freestyle U.S. record (54.48 seconds)
1991 U.S. Embassy in Kuwait officially reopens
1990 Benin nullifies its constitution
1990 Luis Alberto Lacelle sworn in as president of Uruguay
1989 Ben Johnson's coach testifies Johnson began using steroids in 1981
1989 Comet du Toit at perihelion
1989 Julianne Philips and Bruce Springsteen divorce
1988 Courtney Gibbs Eplin, 21, (Texas), crowned 37th Miss USA
1988 Iraq says it launched 16 missiles into Tehran
1988 Pontiac announces the end of the Fiero automobile
1988 Wayne Gretzky passes Gordie Howe with his record 1,050th NHL assist
1987 Jane Geddes wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open
1985 Liza Minnelli enters Betty Ford Drug Center
1985 Milwaukee businessman Herb Kohl purchases the Milwaukee Bucks
1985 Pentagon accepts theory that atomic war would cause a nuclear winter
1984 Landsat 5 and ham satellite Oscar 11 launched into polar orbit
1984 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. #3931 Batten, #4529 Webern, #4530 Smoluchowski, #4818 Elgar, #5502 Brashear and #5943 Lovi
1983 Tamara McKinney becomes 1st U.S. woman skier to win the World Cup
1983 Tornado tears through LA, injuring 33 people
1982 5 dies as ski lift malfunctions a Luz-Ardiden in Pyrenees
1982 5th Emmy Sports Award presentation
1982 New York Times raises it's price from 25 cents to 30 cents
1982 Russian spacecraft Venera 14 lands on Venus, sends back data
1981 "Sophisticated Ladies" opens at Lunt-Fontanne New York City for 767 performances
1981 Bobby Sands, IRA member, begins 65-day hunger strike in Maze Prison
1981 Sally Little wins LPGA Olympia Gold Golf Classic
1980 CTUC, Commonwealth Trade Union Council, established
1980 Hilbert van der Duim becomes world champion all-round skater
1980 Patti Smith and MC5 guitarist Fred Sonic Smith wed in Detroit
1980 Snow falls in Florida
1979 "Sweeney Todd" opens at Uris Theater New York City for 557 performances
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