2011 Australia and Japan win their semi-final games and will play in the AFC Asian Cup final
2010 One year after thousands of children became ill from melamine in milk, new traces of melamine in milk products is discovered in China
1999 Earthquake kills about 1,185 in Armenia, Colombia
1998 "Grease," closes at Eugene O'Neill Theater New York City after 1,503 performance
1998 "Patti LaBelle On Broadway," closes at St. James Theater New York City
1998 Britain's Queen Mother, 97, gets an emergency hip replacement
1998 Helen Alfredsson wins Office Depot LPGA tournament
1998 Spice Girl Victoria Adams, aka Posh Spice, and soccer David Beckham gets engaged
1998 Superbowl XXXII: Denver Broncos beat Green Bay Packers 31-24
1998 Super Bowl XXXII, Qualcomm Stadium, San Diego, Denver Broncos beat Green Bay Packers 31-24
1997 71st Australian Womens Tennis: Martina Hingis beat Mary Pierce (62 62)
1995 Jacques Santer succeeds Jacques Delors as chairman of Euro Committee
1994 Australia beat South Africa 2-1 to win the World Series Cup
1994 Mine fire at Asansol India, kills 55
1994 U.S. space probe Clementine launched
1994 Accused of molesting a 13-year-old boy, Michael Jackson settles a civil lawsuit out of court
1993 20th American Music Award: Michael Jackson, Mariah Carey win
1993 Puerto Rico adds English as its 2nd official language
1993 Sears announces it is closing its catalog sales department after 97 years
1992 66th Australian Womens Tennis: Monica Seles beats M Fernandez (62 63)
1992 Dan Jansen skates world record 500m in 36.41"
1992 Hubble space telescope optics finds NGC3862/3C264
1991 Brett Hull is 3rd NHLer to score 50 goals in less than 50 games (49)
1991 Manuel Noriega is given access to assets frozen by U.S. government
1991 Mark Waugh scores ton in 1st Test Cricket innings, vs. England Adelaide
1991 Soap opera "Generation's" last episode after a 2 year run
1990 Avianca Flight 52, runs out of fuel and crashes in Cove Neck NY, 73 die
1990 Former Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega is transferred to a Miami jail
1990 West-Europe's strongest hurricane
1989 Augusto Alcalde, 1st South American Zen teacher, receives Dharma Transmission
1989 Michael Jordan scores his 10,000th NBA point in his 5th season
1989 New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner meets with Pope John Paul II
1988 15th American Music Award: Anita Baker, Paul Simon and Whitney Houston
1988 George Harrison releases "When We Was Fab"
1988 Longest winless streak in Toronto Maple Leaf history (15 games)
1988 Ramsewak Shankar sworn in as President of Suriname
1988 Vice President Bush and Dan Rather clash on "CBS Evening News" as Rather attempts to question Bush about his role in Iran-Contra affair
1987 75th Australian Mens Tennis: S Edberg beats Pat Cash (63 64 36 57 63)
1987 Superbowl XXI: New York Giants beat Denver Broncos, 39-20 in Pasadena Superbowl MVP: Phil Simms, New York Giants, quarterback
1986 General Tito Okello's government flees Kampala Uganda
1985 "Black and Blue," premieres in Paris
1985 "We are the World" is recorded by Pop stars in Los Angeles
1985 Test debut of Wasim Akram, vs. New Zealand at Auckland (2-105)
1983 China's supreme court commutes Chiang Ch'ing's death sentence to life
1983 Infrared telescope satellite launched into polar orbit
1983 Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie arrested in Bolivia
1982 9th American Music Award: Kenny Rogers win
1981 52 Americans held hostage by Iran for 444 days arrived back in US
1981 Mao's widow Jiang Qing sentenced to death
1981 Superbowl XV: Oakland Raiders beat Philadelphia Eagles, 27-10 in New Orleans Superbowl MVP: Jim Plunkett, Oakland, quarterback
1980 Bani Sadr elected president of Iran
1980 Dutch Government demands boycott of Olympics
1980 Highest speed attained by a warship, 167 kph, USN hovercraft
1980 Paul McCartney is released from Tokyo jail and deported
1979 22.2-km Oshimizu railroad tunnel holed through, central Honshu, Japan
1979 Pope John Paul II's 1st overseas trip as supreme pontiff
1978 Muriel Humphrey (D-Mn) appointed to fill late husband's Senate seat
1978 Padres trade pitcher Dave Tomlin and $125,000 to Rangers for Gaylord Perry (He wins 1978 Cy Young Award)
1976 Surinder Amarnath scores 124 on Test debut Ind vs. New Zealand Auckland
1975 10th hat trick in Islander history-Denis Potvin's 1st
1975 Parliament disposes of premier sheik Mujib ur-Rahman
1974 Bulent Ecevit forms government in Turkey
1974 Christian Barnard transplants 1st human heart without removal of old
1974 Ray Kroc, CEO of McDonald's, buys San Diego Padres for $12 million
1972 25th NHL All-Star Game: East beats West 3-2 at Minnesota
1972 7' Ohio State center Luke Witte is stomped in face during a brawl in a game with Minnesota
1971 Charles Manson and 3 women followers convicted of Tate-LaBianca murders
1971 Himachal Pradesh becomes 18th Indian state
1971 Military coup in Uganda under General Idi Amin Dada
1971 Philadelphia mint's 1st trial strike of Eisenhower dollar
1971 WHMB TV channel 40 in Indianapolis, IN (IND) begins broadcasting
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