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In 2002:
  • XIX Winter Olympics opens in Salt Lake City Utah/Quebec City


  • In 1998:
  • 6th annual ESPY Awards
  • Failed assassination attempt on Georgian Pres Eduard Shevardnadze


  • In 1997:
  • 11th American Comedy Award
  • 47th NBA All-Star Game
  • Kelly Robbins wins LPGA Diet Dr Pepper National Pro-Am
  • LG Senior Golf Championship
  • Mark OMeara wins Buick golf invitational
  • Palm Beach National LPGA Pro-Am
  • Scotty Bowman, is 1st NHL coach to win 1,000 games
  • Fox cartoon series Simpsons airs 167th episode the longest-running animated series in cartoon history


  • In 1996:
  • WYNY-FM in NYC changes calls to WKTU-FM


  • In 1995:
  • Heiress opens at Cort Theater NYC for 340 performances
  • Irina Privalova runs female world record 50m (5.96 sec)


  • In 1994:
  • Israeli minister Shimon Perez signs accord with PLOs Arafat


  • In 1993:
  • Army of opium king Khun Sa kills 60 in NE Burma


  • In 1992:
  • 2 Shakespearean Actors closes at Cort Theater NYC after 29 perfs
  • 42nd NBA All-Star Game
  • Fastest yodeler-22 tones/15 falsetto in 1 sec by Thomas School of Germ
  • Heike Henkel high jumps female indoor world record (2.07m)
  • Jani Sievinen swims world record 400m medley (4
  • NBA All Star Game - West beats East 153-113
  • Shelley Hamlin wins LPGA Phar-Mor Golf Tournament at Hamlin Inverrary


  • In 1991:
  • This Is Ponderous by 2nu peaks at #46
  • Johann Olav Koss skates world record 5k (6
  • Terry Norris knocks down Sugar Ray Leonard twice and beats him
  • US Supreme Court agrees to hear Joseph Doherty case
  • Wally Joyner wins record $2.10 million salary arbitration


  • In 1990:
  • Bradys return to TV for 6 episodes on CBS TV
  • Doina Melinte runs world indoor record 1.5k (4
  • Galileo flies by Venus
  • Namibias constitution ratified


  • In 1989:
  • Kevin Johnson (Phoenix) ends NBA free throw streak of 57 games
  • Michael Manleys Socialist Party wins Jamaica parliamentary election


  • In 1988:
  • 39th NHL All-Star Game
  • NH begins a NCAA record 32-game losing streak at home (ends Feb 1991)


  • In 1987:
  • Former national security adviser Robert McFarlane attempts suicide
  • NY Stock Exch installs ladies restroom in the Exchange Luncheon Club


  • In 1986:
  • 36th NBA All-Star Game
  • Halleys Comet reaches 30th perihelion (closest approach to Sun)
  • Haydar Bakr al-Attas appointed president of South Yemen
  • Marvin Johnson wins record 3rd time, light heavyweight boxing title
  • Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Sarasota Golf Classic
  • Tomb of Tutanchamons treasurer Maya found in Egypt
  • West German team swims world record 4x200 m freestyle (7


  • In 1985:
  • David Gallagher was born
  • Madonnas Like a Virgin, album goes #1 for 3 weeks


  • In 1984:
  • Rink opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 204 performances


  • In 1983:
  • Belgium buys 44 F-16s


  • In 1982:
  • 34th NHL All-Star Game

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