Taken from TIMELINE on FREE-NET, The Freedom Shrine, Historical Timeline 30 Nov 
1991. Prepared by Gerald Murphy (The Cleveland Free-Net - aa300). Distributed 
by the Cybercasting Services division of the National Public Telecomputing Network 
(NPTN).  ?? ?? 1972 Equal 
Rights Amendment proposed by Congress; never ratified by states 05 01 1972 NASA 
announces development of Space Shuttle 14 02 1972 Luna 20 launched to orbit & 
land on Moon 19 02 1972 Paul McCartney's "Give Ireland Back to the Irish" banned 
in Britain 02 03 1972 Pioneer 10 launched for Jupiter flyby 05 03 1972 Rolling 
Thunder benefit, Winterland, SF 16 03 1972 Amdahl was incorporated 25 03 1972 
Academy of Music, NYC Donna's first show w/ Bo Diddley 06 04 1972 Cray Research 
was founded 07 04 1972 Europe '72 Tour begins, Empire Pool, Wembley, England 16 
04 1972 Apollo 16 launched, 5th lunar landing at Descartes Highlands: Young, Mattingly, 
Duke 16 04 1972 The Chinese gift to Pres. Nixon of two giant pandas arrives in 
the U.S 20 04 1972 The manned lunar module of Apollo 16 landed on the moon 21 
04 1972 Apollo 16 Astronauts John W. Young and Charles M. Duke explore the moon's 
surface 27 04 1972 Quang Tri was cut off from the rest of South Vietnam by North 
Vietnamese troops 02 05 1972 J. Edgar Hoover, eternal FBI director, died 08 05 
1972 U.S. institutes mining of Haiphong Harbor 13 05 1972 Lille Fairgrounds, France 
(free concert) 15 05 1972 Presidential candidate George Wallace and three bystanders 
were shot by Arthur H. Bremer 22 05 1972 Ceylon was declared a republic and the 
name changes to Sri Lanka 09 06 1972 Prime Computer, Inc. was founded 10 06 1972 
Great flooding of South Dakota kills hundreds 17 06 1972 Pigpen's last show, Hollywood 
Bowl, CA 17 06 1972 Seven men are arrested in Watergate Democratic National Committee 
break-in 17 06 1972 Watergate Democratic National Committee Break-In 20 06 1972 
The Tallehatchie Bridge, mentioned in the song "Ode to Billy Joe", was torn down 
23 07 1972 ERTS (EARTH RESOURCES TECHNOLOGY SATELLITE, later called LANDSAT) launched 
12 08 1972 Last U.S. ground troops out of Vietnam 26 08 1972 The summer Olympics 
opened in Munich, West Germany 28 08 1972 Springfield Creamery benefit, Lane County 
Fairgrounds, OR 01 09 1972 Bobby Fischer defeats Boris Spassky in World Chess 
Match 04 09 1972 Mark Spitz becomes first man to win 7 gold medals in the Olympics 
05 09 1972 11 Israeli athletes and 5 Arab guerrillas who had taken them hostage 
were killed in a shoot-out at the summer Olympics in Munich 11 09 1972 BART begins 
service with a 26 mile line from Oakland to Fremont 17 09 1972 BART begins passenger 
service 22 09 1972 General Idi Amin gives Uganda's 8000 Asians 48 hours to leave 
the country 23 09 1972 Phillippine President Ferdinand Marcos declares martial 
law 03 10 1972 Spaceflight 71-2 launched; first flexible substrate photovoltaic 
09 10 1972 Roadie benefit, Winterland, SF 12 10 1972 Mariner 9 photographs Martian 
north pole 26 10 1972 Guided tours of Alcatraz (by Park Service) begin 26 10 1972 
Igor Sikorsky, inventor of the helicopter, died 27 10 1972 Golden Gate National 
Recreation Area created 27 10 1972 KSAN's live tape weekend (vintage Fillmore, 
Avalon tapes played), SF 08 11 1972 Cable programming begins with HBO 11 11 1972 
Israel and Egypt sign a cease-fire 07 12 1972 Apollo 17, last of the Apollo moon 
series, launched 11 12 1972 The last manned moon landing, for now ?? ?? 1973 Roe 
et al v. Wade decision starts bitter abortion/anti-abortion debates ?? ?? 1973 
Vice President Agnew forced to resign, Ford becomes 1st non-elected VP 22 01 1973 
Supreme Court overturns all state laws that limited a woman's right to abortion 
to the first 3 months 23 01 1973 The Alaskan pipeline was authorized 27 01 1973 
Military draft ends 27 01 1973 Vietnam War cease-fire signed 06 03 1973 Pearl 
Buck, American novelist, died 08 03 1973 Pigpen found dead 20 03 1973 Patty Hearst 
was convicted of bank robbery 22 03 1973 There was an attempt to abduct Princess 
Anne in "The l" in London 29 03 1973 Dr. Hook gets group picture on cover of "Rolling 
Stone" 29 03 1973 Last US troops leave Vietnam 06 04 1973 Pioneer 11 launched 
to Jupiter & Saturn 20 04 1973 Canadian ANIK A2 became first commercial satellite 
in orbit 30 04 1973 Brandy Johnson, Olympic Gymnast from Altamonte Springs, Fl 
30 04 1973 Valerie Perrine becomes the first woman to bare her breasts in an American 
dramatic TV show, PBS's Steambath 14 05 1973 United States launches space station 
"Skylab" 17 05 1973 the Watergate hearings begin 25 05 1973 US launches first 
Skylab crew: Kerwin, Conrad, Weit 26 05 1973 Day on the Green 1, Kezer Stadim, 
SF w/ Dead, NRPS 09 06 1973 RFK Stadium, Wash. DC, w/ Allman Bros 23 06 1973 a 
subpoena was served on Richard Nixon asking for the White House tapes 09 07 1973 
Bahamas Islands declare their independence 16 07 1973 Congress looks into allegations 
that the Air Force had made 3,500 bombing raids on Cambodia in 1969 and 1970 25 
07 1973 USSR launches Mars 5 28 07 1973 Skylab II launched 28 07 1973 Watkins 
Glen "Summer Jam" opens 28 07 1973 Watkins Glen, NY w/ Allman Bros., Band. 600,000 
people 05 08 1973 USSR launches Mars 6 08 08 1973 Nixon announces that he will 
resign at noon the following day 09 08 1973 USSR launches Mars 7 10 08 1973 1st 
BART train travels thru transbay tube to Montgomery St Station 14 08 1973 U.S. 
bombing of Cambodia came to a halt, marking the official end to 12 years of U.S. 
combat in Indochina 28 08 1973 More than 520 people died as an earthquake shook 
central Mexico 11 09 1973 The assassination of President Allende of Chile during 
a military coup 20 09 1973 Jim Croce, singer, died in plane crash 06 10 1973 Israel 
was attacked by the forces of Egypt and Syria, 4th Israeli war begins 10 10 1973 
Spiro T. Agnew resigns as Vice-President due to income tax fraud 12 10 1973 President 
Nixon nominated Gerald Ford of Michigan to succeed Spiro Agnew as vice-president 
17 10 1973 Ritchie and Thompson's UNIX paper 18 10 1973 Walt Kelly (Walter Crawford 
Kelly), American cartoonist and illustrator (Pogo author), died 20 10 1973 "Saturday 
Night Massacre", Watergate Special Prosecutor, Archibald Cox, dismissed by president 
Nixon. Attorney General Elliot Richardson and Assistant Attorney General Ruckelshaus 
resign 20 10 1973 OPEC oil embargo begins 22 10 1973 Pablo Casals, cellist, died 
03 11 1973 Mariner 10 launched first flyby pictures of Venus, first mission to 
Mercury 05 11 1973 BART starts San Francisco-Daly City train shuttle service 07 
11 1973 Congress overrides Nixon's veto of bill to curb president's ability to 
commit armed forces to hostile action 16 11 1973 Skylab 4 launched, completes 
longest US space flight; 2017 h 21 11 1973 Announcement of 18 1/2 minute gap on 
Watergate tape 23 11 1973 US helicopter force lands in Vietnam POW camp and trying 
to rescue US soldiers there, but the place was empty 25 11 1973 George Papadopoulos, 
Greek President, was ousted 27 11 1973 The Senate voted to confirm Gerald Ford 
as vice president, succeeding Spiro Agnew who had resigned 03 12 1973 Pioneer 
10 swings around Jupiter bringing the first closeups of the planet 28 12 1973 
Comet Kohoutek at perihelion ?? ?? 1974 Nixon resigns in disgrace, Ford moves 
into the presidency ?? ?? 1974 Richard M. Nixon presidency ended 06 01 1974 "Upstairs 
Downstairs" premiers, a serial TV program taking the Belamy household from 1903-1930 
in four seasons 04 02 1974 Patty Hearst kidnapped 05 02 1974 Patricia Hearst kidnapped 
by Symbionese Liberation Army 08 02 1974 Astronauts return after 85 days in Skylab 
13 02 1974 Alexander Solzhenitsyn, author and dissident, was expelled from Russia 
20 02 1974 Yes sells out Madison Square Garden without advertising 02 03 1974 
First postage raised to 10 cents from 8 cents 02 03 1974 Standard US letter postage 
goes to .10 10 03 1974 Japanese soldier found on Lubang Island in the Philippines 
who believes World War II was still on 18 03 1974 End of the OPEC oil embargo 
22 03 1974 Ten Years After plays their last concert 23 03 1974 Cow Palace debut 
of new sound system (25 tons, 641 spkrs, 48 amps) 04 04 1974 Hank Aaron of Atlanta 
Braves ties Babe Ruth's home run record at 714 08 04 1974 Hammerin' Hank Aaron 
hits 715th home run, beats Babe Ruth's record 28 04 1974 Last Americans evacuated 
from Saigon 09 05 1974 Impeachment hearings against Richard Nixon were opened 
by the House Judiciary Committee 17 05 1974 NASA launches first synchronous Meteorological 
satellite SMS-1 17 05 1974 Six Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA) members killed 
in televised gun fight 24 05 1974 Duke Ellington, jazz composer and pianist, died 
08 06 1974 Day on the Green w/ Beach Boys, Oakland 10 07 1974 Chief Justice Earl 
Warren died 26 07 1974 USSR's Soyuz fails to dock with Salyut 3 27 07 1974 House 
Judiciary Committee recommends President Nixon's impeachment 09 08 1974 Richard 
Nixon resigns the US presidency 08 09 1974 Gerald R. Ford pardons former President 
Richard M. Nixon 09 09 1974 Alexandra Palace, London (start of '74 European Tour' 
12 09 1974 Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia was deposed by military coup 14 
09 1974 Jovina moon Leda discovered by Charles Kowal 16 09 1974 BART begins regular 
transbay service 22 09 1974 Special prosecutor Leon Jeworski subpoenas President 
Nixon 28 09 1974 Betty Ford, First Lady, undergoes a mastectomy at Bethesda Naval 
Hospital 07 10 1974 Police stop the car of Senator Wilbur Mills, stripper Fanne 
Fox jumps into fountain 16 10 1974 Dead 'retire' (five shows at Winterland), SF 
20 10 1974 Mickey Hart rejoins band at Winterland (retirement shows end), SF 12 
11 1974 The first salmon was caught in the Thames river since the 1840's 13 11 
1974 Karen Silkwood died under unusual circumstances 18 12 1974 San Francisco 
Visitors Center at City Hall opens 29 12 1974 Glacier National Park ranger fatally 
shoots snowmobile ?? ?? 1975 The fall of Saigon, South Vietnam 01 01 1975 Ex-Atty. 
Gen. Mitchell, Halderman and Ehrlichman were convicted on cover-up charges relating 
to Watergate break-in 05 01 1975 Salyut 4, crew of 2, launched for 30 day mission 
22 03 1975 A worker looking for air leaks with a candle causes 150 million fire 
at the Brown's Ferry reactor in Decatur, Alabama 23 03 1975 S.N.A.C.K. benefit 
w/ Merl Saunders, Ned Lagin, Kezer Stad. SF 25 03 1975 Assassination of King Fisal 
of Saudi Arabia in Riyadh, by his nephew, Prince Museid 30 03 1975 Da Nang falls 
to the North Vietnamese 04 04 1975 130 people died in USAF plane accident in evacuation 
from Viet Nam 05 04 1975 USSR Salyut 4 launched, fails to reach orbit, lands off 
course in snowstorm and rolls down a ravine; lines snag, saving lives of both 
cosmonauts 14 04 1975 Frederick March, actor, died 30 04 1975 Saigon, Vietnam, 
falls to communist forces 01 05 1975 Smokey the Bear retires 13 05 1975 The merchant 
ship Mayaguez was seized by the Cambodian Navy 16 05 1975 Diga Rhythm Band's first 
public appearance, Winterland w/ Starship 16 05 1975 Japanese climber Junko Tabei 
became the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest 05 06 1975 Egypt reopens 
the Suez Canal to international shipping, 8 years after the Six Day War 06 06 
1975 'Seastones' debut at Dominican College, San Rafael, CA 08 06 1975 Soviets 
launch Venera 9 to Venus 14 06 1975 Launch of Venera 10 to Venus 17 06 1975 Bob 
Fried Memorial Boogie, Winterland, SF 18 06 1975 Prince Museid was publicly beheaded 
for the assassination of King Faisal of Saudi Arabia 15 07 1975 US/USSR launch 
Apollo-Soyuz Test Project 17 07 1975 First US/USSR linkup in space (Apollo-Soyus) 
23 07 1975 San Jose's KNTV airs the first condom commercial 30 07 1975 Former 
Teamsters Pres. Jimmy Hoffa disappeared in Detroit 13 08 1975 Great American Music 
Hall, SF 20 08 1975 Launch of Viking 1, first craft to send pictures from surface 
of Mars 29 08 1975 Star in Cygnus goes nova and becomes 4th brightest in sky; 
Nova Cygni 1975 05 09 1975 President Gerald Ford escaped an attempt on his life 
by Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme in Sacramento, California 06 09 1975 Czechoslovakian 
tennis star, Martina Navratilova, requested political asylum while in New York 
for the U.S. open 09 09 1975 Viking 2 launched 18 09 1975 Newspaper heiress Patricia 
Hearst was captured in San Francisco by the FBI, nineteen months after she was 
kidnapped 28 09 1975 Last free Dead show in Golden Gate Park, SF w/ Starship 29 
09 1975 Casey Stengel, baseball manager, died 09 10 1975 Emperor Hirohito of Japan 
visits San Francisco 14 10 1975 President Ford escaped injury when his limousine 
was hit broadside by a car in Hartford, Conn 21 10 1975 Launch of Venera 9, first 
craft to orbit Venus 22 10 1975 USSR's Venera 9 sends first photos from Venus 
25 10 1975 USSR Venera 10 lands on Venus 10 11 1975 The ore ship Edmund Fitzgerald 
and its crew of 29 vanish during a storm on Lake Superior 11 11 1975 Angola gains 
independence from Portugal 20 11 1975 Francisco Franco, dictator of Spain, died 
in Madrid 26 11 1975 A federal jury found Lynette Fromme guilty of trying to assassinate 
President Ford 07 12 1975 Thornton Wilder, novelist, author of "The Bridge of 
San Luis Rey", died 11 12 1975 First Mail now costs 13 cents (had been 10 cents) 
31 12 1975 Standard US letter postage goes to .13 08 01 1976 Chou En-lai, Chinese 
premier, died 10 01 1976 Blues guitarist Howlin' Wolf died (Chicago, 1976) 12 
01 1976 Agatha Christie, mystery writer, died 17 01 1976 Hermes rocket launched 
by ESA 04 03 1976 The first CRAY-I was shipped to Los Alamos Labs 05 04 1976 Howard 
Hughes, industrialist, died 13 04 1976 2 bill re-introduced as United States currency 
04 05 1976 "Waltzing Matilda" was officially adopted as Australia's National Anthem 
15 05 1976 the last broadcast of Lowell Thomas 25 05 1976 Representative Wayne 
Hays admits to a "personal relationship" with Elizabeth Ray a committee staff 
member, who claims she'd got received her job in order to be his mistress 31 05 
1976 The Who perform loudest concert ever--76,000 watts 03 06 1976 'The Vacation 
Ends', Dead begin touring again, Portland, OR 05 06 1976 the earthen Teton Dam 
North of Idaho Falls collapses flooding a large valley and killing over 100 people 
09 06 1976 Dame Sybil Thorndike, the actress died 16 06 1976 The Soweto uprising 
in South Africa results in the death of over 500 Blacks 02 07 1976 The Supreme 
Court ruled that the death penalty was inherently neither cruel or unusual 12 
07 1976 Orpheum Theatre shows begin, ends 7-18 20 07 1976 1st pictures from Mars 
surface received (courtesy Viking 2) 20 07 1976 Viking I lander sets down on Mars 
returning the first close-up color photos of Mars. It will continue working for 
six and a half years 27 07 1976 Ray Brennan becomes the first person to die of 
Legionnaire's disease following an outbreak at a Philadelphia American Legion 
convention 28 07 1976 An earthquake of magnitude 8.2 kills an estimated 800,000 
people in Tangshan, China 31 07 1976 Flood in Big Thompson Canyon, Colorado, kills 
139 02 08 1976 Fritz Lang, film director, died 06 08 1976 Soleil Moon Frye, actress 
19 08 1976 President Ford won the Republican presidential nomination 03 09 1976 
Viking II lander sets down on Mars 09 09 1976 Chinese Communist Party Chairman 
Mao Tse-Tung died at age of 82 24 09 1976 Patricia Hearst was sentenced to seven 
years in prison (she will serve only 22 months before being released under presidential 
order from President Carter) 26 09 1976 Record Factory auction of Dead artwork 
and memorabilia, San Rafael, SF 09 10 1976 Who/Dead Day on the Green, Oakland, 
CA (thru 10-10) 11 10 1976 The Gang of Four are arrested in Peking 14 10 1976 
2 cosmonats launched to Salyut 6, but return without docking 02 11 1976 Jimmy 
Carter defeated incumbent Gerald Ford; the first Deep South presidential candidate 
to be elected since the Civil War 09 11 1976 The U.N. General Assembly passed 
10 resolutions condemning apartheid in South Africa 25 11 1976 "The Last Waltz" 
concert played by The Band at Winterland 28 11 1976 Rosalind Russell, actress, 
died of cancer at 63 13 12 1976 Golden Gate Bridge District starts ferry service 
to Larkspur 15 12 1976 Argo Merchant oil spill 16 12 1976 The federal government 
halts swine flu vaccinations following reports of paralysis apparently linked 
to the vaccine 20 12 1976 Richard Daley, mayor of Chicago, died 03 01 1977 Apple 
Computer was incorporated 11 01 1977 France touches off an international uproar 
when it releases Abu Daoud, a Palestinian suspected of being involved with the 
massacre of Israeli athletes at the 1972 Olympics 19 01 1977 In one of Gerald 
Ford's last acts as president, he pardoned Iva Toguri D'Aquino aka Tokyo Rose 
21 01 1977 President Jimmy Carter pardoned most Vietnam War draft dodgers 08 02 
1977 Earthquake, at 5.0, strongest since 1966 19 02 1977 President Ford pardons 
Iva Toguri D'Aquino ("Tokyo Rose") 10 03 1977 Uranus' rings discovered 30 03 1977 
Five rings around Uranus discovered 12 05 1977 Pink Floyd performs first quadrophonic 
concert 26 05 1977 George Willig scaled the South Tower of New York's World Trade 
Center, and was arrested at the top of the 110 story building 01 06 1977 Dead 
Movie opens, Ziegfield Theatre, NYC 03 06 1977 First diplomatic missions exchanged 
between Cuba and the U.S. since 1961 10 06 1977 Apple Computer ships its first 
Apple II 12 07 1977 First free flight test of Enterprise 13 07 1977 New York City 
was powerless for 25 hours from lightning storm 18 07 1977 United Nations admits 
Vietnam 20 07 1977 Voyager 2 launched 29 07 1977 The first oil arrives at Valdez 
through the Alaska pipeline 01 08 1977 Francis Gary Powers, the once captured 
U-2 pilot, was killed while flying a helicopter for a Los Angeles television station 
10 08 1977 U.S. & Panama agree to transfer canal in yeare 2000 16 08 1977 
Elvis Presley died at Graceland Mansion in Memphis at age 42 20 08 1977 Launch 
of Voyager 2 to outer solar system 20 08 1977 Voyager II launched 29 08 1977 Lou 
Brock eclipsed the stolen-bases record as he stole two bases against the San Diego 
Padres, bring his total to 893 05 09 1977 Voyager 1 begins 3 yeare flight to Jupiter 
and Saturn 12 09 1977 Steven Biko, black student leader, died whilst in the custody 
of the South African security services 04 10 1977 Pier 39 opens 07 10 1977 Maryland 
Governor Marvin Mandel sent to prison on fraud charges 09 10 1977 2 cosmonauts 
launched to saluyt 5, but returned after failing to dock 13 10 1977 Dolly Parton's 
band uniform number 39 was retired by the Sevier County High School. She played 
the snare drum 14 10 1977 Singer Bing Crosby died of a heart attack after a round 
of golf at a club outside Madrid, Spain 20 10 1977 Three members of Lynyrd Skynyrd 
die in plane crash 01 11 1977 Asteroid Chiron discovered 20 11 1977 Egyptian President 
Anwar Sadat becomes the first Arab leader to address Israel's Parliament 20 12 
1977 First Space walk made by Grechko from Salyut 11 01 1978 Soyuz 27 links up 
with Soyuz 26 and the orbiting space station Salyut 6 making the first time that 
three space craft are linked 13 01 1978 "Stop Nuclear Power" benefit, Arlington 
Theatre, Santa Barbara 24 01 1978 BAM's award, SF, Phil Lesh "best bassist" 25 
01 1978 Bob Dylan plays second "Hurricane" benefit (Astrodome) 14 02 1978 First 
micro-on-a-chip patented by TI 14 02 1978 Texas Instruments patents first micro-on-a-chip 
22 03 1978 Robert Frost Plaza, at California, Drumm & Market, dedicated 22 
03 1978 The Great Wallenda (of the Flying Wallendas) died 12 05 1978 The Commerce 
Department announced that hurricanes would no longer be named exclusively after 
women 20 05 1978 US launches Pioneer Venus 1, produces first global radar map 
of Venus 25 05 1978 "Star Wars" was released 29 05 1978 First postage now 15 cents 
(was 13 cents for 3 years) 06 06 1978 Californians pass proposition 13, the tax 
control law 06 06 1978 The Longleat hedge maze was opened. It was currently the 
largest maze having 1.61 miles of paths bordered by over 16000 yew trees 08 06 
1978 the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (The Mormons) announces that 
it will now accept all eligible es into the priesthood regardless of race. Previously 
Black es were excluded 19 06 1978 Garfield the cat. "Big fat hairy deal" 22 06 
1978 Charon, moon of Pluto, discovered by James Christ 26 06 1978 First dedicated 
oceanographic satellite, SEASAT 1, launched 28 06 1978 Supreme Court decides in 
favor of Alan Bakke 08 07 1978 Pioneer-Venus 2 Multi-probe launched to Venus 25 
07 1978 Louise Brown, first baby conceived by in vitro fertilization, was born 
29 07 1978 Pioneer 11 transmits images of Saturn's rings 08 08 1978 US launches 
Pioneer Venus probe 03 09 1978 Pope John Paul I was officially installed as the 
264th supreme pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church 14 09 1978 Sound and Light 
Theatre, Gizah, Egypt, w/ Hamza El-Din, thru 9-16 25 09 1978 144 people died in 
a PSA air crash in San Diego 29 09 1978 Pope John Paul I was found dead in his 
Vatican apartment 08 10 1978 First VisiCalc prototype 08 10 1978 The Equal Rights 
Amendment ratification deadline was extended 16 10 1978 Polish Cardinal Karol 
Wojtyla elected Pope and takes the name John Paul II 17 10 1978 President Carter 
signed a bill restoring citizenship to Confederate President Jefferson Davis 26 
10 1978 UN's World Health Organization declares slpox eradicated 27 10 1978 Egyptian 
President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minsiter Menachem Begin were awarded the 
Nobel Peace Prize 01 11 1978 first women report for sea duty on US Navy non-combat 
ships 10 11 1978 Badlands National Park approved by Congress 11 11 1978 'Saturday 
Night Live' first appearance 17 11 1978 Acoustic benefit for Hunger Week, Chicago's 
Loyola College 18 11 1978 The Jonestown, Guyana mass murder and suicide 24 11 
1978 Capital Theatre, Passaic, NJ, nationwide broadcast 25 11 1978 Ms. Elaine 
Esposito died at age 43 after having been in a coma since her appendectomy when 
she was 6 01 12 1978 56 million acres of land made into 17 national monuments 
by President Carter 09 12 1978 First US probes sent to Venus 13 12 1978 Susan 
B. Anthony dollar, 1st US coin to honor a woman, issued 27 12 1978 First Dead 
Head arrives for Winterland closing, SF 31 12 1978 Dead close Winterland, SF w/ 
Blues Bros., NRPS 31 12 1978 Winterland closes its doors 16 01 1979 Set uid bit 
patent issued 16 01 1979 The Shah of Iran, Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi, leaves 
Iran for Egypt 21 01 1979 Neptune becomes the outermost planet (Pluto moves closer) 
30 01 1979 BAM's award, SF, Mickey Hart "best drummer", Dead "best group" 01 02 
1979 Forces led by Khomeini take over Iran 07 02 1979 Steven Stills makes first 
digitally recorded rock album 11 02 1979 an American-led commando squad financed 
by millionaire industrialist H. Ross Perot, rescues two of his employees from 
an Iranian prison 17 02 1979 "Rock for Life" benefit, Keith and Donna G.'s last 
show, Oakland 17 02 1979 Chinese troops attack Vietnam along most of their 480 
mile long border 18 02 1979 The Soviet Union warns China to stop its invasion 
of Vietnam 01 03 1979 EPA orders emergency ban on 2,4,5T and Silvex used to kill 
weeds 05 03 1979 Voyager 1 encounters Jupiter and discovers rings 26 03 1979 Judge 
Robert Warren was the first judge to issue a prior restraint to prevent the publication 
of workings of an H bomb in Progressive Magazine 26 03 1979 The Camp David Accords 
are signed bring peace between Egypt and Israel after a 30 yeare state of war 
28 03 1979 Three Mile Island has a reactor accident, releases radioactive gas 
22 04 1979 Brent Mydland's first show, Spartan Stadium, San Jose, CA 30 04 1979 
for the first time since 1948 a ship with an Israeli flag passes through the Suez 
Canal 10 05 1979 BSD UNIX 2.0 released 25 05 1979 American Airlines DC-10 crashes 
taking off from O'Hare. 275 killed highest death toll to date in aviation history 
12 06 1979 26 yeare old cyclist Bryan Allen flew the human powered aircraft the 
"Gossamer Albatross" across the English Channel 27 06 1979 HP stock splits 2 for 
1 at 89.28 a share 09 07 1979 Voyager II flies past Jupiter 11 07 1979 Skylab 
returns to earth showering debris over the Indian Ocean and Australia 07 08 1979 
the accidental release of enriched uranium at a top secret fuel plant near Erwin, 
Tenn results in 1000 people being exposed to some abnor levels of radiation 19 
08 1979 Cosmonauts Lyakhov & Ryumin complete a record 175-day space flight 
20 08 1979 Diana Nyad becomes the first woman to swim the 89 miles from the Bahamas 
to Florida (time: 27h 38m) 21 08 1979 Florida's first woman Chief of Police, Sue 
Wegner, was sworn in as chief of Mineola 23 08 1979 Alexander Goodunov, Soviet 
ballet dancer, defects to U.S 30 08 1979 1st recorded occurrance of a comet hitting 
the sun (the energy released was about equal to 1 million hydrogen bombs) 01 09 
1979 Pioneer 11, first craft to fly by Saturn 07 09 1979 ESPN, the sports cable 
network, makes its debut 06 10 1979 Pope John Paul II became the 1st pontiff to 
visit the White House 07 10 1979 Mother Teresa of Calcutta awarded the Nobel Peace 
Prize 17 10 1979 Mother Teresa of India was awarded the Nobel peace prize 01 11 
1979 US Government loans Chrysler Corporation 1.5 billion after it had lost 460M 
in 3rd Quarter 04 11 1979 90 people taken hostage when Iranians overrun US embassy 
in Teheran 14 11 1979 President Carter freezes all Iranian assets in US Banks 
in response to Iranian hostage crisis 17 11 1979 Ayatollah Khomeini orders release 
of thirteen fee and black hostages from the U.S. embassy in Tehran ?? ?? 1980 
Mount St. Helens volcano erupts 02 01 1980 Bert Parks fired from Miss America 
Pageant 03 01 1980 BSD UNIX 3.0 released 13 01 1980 Cambodian Boat People's benefit, 
Oakland Col. w/ Joan Baez 06 02 1980 Abolnassan Bani-Sadr, newly installed president 
of Iran, denounces militants holding US Embassy as "dictators who have created 
a government within a government" 13 02 1980 "New Music for the 80's", Rhythm 
Devils debut, Marin, CA 20 03 1980 Radio Caroline, original British pirate radio 
station, sinks 25 03 1980 BAM's award, SF, Jerry Garcia "Musician of the year" 
01 04 1980 "April Fools Show" Capital Theatre, Passaic, NJ 05 04 1980 'Saturday 
Night Live' second appearance 09 04 1980 Two cosmonauts launched in Salyut 6; 
185 day mission 24 04 1980 8 Americans killed and 5 wounded in ill-fated military 
attempt to rescue US hostages in Iran 29 04 1980 Alfred Hitchcock, director of 
mystery films, died 18 05 1980 Mount St. Helens in Washington explodes blowing 
off the top 1300 feet, killing 57 people and leveling 150 square miles of forest 
25 05 1980 Oral Roberts sees 900 foot tall Jesus Christ, Tulsa OK 01 06 1980 The 
Cable News Network, CNN, makes its debut 07 06 1980 15-year anniversary shows, 
Folsom Field, Univ. of CO, Boulder 07 06 1980 Henry Miller, American playwright, 
died 11 06 1980 K-Ingleside streetcar converts to METRO service 12 06 1980 'Fire 
on the Mountain', Dead and Mt. St. Helens hit Portland 12 06 1980 The Senate passes 
bill that renews draft registration 19 06 1980 Summer Solstice shows, West High 
Aude of Dublin ., Anchorage, AK (thru 6-21) 23 07 1980 Keith Godchaux died 27 
07 1980 The deposed Shah of Iran died in Cairo, Egypt 14 08 1980 Strike at Gdansk 
ship yards in Poland marks beginning of the Solidarity union in Poland 20 08 1980 
U.N. security council votes 14-0 (U.S. Abstaining) to censure Israel for declaring 
all of Jerusalem its capital 31 08 1980 Solidarity Labor Union in Poland was founded 
25 09 1980 John Bonham (Led Zeppelin) died of alcohol poisoning 25 09 1980 Warfield 
shows begin, SF (return of accoustic sets) 28 09 1980 The U.N. Security Council 
unanimously adopts a resolution the Iraq and Iran should cease hostilities 10 
10 1980 Very Large Array (VLA) radio telescope network dedicated 11 10 1980 Cosmonauts 
Popov and Ryumin set space endurance record of 184 days 14 10 1980 Warfield shows 
end, SF 19 10 1980 BSD UNIX 4.0 released 23 10 1980 Radio City Music Hall shows 
begin, NYC (thru 31 10) 27 10 1980 Opera star Beverly Sills gave her last performance 
04 11 1980 Ronald Reagan elected president, a sad day for environmentalists everywhere 
10 11 1980 Voyager I flies past Saturn 12 11 1980 Voyager 1 comes within 77000 
miles of Saturn and heads out of the plane of the solar system, with luck it will 
transmit useful data until 2015 21 11 1980 83 million people tune into "Dallas" 
to see who shot J.R 22 11 1980 Mae West, actress and sex idol, died in LA at 87 
06 12 1980 Mill Valley Recreation Center (free concert), CA 08 12 1980 John Lennon, 
musician and composer, assassinated in New York City 18 12 1980 Soviet Premier, 
Alexei Kosygin suffers a fatal heart attack ?? ?? 1981 First fee Supreme Court 
Justice was Sandra Day O'Connor 20 01 1981 Iran releases 52 Americans it had held 
hostage for 444 days, only minutes after Jimmy Carter left the Presidency 23 01 
1981 Samuel Barber, the American composer, died 11 02 1981 At least 8 workers 
exposed to radiation at Sequoyah 1, a TVA nuclear power plant 20 03 1981 Rainbow 
Theatre, London (also 21 03 thru 24 03) 22 03 1981 First Postage raised to 18 
cents from 15 cents 28 03 1981 Gruga Hall, Essen, Germany, w/ The Who, Flying 
Karamazov Bros 30 03 1981 Hinckley shoots President Reagan but only wounds him 
08 04 1981 Gen. Omar N. Bradley, America's last five star general, died in New 
York at age 88 10 04 1981 The maiden launch of the space shuttle Columbia was 
scrubbed 11 04 1981 Pres. Reagan returned to the White House, 12 days after being 
wounded in an assassination attempt 12 04 1981 1st launch of the space shuttle, 
Columbia 14 04 1981 Maiden Voyage of STS-1 into orbit: Young and Crippen 15 04 
1981 BAM's award, SF, Phil Lesh "best bassist" 16 04 1981 Columbia returns 18 
04 1981 Yes breaks up after 13 years 25 04 1981 workers at nuclear power plant 
in Tsurga, Japan exposed to radioactive material during repairs 07 05 1981 'Tomorrow 
Show' interview and music 11 05 1981 Bob Marley, Reggae singer, died in hospital 
in Miami 13 05 1981 Pope John Paul II was seriously wounded in St. Peter's Square 
by Turkish assailant Mehmet Ali Agca 03 06 1981 Pope John Paul II left the hospital 
after an attempt on his life 05 06 1981 "U.S. Today" (a newspaper) ran for 1st 
time 12 06 1981 the 3rd baseball strike starts 17 06 1981 HP stock splits 2 for 
1 at 94.13 a share 22 06 1981 Abolhassan Bani-Sadr, president of Iran, impeached 
and he flees to Paris where he sets up the National Resistance Council to try 
to overthrow Khomeini 10 07 1981 BSD UNIX 4.1 released 25 07 1981 Voyager 2 encounters 
Saturn 29 07 1981 Prince Charles marries Lady Diana Spencer in St. Paul's Cathedral 
01 08 1981 The cable network MTV (Music Television) goes on the air 10 08 1981 
Pete Rose tops Stan Musial's record of 3630 hits 14 08 1981 IBM PC announced 25 
08 1981 Voyager 2 encounters Saturn. During the passage its scanning platform 
jams. Study of the problem during the trip to Uranus provides a near perfect encounter 
there 09 09 1981 Ed Greer, a Hughes Aircraft electronics engineer, goes to lunch 
and never returns. A party was held in his honor every yeare celebrating his escape 
from the corporate world 25 09 1981 Sandra Day O'Connor becomes first woman on 
U.S. Supreme Court 06 10 1981 Egyptian President Anwar Sadat was assassinated 
in Cairo 22 10 1981 US National debt topped 1 TRILLION (nothing to celebrate) 
01 11 1981 First Mail raised from 18 to 20 cents 12 11 1981 1st time a spacecraft 
was launched twice -- the Space Shuttle 'Columbia' lifts off again 14 11 1981 
The old Dutch Windmill in Golden Gate Park repaired & working again 29 11 
1981 Natalie Wood, actress, drowned in a boating accident off Santa Catalina Island, 
California, at age 43 02 12 1981 Moscone Convention Center opens at 11:30 AM 13 
12 1981 Authorities in Poland impose martial law in a crackdown on the Solidarity 
Labor movement 27 12 1981 Hoagy Carmichael, songwriter, died 04 01 1982 Golden 
Gate Bridge closed for the 3rd time by fierce storm 08 01 1982 American Telephone 
& Telegraph loses antitrust case 08 01 1982 American Telephone and Telegraph 
loses antitrust case 08 01 1982 Justice Dept. drops IBM suit 09 01 1982 5.9 earthquake 
in New England/Canada; last one was in 1855 24 01 1982 San Francisco 49'ers win 
their 1st Super Bowl, 26-21 30 01 1982 Lightnin' Hopkins, most-recorded blues 
artist, died 17 02 1982 Jazz great Thelonius Monk died (Englewood, NJ) 02 04 1982 
The Faulken Islands, owned by Britain, are invaded by the Argentinians 19 04 1982 
USSR Salyut 7 space station put into orbit 13 05 1982 Soviet cosmonauts Berezovoi 
and Lebedev depart Baikonur Cosmodrome to begin 211 days in space, most of them 
aboard Salyut-7 space statio 17 05 1982 24" rain in 11 hours, Pearl River, S. 
China 12 06 1982 An estimated 750,000 anti-nuclear demonstrators filled New York's 
Central Park 24 06 1982 Jean-Loup Chretien, first spacionaut, lifts off with two 
cosmonauts for an eight day visit to the Salyut 7 space station 25 06 1982 San 
Francisco holds its 1st County Fair 26 07 1982 Canada's Anik D1 comsat launched 
by US delta rocket 09 09 1982 "Conestoga I", 1st private rocket, was launched 
19 09 1982 Streetcars stop running on Market St after 122 years of service 21 
09 1982 Cable Cars cease operations for 2 years of repairs 29 09 1982 Cyanide 
laced Tylenol capsules killed seven in Chicago 13 10 1982 The International Olympic 
committee announced it would restore the two gold medals it had taken from Jim 
Thorpe 10 11 1982 Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev died at age 75 11 11 1982 Space 
Shuttle 'Columbia' makes 1st commercial flight 02 12 1982 1st permanent artificial 
heart successfully implanted 02 12 1982 Barney Clark receives the first permanent 
artificial heart at the University of Utah Medical Center. He died 112 days later 
14 12 1982 Israel annexes Golan Heights 14 12 1982 US suspends government food 
shipments to Poland in reaction to declaration of martial law 20 12 1982 Arthur 
Rubinstein, pianist, died in Geneva, Switzerland 28 02 1983 The last original 
episode of MASH was aired as a 2 1/2 hour special 20 03 1983 BSD UNIX 4.2 released 
04 04 1983 First flight of space shuttle Challenger 04 04 1983 Maiden voyage of 
STS Challenger 07 04 1983 STS-6 mission specialist Story Musgrave and Don Peterson 
perform first spacewalk 09 04 1983 The space shuttle Challenger ended its first 
mission with a safe landing at Edwards Air Force Base in California 17 04 1983 
India enters space age, launching SLV-3 rocket 18 04 1983 17 Americans killed 
at the U.S. Embassy in Beirut, in an explosion set off by a suicide bomber 18 
04 1983 a car bomb demolishes US embassy in Beirut, Lebanon killing more than 
60 people 20 04 1983 Soyuz T-8 launched; mission aborted when capsule fails to 
dock with Salyut station 25 05 1983 "Return of the Jedi" (Star Wars 3) was released 
13 06 1983 Pioneer 10 spacecraft flies past Neptune 14 06 1983 Pioneer 10 spacecraft 
leaves the solar system 18 06 1983 First U.S. woman in space, Sally Ride, space 
shuttle Challenger 22 06 1983 1st time a satellite was retrieved from orbit, by 
Space Shuttle 28 06 1983 Spillways first used at Glen Canyon Dam 29 07 1983 David 
Niven, actor, died 29 07 1983 Raymond Massey, actor, died 30 07 1983 STS-8: 3rd 
flight of Challenger, first night launch and land 01 08 1983 HP stock splits 2 
for 1 at 89.88 a share 06 08 1983 BSD UNIX 4.2 released 17 08 1983 Ira Gershwin, 
lyricist and brother of George Gershwin, died 30 08 1983 Guy Bluford becomes first 
African-American American in space as Challenger make first night liftoff of shuttle 
program 31 08 1983 269 people killed after Korean Airlines 747 shot down by USSR 
01 09 1983 Korean Airlines flight 007 was forced to crash land in the Soviet Union 
after begin fired on by a Soviet interceptor 17 09 1983 Vanessa Williams became 
the first black to be crowned Miss America 19 09 1983 David Slowinski uses two 
Cray-1 supercomputers to discover the 29th Mersenne Prime, 2132049-1 26 09 1983 
Australia II won the America's Cup yacht race 26 09 1983 Cosmonauts Titov and 
Strekalov are saved from their exploding Soyuz T-10 booster by the launch escape 
system 30 09 1983 Bill the Cat loses control of his sports car on route 66 outside 
of Bloom County. He was returning from a party at Mary Worth's LA home 09 10 1983 
James Watt forced to resign as Secretary of the Interior 23 10 1983 A suicide 
truck-bomber crashed into the U.S. compound in Beirut, killing 241 U.S. marines 
and sailors 25 10 1983 U.S. Marines and Rangers invaded ada 03 11 1983 Rev. Jesse 
Jackson began his first campaign for the Democratic nomination for president 10 
12 1983 Danuta Walesa accepts the Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of her husband Lech 
Walesa, the Polish labor leader ?? ?? 1984 Geraldine Ferraro was first serious 
fee Vice Presidential candidate 01 01 1984 AT&T officially divests its local 
Bell companies 01 01 1984 At&T officially divests its local Bell companies 
14 01 1984 Ray Kroc, founder of the McDonald's empire, died 15 01 1984 Apple announces 
the Macintosh 20 01 1984 Johnny Weismuller, Tarzan, actor and swimmer, died at 
79 in Acapulco 24 01 1984 Amazon Indians attack oil drilling crew with poison 
darts 29 01 1984 41- (STS-11) Challenger launched 07 02 1984 Bruce McCandless 
makes first untethered space walk 18 02 1984 Roman Catholicism ceases to be the 
state religion of Italy 25 03 1984 a summit eruption on Mauna Loa was spotted 
at 1:25 AM. The Northeast rift zone was fountaining by 4:30 PM. During the next 
21 days lava would flow almost to the city of Hilo 06 04 1984 Liftoff of Challenger 
41C 11 04 1984 Celestial mechanics "Pinky" Nelson and "Ox" van Hoffen repair Solar 
Max satellite during 7 hour EVA in payload bay 20 06 1984 Lillian Hellman, American 
author and playwright, died 03 07 1984 Starstruck, Inc. launchs dolphin rocket 
off San Clemente Island 18 07 1984 First women to walk in space: Svetlana Savitskaya 
accompanies Vladimir Dzhanibekov on EVA outside Salyut 7 23 07 1984 Vanessa Williams 
became the first Miss America to resign her title because of photographs that 
were published in Penthouse magazine 27 07 1984 James Mason, actor, died in Lausanne, 
Switzerland 30 07 1984 STS-14: first flight of Discovery 06 08 1984 Richard Burton, 
the actor, died 30 08 1984 Maiden Voyage of Discovery carrying first non-astronaut 
Charlie Walker 05 09 1984 The space shuttle Discovery completed its first flight 
as it landed at Edwards Air Force Base in California 06 09 1984 Ernest Tubb, country 
music star, died 15 09 1984 Prince Harry was born to Prince Charles and Lady Diana 
02 10 1984 3 cosmonauts return after a record 237 days in orbit 05 10 1984 41-G 
Challenger carried first Canadian, Marc Garneau, into orbit 09 10 1984 Kathy Sullivan 
becomes first American woman to walk in space 24 10 1984 Intelsat 5 re-enters 
Earth's atmosphere 5 months after upper stage fails 30 10 1984 Prime Minister 
Indira Gandhi assassinated by Sikhs who had infiltrated her personal guard 15 
11 1984 Infant Baby Fae, who had received a baboon's heart, died almost three 
weeks after the transplant 19 11 1984 Liquified gas tanks explode in Mexico City 
killing 452 with 1000 missing 03 12 1984 A cloud of deadly methyl isocyanate vapor 
leaks from Union Carbide plant in Bhopal, India killing over 2000 people 22 12 
1984 Bernhard Goetz shoots four black youths on a Manhattan subway, claiming they 
were about to rob him 07 01 1985 Intel was the first to copyright a chip mask. 
It was for a 256K EPROM 24 01 1985 51-C Discovery launched; first DoD mission 
26 01 1985 The song "We are the World" was recorded as a benefit to starving Africans 
17 02 1985 standard US letter postage goes to .22 16 03 1985 Terry Anderson chief 
Middle East correspondent of the Associated Press was kidnapped in Lebanon 12 
04 1985 Launch of Discover (STS-16) 51-D; Bobko, Williams, Garn, Griggs, Seddon, 
Hoffman, Walker 19 04 1985 Discovery returns, blowing tire on landing 23 04 1985 
Coda-Cola Company announced it was changing its Coke formula only to later reintroduce 
the original formula as Coke ic 13 05 1985 The Philadelphia police drop a bomb 
on a row house to flush out radicals and burn down 4 blocks of houses 16 05 1985 
Margaret Hamilton, maker of 75 movies and known for her role as Wicked Witch of 
the West in the Wizard of Oz died 09 06 1985 American educator Thomas Sutherland 
was kidnapped in Lebanon 09 06 1985 Oak Harbor nuclear power plant in Ohio loses 
its coolant 09 06 1985 Thomas Sutherland, acting dean of agriculture at American 
University of Beirut, was kidnapped in Lebanon 11 06 1985 Karen Ann Quinlan, finally 
died in her mother's arms of pneumonia after 10 years in a coma 02 07 1985 Giotto 
launched to rendevous with Halley's Comet 05 07 1985 New York Mets defeated Atlanta 
Braves, 16-13, in 19 inning game that lasted 6 hours and 10 min. ending just before 
4 a.m 10 07 1985 The Rainbow Warrior was sunk and one crewman killed by 2 magnetic 
mines placed by French agents 11 07 1985 Houston Astros pitcher, Nolan Ryan struck 
out 4000 batters 12 08 1985 JAL 747 crashes in Japan killing 520 in the worst 
air disaster to date 13 08 1985 Kenneth Ernst, "Mary Worth" artist since 1942, 
died at age 67 18 09 1985 The 30th Mersenne Prime, 2216091-1, was announced. It 
was discovered at Chevron Reaseach on their Cray X-MP 19 09 1985 A 7.8 magnitude 
earthquake off the west coast of Mexico does extensive damage to Mexico City 02 
10 1985 Rock Hudson, actor, died of complications of AIDS 07 10 1985 Lynnette 
Woodward becomes the first fee Harlem Globetrotter 10 10 1985 Orson Welles, radio 
and movie star, died 10 10 1985 Yul Brynner, the King in "The King and I" on stage 
and screen, died of lung cancer 16 10 1985 body washed ashore in Syria was identified 
as Leon Klinghoffer, slain in hijacking of Achille Lauro 28 10 1985 Marty goes 
back in time in the Movie "Back to the Future" 01 11 1985 National Coalition against 
violence on TV says the average U.S. child will see 50000 attempted murders on 
TV by age 16 06 11 1985 The stock market hits 1400 on its way up 09 11 1985 Halley's 
comet crosses the ecliptic 13 11 1985 The volcano, Nevado del Ruiz in Colombia, 
erupts sending a huge mud slide down to kill 25000 people 01 12 1985 Bill Scott 
who did the voice of Bullwinkle, Doright and Mr. Peabody died 31 12 1985 Ricky 
Nelson, singer, his band and girlfriend all killed in a light plane crash in Texas 
?? ?? 1986 First true community computer system goes online in Cleveland, Ohio 
?? ?? 1986 Rutan and Yeager took a one-tank-trip around the world ?? ?? 1986 Shuttle 
"Challenger" exploded on takeoff, 7 astronauts perished 14 01 1986 Donna Reed, 
actress, died of cancer 24 01 1986 Voyager 2 encounters Uranus. Efforts will be 
made during the trip to Neptune to improve ground receiver sensitivity enough 
to allow data rates equal to the Uranus passage (4800 - 21600 bps) 28 01 1986 
Space Shuttle Challenger Explodes 73s after liftoff 06 02 1986 The stock market 
hits 1600 for the first time 09 02 1986 Halley's Comet reaches perihelion 25 02 
1986 Ferdinand Marcos leaves the Philippines as civil unrest rises. Corazon Aquino 
was now President 28 02 1986 Swedish Prime Minister Olaf Palme, 59 was shot to 
death while walking from a movie theater in central Stockholm 10 03 1986 Halley's 
Comet passes back across the ecliptic 30 03 1986 James Cagney, the actor, died 
11 04 1986 Halley's Comet closest to earth 15 04 1986 Actor Clint Eastwood becomes 
mayor of Carmel, California 20 04 1986 Vladimir Horowitz performs in Moscow for 
the first time since leaving 60 years earlier 24 04 1986 The Duchess of Windsor 
died in Paris at 89 26 04 1986 Worst nuclear power plant disaster in history happens 
as a reactor in Chernobyl USSR catches fire and melts down releasing radiation 
into the atmosphere 13 05 1986 11 members of a high school lost in snowstorm on 
Mount Hood. 2 walk to safety. Of the 9 found in a snow cave 2 days later only 
2 were alive 31 05 1986 26,000 buried chicken carcasses explode in Sheridan, OR 
sending chicken pieces 40 feet or more after gases build up from decay 07 06 1986 
BSD UNIX 4.3 released 12 06 1986 South Africa declares a state of emergency and 
severely restricts news coverage 20 06 1986 The New York Times announced its intention 
to use the honorific Ms. in both news articles and editorials 19 07 1986 Caroline 
Kennedy, daughter of President Kennedy, married Edwin A. Schlossberg in Centerville, 
Mass 20 07 1986 Kilauea begins a long eruption that as of May 1990 had not stopped. 
In the process over 650M cubic yards of lava will be released 23 07 1986 Britain's 
Prince Andrew married Sarah Ferguson at Westminster Abbey in London 28 07 1986 
NASA releases transcript of recording of the doomed space shuttle Challenger in 
which pilot Michael Smith could be heard saying "Uh-oh!" 07 09 1986 Desmond Tutu 
was installed as the first black to lead the Anglican Church in South Africa 12 
09 1986 Joseph Cicippio, acting comptroller at the American University in Beirut, 
was kidnapped in Lebanon 15 10 1986 Jacqueline Picasso, wife of the painter, found 
dead of gunshot wound. Suicide was the cause 21 10 1986 Edward Austin Tracy, an 
American living in Beirut, was kidnapped in Lebanon 22 10 1986 The Surgeon General 
releases his first report on AIDS 29 12 1986 The first all fee crew on a commercial 
airliner was arranged by the seven crew members ping shifts to get on the same 
747 flight ?? ?? 1987 Second Community computer goes online in Youngstown, Ohio 
05 01 1987 Ronald Reagan proposes first trillion dollar US budget 15 01 1987 Ray 
Bolger, the Scarecrow in the Wizard of Oz, died 19 01 1987 Guy Hunt becomes Alabama's 
first Republican governor since 1874 20 01 1987 Terry Waite, Anglican Church envoy, 
kidnapped in Lebanon 24 01 1987 Alann (sic) Steen, communications instructor at 
Beirut University College, was kidnapped in Lebanon 24 01 1987 Jesse Turner, professor 
of mathematics and computer science at Beirut University College, was kidnapped 
in Lebanon 04 02 1987 Liberace (Wladzio Valentino), pianist and entertainer, died 
of AIDS related disease 20 02 1987 poll released shows that of 1110 American adults 
asked 72 would prefer all out nuclear war to life under communist rule. Estimated 
error margin was 3 21 02 1987 first snow in recorded history falls on desert near 
Persian Gulf, 18 inches falls on Abu Dhabi and melts in four hours 22 02 1987 
Andy Warhol, creator of the Pop art movement, died 22 02 1987 David Susskind, 
talk show producer and host, died 23 02 1987 A supernoval explosion was first 
observed in the Large Magellanic Cloud. The last local supernova was in 1604 26 
02 1987 The Soviet Union resumes atomic bomb testing after the US refuses to join 
them in a moratorium on testing 28 02 1987 Mikhail Gorbachev calls for a pact 
to remove all medium range missiles from Europe 03 03 1987 Danny Kaye, actor and 
comedian, died 10 03 1987 The Vatican declares that conception in vitro was a 
sin. Childless parents are to look to the example of Jesus on the cross for comfort 
14 03 1987 John Holmes, porn star, died 21 03 1987 Robert Preston, actor, known 
for his role as the Music Man, died at 68 28 03 1987 Maria Augusta von Trapp, 
member of the Austrian family portrayed in the film "Sound of Music", died at 
82 05 05 1987 The congressional Iran-Contra hearings opened 08 05 1987 Senator 
Gary Hart withdraws from the presidential race over allegations that he was seeing 
model Donna Rice 14 05 1987 Rita Hayworth, actress, died of Alzheimer's disease 
17 05 1987 An Iraqi warplane attacked the U.S. Navy frigate Stark in the Persian 
Gulf killing thirty-seven American sailors 22 06 1987 Fred Astaire, dancer and 
actor, died 24 06 1987 Jackie Gleason, comedian and actor, died at 87 31 07 1987 
Iranian pilgrams clash with riot police in Mecca killing over 400 people 16 08 
1987 Northwest Airline Flt 255 crashed in Detroit killing 165; sole survivor was 
4 year-old Cecelia Cichan 17 08 1987 the Dow Jones hits 2700 for the first time 
ever 29 08 1987 Lee Marvin, actor, died 21 09 1987 US Helicopters attack Iranian 
ship laying mines in the Persian Gulf 19 10 1987 American ships attack two off-shore 
platforms used by the Iranians to attack shipping in the Persian Gulf 19 10 1987 
The stock market crashed as the Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged 508 points, 
its worst one-day decline 26 10 1987 An investor who suffered heavy stock market 
losses shot and killed a Miami brokerage manager, wounded another then committed 
suicide 29 10 1987 Woody Herman, jazz musician, died 04 11 1987 Death to America 
day in Iran 10 12 1987 President Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev sign intermediate-range 
nuclear missile treaty 27 01 1988 Sir Thomas Octave Sopwith, aviator, airplane 
builder, Sopwith Pup , Sopwith Camel, Hurricane, and the Harrier VTOL, died 15 
02 1988 Richard Feynman, winner of Nobel prize in physics, educator, philosopher, 
bongo player, died 05 03 1988 Southern Colorado gets the new area code 719 03 
04 1988 Standard US letter postage goes to .25 04 04 1988 Arizona governor Evan 
Meacham was impeached 12 04 1988 The government issues the first patent on an 
ani, a laboratory mouse that was more sensitive to cancer 16 05 1988 Surgeon General 
released a report declaring nicotine was addictive 03 07 1988 The USS Vincennes 
shot down an Iran Air jetliner over the Persian Gulf, killing all 290 passengers 
and crew 31 07 1988 The last Playboy Club in the US closes. It was a franchised 
club in Lansing, Michigan 08 08 1988 Beatrice, Britain's Princess 08 08 1988 The 
Duchess of York (Fergie) gives birth to her first child, a baby girl 25 08 1988 
the skies of Northern and Central Colorado get an orange haze from smoke of the 
giant Yellowstone National Park forest fires that have burned over 300,000 acres 
07 09 1988 Fire storms surround the Old Faithful Lodge complex in Yellowstone 
National Park as massive fires continue to burn out of control in Western forest 
lands. The Lodge survives 13 09 1988 In the Caribbean hurricane Gilbert grows 
to a category 5 hurricane with 175 mph sustained winds and the lowest recorded 
barometric pressure ever recorded in the Western Hemisphere, 26.22 inches of mercury 
24 09 1988 Barbara Harris, was elected the first woman bishop in the Episcopal 
Church 25 09 1988 The chess program Hitech was the first computer program to beat 
an International Grand Master in tournament play winning 3 and drawing 1 03 10 
1988 Discovery lands successfully 11 10 1988 factoring of the first "hard" 100 
digit number (11104 + 1)/(118 + 1) achieved at 2AM PDT 12 10 1988 Steven Jobs, 
one of the founders of Apple, unveils the first computer by his new company NeXT 
02 11 1988 Robert T. Morris, Jr. , releases his worm program onto the UNIX network 
at about 8pm from Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. It uses Berkeley Unix mail flaws 
to spread itself across the country 08 11 1988 George Bush elected as 41st President 
20 11 1988 Egypt and China announce their recognition of a Palestinian state 05 
12 1988 Jim Bakker, TV evangelist for the PTL organization, indicted on 24 counts 
of fraud and conspiracy including diverting 4 million dollars of their followers 
money to support their own "lavish and extravagant" lifestyles 07 12 1988 at 11:41AM 
local time an earthquake measuring 6.9 on the Richter scale shook Soviet Armenia 
killing over 55000 people and leaving half a million homeless 14 12 1988 U.S. 
agrees to talk with the PLO after Yassir Arafat meets U.S. requirements for talks 
21 12 1988 A bomb explodes on Pan Am flight 103 which then crashes into Lockerbie, 
Scotland destroying 40 houses and their occupants as well as all 258 aboard the 
plane 25 12 1988 Denny's fast food restaurants closed for the first time in 35 
years. Because of their "Always Open" policy there are some Denny's that don't 
even have locks ?? ?? 1989 Cleveland Free-Net II goes on line with 1.2 Gigabytes 
of storage. Adds this Freedom Shrine to a long list of accomplishments ?? ?? 1989 
Ohio adopts new words to official State Song 07 01 1989 Emperor Hirohito of Japan 
died of cancer. He was succeeded by his son Akihito, a fish biologist 23 01 1989 
Salvador Dali, Spanish surrealist painter and founder of the movement, died 24 
01 1989 Ted Bundy, confessed serial murderer of over 21 (possibly as many as 100) 
women during a period of 15 years, was executed 31 01 1989 The highest high pressure 
ever recorded in North America. 30.85 inches in Alaska 06 02 1989 Barbara Tuchman, 
historian and author "A Distant Mirror", died 14 02 1989 Khomeini orders Solman 
Rushdi to be killed for writing the book "Satanic Verses" 14 03 1989 Edward Abbey, 
environmentalist author, author of "The Monkey Wrench Gang", died in Tucson, AZ 
23 03 1989 British scientist Martin Fleischman and University of Utah Chemist 
Stanley Pons claim they have discovered a way of causing fusion at room temperature 
26 03 1989 For the first time since the revolution voters in the Soviet Union 
were given more than one candidate to vote for in a parliamentary election as 
part of Gorbachev's Democratization Plan 28 03 1989 A New York judge rules that 
the contest between the American catamaran and the Australian monohull was not 
fair competition and the America's Cup was returned to the Australians 19 04 1989 
47 sailors killed when a gun turret exploded on battleship, Iowa 20 04 1989 Comedienne 
Gilda Radner died at age 42 26 04 1989 Lucille (Lucy) Ball, actress and comedienne, 
died 04 06 1989 Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, political and spiritual leader of 
Iran, died 04 06 1989 Thousands feared killed as Chinese Army swept into the heart 
of Beijing and into Tiananmen Square to break up student demonstrations 10 07 
1989 Mel (Melvin Jerome) Blanc, voice of Bugs Bunny and many others, died 11 07 
1989 Sir Laurence Olivier, actor, died 19 07 1989 United flight 232 crashes at 
Suiox City, Iowa airport when the pilot trys to bring in the DC-10 with no rear 
engine, part of the tail gone and no hydraulics for steering. Remarkably 166 people 
survive 23 07 1989 Greg LeMond wins his second Tour de France, beating Laurent 
Fignon in the final 15 mile time trial by turning a 50 second deficit into a win 
by 8 seconds! 01 08 1989 Voyager begins its fly-by of Neptune 06 08 1989 A team 
of computer scientists from Amdahl break the record for largest prime number with 
391581 2216193 - 1 after a yeare and a half of background computing 22 08 1989 
Huey Newton, was found shot to death in Oakland, California 24 08 1989 Voyager 
2 makes its closest approach to Neptune - 3042 miles 25 08 1989 Voyager 2 encounters 
Neptune, was thrown out of the solar plane and proceeds into deep space. With 
luck it will transmit useful data until 2015 11 09 1989 Hungary, under pressure 
from refugees, suspends treaty with East Germany and lets thousands of "vacationing" 
East Germans across the border into West Germany 13 09 1989 Fay Vincent was named 
commissioner of Major League Baseball 22 09 1989 Irving Berlin, songwriter, died 
at the age of 101 28 09 1989 Ferdinand Marcos, Phillippine hero and dictator, 
died 30 09 1989 Mikhail Gorbachev retires President Andrei Gromyko from the Politburo 
and fires other old guard leaders in a Kremlin shakeup 04 10 1989 Graham Chapman, 
of Monty Python's Flying Circus, died of cancer 05 10 1989 Former PTL evangelist 
Jim Bakker was convicted of using his television show to defraud followers of 
3.7 million 13 10 1989 The stockmarket falls 190 points in a minor crash 17 10 
1989 A earthquake measured at 6.9-7.1 on the Richter scale hits San Francisco 
at 5:04 pm killing nearly 300 people and doing billions of dollars in damage 20 
10 1989 The Senate voted to convict U.S. District Judge Alcee Hastings of eight 
articles of impeachment and remove him from office 05 11 1989 Vladimir Horowitz, 
pianist, died 09 11 1989 The German Democratic Republic (East Germany) starts 
freely issuing visas for travel to West Germany for its citizens 14 12 1989 Andrei 
Sakharov, physicist, Nobel Prize winner and dissident, died 16 12 1989 Thousands 
of people are massacred while protesting the Romanian government in the town of 
Timisoara, Romania. The country's borders are closed off 22 12 1989 Brandenburg 
Gate was opened for the first time since the Berlin Wall was erected 22 12 1989 
Ceausescu, Romanian dictator, overthrown by popular movement ?? ?? 1990 Communist 
dominoes fall -- backwards! World rejoices! ?? ?? 1990 More community computers 
in: Cincinnati, Peoria, Ill, and Medina Ohio 20 01 1990 Barbara Stanwyck, actress, 
died 25 01 1990 Ava Gardner, actress, died 31 01 1990 Moscow McDonalds opens, 
the largest McDonalds to date and the first McDonalds in the Soviet Union 11 02 
1990 Nelson Mandela, South African antiaparteid leader, was released after 28 
years of imprisonment 31 03 1990 There are violent riots against the new British 
Poll Tax in London 24 04 1990 Hubble Space Telescope, ferried aboard space shuttle 
Discovery lifted off at 8:33 A.M. from Kennedy Space Center 16 05 1990 Jim Henson, 
creator of the Muppets, died of complications of the flu 16 05 1990 Sammy Davis 
Jr., entertainer, died of throat cancer 02 06 1990 Rex Harrison, Professor Henry 
Higgins from "My Fair Lady", died 06 06 1990 Half of Limon Colorado was destroyed 
by a force three Tornado 11 06 1990 The Supreme Court strikes down the federal 
flag protection law in a 5-4 decision 14 06 1990 The Supreme Court upholds the 
sobriety checkpoint as a necessary infringement of rights 15 06 1990 the ninth 
Fermat number was factored by Mannasse and Lenstra using British mathematician 
John Pollard's number field sieve. It two months using hundreds of computers 21 
06 1990 An earthquake hits Iran killing over 50000 people 22 06 1990 Checkpoint 
Charles, between East and West Berlin was dismantled 01 07 1990 East and West 
German money was unified in preparation for political unification of Germany 29 
07 1990 Mongolia has its first elections ever 02 08 1990 Iraq invades Kuwait with 
100,000 troops and takes it in under a day 06 08 1990 Pakistani Prime Minister 
Benazir Bhutto's goverenment was overthrown by the President of Pakistan 06 08 
1990 The United Nations imposes strong Economic sanctions against Iraq for its 
invasion of Kuwait. The USSR, US and Red China are all in agreement for once 08 
08 1990 President Bush orders two divisions of troops to Saudi Arabia in response 
to possible invasion from Iraq 12 08 1990 B. Kliban, cartoonist best known for 
his "CAT" character, died 17 08 1990 Pearl Bailey, Singer with the sexy, throaty 
drawl, died at age 72 18 08 1990 Pearl Baily, spiritual singer, died 19 08 1990 
B. F. Skinner, psychologist, died 10 09 1990 Ellis Island opens as a park honoring 
the immigrants 14 09 1990 Leonard Bernstein, conductor and composer, died 22 09 
1990 The Mustang Ranch, a famous Nevada brothel, was shutdown by the IRS for past 
due taxes. A motion to have the government run the lucrative business fails for 
some reason-) 02 10 1990 This was the first day for the new united Germany (reunification 
day) 06 10 1990 NASA successfully launches Discovery which carries the 207 million 
Ulysses solar probe into space 15 10 1990 The first swarm of killer bees to be 
found in the US was destroyed in Texas 19 10 1990 Jim Ochowicz, manager of the 
Seven-Eleven cycling team announced that the team will be sponsored by Motorola 
23 10 1990 The Open Software Foundation announced the release of the industry's 
first open computer operating system -- OSF/1 31 10 1990 The French and English 
channel tunnel teams meet by using a 2 inch probe. The tunnels are off by only 
20 inches 03 11 1990 Mary Martin, stage actress of Peter Pan and South Pacific, 
died 02 12 1990 Aaron Copland, Americian composer, died 17 01 1991 US and its 
allies start air attacks on Iraq in Operation Desert Storm 03 02 1991 U.S. First 
postage raised from 25 cents to 29 cents 23 02 1991 US and its allies start ground 
attack on Iraqi positions in Kuwait and Iraq 28 02 1991 President Bush announces 
cease fire in Gulf War conditional upon Iraq accepting all UN resolutions, 12 
midnight EST 01 03 1991 Edwin H. Land, inventor, his 500 patents was exceeded 
only by Edison, died 03 03 1991 Arthur Murray, dance instructor, died 08 03 1973 
Ron "Pigpen" McKernan (Grateful Dead) died in California 15 03 1999 Pluto again 
becomes the outermost planet 31 12 1999 At noon the Panama Canal will be given 
over to the Panamanians 05 05 2000 next conjunction of Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, 
Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn 08 06 2004 next transit of Venus across the sun 06 06 
2012 transit of Venus (between Earth and Sun) occurs 14 06 2051 England will witness 
a total eclipse of the sun