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Year in Review
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Apple Computer Launch
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Scientist Wen Ho Lee Accused of sharing information
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Winter Olympics in Sarajevo
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Kevin Collins abduction leads to milk carton campaign for child abduction.
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Stormie Jones (age 6) becomes the recepient of the world's first liver transplant
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Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau steps down after 15 years in office.
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Iraq had used tabun against Iran. This was the first use ever of a nerve agent in war.
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Strawberry Fields honoring John Lennon was dedicated in NYC.
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US Congress established the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation
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Zoe, the 1st frozen-embryo child, was born in Melbourne, Australia
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Coach John Thompson of Georgetown University became the first African-American coach to win an NCAA basketball tournament
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Pete Rose, playing for the Montreal Expos, became the 1st NL baseball player to get 4,000 hits in a career
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Chinese launched renewed attacks against Vietnam
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CDC) said French researchers had discovered that a virus causes AIDS
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William "Count" Basie, jazz piano great, died on his 80th birthday
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USSR announced it would not participate in Summer Olympics planned for Los Angeles
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The album "Legend," the greatest hits by Bob Marley (1945-1981) and the Wailers, was released.
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Jeane Sauve was appointed as the 23rd governor-general of Canada. She was the first woman to hold this position
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Michael Larson (1949-1999) won $110,000 on the "Press Your Luck" Game Show. He had memorized the generated game patterns
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DNA was successfully cloned from a quagga, an animal extinct since 1883
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Alan Berg, a Denver radio talk show host, was shot to death outside his home. Two white supremacists of the Aryan Nations Church were convicted of civil rights violations in the slaying in 1987