December 2, 2013 1976 - Fidel Castro becomes President of Cuba replacing Osvaldo Dorticós Torrado. 1978 - Chanting Allah is great, anti-Shah protesters poured through Tehran 1978 - Neil Diamond & Barbra Striesands You Dont Bring Me Flowers hits #1 1978 - Streisand & Diamonds You Dont Bring Me Flowers, goes #1 1979 - Crowds attack US embassy at Tripoli Libya 1979 - Foots Walker becomes 1st Cleve Cavalier to score a triple-double 1979 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR Singer-songwriter Neil DiamondSinger-songwriter Neil Diamond 1980 - 4 American Maryknoll nuns killed by death squads in El Salvador 1981 - Fernando Valenzuela (Dodgers) wins NL Rookie of the Year 1981 - Moscone Convention Center, SF opens at 11:30 AM 1981 - Spanish government requests membership in NATO 1982 - 1st permanent artificial heart successfully implanted (U of Utah) in retired dentist Barney Clark; lived 112 days with Jarvic-7 heart 1984 - 4th meeting of Giants-Jets, Giants even series at 2 with 20-10 win 1984 - Bob Holland takes 9-83 for NSW against South Australia, SCG 1984 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR 1985 - Mystery of Edwin Drood opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 608 perfs 1985 - Philipine Chief staff Gen Fabian speaks of B Aquinos murder 1985 - Rupert Holmes musical Mystery of Edwin Drood, premieres in NYC 1986 - Dow-Jones index hits record 1,955.57 1987 - Chicago City Council elects Eugene Sawyer acting mayor 1987 - Jennifer Steele, 17, of Colo becomes Miss Teen of America [Approx] 1987 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1987 - 334 club forms as 334 brave Devil fans journey through 20 of snow to attend NJ Devils 7-5 victory over Calgary at Meadowlands 1988 - Naked Gun premieres, a movie based on TVs Police Squad 1988 - 5 gunmen who hijacked Soviet Aeroflot jet, surrender in Israel 1988 - STS-27 Atlantis launched (Secret military mission) 1988 - UN votes 151-2 (Isr & US) to move PLO debate to Geneva, Brit abstains 1989 - 55th Heisman Trophy Award: Andre Ware, Houston (QB) 1989 - KHJ-TV in Los Angeles CA changes call letters to KCAL-TV 1989 - Vishwanath Pratap Singh sworn in as president of India 1990 - 1st parlimentary election in newly reunified Germany 1990 - 1st time 12 people in space 1990 - 79th Davis Cup: USA beats Australia in St Petersburg (3-2) 1990 - Beth Daniel/Davis Love wins LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic 1990 - US 69th manned space mission STS 35 (Columbia 11) launches into orbit 1991 - Bobby Bonilla signs record $29 million-5 year pact with NY Mets 1991 - Muslim Shites release American held in Lebanon hostage Joseph Cicippio 1992 - WQEW-AM radio replaces WQXR on 1560 in NYC 1993 - A Websters musical Sunset Promenade premieres in LA 1993 - Dow-Jones hits record 3702.11 1993 - Houston Rockets tie NBA record of 15-0 start 1993 - Space shuttle STS-61 (Endeavour 5), launches 1994 - Cobb premieres 1994 - Achille Lauro (Willem Ruys) sinks off the coast of Somalia Composer Andrew Lloyd WebberComposer Andrew Lloyd Webber 1994 - Andrew Lloyd Webber admitted to the hospital for ulcer treatment 1994 - Jury finds Heidi Fleiss guilty of running a call girl ring 1995 - 17th ACE Cable Awards 1997 - MCI Center opens in Wash DC, Wizards vs SuperSonics 1999 - The United Kingdom devolves political power in Northern Ireland to the Northern Ireland Executive. 2001 - Enron files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. 2005 - Van Tuong Nguyen is executed in Singapore for drug trafficking. 2008 - Thai Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat resigns after the 2008 Thailand political crisis. 2012 - 9 people are killed after 30 cars are trapped in Sasago Tunnel, Japan 2012 - Borut Pahor is elected President of Slovenia 2012 - Pier Luigi Bersani is elected Italian Prime Minister
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