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Willie McCovey is 16th elected to Hall of Fame in his 1st year
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Willie McCovey is 16th elected to Hall of Fame in his 1st year
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1/1 - Aruba becomes independent from neighbor island Curacao
1/1 - Barbra Striesand & Jon Peters relationship breaks up
1/1 - International Peace Year begins
1/1 - NYC transit fare rises from 90 cents to $1.00
1/1 - Oklahoma wins Orange Bowl for college football championship
1/1 - Spain & Portugal are 11th & 12th to join European Economic Community
1/1 - "Iowa's All-American running back, Ronnie Harmon, fumbles the ball 4 times in his last game-the Rose Bowl"
1/2 - "NY Islander, Mike Bossy, scores his 500th goal"
1/2 - 191.66 million shares traded in NY Stock Exchange
1/4 - "David Boon's second Test century, 131 v India at Adelaide"
1/4 - NCAA basketball's David Robinson blocks a record 14 shots
1/6 - British Defense Secretary Michael Heseltine resigns
1/6 - "Impala Platinum fires 20,000 black mine workers in Johannesburg"
1/6 - Last day in Test cricket for Bob Holland
1/6 - STS 61-C scrubbed at T-31sec because of liquid oxygen valve problem
1/7 - US President Reagan announces economic sanctions against Libya
1/7 - STS 61-C mission scrubbed at T -9m because of weather problems
1/7 - Netherlands Bank issues 250 guilder notes
1/8 - Willie McCovey is 16th elected to Hall of Fame in his 1st year
1/9 - "After losing a patent battle with Polaroid, Kodak must give up its instant camera business."
1/10 - Palau signs Compact of Free Association with US
1/10 - STS 61-C mission scrubbed T -9m because of bad weather at Kennedy
1/11 - 1st black lt gov since reconstruction sworn in (Douglas Wilder of Va)
1/12 - Miami Dolphins win AFC football championship
1/12 - Chic Blackhawk Denis Savard scores at 4 seconds of 3rd period
1/12 - 24th space shuttle (61-C) mission-Columbia 7-launched
1/13 - NCCA institutes eligibility requirements based on college exams
1/13 - South Yemen Pres Ali Nasser Mohammed's bodyguard shoots opponents
1/14 - Constitution of Guatemala takes effect
1/14 - Vinicio Cerezo becomes only 2nd freely elected president of Guatemala since CIA-sponsored coup in 1954
1/15 - Living Seas opens (Disneyland)
1/16 - First meeting of the Internet Engineering Task Force.
1/16 - Police arrested 3 IRA-terrorists in Amsterdam
1/17 - Tim Witherspoon beats Tony Tubbs in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
1/18 - 24th Space Shuttle (61-C) Mission-Columbia 7-returns to Earth
1/18 - "AIDS charity record ""That's What Friends are For,"" hits #1"
1/18 - NY Lotto pays $30.5 million to one winner (#s are 19-20-27-34-41-46)
1/19 - Spain recognizes Israel
1/19 - Israeli premier Simon Peres visits Netherlands
1/19 - Cerebral Palsy telethon
1/20 - Chunnel announced (railroad tunnel under Canal)
1/20 - Milt coup in Lesotho under gen-mjr Lekhanya & premier Leabua Jonathan
1/21 - "100 participate in Nude Olympics race in 38ﾂｰF (3ﾂｰC), Indiana"
1/21 - "Allison J Brown, 17, of Oklahoma, crowned 4th Miss Teen USA"
1/21 - "Bomb attack in East-Beirut, 27 killed"
1/22 - "Ghorbanifar 1st suggests diversion of cash to contras, says North"
1/23 - "1st induction of Rock 'N' Roll Hall of Fame (Chuck Berry, James Brown, Ray Charles, Domino, Everly Bros, B Holly, J L Lewis & Elvis Presley)"
1/23 - Columbia returns to Kennedy Space Center via Davis-Monthan AFB
1/23 - Jerome Kern Goes to Hollywood opens at Ritz Theater NYC for 13 perfs
1/24 - "43th Golden Globes: Whoopi Goldberg, Color Purple win"
1/24 - "NY Islander Mike Bossy scores his 1,000th point"
1/24 - South Yemen Premier Haydar Bakr al-Attas becomes interim-president
1/24 - "Voyager 2 makes 1st fly-by of Uranus (81,593 km), finds new moons"
1/25 - General Tito Okello's government flees Kampala Uganda
1/26 - "Super Bowl XX: Chicago Bears beat NE Patriots, 46-10 in New Orleans Super Bowl MVP: Richard Dent, Chicago, DE"
1/26 - Yoweri Museveni's rebel army conquerors Kampala Uganda
1/26 - Val Skinner wins LPGA Mazda Golf Classic
1/27 - "13th American Music Award: Whitney Houston, Huey Lewis & C Gayle"
1/28 - Uptown... It's Hot! opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC for 24 perfs
1/28 - 25th Space Shuttle (51L)-Challenger 10 explodes 73 sec after liftoff
1/28 - "Angolan Unity Leader Jonas Savimbi visits Washington, DC"
1/29 - 193.8 million shares traded in NY Stock Exchange
1/29 - Yoweri Museveni sworn in as president of Uganda
1/31 - "Mary Lund of Minn, is 1st female recipient of an artificial heart"