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1997 MTV drops video "Smack My Bitch Up" by Prodigy

1997 Dow Jones drops 186.88 pts

1997 Dow Jones drops 247.37 pts

1997 Dow Jones drops 192.25 pts

1995 Russian ruble drops to 3,947 per dollar (record)

1994 Howard Stern drops out of New York gubernatorial race

1994 Lebanon drops relations with Iran

1994 Guus Verstraete Sr, Dutch actor/dir (2 Drops of Water), dies at 79

1992 George Steinbrenner drops his suits against baseball

1991 Dow Jones avg drops 120.31 points (5th largest dive)

1991 U.S. begins air drops to Kurd refugees in Northern Iraq

1989 East Germany drops communist monopoly from its constitution

1989 Iran drops diplomatic relations with Britain over Rushdie's book

1987 Dow Jones Index drops 508.32 points (22%) (record)

1987 Dow Jones rises 64 points then drops 110 points (44.15 pt loss)

1986 Great Britain drops diplomatic relations with Syria

1985 Tunisia drops diplomatic relations with Libya

1985 En route to Halley's Comet, U.S.S.R.'s Vega 2 drops lander on Venus

1982 FCC drops limits on duration and frequency of TV ads

1981 Colombia drops diplomatic relations with Cuba

1978 Pioneer Venus 2 drops 5 probes into atmosphere of Venus

1978 Albania drops diplomatic relations with China PR

1977 Cambodia drops diplomatic relations with Vietnam

1977 Libya drops diplomatic relations with Egypt

1977 Ethiopia drops diplomatic relations with Somalia

1972 Egypt drops diplomatic relations with Jordan

1971 Syriam President Assad drops diplomatic relations with Jordan

1969 After 88 weeks Sgt Pepper drops off the charts

1968 Pitcher's mound drops from 15" to 10" and strike zone reduced from knees to shoulders to top of knees to armpits, to help hitters

1967 U.S.S.R. drops diplomatic relations with Israel

1965 Cambodia drops diplomatic relations with the U.S.

1964 [Hei]ko E Arnoldi, actor and director (3 Drops of Water), dies at 81

1964 Taiwan drops diplomatic relations with France

1963 Somalia drops diplomatic relations with Great Britain

1962 U.S. stock market drops $20.8 billion in 1 day

1960 Ghana drops diplomatic relations with Belgium

1960 Indonesia drops diplomatic relations with Netherlands

1958 Tunisia drops diplomatic relations with Egypt

1953 Birmingham Alabama, bars Jackie Robinson's Negro-White All-Stars from playing there Robinson gives in and drops white players from his group

1953 American B-47 accidentally drops a nuclear bomb on South Carolina, the bomb doesn't go off due to 6 safety catches

1946 U.S. drops atom bomb on Bikini atoll (4th atomic explosion)

1945 U.S. drops 2nd atomic bomb "Fat Man" on Japan destroys part of Nagasaki

1945 U.S. drops fire bombs on Tokyo

1944 U.S. B-17's drops pamphlets on Walcheren

1944 RAF drops 2300 ton bombs on Berlin

1942 Vichy-France drops diplomatic relations with US

1942 RAF drops 100,000 bombs on Dusseldorf

1941 Mickey Owens drops a 3rd strike, Tom Hendrick reaches 1st safely - would have been last out, instead Yankees score 4 and win 7-4

1940 RAF drops 1st anti-nazi pamphlets on Netherlands

1939 Soviet Union attacks Finland-League of Nations drops Soviet Union

1939 U.S.S.R. drops diplomatic relations with Finland

1932 NHL readmits Ottawa and drops Pittsburgh

1930 NHL drops 20 minute slashing-about-the-head penalty

1929 U.S.S.R. drops diplomatic relations with China

1919 1st class postage drops from 3 cents to 2 cents

1915 Zeppelin drops hundred of bombs on Southend-on-Sea

1915 Italy drops Triple Alliance with Austria-Hungaryb and Germany

1914 German plane drops bombs on Dover England

1907 For 1st time a ball drops at Times Square to signal new year

1883 [Hei]ko E Arnoldi, Dutch actor, 3 Drops of Water, theater director

1845 Mexico drops diplomatic relations with US

1810 Overnight temp at Portsmouth, New Hampshire drops 50 degrees F (10 degrees C)

1214 Earl Ferrand of Flanders drops ties with France


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