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1991 Europe foreign ministers lift most remaining sanctions against South Africa

1991 U.N. Security Council panel decided to lift the food embargo on Iraq

1985 Karyn Marshall of New York City lifted 303 lbs in a clean and jerk lift

1984 U.S. Navy exhibits Piasecki helistat-4 helicopters and a blimp able to lift 26 tons-Lakehurst, NJ

1982 Jean-Loup Chretien, 1st spacionaut, 2 others, lift off (Soyuz T-16)

1982 5 dies as ski lift malfunctions a Luz-Ardiden in Pyrenees

1982 Greatest helicopter lift, 56,888 kg, Podmoscovnoe, U.S.S.R.

1977 Soviet figure skaters Sergei Shakrai and Marine Tcherkasova are 1st to perform a quadruple twist lift, Helsinki

1973 Congress passes and sends a bill to Nixon to lift football's blackout

1967 Surveyor 6 becomes 1st man-made object to lift off Moon

1965 Pope Paul VI and Orthodox Patriarch Athenagoras I simultaneously lift mutual excommunications that led to split of 2 churches in 1054

1955 Mark Mitchell, actor, Larger than Life, Lift Off, Ground Zero

1931 Siem Vroom, Dutch actor, The Lift, Bridge Too Far, Mysteries

1925 Cornell Borchers, born in Germany, actress, Big Lift, Floodtide, Istanbul

1923 Onno Molenkamp, Dutch actor, Lifespan, Broken Mirrors, The Lift

1900 National Negro Anthem, "Lift Every Voice and Sing," composed

1895 Josephine Blatt (U.S.) makes hip-and-harness lift of 3564 lb (record)

1895 1st rolling lift bridge opens, Chicago

1873 John Rosamond Johnson, Florida, co-composer, Lift Every Voice and Sing



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