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1997 Mark McGwire joins Babe as only players to hit 50 home runs in 2 consec yrs

1997 QB Brett Favre, re-signs with Green Bay Packers for $50M for 7 yrs

1989 Soviet President Gorbachev in Beijing for 1st Sino-Soviet summit in 30 yrs

1988 U.S. agrees to talk to Palestine Liberation Org (1st time in 13 yrs)

1988 Soviets stop jamming Radio Liberty; 1st time in 38 yrs

1988 Oldest known insect fossils (390 million yrs) reported in Science

1985 Denny McLain, pitcher; convicted of racketeering, sentenced to 25 yrs

1984 Arnold Palmer fails to make U.S. Open golf tournament 1st time in 32 yrs

1975 Australian PM removed by crown (1st elected PM removed in 200 yrs)

1975 John Wooden's final game, UCLA, wins 10th NCAA championship in 12 yrs

1975 John Mitchell, HR Haldeman and John D. Ehrlichman sentenced to 2-8 yrs

1974 Art Modell gets snowed in and misses his 1st Cleveland Brown game in 33 yrs

1973 Helgafell, island of Heimaey Iceland erupts for 1st time in 7,000 yrs

1971 John Sinclair (sentence: 10 yrs, sold 2 marijuana joints) is freed

1963 Joseph Self, murderer, executed; last Washington state execution in 25 yrs

1962 Ohio ends suit against Reds when they agree to stay in Cin for 10 yrs

1960 Eillen Fulton begins playing Lisa on As the World Turn (for > 30 yrs)

1954 Last day of Test Cricket for Khalid Hassan aged 16 yrs, 356 days

1950 Gillette and Mutual buy All Star and World Series rights ($6M for 6 yrs)

1906 Shoemaker Wilhelm Voigt (Capt of Kopenick) sentenced to 4 yrs

1896 Cave of Winds at Niagara Falls goes almost dry for 1st time in 50 yrs

1861 Leipzig Observatory discovers short-period (6.2 yrs) Comet d'Arrest

1790 Jeremiah Carlton, laziest man in history, heir to a large fortune at 19 went to bed and stayed there for next 70 yrs, dies at 89

1717 Prussian king Frederik Willem I gives compulsory education to 5-12 yrs



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