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1978 - Mark Vinchesi of Amherst, Massachusetts keeps a frisbee aloft 15.2 seconds.

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1980 - Death of Joe Dassin, French singer (born 1938).

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1980 - New York Yankees' Bob Watson hits Seattle Kingdome speaker, second straight day.

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1980 - Reinhold Messner of Italy is first to make solo ascent of Mount Everest.

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1980 - United Nations Security Council condemns (14-0, US abstains) Israeli declaration that all of Jersualem is its capital.

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1981 - Birth of Benjamin Barnes; English actor (Prince Caspian).

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1982 - A multinational force lands in Beirut to oversee the PLO withdrawal from Lebanon.

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1982 - Don Lever becomes the first captain of the New Jersey Devils.

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1982 - Ulla Jacobsson, Swedish actress, dies in Vienna Austria at age 53 of bone cancer.

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1984 - Birth of Mirai Moriyama, Japanese actor.

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