Person report

★25 Jul 1978
Two Puerto Rican pro-independence activists were killed in a police ambush at Cerro Maravilla in Ponce.

★19 Mar 1979
The American cable television network C-SPAN, dedicated to airing non-stop coverage of government proceedings and public affairs programming, was launched.

★04 Apr 1979
Deposed Pakistani Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto was controversially executed for authorising the murder of a political opponent.

★29 Mar 1981
Dick Beardsley and Inge Simonsen jointly won the first running of the London Marathon.

★07 Jun 1981
The Israeli Air Force attacked and disabled the Osirak nuclear reactor, assuming it was producing plutonium to further an Iraqi nuclear weapons program.

★13 Jun 1983
Pioneer 10 passed the orbit of Neptune, becoming the first man-made object to leave the proximity of the major planets of the Solar System.

★16 Jul 1983
A British Airways Sikorsky S-61 helicopter crashed in the Celtic Sea in thick fog, killing 20 of the 26 on board, and sparking a review of helicopter safety in the United Kingdom.

★21 Oct 1983
At the 17th General Conference on Weights and Measures, the length of a metre was redefined as the distance that light travels in vacuum in ​1⁄299,792,458 of a second.

★02 Sep 1985
Hurricane Elena, an unpredictable and damaging tropical cyclone that affected eastern and central portions of the United States Gulf Coast, made landfall near Biloxi, Mississippi as a Category 3 major hurricane.

★25 Jan 1990
Avianca Flight 52 ran out of fuel on approach to John F. Kennedy International Airport and crashed into the village of Cove Neck, New York, resulting in the deaths of 73 people.

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