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Bill Cosby is sentenced to three to ten years in prison for aggravated sexual assault.

The 8.3 Mw  Hokkaidō earthquake strikes just offshore Hokkaidō, Japan.

PauknAir Flight 4101, a British Aerospace 146, crashes near Melilla Airport in Melilla, Spain, killing 38 people.

NASA launches Space Shuttle Atlantis on STS-86 to the Mir space station.

NASA launches the Mars Observer. Eleven months later, the probe would fail while preparing for orbital insertion.

Fijian Governor-General Penaia Ganilau is overthrown in a coup d'état led by Lieutenant colonel Sitiveni Rabuka.

3 civilians killed by alleged supporters of the Palestine Liberation Organization in Larnaca yacht killings.

Thirty-eight IRA prisoners, armed with six handguns, hijack a prison meals lorry and smash their way out of the Maze Prison.

Belize joins the United Nations.

PSA Flight 182, a Boeing 727, collides in mid-air with a Cessna 172 and crashes in San Diego, killing all 135 aboard Flight 182, both occupants of the Cessna, as well as seven people on the ground.

American visual effects technician (MythBusters)

German football player (Bayern Munich)

Belgian footballer (R.S.C. Anderlecht)

British television writer and co-creator of "Red Dwarf"

Spanish football manager (Sevilla)

American college football coach

British musician and composer (Gryphon)

American actor (Flipper)

American drummer and songwriter (Ambrosia -"Biggest Part of Me"; Tin Drum)

American former NBA player (Buffalo Braves) and assistant coach (Miami Heat)

Cypriot-American journalist

American actor (Potsie-Happy Days)

West Indian cricketer (big-spinning WI chinaman bowler 1971-77)

French soccer midfielder (12 caps; AC Monaco 428 games)

American politician (Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Illinois)