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1978Apr, 12

Svetlana Lapina

Svetlana Lapina, Russian high jumper
Svetlana Mikhailovna Lapina (Russian: Светлана Михайловна Лапина); born 12 April 1978) is a Russian high jumper.

Her personal best jump was 1.99 metres, achieved at the 1999 World Championships in Seville, where she won a surprising bronze medal.

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    Aristotle

    Censorship: China lifts a ban on works by Aristotle, William Shakespeare and Charles Dickens.
  • 27Apr

    Watergate scandal

    Former United States President Nixon aide John D. Ehrlichman is released from an Arizona prison after serving 18 months for Watergate-related crimes.
  • 25Jul

    In vitro fertilisation

    Birth of Louise Joy Brown, the first human to have been born after conception by in vitro fertilisation, or IVF.
  • 22Oct

    Pope John Paul II

    Papal inauguration of Pope John Paul II.
  • 18Nov

    Jim Jones

    In Jonestown, Guyana, Jim Jones led his Peoples Temple to a mass murder-suicide that claimed 918 lives in all, 909 of them in Jonestown itself, including over 270 children. Congressman Leo Ryan is murdered by members of the Peoples Temple hours earlier.