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WRLD: 1973 - Basque nationalists bomb Spanish PM's car, killing him, bodyguard, driver

SPRT: 1983 - Lafleur nets #500th; Shutt, #400, as Habs ice Devils

OTHR: 1917 - Lenin's decree creates Cheka, Soviets first secret police service

BDAY: Uri Geller; Peter Criss; Irene Dunne; Harvey Firestone

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