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** In Los Angeles, Rock and blues singer Janis Joplin dies in her hotel room, from an overdose of heroin.
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** Reggie Jackson blasts 3 home runs to lead the New York Yankees to a World Series victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers.
** The 71st Academy Awards are held at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, California with Shakespeare in Love winning Best Picture.
** The Soviet Union announces that it will boycott the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California.
** A federal judge sentences Los Angeles Police Department officers Stacey Koon and Laurence Powell to 30 months in prison for violating motorist Rodney King's civil rights.
** In a Los Angeles, California court, Sirhan Sirhan admits that he killed presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy.
** Followers of Charles Manson murder Sharon Tate, ( who was eight months pregnant ), and her friends: Folgers coffee heiress Abigail Folger, Wojciech Frykowski, and Hollywood hairstylist Jay Sebring at the home of Tate and her husband, Roman Polanski, in Los Angeles, California.
** The 11th Airborne Division, with Filipino guerrillas, freed the captives of the Los Baños internment camp.
** The 14th Academy Awards ceremony is held in Los Angeles ; How Green Was My Valley wins Best Picture.
** The 68th Academy Awards, hosted by Whoopi Goldberg, are held at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, California with Braveheart winning Best Picture.
** The animated short Plane Crazy is released by Disney Studios in Los Angeles, featuring the first appearances of Mickey and Minnie Mouse.
** The Baltimore Orioles defeat the Los Angeles Dodgers in Game 4 of the World Series, 1 – 0, to sweep the series for their 1st World Championship.
** A USAir Boeing 737-300, Flight 1493 collides with a SkyWest Airlines Fairchild Metroliner, Flight 5569 at Los Angeles International Airport, killing 34.
** An amateur video captures the beating of motorist Rodney King by Los Angeles, California police officers.
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** Telephone service goes down in the cities of Washington DC, Pittsburgh, Los Angeles and San Francisco due to a software bug.
** Los Angeles Lakers point guard Magic Johnson announces he has HIV, effectively ending his NBA career.
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