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[June 11th, 1986] Oregon emission standards are driving a surge in sales for cheaper, non-certified wood stoves. Consumers are buying these models before stricter rules take effect. While certified stoves are more expensive, they will eventually replace older units to reduce pollution.
[June 11th, 1986] NBC News Special Report
Her tragic death eventually unraveled the notorious Stella Nickell cyanide-poisoning plot
[June 11th, 1986] Early this morning, 15-year-old Hayley Snow found her 40-year-old mother, Sue Snow, collapsed on the bathroom floor of their Auburn, Washington, home. Sue had ingested two Excedrin capsules laced with cyanide.
[June 11th, 1986] The special effects team films test footage of robotic whales for use in "Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home."
This historic deployment marked Cray's first customer installation of a Unix-based supercomputer system and jump-started advanced computational fluid dynamics (CFD) research.
[June 11th, 1986] NASA's Numerical Aerodynamic Simulation (NAS) program at the NASA Ames Research Center in California installed a Cray X-MP/12.
