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| 01 - Greece
becomes the 10th member of the Common Market |
| 02 - Fire
breaks out at La Scala Opera House in Milan, Italy |
| 04 - The show
Frankenstein opens and closes on Broadway, losing $2 million |
| 05 - In
England, Peter Sutcliffe confesses to the
Yorkshire Ripper killings |
| 08 - London
postal worker intercepts bomb sent to Prime Minister
Margaret
Thatcher by Scottish Socialist Republican League |
| 09 - A steamer
on the Amazon River in Brazil capsizes with many fatalities |
| 13 - In
Australia, the Woolworths bomber is caught in trap |
| 14 -
Jimmy Carter delivers his farewell address, saying that the threat of
nuclear destruction, the physical resources of the planet, and the
"pre-eminence of the basic rights of human beings" should be the most
pressing concerns of the nation |
| 15 -
Legislation is introduced in US Senate to make this date, (the
birthday of Martin Luther King) a national holiday |
| 16 - Boxer Leon
Spinks is mugged and has his gold teeth stolen |
| 17 -
President Ferdinand Marcos ends eight years of martial law in the
Philippines. |
| 20 -
Ronald
Reagan, at 69 the oldest man to assume the presidency, is
inaugurated. Minutes later, all 52 US hostages are released from the
US embassy in Teheran. Their total time in captivity was 444 days |
| 21 -
Sir
Norman Stronge, Northern Ireland's former parliamentary speaker, is
assassinated, along with his son, by terrorists. |
| 25 - Fanny
Thomas, oldest living American, dies in San Gabriel, CA |
| 25 - Jiang
Qing, widow of Chairman Mao, and Zhang Chunqiao receive death
sentences suspended for two years. The other two members of the "Gang
of Four" receive long jail sentences |
| 25 - Oakland
Raiders defeat Philadelphia Eagles in Super Bowl, become first
wildcard team to win NFL championship |
| 28 - Freighter
Olympic Glory spills one million gallons of oil into Galveston
Bay, TX after ship collision |
| 29 - Adolfo
Suarez resigns as prime minister of Spain |
| 03 - Gro Harlem
Brundtland becomes Norway's first woman prime minister |
| 08 - American
Jim Morgan dies during international bobsledding race in Italy |
| 08 - New York
Islander hockey player Mike Bossy ties record of 50 goals in 50 games |
| 09 - Polish
prime minister Josef Pinkowski resigns and is replaced by General
Wojciech Jaruzelski |
| 09 - US 50's
rock singer Bill Haley dies in his sleep aged 56 |
| 10 - Fire at
Las Vegas Hilton claims eight lives and injures 198 |
| 12 - Hotel
busboy admits starting fire in Las Vegas Hilton |
| 13 - Australian
press magnate Rupert Murdoch buys the London Times |
| 14 - Earthquake
strikes Naples, Italy |
| 17 - In Italy,
Red Brigade terrorists murder head of Milan hospital |
| 20 - Australian
Coroner finds "Dingo took Azaria" |
| 23 - In Spain,
Colonel Terejo Monila storms the Cortes with 200 civil guards and
attempts a coup. They later surrender and the leaders are arrested |
| 23 - Shell
tanker runs aground in Jamaica, causes oil slick |
| 24 - Engagement
of Prince Charles to Lady Diana Spencer announced |
| 24 - Jean
Harris convicted of murdering "Scarsdale Diet" inventor Dr. Herman
Tarnower |
| 01 - Bobby
Sands begins hunger strike in Northern Ireland |
| 02 - Four
senior British politicians leave the Labour party and set up a new
Social Democratic Party (SDP) |
| 06 - CBS
anchorman Walter Cronkite presides over his last newscast. He is
replaced by Dan Rather |
| 19 - Technician
dies during countdown test of Space
Shuttle Columbia |
| 20 - Jean
Harris sentenced to 15-years-to-life for murder of "Scarsdale Diet"
Dr. Herman Tarnower |
| 20 - Former
Argentinean president Isabel Perón is sentenced to jail for 8 years
in Argentina |
| 24 - Great
Train Robber, Ronald Biggs, arrested in Barbados after having been
kidnapped in Brazil by British special forces |
| 26 - The new
Social Democratic Party is launched in Britain |
| 26 - Carol
Burnett wins her libel suit against The National Enquirer. She
donates her $1.6 million to charities |
| 30 -
President
Reagan is shot and wounded in an assassination bid by John Hinckley Jr outside a
Washington hotel. Experts said Reagan would have been "blown away"
had Hinckley used a weapon more powerful than a .22 |
| 30 - Hijacking
of Indonesian airliner ends in Thailand with commando assault |
| 30 - DeWitt
Wallace, founder of Reader's Digest, dies at 91 |
| 31 - Military
coup in Thailand overthrows government of Prime Minister Prem
Tinsulanonda |
| 04 -
Bucks Fizz
win Eurovision Song Contest for Great Britain with Making Your
Mind Up |
| 04 - Brixton
(London) ablaze as black youths riot |
| 05 - Bob 'The
Bear' Hite, founder member of US band
Canned Heat, dies of a heart
attack, aged 36 |
| 09 - 23rd
victim of Atlanta child killer discovered |
| 10 - Cuban
refugee killed in attempted hijacking of Eastern Airlines flight from
New York to Miami |
| 10 - Imprisoned
IRA member Bobby Sands wins seat in British parliament |
| 10/12 - Many
police and civilians injured in race riots in Brixton, South London |
| 11 -
President
Reagan is released from hospital after assassination attempt |
| 11 - Valerie
Bertinelli marries rocker Eddie Van Halen |
| 12 - First US
Space Shuttle Columbia is launched |
| 12 - Boxer Joe
Louis dies |
| 12 - Prince
Charles visits Australia |
| 13 - Janet
Cooke of the Washington Post wins the Pulitzer Prize for her
story on a child heroin addict, which later turns out to be
completely fictitious |
| 14 -
Space Shuttle Columbia lands successfully at Edwards Air Force Base,
California |
| 19 - Body of
another young black male found in Atlanta, Georgia (GA) |
| 20 - John
Phillips of rock group The Mamas &
The Papas begins serving sentence for drug
dealing |
| 21 - Former
Yippie Abbie Hoffman begins prison sentence today |
| 22 - Largest
bank robbery in US history ($33 million) takes place in Tucson,
Arizona |
| 22 - Violence
follows funerals of two youths killed by British army truck during
recent riots in Londonderry, Northern Ireland |
| 23 - Barbados
refuses to honour British request for extradition of Great Train
Robber Ronald Biggs, who is set free |
| 24 -
Reagan
lifts the 15 month embargo on grain shipments to the USSR |
| 24 - The IBM
Personal Computer (PC) is introduced |
| 27 - Another
body of a black youth discovered in Atlanta, GA |
| 27 - Ringo Starr marries Barbara Bach in London |
| 29 - Trial of
confessed Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffe begins |
| 30 - New York
City celebrates Empire State Building's 50th anniversary |
| 02 - 'Pleasant
Colony' wins Kentucky Derby |
| 04 - General
Motors introduces new J-cars |
| 05 - The Mets
beat the Yankees 4-1 in the 16th and final Mayor's Trophy Game, New
York City |
| 05 - IRA
prisoner Bobby Sands dies in the Maze prison, Belfast, after 65 days
on a hunger strike |
| 06 - USAF
plane, a satellite-tracking EC135, explodes and crashes in western
Maryland, killing all 21 crew members aboard |
| 06 - A
freighter and a ferry collide near the Statue of Liberty in New York |
| 09 - Muhammad Ali donates $400,000 reward for arrest and conviction of Atlanta
child killer |
| 10 - Socialist
Francois Mitterrand defeats Valery Giscard d'Estaing in French
presidential election, ending 23 years of conservative government |
| 11 -
Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffe claims God chose him to kill prostitutes |
| 11 - Jamaican
reggae star, Bob Marley, dies of cancer in a Miami hospital, aged 36 |
| 11 - Andrew
Lloyd Webber musical Cats debuts in London |
| 12 - IRA hunger
striker Francis Hughes dies |
| 13 - Pope John
Paul II is shot and seriously wounded in an assassination attempt as he blesses
the crowd in St Peter's Square, Rome. Police detain Turkish terrorist Mehmet Ali Agca |
| 14 - Boston
Celtics win basketball's national championship, defeating Houston
Rockets |
| 14 - USSR
launches Soyuz 40 |
| 15 - Zara Anne
Elizabeth Phillips, daughter of Princess Anne, is born |
| 21 - Francois
Mitterrand inaugurated as Socialist president of France |
| 21 - Jailed IRA
hunger striker Raymond McCreesh dies |
| 21 - New York
Islanders win hockey's Stanley Cup |
| 22 -
Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffe is found guilty of the murder of thirteen
women, and the attempted murder of seven others. He is sentenced to life imprisonment |
| 22 - Street
violence increases in Northern Ireland following death of IRA hunger
striker Patsy O'Hara |
| 24 - Dixon
of Dock Green actor Jack Warner dies |
| 25 - Young
black man found in Chattahoochee River said to be 28th victim of
Atlanta serial killer |
| 25 - Clad in
Spiderman outfit, Dan Goodwin climbs Chicago's Sears Tower and is
arrested at the top |
| 27 - Marine
Corp jet landing on carrier USS Nimitz during night
crashes, causing fire and killing 14. Traces of marijuana found in
remains of some of the servicemen killed |
| 29 - Woman
seizes Ohio TV station and takes hostage |
| 30 - Bangladesh
President Ziaur Rahman assassinated in coup attempt; VP Abdus Sattar
takes control of government |
| 07 - Israeli
planes bomb Iraqi nuclear reactor near Baghdad |
| 12 - Pro
baseball players begin their first-ever mid-season strike over the
issue of compensation to owners when players become free agents. It
lasts for 50 days |
| 13 - Marcus
Sarjeant, 17 years old, charged with treason after firing six blanks
at Queen Elizabeth in The Mall |
| 16 - After
visiting the People's Republic of China, Secretary of State Alexander
Haig announces that the US will now sell arms to Beijing |
| 17 - Gunman
kills four in bank before being shot by police in Rochester, New York |
| 19 - European
Space Agency launches two satellites |
| 19 - George
Washington's false teeth are stolen from Smithsonian Institute |
| 21 - Wayne
Williams is charged for the serial murders of 28 black children and
young adults in Atlanta, Georgia |
| 22 - Supreme
Court rules, 4–4, that former president
Richard Nixon and three top aides may
be required to pay monetary damages for unconstitutional wiretap of
home telephone of former national security aide |
| 22 - Mark
Chapman pleads guilty to the charge of murdering John Lennon outside
the Dakota Building in New York in 1980 |
| 24 - The new
Humber suspension bridge is opened to traffic in Britain. It has the
longest single-span in the world |
| 28 - In
Teheran, a bomb destroys the headquarters of the Islamic Republican
Party. Head of the Supreme Court, Ayatollah Beheshti and four Cabinet
Ministers are among the 72 people killed |
| 04/15 - Riots
break out in Toxteth, Liverpool, and other parts of the UK, including
London |
| 08 - Banks and
steel industry in France nationalised by Socialist government |
| 08 - IRA hunger
striker Joe McDonnell dies |
| 11 - France
performs nuclear test on Mururoa Island |
| 13 - IRA hunger
striker Martin Hurson dies |
| 15 - FDA
approves artificial sweetener aspartame |
| 16 - Harry
Chapin dies in a car crash, aged 38 |
| 17 - More than
150 people are killed in raids by Israeli aircraft bombing Beirut and
other Palestinian bases in Lebanon |
| 18 - More than
110 die in collapse of aerial walkways in lobby of Hyatt Regency
Hotel in Kansas City; 188 are injured |
| 19 - British
Government refuses to negotiate with remaining IRA hunger strikers in
Belfast prison |
| 22 - Sentence
of life imprisonment pronounced on Mehmet Ali Agca for attempted
assassination of Pope John Paul II |
| 25 - Rugby fans
clash with anti-apartheid demonstrators in New Zealand during a tour
by the South African team |
| 27 - More
rioting erupts in Liverpool, England |
| 29 - World's
eyes watch Royal Wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer |
| 30 - Gambian
President Sir Dawda, Kairaba Jawara overthrown while out of country
to attend royal wedding in London |
| 31 - Panamanian
leader General Omar Torrijos dies in plane crash |
| 31 - Mother of
IRA hunger striker Patrick Quinn gives authorities permission to save
his life |
|
01 - MTV, television's first
24-hour music channel, premieres at 12:01 and changes the music
business forever |
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01 - IRA hunger striker Kevin Lynch
dies in Belfast prison; reaction on streets shows weakening support
for strikers |
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02 - IRA hunger striker Kieran
Doherty dies in Belfast prison |
|
03 - 13,000 members of PATCO, the
American air traffic controllers union, go on a nationwide strike.
Reagan gives them two days to return to work or else lose their jobs |
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03 - Mafia chief Carlos Marcello
convicted in FBI Brilab sting operation |
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04 - Reagan's plan to reduce income
taxes is passed by Congress. The bill reduces income taxes by 5% as
of October 1, 10% as of July 1, 1982 and a further 10% from July 1,
1983 |
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05 - Reagan administration sends
termination notices to all air traffic controllers on strike. PATCO
union leaders are arrested |
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07 - Over one million Solidarity
members strike in Poland over food shortages |
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08 - IRA hunger striker Thomas
McElwee dies in Belfast's Maze Prison |
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10 - President Reagan authorises
production of the neutron bomb |
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12 - East German successfully
escapes across Berlin Wall to West Germany |
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12 - IBM introduces PC (with 64k of
RAM and a single floppy disk drive) and PC-DOS version 1.0 |
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15 - Fatalities result when a crane
collides with an amusement park ride in Hamburg, West Germany |
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15 - Imprisoned IRA hunger striker
Patrick Quinn agrees to end strike |
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16 - New Zealand's 13-0 defeat of
Fiji sets record for highest score in World Cup soccer |
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19 - US aircraft shoot down two
Libyan jets over the Gulf of Sidra after the planes open fire on the
US Navy. Libya claim the Gulf is Libyan territory, while the US
insist that the body of water 60 miles off the coast of Libya is
international territory |
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20 - Imprisoned IRA hunger striker
Michael Devine dies in Belfast, N. Ireland |
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21 - Family of jailed IRA hunger
striker Patrick McGeown give authorities permission to save his life |
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24 - Mark Chapman is sentenced to 20
years in prison for murdering John
Lennon |
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24 - Church of England becomes known as The
Anglican church in Australia |
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25 - Kings Cross (Australia) fire
kills nine people |
| 30 - Iranian
President & Prime Minister assassinated in bomb blast |
| 04 - The US
Agriculture Department classifies ketchup and pickle relish as
vegetables in its retooling of the school lunch program |
| 04 - Four
gunmen assassinate the French ambassador in Lebanon |
| 11 - USSR warns
Polish government about its loss of control and concessions to
protesters |
| 18 - France's
President Mitterrand abolishes the guillotine |
| 19 - Australian
Judge calls for new inquest on Azaria Chamberlain death |
| 21 - Belize
becomes independent. This is the last British colony on the
continental mainland of America to do so |
| 25 - Sandra Day
O'Connor, 51, of Arizona - a proponent of the death penalty and
abortion rights - becomes the first woman sworn in to the US Supreme
Court |
| 01 - The
Pretenders cancel part of their US tour when drummer Martin
Chambers severs tendons and arteries in his hand while trying to
open a window |
| 03 - Hunger
strike in Belfast's Maze prison is called off after 10 deaths |
| 06 - Egyptian
President Sadat assassinated in Cairo by Muslim fundamentalists. He
is succeeded by Honsi Mubarak on October 10th |
| 18 - In Greece,
the first socialist government is elected under Andreas Papandreou |
| 01 - Antigua
becomes independent |
| 05 - Sweden
releases a Soviet submarine after capturing it ten days prior when it
ran aground in Swedish waters |
| 14 - The
Space Shuttle Columbia completes its historic second mission,
marking the first time a manned vehicle is reused for another space
voyage |
| 18 - In a
televised address that is also broadcast in Europe,
President Reagan
outlines a four-point arms control proposal, saying that the US will
cancel its plans to deploy medium range Pershing 2 and cruise
missiles in Europe if the USSR agrees to dismantle its own
medium-range missiles on the continent |
| 29 - Actress
Natalie Wood drowns off the coast of California. Many believe her
death isn't an accident |
| 03 -
Martial law is imposed in Poland. Solidarity is
banned and its leader, Lech
Walesa, is placed under arrest |
| 04 - President
Reagan authorises covert domestic intelligence
operations by the CIA and other agencies |
| 05 -
Elizabeth Canham, a British theology teacher, is ordained as
a priest in the USA. She is the first British woman to
become a priest |
| 11 - Javier Perez de
Cuellar, a Peruvian diplomat, becomes UN Secretary General,
succeeding Dr Kurt Waldheim |
| 14 -
Israel annexes the Golan Heights, which it had captured from
Syria during the 1967 war. The UN Security Council
declares the annexation is illegal |
| 17 - American NATO
commander Brigadier General James Dozier is kidnapped by Red
Brigade terrorists |
| 20 - In
the USA, Polish ambassador Romuald Spasowski, is granted
political asylum |
| 22 - Leopoldo Galtieri
becomes president of Argentina |
| 29 - President
Reagan responds to the USSR's imposition of martial law
in Poland by outlawing the sales of equipment to be used in
the Siberian gas pipeline, and by ending negotiations on the
new long-term grain purchase agreement between the two
superpowers |
| 31 - Former flight
lieutenant Jerry Rawlings overthrows the government of
President Hilla Limann and seizes power again in Ghana |
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Mar 20 - Jean Harris sentenced for murder of "Scarsdale Diet"
Doctor
Mar 30 - President Reagan wounded in assassination attempt
Apr 04 - Brixton ablaze as black youths riot
Apr 12 - First Space Shuttle (Columbia) is launched
May 05 - IRA prisoner Bobby Sands dies
May 13 - Pope shot and wounded in Rome
Jun 13 - 17 year old fires six blanks at Queen Elizabeth
Jul 18 - 110+ die at Hyatt Regency, Kansas City
Jul 29 - Wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana
 The European
Monetary Fund (EMF) is set up and the European Currency Unit (ECU) is introduced
France
introduces the Train ŕ Grand Vitesse (TGV), a high speed train
Acquired
Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) is recognised by the American Center for
Disease Control
American
research chemist Spencer Silver is working for the 3M Corporation trying to
produce the strongest glue in history when in 1970 he spectacularly fails by
inventing a glue that will not stick permanently to anything. It is another 11
years before a colleague, Arthur Fry, finds a (now famous) use for it and
"Post-It Notes" are born
450,000 transistors now
fit on a silicon chip 1/4-inch square
Sydney
Centrepoint Tower completed
'Just A Dash'
wins Melbourne Cup
Parramatta
win their first premiership with a 21-11 win over Newtown in the Australian
rugby league grand final
In a shameful
moment for Australian cricket, Trevor Chappell bowls the last ball underarm
against New Zealand who need six runs to tie the game.
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