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| 02 - USA officially
withdraw from UNESCO |
| 07 - Nine striking miners
in the UK are jailed for arson |
| 10 - Sir Clive Sinclair's
ill-fated battery-operated tricycle, the C5, takes to the road |
| 10 - Eight die when a gas
explosion wrecks a block of flats in Putney, South London |
| 13 - 390 people are killed
when an Ethiopian train bound for Addis Ababa falls into a ravine |
| 14 - Israeli cabinet
decides on a three-stage withdrawal from occupied Lebanon, beginning
in February |
| 20 -
President Reagan and
Vice-President Bush are inaugurated for their second terms |
| 21 - A record cold snap
kills 40 people in 15 US states |
| 25 - New Zealand refuses US
warships entry to ports |
| 25 - South African
president Botha opens a three-chamber parliament for whites, Indians
and coloureds |
| 25 - Bernhard Goetz, who
has admitted to shooting four black youths on a New York subway on
December 22 last year, is to face illegal weapons charges only. Goetz
is regarded as a hero by many New Yorkers, and a dangerous racist by
others |
| 29 - Dons at Oxford
University refuse to grant Mrs Thatcher an honorary degree |
| 05 - Libya releases four
detained UK nationals after negotiations by the Archbishop of
Canterbury's envoy, Terry Waite |
| 07 - Four secret police
officers in Poland are convicted of the murder of Fr J Popieluszko |
| 11 - 17 RAF bandsmen are
killed when their bus collides with a petrol tanker near Munich,
Germany |
| 16 - Israel begins
withdrawal from Lebanon |
| 17 - Cricket is played
under lights for the first time at the MCG (Melbourne Cricket
ground). Australia defeat England by seven wickets |
| 26 - Michael Fairley, the
hooded rapist known as The Fox, is given six life sentences |
| 28 - Nine officers of the
Royal Ulster Constabulary are killed in an IRA mortar attack on a
police station in Newry, Northern Ireland |
| 03 - UK miners end their
year-long national strike |
| 07 - Two IRA men are jailed
for 35 years for planning the month-long IRA bombing campaign in
London in 1981 |
| 10 - Soviet President
Chernenko dies aged 73 |
| 11 -
Mikhail Gorbachev is
the new Soviet leader following the death of President Chernenko |
| 11 - The Egyptian Al-Fayed
brothers win control of House of Fraser, owners of Harrods |
| 21 - 19 people die in
Uitnhage, South Africa, when police fire on crowds on the 25th
anniversary of Sharpeville |
| 28 - Painter Marc Chagall
(born Moyshe Shagal in 1887) dies |
| 30 - 'Last Suspect' wins
the Grand National |
| 15 - South Africa abolishes
ban on mixed marriages |
| 18 - The first ever western
pop album is released in China. It is by
Wham! |
| 23 - Coca-Cola announces
that it will release its new formula for the soft drink Coke within
the next month. "New Coke" will look the same but taste different |
| 26 - Australian
bantamweight boxer Jeff Fenech becomes world champion after defeating
Japan's Satoshi Shingaki in Sydney |
| 01 - In Poland, 10,000
Solidarity supporters clash with police during a May Day parade |
| 05 -
Reagan's wreath-laying
visit to Bitburg war cemetery in Germany (which contains the graves
of 49 Nazi SS Soldiers) angers Jews |
| 10 - Sikh extremists bomb
three cities in India, killing 84 people |
| 11 - Over 40 soccer fans
die as fire sweeps through the packed main stand at the Bradford City
football ground during a match against Lincoln City. More than 150
others are injured |
| 11 - A man is killed during
violent clashes at a Birmingham City v Leeds United football (soccer)
match |
| 13 - Philadelphia police
toss a knapsack filled with plastic explosives onto the roof of the
HQ of Move, a black political organisation. The explosion destroys
two city blocks, kills 11 people and leaves 240 homeless |
| 14 - 146 die during Tamil
separatist attacks in the holy city of Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka |
| 18 - Manchester United beat
Everton 1-0 to win the FA Cup Final |
| 26 - At least 34 die when
two oil tankers explode at the port of San Roque in Spain |
| 28 - Tidal wave and cyclone
batter Bangladesh. More than 10,000 dead |
| 29 - Liverpool soccer fans
riot at Heysel Stadium in Brussels during the European Cup Final
match with Juventus. The ensuing crush leaves 38 Belgian and Italian
supporters dead and several hundred injured |
| 31 - The Football
Association bans English clubs from playing in Europe next season |
| 02 - The Union of European
Football Associations (UEFA) bans English soccer clubs from playing
in Europe "indefinitely" |
| 04 - Actor Stacey Keach
returns to the US after serving six months in a British prison for
cocaine smuggling |
| 06 - Corpse of Josef
Mengele is exhumed near Sao Paolo, Brazil. Nicknamed the "Angel of
Death", Mengele aided in the torture of 4 million Jews in Auschwitz |
| 10 - Israel completes
withdrawal from Southern Lebanon apart from a 'security zone' |
| 14 - Shi'ite Muslim gunmen
hijack a TWA airliner after taking off from Athens, and demand the
release of over 700 prisoners held by Israel |
| 15 - First mixed-race
marriage is performed in South Africa |
| 23 - Mystery bomb kills all
325 onboard an Air India Jumbo flying from Canada. The plane plunges
into the sea about 120 miles off the Irish coast |
| 30 - 39 TWA hostages freed
after 17 days |
| 30 - Frenchman Bernard
Hinault wins Tour de France for a fifth time |
| 02 - Andrei Gromyko is
named president of the USSR. Eduard Shevardnadze becomes foreign
minister |
| 04 - Girl prodigy Ruth
Lawrence wins a first-class degree at Oxford after completing the
course in only two years. She is 13 years old |
| 06 - Martina Navratilova
beats Chris Lloyd in the women's single final at Wimbledon |
| 07 - 17-year-old West
German Boris Becker beats Kevin Curren to become the youngest
Wimbledon men's champion in history |
| 10 - The
Greenpeace ship
Rainbow Warrior is blown up in Auckland Harbour, New Zealand,
while protesting against French nuclear testing in the area. One crew
member is killed. French secret agents eventually confirm their
responsibility |
| 13 - Rock star Bob Geldof
organises two simultaneous Live Aid concerts (London and
Philadelphia) watched on TV by over 1.5 billion people worldwide and
raising over £50 million for famine victims in Ethiopia |
| 13 -
President Reagan has a
cancerous tumour removed from his intestine |
| 16 - New Jersey teens hack
into Pentagon computers |
| 19 - Over 260 people die
after 55 million gallons of water flood from a burst dam and engulf
the village of Stava in the Italian Dolomites |
| 30 - Australian cricketers
banned for touring South Africa |
| 31 - Dr Geoffrey Edelsten
buys Sydney Swans football club in Australia for AU$6.5 million to
become the first private owner of a VFL club |
| The A H Robbins Company, producer
of the Dalkon Shield IUD, declares bankruptcy as thousands of women
file lawsuits claiming they were injured or made infertile by the
birth-control device |
| 02 - 140 die in a plane
crash at Dallas-Fort Worth Airport |
| 06 - Giant Australian
retailer G J Coles buys the Myer department store chain . The new
retail giant, Coles-Myer, will be Australia's biggest retailer |
| 09 - Arthur James Walker,
50, retired naval officer, convicted by federal judge of
participating in Soviet spy ring operated by his brother, John Walker |
| 10 -
Duran Duran vocalist
Simon Le Bon's yacht capsizes during a boat race off Cornwall,
England. The singer has to be airlifted to safety |
| 12 - JAL's Boeing 747
Flight 123 crashes near Tokyo. 520 passengers and crew die, making
this the worst single-plane crash in aviation history |
| 15 - In South Africa,
president Botha reaffirms commitment to apartheid and rules out the
possibility of parliamentary representation for blacks |
| 22 - A British Airtours
Boeing 737 bursts into flames during an aborted take-off in
Manchester killing 54 people |
| 01 - Wreck of Titanic
found off Newfoundland by US and French researchers, 73 years after
it went down |
| 05 - Andrew Peacock resigns
as Australian Opposition Leader. John Howard is new leader |
| 09 - President Reagan
announces comparatively mild sanctions - a ban on the sale of
computers and the importing of Kruggerrands - against South Africa in
protest of apartheid |
| 09 - Riots break out in
Tottenham, London, following the death of a woman while her flat was
being searched by police. A policeman is hacked to death during the
rioting |
| 13 - Britain expels 25
Soviet diplomats for alleged spying. The next day the USSR expels 25
British diplomats |
| 13 - European rocket
Ariane III explodes nine minutes into flight |
| 17 - Welsh-born fashion
designer Laura Ashley (b. 1925) dies in a fall at her home |
| 19 - Mexico earthquake -
Death toll reaches 2,000 |
| 22 - French Defence
Minister resigns over Rainbow Warrior attack after admitting
that French agents bombed the
Greenpeace vessel |
| 28 - Rioting breaks out in
the South London suburb of Brixton. Over 200 arrests are made |
| 28 - Essendon 26.14 (170)
defeat Hawthorn 14.8 (92) in the Australian VFL Grand Final |
| 29 - Canterbury Bankstown
defeat St George 7-6 in the Australian Rugby League Grand Final |
| 01 - Israeli air force
planes bomb the PLO headquarters in Tunis, killing 60 people in
retaliation for the murder of three Israelis in Cyprus |
| 02 - Actor Rock Hudson dies
of AIDS at 59 |
| 07 - The US announces that
it will no longer automatically comply with World Court decisions,
charging that its procedures have been "abused for political ends" |
| 07 - Palestinians seize
Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro and murder a US hostage |
| 10 - Orson Welles dies at
age 70 |
| 10 - Yul Brynner dies (born
Taidje Kahn in 1915) |
| 13 - 32 year old Ricky
Wilson of The B-52s dies of
AIDS |
| 16 - Italian government
toppled by political crisis over Achille Lauro hijacking |
| 21 - 13 die in Britain's
worst motorway accident when a coach bursts into flames in an M6
pile-up |
| 27 - Prince Charles &
Princess Diana visit Australia |
| 27 - In Australia, Ayers
Rock and the Uluru National Park are handed back to Aborigines |
| 28 - John A. Walker and
son, Michael I. Walker, 22, sentenced in Navy espionage case |
| 05 - 'What A Nuisance' wins
Melbourne Cup |
| 09 - Gary Kasparov, 22,
becomes world chess champion |
| 13 - In Columbia, at least
25,000 people die when the Nevado del Ruiz volcano erupts for the
first time since 1845 |
| 19/21 -
President Reagan
and Mikhail Gorbachev meet in Geneva, Switzerland, and issue a joint
statement condemning nuclear war |
| 21 - The two French agents
who bombed the Rainbow Warrior are jailed for ten years |
| 29 - Crack, a type of
Cocaine becomes the drug of choice in New York City |
| 06 - Britain joins the
'Star Wars' project |
| 12 - Jetliner carrying
American soldiers home for the holidays crashes |
| 30 - Martial law ends in
Pakistan |
| 30 - Palestinian terrorists
kill 14 people in attacks at Rome and Vienna airports |
| 31 - Former US teen idol
Ricky Nelson is killed in a plane crash on New Years Eve. He is 45
years old |
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Mar 11 - Mikhail
Gorbachev is new Soviet leader
May 11 - fans die in fire at Bradford City football ground
Jul 07 - Boris Becker wins Wimbledon at age of 17
Jul 10 - Greenpeace
ship Rainbow Warrior blown up in NZ by French agents
Jul 13 -
Live Aid
concerts in UK & USA watched by over 1.5 billion people
Sep 19 - Mexico earthquake kills over 2,000
Sep 28 - Rioting breaks out in London suburb of Brixton. Over 200 arrests
are made
Oct 07 - Palestinians seize Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro and
murder a US hostage
Nov 19 -
Reagan and Gorbachev
meet in Geneva
 The CD-ROM is
invented - You can now put 270,000 pages of text on a CD
Cellular telephones go into cars
US TV networks begin satellite distribution to affiliates
Sony builds a radio the size of a credit card
'Pay-per-view' TV channels open for business
Quote of the Year
"I am not prepared to lead white South Africans on
a road to abdication and suicide"
South African President P W Botha
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