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| 02 - Ideological purity
dictates that Noddy can't play with Golly any more. All new editions
of Enid Blyton's Noddy books will be devoid of the traditional
black Golliwogs who will be replaced by gnomes |
| 05 - Genetic fingerprinting
is used for the first time in a criminal investigation in Leicester,
UK |
| 21 - Terry Waite, the
Archbishop of Canterbury's envoy, is kidnapped by a terrorist group in Beirut, Lebanon.
Waite was in Beirut to negotiate for the release of other kidnap
victims |
| 24 - 162 police and 33
demonstrators are injured in violent riots outside Rupert Murdoch's
News International printing plant at Wapping, UK |
| 02 - In a referendum in the
Philippines, 81% approve a new US-style constitution |
| 04 - Stars & Stripes
wins back Americas Cup for USA |
| 04 - Liberace dies of AIDS
(b. May 16 1919) |
| 22 - US pop artist
Andy Warhol dies aged 56, after routine gall bladder surgery |
| 22 - A force of around
7,000 Syrian troops enters West Beirut in an effort to end fighting
between Muslim and Druse forces |
| 26 - The Tower Commission
investigating US arms sales to Iran criticises senior White House
staff |
| 04 - In a televised
address, President Reagan takes "full responsibility" for the
Iran-Contra Affair, but stops short of admitting that the plan was
wrong |
| 06 - Dover car ferry
Herald Of Free Enterprise capsizes off Zeebrugge, Belgium,
drowning 187 people. One set of cargo doors had been left open
allowing the car deck to flood with water |
| 11 - Four New Jersey high
school dropouts die of Carbon Monoxide poisoning in an apparent
suicide |
| 19 - Evangelist
Jim Bakker
resigns as head of the PTL Club following revelations of sexual
encounters with church secretary Jessica Hahn |
| 20 - The Australian Federal
government approves the use of AZT (azido-thymidine) on
AIDS
patients, although the drug is criticised by some for its expense
($10,000 per year per patient) and its many side effects |
| 29 - Crocodile kills US
model in Northern Australia |
| 30 - A Japanese insurance
company buys Van Gogh's Sunflowers for $53.9 million - The
highest price ever paid for a painting |
| 02 - Jazz drummer Buddy
Rich dies of a brain tumour, aged 69 |
| 14 -
Mikhail Gorbachev announces
that the USSR is prepared to remove short-range missiles from Eastern
Europe |
| 04 - Australian Supreme
Court rules that Rotary Clubs must admit women |
| 04 - Blues bandleader Paul
Butterfield dies of a drug overdose at the age of 44 |
| 06 - In the South African
general election, the ruling National Party wins an overwhelming
victory |
| 07 - Gary Hart suspends his
campaign for the US Democratic presidential nomination following news
stories that reveal his adulterous association with 29-year-old model
Donna Rice |
| 12 - Australian crime boss
Robert Trimbole dies in Spain |
| 15 - Actress Rita Hayworth
dies |
| 17 - Iraqi Exocet missiles
blast US frigate USS Stark in the Persian Gulf, killing 37
crew. Iraq apologises for the incident, insisting that the missiles
were fired by mistake |
| 28 - 19-year-old West
German, Matthias Rust, lands a Cessna next to the Kremlin in Red
Square, Moscow |
| 02 - Australian
Chamberlains are pardoned over baby Azaria death |
| 09 - Neil Kinnock says of
Margaret Thatcher: "She only went to Venice because somebody told her
she could walk down the middle of the street". |
| 11 -
Margaret Thatcher wins
record third term as British PM |
| 17 - Five convicted of
brutal Anita Cobby killing in Sydney, Australia |
| 22 - Dancer and actor Fred
Astaire dies at age of 88 |
| 04 - Klaus Barbie, 73,
Gestapo wartime chief in Lyon, sentenced to life imprisonment by
French court for war crimes |
| 11 - Australian PM
Bob Hawke back for record third term |
| 17 - Ollie North wraps
himself in flag at "Irangate" hearing |
| 20 - UN Security Council
unanimously adopts a resolution calling on Iran and Iraq to implement
a ceasefire |
| 22 - US warships begin
escorting Kuwaiti oil tankers through the Persian Gulf to protect
them from Iranian attacks |
| 26 - Irish cyclist Stephen
Roche wins the Tour de France |
| 01 - Dave Stewart of
Eurythmics marries Siobhan Fahey of
Bananarama |
| 09 - A youth armed with an
automatic rifle and a pump-action shotgun kills six people and wounds
10 others when he takes random shots at traffic on Hoddle Street,
Melbourne (Australia) |
| 20 - Gunman Michael Ryan
kills 16 on a rampage in English village of Hungerford |
| 23 - An escaped drug addict
who shot a policeman is apprehended and killed by police at a
Grateful Dead concert celebrating the 20th Anniversary of the 'Summer
of Love' |
| 28 - US Film director John
Huston dies |
| 11 - Peter Tosh, guitarist
and founding member of The Wailers, is shot and killed by burglars at
his home in Jamaica a month before his 43rd birthday |
| 21 - US helicopters
intercept an Iranian ship caught laying mines in the Persian Gulf |
| 01 - An earthquake
measuring 6.1 on the Richter Scale strikes Los Angeles, leaving over
100 injured and eight people dead |
| 06 - Fiji becomes a
republic after two successive bloodless coups |
| 16 - "Storm of the century"
lashes Southern England. 17 people die and winds of 93 mph fell an
estimated 15 million trees |
| 16 - Jessica McClure is
rescued after being stuck in a well shaft for three days in Midland,
Texas |
| 18 - US destroyers attack
Iranian oil platforms in the Persian Gulf in retaliation for Iranian
attacks on shipping |
| 19 - Fifty billion pounds
is wiped off value of public companies as Wall Street crashes on
"Black Monday", the worst day for shares in 20th century. Dow Jones
index plummets over 20% |
| 23 - The Senate rejects the
Supreme Court nomination of Robert Bork. Bork, who was nominated by
Reagan to replace the retiring Lewis Powell, Jr, is considered too
much of a right-wing extremist for the job |
| 08 - Ulster bomb blast
kills 11 on Remembrance Day |
| 08 - Australia wins cricket
World Cup for first time |
| 18 - "Irangate"
Congressional report blames President Reagan for widespread
corruption in the US government |
| 19 - Thirty die as tube
fire hits Kings Cross tube station in London |
| 08 - Historic INF missile
treaty signed with USSR to reduce nuclear arsenals. According to the
agreement, 2,611 US and Soviet medium and short-range missiles will
be destroyed |
| 08 - A 22 year old man
armed with a high-powered rifle shoots dead eight people in the
Melbourne headquarters of Australia Post before leaping to his death
from a 10th floor window |
| 21 - Nearly 3,000 people
die in a ferry disaster in the Philippines |
| 22 - Barred by the
International Court of Justice from sending any further arms or
military supplies to the Nicaraguan Contras, Reagan authorises $14
million in "non-lethal" Contra aid |
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Jan 02 - Noddy has to say goodbye to Golly
Mar 06 - Herald Of Free Enterprise capsizes off Zeebrugge,
Belgium, drowning 187 people
May 07 - Model Donna Rice scuppers Gary Hart's presidential hopes
May 28 - West German lands a Cessna in Red Square, Moscow
Jul 04 - Gestapo chief Klaus Barbie, 73, sentenced to life imprisonment
Jul 11 - Australian PM Bob Hawke
back for record third term
Aug 20 - Michael Ryan kills 16 on a rampage in English village of
Hungerford
Dec 08 - Historic missile treaty signed by USSR and USA to reduce nuclear
arsenals
 Soviet
cosmonaut Yuri Romanenko completes a record 326 days in space
Boris Yeltsin
sacked after criticising Gorbachev
Wayne Gardner
wins world 500cc motorcycle championship in Brazil
'Kensei' wins
Melbourne Cup
Quote of the Year
"How do we prevent the use of nuclear weapons? By
threatening to use nuclear weapons. And we can't get rid of nuclear weapons,
because of nuclear weapons"
Martin Amis, Einstein's Monsters, 1987
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