May 12 The first nonstop crossing of US via balloon (Maxie Anderson & son Chris)

May 07 Samm-Art Williams' "Home" premieres in NYC

May 08 World Health Organization announced smallpox had been eradicated

May 05 Siege at Iranian Embassy in London ends; British commandos & police stormed the building

May 04 Marshal Josip Broz Tito, president of Yugoslavia, dies

May 19 Ringo &Barbara Bach are involved in a car crash

May 29 J Turners "Juliet & Her Nurse" sold for $6,400,000 in NYC

May 18 Mt St. Helens, North America, erupts causing widespread damage

May 29 53rd National Spelling Bee: Jacques Bailly wins spelling elucubrate

May 07 Josip Tito, Yugoslav President, buried

May 02 Pope John Paul II begins African tour

May 17 Major race riot in Miami FL - 16 killed, 300 injured

May 02 Pink Floyd's "Another Brick in Wall (Part II)" is banned in South Africa

May 18 Mount St Helens blows its top in Washington State, 60 die

May 20 710 families in Love Canal area (Niagara Falls NY) are evacuated

May 31 Police & youthful rebels battle in Zurich

May 24 "Rock Lobster" by B-52's hits #56

May 01 15th Academy of Country Music Awards Barbara Mandrell wins

May 28 Nottingham Forrest wins 25th Europe Cup 1 in Madrid

May 26 Soyuz 36 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 Hungarian) to Salyut 6

May 10 Ottawa gives financially strapped Chrysler Canada $20 million in loan guarantees, and Ontario provides a $10 million grant, Bring on the K Car!!!

May 29 Larry Bird beats out Magic Johnson for NBA rookie of year

May 21 "Empire Strikes Back" premiers

May 21 Star Wars movie "The Empire Strikes Back" premieres

May 02 Joseph Doherty &3 other IRA men arrested for murder

Jan 29 Jimmy Durante New York City NY, singer/comedian (Ink-a-dink-a-doo, Palooka, The Jimmy Durante Show), dies at 86

Jan 01 Chrysler UK renamed Talbot

Jan 01 International Decade of Water & Sanitation begins

Jan 31 Police storm occupied Spanish embassy in Guatemala City, killing 41

Jan 26 Prime Minister Joe Clark warns USSR that Canada will boycott Summer Olympics in Moscow if Soviet troops do not leave Afghanistan

Jan 06 Philadelphia Flyers set NHL record of 35 straight games without a defeat

Jan 03 Joy Adamson, author of "Born Free," is killed by a servant in northern Kenya.

Jan 01 International Decade of Water & Sanitation begins

Jan 28 37th Golden Globes Dustin Hoffman &Sally Field wins

Jan 29 Antonio Molina composer, dies at 85

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