Dec 06 NASA launches Intelsat V

Aug 23 In the Kashmir - India Border Region a 5.2 quake killed 15 people killed, at least 40 injured and many houses damaged in the Bhaddu area, Kashmir

Aug 17 Midway relieved Constellation to begin another Indian Ocean deployment and complement Eisenhower task group still on contingency duty in the Arabian Sea

Aug 19 Saudi Arabian Lockheed Tristar crashes on landing at Riyadh, 301 die

Aug 01 Gerd Wessig of East Germany set the high jump record

Aug 10 Allen, the most powerful hurricane in Caribbean hits Brownsville, Tx

Aug 31 Poland's Solidarity labor union founded

Aug 20 UN Security Council condemns (14-0, US abstains) Israeli declaration that all of Jersualem is its capital

Aug 02 US swimmers set 3 world records at National championships

Aug 20 Reinhold Messner of Italy is first to solo ascent Mt Everest

Aug 13 Joseph MacInnis oceanographer discovers sunken barque HMS 'Breadalbane,' crushed by ice and sunk at Beechey Island NWT, Aug. 21, 1853; Scottish ship well preserved by extreme cold; sonar shows some sails and rigging intact; world's northernmost found shipwreck.

Aug 01 US swimmers set 3 world records at National championships

Oct 25 Barbra Streisand's "Guilty," album goes #1 for 3 weeks & her single "Woman In Love," goes #1 for 3 weeks

Oct 30 Honduras &El Salvador settle their boundary dispute

Oct 01 Cosmonauts Ryumin & Popov break space endurance record of 176 days

Oct 09 Princess Caroline of Monaco divorces Philippe Junot

Oct 10 Very Large Array (VLA) radio telescope network dedicated

Oct 23 Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin resigns, due to illness

Oct 11 Russian cosmonauts return to earth, after spending a record 185 days in space

Oct 30 NASA launches Flt Satcom-4

Oct 31 Julian Nott sets world hot-air balloon altitude record (16,806 m)

Oct 01 USS Cochrane (DDG-21) rescues 104 Vietnamese refugees 620 miles east of Saigon

Oct 17 Mount St Helens, in Washington State USA, erupts for the third time in 24 hours

Oct 02 Larry Holmes retains WBC heavweight title defeating Muhammad Ali

Oct 11 Cosmonauts Popov & Ryumin set space endurance record of 184 days

Oct 24 Polish government legalizes independent labor union Solidarity

Oct 10 4,500 die when a pair of earthquakes strikes NW Algeria

Oct 27 Dave Gryllis sets world bicycle speed record of 94.37 kph

Oct 09 The first consumer use of home banking by computer (Knoxville Tn)

Oct 22 New South Korean constitution comes into effect

Oct 12 Ships of the Amphibious Force, Sixth Fleet, including Guadalcanal, began assisting the victims of the massive earthquake which devastated the Algerian city of Al Asnam.

Oct 24 John Lennon releases "(Just Like) Starting Over" in UK

Oct 14 Pres nominee Ronald Reagan promises to name a woman to Supreme Court

Jul 18 Rohini 1, first Indian satellite, launches into orbit

Jul 08 The Navy terminated its support operations at Key West for the Cuban refugees

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