Aug 28 Sebastian Coe of UK sets 1-mi record of 3:47.33 (since broken)

Aug 19 2 VF-41 aircraft from USS Nimitz shoot down 2 Libyan aircraft which fired on them over international waters

Aug 25 Jeff Schwartz, sets solo record for trampoline bouncing (266 09)

Aug 08 US announce plans to produce the neutron bomb

Aug 25 Mark Chapman, John Lennon's murderer, is sentenced to 20 years

Aug 28 John Hinckley Jr. pleads innocent to attempting to kill US President Ronald Reagan. He is later acquitted by reason of insanity.

Aug 26 Space Shuttle vehicle moves to Launch Complex 39A for STS-2 mission

Aug 28 John Hinckley Jr pleads innocent in attempt to kill Pres Reagan

Aug 28 Sebastian Coe of UK sets 1-mi record of 3 47.33 (since broken)

Aug 30 In Iran, the President and Prime Minister are killed by a bomb

Aug 12 IBM introduces the PC and PC-DOS version 1.0

Aug 24 Mark David Chapman, convicted assassin of ex-Beatle John Lennon, is sentenced in New York to 20-years-to-life in prison.

Aug 25 Voyager 2's closest approach to Saturn (63,000 miles/100,000 km)

Aug 10 Coca-Cola Bottling Co agrees to pump $34 million into black business

Aug 24 Mark David Chapman is sentenced to 20 yrs to life for Lennon's murder

Aug 05 Pres Regan fires 11,500 air traffic controllers on strike

Oct 10 Anwar Sadat's funeral service is held in Cairo

Oct 11 LeRoy Irvin sets yards gained on punt returns record (207 yds)

Oct 20 3 members of Weather underground arrested for armored truck robbery

Oct 22 Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization decertified

Oct 22 US national debt tops $1 trillion

Oct 04 Olympic star Bruce Jenner added the title of actor to his resume. He joined singer Harry Belafonte in their first dramatic roles on NBC-TV’ s Grambling’ s White Tiger

Oct 02 Hazel Scott singer/pianist (Hazel Scott), dies at 61

Oct 03 Irish Nationalist at Maze Prison near Belfast end 7-mo hunger strike

Oct 28 Edward M McIntrye elected 1st black mayor of Augusta Georgia

Oct 23 US national debt hits $1 trillion

Oct 11 Unknown rocker Prince opens for Rolling Stones at LA Coliseum

Oct 05 Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg becomes an honarary American

Oct 08 Pres Reagan greeted predecessors Jimmy Carter, Gerald R Ford and Richard Nixon before sending them to Egypt for Anwar Sadat's funeral

Oct 13 Vice President Hosni Mubarak elected president of Egypt

Oct 27 Andrew Young, former UN Ambassador, elected mayor of Atlanta, Georgia

Jul 26 E Bowell discovers asteroids #2845 Franklinken & #2882 Tedesco

Jul 09 The Jacksons begin a 36-city tour

Jul 10 CERN achieves first proton-antiproton beam collision (570 GeV)

Jul 29 Prince Charles of England weds Lady Diana Spencer

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