Oct 21 Gerry Adams elected to the Northern Ireland Assembly, becoming the first Sinn Fein member to do so

Oct 13 IOC restores 2 gold medals from 1912 Olympics to Jim Thorpe

Oct 31 Pope John Paul II becomes First pontiff to visit Spain

Oct 16 Mt Palomar Observatory first to detect Halley's comet on 13th return

Oct 10 Pope John Paul II canonizes Rev M Kolbe, who volunteered to die in place of another inmate at Auschwitz concentration camp, a saint

Oct 01 West Germany's Parliament ousts chancellor Helmut Schmidt

Oct 17 The outlawing of the 'Solidarity' labour movement causes widespread strikes and demonstrations in Poland

Oct 02 Paul Volcker announces that the war against inflation has gone too far and that he is abandoning his experiment with monetarism

Oct 14 6,000 Unification church couples wed in Korea

Oct 29 Car maker John DeLorean indicted for drug trafficking, later acquitted

Oct 27 IBM ROM is capable of EGA graphics

Jul 07 Fred Stuthman actor (Henry Adler-Hello Larry), dies at 63

Jul 04 Jimmy Connors beats John McEnroe for his last Wimbeldon championship

Jul 07 David Moorcroft of UK sets record for 5000 m, 13:00.41

Jul 10 In Vancouver, BC, three $2 ticket bettors win $579,129 apiece at the races in Exhibition Park. (they call it the sport of kings?)

Jul 08 Porn star John Homes convicted of receiving stolen property

Jul 05 An Oklahoma City bank goes into receivership. Its receiver, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., begins paying off $271 million in insured deposits as examiners uncover a morass of bad loans to wildcat drillers and others made by Penn Square, based in a shopping center

Jul 27 Indian PM Indira Gandhi first visit to US in almost 11 years

Jul 26 Canada's Anik D1 Comsat launched by US Delta rocket

Jul 16 Patrick Dewaere actor, dies of self-inflicted gunshot wound

Jul 12 Kenneth More actor, dies of Parkinson disease at 67

Jul 27 Dan Seymour actor (We the People, Sing it Again), dies at 67

Jul 15 Senate confirms George Shultz as 60th sec of state by vote of 97-0

Jul 01 2,100 Unification church couples wed in NYC

Jul 01 Over 2000 Unification Church couples marry at NY MSG

Jul 01 Challenger moves overland to Dryden

Jul 03 Pete Rose of the Philadelphia Phillies connected for hit #3,786. It moved Rose into second place in the career-hits column

Jul 05 Challenger flies to Kennedy Space Center via Ellington AFB, Texas

Jul 03 Martina Navratilova defeats Chris Evert Lloyd at Wimbeldon

Jul 09 Pan Am Boeing 727 crashes in Kenner, La, killing 153

Jul 15 Columbia flies to Kennedy Space Center via Dyess AFB, Texas

Jul 15 Wendy Caulfield first Green River victim, found near Seattle

Jul 10 Miguel Vasquez makes first public quadruple somersault on trapeze

Jul 04 4th Space Shuttle Mission-Columbia 4 lands at Edwards AFB

Jul 11 Italy beats West Germany 3-1 for soccer's 12th World Cup in Madrid

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