Jun 20 Israeli PM Menachem Begin arrives in Washington

Jun 11 Movie "ET The Extra-Terrestrial" released (highest grossing film)

Dec 09 Mary-Beth and William Hurt divorce

Dec 02 A 61 year old American dentist, Dr Barney Clark, is the first human to receive an artificial heart

Dec 18 Flight readiness firing of Challenger's main engines; 20 seconds

Dec 31 TV soap "The Doctors" ends 19 year run

Dec 30 US Assay Office in New York City NY closes

Dec 01 Miguel de la Madrid inaugurated as President of Mexico

Dec 02 First permanent artificial heart successfully implanted (University of Utah) in retired dentist Barney Clark; lived 112 days with the Jarvic-7 heart

Dec 06 11 soldiers and 6 civilians die by bomb planted by Irish National Liberation Army exploded in a pub in Ballykelly, Northern Ireland

Dec 15 Spain reopens border with Gibraltar

Dec 10 Soyuz T-5 returns to Earth, 211 days after take-off

Dec 06 Sen Ted and Joan Kennedy divorce

Dec 15 Roy Williams, Teamsters pres, and 4 others convicted of bribery

Dec 15 Reputed to be 'Robin Hoods' tree, the 'Major Oak' in Sherwood forest, is fitted with a fire alarm

Aug 19 Renaldo Nehemiah of US sets record for 110 m hurdles, 12.93 sec

Aug 01 Cathleen Nesbitt English actress (Seperate Tables), dies at 93

Aug 17 Barney Phillips actor (Dragnet, Felony Squad), dies at 68

Aug 18 NYSE tops 100 M share volume figure, 132.69 M shares traded

Aug 17 South Bend, Ind jury acquits self-avowed racist Joseph Paul Franklin

Aug 20 Mexican Treasury Secretary Jesus Silva Herzog tells foreign bankers that Mexico cannot repay her $60 billion foreign debt, the first Third World country to default

Aug 26 NASA launches Telesat-F

Aug 27 Soyuz T-7 returns to Earth

Aug 22 Gen Ariel Sharon urges Palestinians to discuss peaceful coexistence

Aug 19 Soyuz T-7 launched, Svetlana Savtiskaya 2nd woman in space

Oct 11 English ship Mary Rose, which sank during an engagement with France in 1545, raised at Portsmouth, England

Oct 11 After 437 years, the remains of Henry VIII ship the 'Mary Rose' are raised from the seabed

Oct 08 Poland bans Solidarity

Oct 12 38.6 cm (15.2") of rainfall, Angoon, Alaska (state record)

Oct 05 Unmanned rocket sled reaches 9,851 kph at White Sands, NM

Oct 27 China announces its population at 1 billion people plus

Oct 19 Automaker John DeLorean arrested on cocaine charges, found not guilty

Oct 29 Paul McCartney & Michael Jackson release "The Girl is Mine"

Oct 28 NASA launches RCA-E

Oct 01 EPCOT Center opens in Orlando Florida

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