Nov 08 Martha Layne Collins (D) elected first female governor of Kentucky

Nov 13 "Alvin" Junior Samples country singer (Hee Haw), dies at 56

Nov 25 Syria &Saudi Arabia announce cease-fire in PLO civil war in Tripoli

Nov 02 President Reagan signs a bill establishing Martin L King day

Nov 08 STS-9 vehicle again moves to launch pad

Nov 20 100 million watch ABC-TV movie "The Day After," about nuclear war

Nov 11 President Reagan became first US President to address Japan's legislature

Nov 25 World's greatest robbery-œ25,000,000 of gold, Heathrow, England

Nov 12 4 die in a train crash in Marshall Texas

Nov 27 Colombian Avianca Airlines Boeing 747 crashes in Madrid killing 185

Nov 08 W Wilson Goode (D) elected first black mayor of Philadelphia

Nov 28 9th Space Shuttle Mission-Columbia 6-is launched

Nov 25 Soyuz T-9 returns to Earth, 149 days after take-off

Nov 26 Heathrow Airport, robbed of 6,800 gold bars worth $38.7 million

Nov 05 Orbiter Discovery (OV-103) moves overland to Dryden

Nov 07 Bomb explodes in US Capitol, causing heavy damage but no injuries

Sep 07 Drury Gallagher sets fastest swim around Manhattan (6h41m35s)

Sep 09 Vitas Gerulatis bets his house that Martina Navratilova can't beat the 100th ranked male tennis player

Sep 09 Radio Shack announces their color computer 2 (the Coco2)

Sep 22 Zhu Jianhau (China) sets high jump record at 7'9 3/4"

Sep 19 St Christopher-Nevis gains independence from Britain (Nat'l Day)

Sep 02 Yitzhak Shamir (Herut) endorsed by Menachem Begin for Israelli PM

Sep 06 USSR admits to shooting down KAL 007 on 9/2

Sep 08 NASA launches RCA-6

Sep 05 8th Space Shuttle Mission-Challenger 3-lands at Edwards AFB

Sep 16 Arnold Schwarzenegger becomes a US citizen

Sep 28 STS-9 vehicle moves to launch pad

Sep 04 Greg LeMond becomes only American to win cycling's Road Championship

Sep 17 Vanessa Williams of NY became first black Miss America

Sep 01 A Soviet fighter plane downs a KAL Boeing 747 jumbo jet that veered 100 miles into Soviet airspace, killing all 269 people aboard.

Sep 12 USSR vetoes UN resolution deploring its shooting down of Korean plane

Sep 26 Australia II wins America's Cup yacht race (1st non-US winner)

Sep 04 Scott Michael Pellaton sets barefoot waterski speed rec (119.36 mph)

Sep 18 George Meegen completes 2,426d (19K mi) walk across Western Hemisphere

Sep 14 US House of Representatives votes, 416 to 0, in favor of a resolution condemning Russia for shooting down a Korean jetliner

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