Aug 30 Guy Bluford becomes the first black American in space

Aug 18 Samantha Druce, age 12y 119d is youngest woman to swim English Channel

Aug 25 US & USSR sign $10 billion grain pact

Aug 04 Italy elects first socialist prime minister since 1946

Aug 28 Joseph Kreckman sets record of 2,215 clay pigeons shot in an hour

Aug 28 Israeli PM Menachem Begin announces resignation

Aug 01 US District Court begins trying Yonkers accuse of race discrimination

Aug 07 First World Track & Field Championships

Aug 08 Jury in KC, Mo, awards Christine Craft $500,000 in sex discrimination suit against KMBC-TV

Aug 30 Guion S. Bluford Jr, the first African-American astronaut, blasts off as a crewmember aboard the space shuttle Challenger.

Aug 01 STS-8 vehicle moves to launch pad

Oct 04 Richard Noble reaches record 1019 kph in jet-powered car

Oct 23 Two million people march in Western European capital cities demonstrating against the deployment of 'Cruise' and 'Pershing' missiles

Oct 25 US invades Grenada, a country 1/2,000 its population (US Wins!)

Oct 05 Lech Walesa wins the Nobel Peace Prize

Oct 23 Truck bomb in Beirut kills 241 US soldiers

Oct 09 4 South Korean cabinet ministers assassinated in Rangoon Burma

Oct 15 US Marine sharpshooters kill 5 snipers at Beirut Intl Airport

Oct 11 Last hand-cranked telephones US went out of service as 440 telephone customers in Bryant Pond, Maine, were switched over to direct-dial

Oct 14 US Marine peacekeeper Sgt Allen Soifert killed by sniper in Beirut

Oct 15 Black Hawks & Maple Leafs combine for fastest 5 goals (84 seconds)

Oct 31 Paul McCartney releases "Pipes of Peace" album

Oct 20 IBM-PC DOS Version 2.1 released

Oct 25 U.S. Marines and U.S. Army troops land on Grenada to evacuate U.S. citizens threatened by the island's unstable political situation.

Oct 10 Israel's Knesset votes 60-53 to endorse Yitzhak Shamir as PM

Oct 23 Suicide terrorist truck bomb kills 243 US personnel in Beirut

Jul 15 8 killed, 54 wounded, by Armenian extremists bomb at Orly, France

Jul 20 Frank Reynolds news anchor (ABC Evening News), dies at 59

Jul 30 Weight lifter Sergei Didyk of USSR jerks a record 261 kg

Jul 21 Storm cuts short Diana Ross' free concert in NY's Central Park

Jul 25 The first nonhuman primate (baboon) conceived in a lab dish, San Antonio

Jul 10 E Bowell discovers asteroids #3222 Lillerand #3751

Jul 29 "Friday Night Videos" premiers on NBC TV

Jul 03 John McEnroe regains men's singles title at Wimbledon

Jul 16 20 killed in Britain's worst helicopter accident

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