Jun 15 En route to Halley's Comet, USSR's Vega 2 drops lander on Venus

Jun 23 Bomb destroys Air India Boeing 747 in air near Ireland, 329 die

Jun 24 The motion picture " Cocoon", directed by Ron Howard, grossed some $7.9 million during its opening weekend across the country. "Cocoon", which had a brilliant cast, including screen legend Don Ameche, beat out "Rambo First Blood, Part II" starring Sylvester Stallone, in firstweekend receipts

Jun 10 Coca Cola announces they'd bring back their 99-year-old formula so much for the "New Coke"

Jun 19 Reggie Jackson hits his 513th HR to move into 10th place

Jun 10 The Israeli army ends its 1,099 day occupation of Lebanon.

Jun 04 STS 51-G vehicle moves to the launch pad

Jun 28 Discovery ferried back to Kennedy Space Center via Bergstrom AFB, Tx

Dec 30 IBM-PC DOS Version 3.2 released

Dec 14 NY Yankees great Roger Maris dies of cancer at age 51.

Dec 19 ABC Sports announces that sportscaster Howard Cosell will no longer be providing television commentary.

Dec 11 General Electric acquires RCA Corp and its subsidiary, NBC

Dec 09 Phoenix Arizona, gets 3" of snow

Dec 22 STS 51-L vehicle moves to Launch Pad 39B

Dec 28 Warring Lebanese Moslem & Christian leaders sign peace agreement

Dec 12 248 US soldiers & 8 crew members die in Arrow Air charter crash in Newfoundland

Dec 26 Ford introduced the Taurus line of auto's,, the product of years of engineering

Dec 03 23rd Shuttle Mission (61-B)-Atlantis 2-lands at Edwards AFB

Dec 06 John Cougar Mellencamp promised 24,000 people at a New York City concert that he would refund their $17.50 tickets. A power outage had caused a 20-minute interruption during this, his debut concert.

Dec 04 President Reagan appoints Vice Admiral John Poindexter as security adviser

Dec 19 NFL kicker Jan Stenerud announces his retirement, leaving behind a record of most career field goals (373).

Dec 11 The most expensive non-oil acquisition in U.S. history took place. General Electric Company agreed to buy RCA Corporation for $6.3 billion.

Dec 15 Sylvester Stallone and Brigitte Nielson wed

Dec 05 Dow Jones Industrial Average rose above the 1,500 level for first time

Dec 05 Beverly McLachlin is the first woman appointed to the B.C. Court of Appeal, the province's highest court

Dec 18 UN Security Council unanimously condemns "acts of hostage-taking"

Dec 07 Atlantis returns to Kennedy Space Center via Kelly AFB

Dec 27 Terrorists kill 20 & wound 110 attacking El Al at Rome & Vienna airports. President Reagan blamed Libyan leader Momar Qadhafi

Dec 16 Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 51-L mission

Dec 06 UK joins US Star Wars project

Dec 21 ARCO Anchorage runs aground near Port Angeles, WA

Dec 19 ABC Sports announced that it was severing ties with Howard Cosell and released ‘The Mouth’ from all TV commitments

Dec 16 Paul Castellano Organized-crime chief shot dead by a NYC restaurant

Dec 30 President Zia of Pakistan ends martial law

Dec 31 King Hussein of Jordan and President Assid hold talks

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