Dec 21 Over 50,000 students demonstrate in Shanghai's Peoples Square, for democracy and freedom in China

Dec 22 Quebec Court of Appeal declares that Article 58 or Bill 101 making French the sole languageauthorized on commercial signs is unconstitutional.

Aug 16 Madonna's "True Blue," album goes #1 for 5 weeks and her single "Papa Don't Preach," goes #1 for 2 weeks

Aug 06 William J Schroeder (world's longest-survivor with permanent artificial heart, dies after 620 days with Jarvik VII man-made pump)

Aug 20 Mail carrier Patrick Sherrill, Edmond Ok, shot 14 fellow workers dead

Aug 31 Aeromexico jet & small plane collide kill 82

Aug 28 US Navy officer Jerry A Whitworth sentenced to 365 years for spying

Aug 31 A private plane collides with an Aeromexico jet over Cerritos, CA, killing 82 people.Aug 31,

Aug 15 Pres Reagan decides to support a replacement for the Challenger

Aug 30 Soviet authorities arrested Nicholas Daniloff (US News World Report)

Aug 30 US News and World Report correspondent Nicholas Daniloff is arrested by Soviet authorities for suspicion of spying.

Aug 21 A report on the Chernobyl disaster blames 'human error'

Aug 22 NASA announces tests designed to verify ignition pressure dynamics

Aug 27 US Air Force reveals they accidentally dropped a hydrogen bomb on New Mexico in 1957, which did not detonate

Aug 17 Bronze pig statue unveiled at Seattle's Pike Place Market

Aug 02 Jackie Joyner-Kersee (US) sets record for heptathlon (7161 pts)

Aug 21 Lake Nios Volcanic eruption in Cameroon releases poison gas, killing 1,746

Aug 30 In Romania a 6.9 earthquake killed 2 people, 558 injured, and about 55,000 homes damaged, leaving more than 12,500 people homeless in the Kishinev-Kagul area

Aug 06 Phil Katz releases PKARC version 1.0, for the IBM

Aug 31 Soviet passenger ship Adm Nakhimov, collides with a merchant vessel

Oct 10 Israel Prime Minister Shimon Peres resigns

Oct 17 US Senate approved immigration bill prohibiting hiring of illegal aliens & offered amnesty to illegals who entered prior to 1982

Oct 01 President Carter's presidential library/museum dedicated in Atlanta

Oct 11 Reagan & Gorbachev open talks at a summit in Reykjavik, Iceland

Oct 09 Senate convicted US District Judge Harry E Claiborne making him the 5th federal official to be removed from office through impeachment

Oct 27 Paul McCartney release "Pretty Little Head"

Oct 25 Michael Sergio parachutes into Shea Stadium during game 6 of WS

Oct 09 Gilbert Perreault, Buffalo, became 12th NHLer to score 500 goals

Oct 12 Queen Elizabeth II became the first British monarch to visit China

Oct 03 Soviet Yankee-class sub sinks off NC, 3 die

Oct 05 London Sunday Times reports Israel is stocking nuclear arms

Oct 14 Concentration camp survivor Elie Wiesel wins Nobel Peace Prize

Oct 10 7.5 Earthquake strikes San Salvador, El Salvador

Oct 14 The IOC decides to stagger the Winter and Summer Olympic schedule

Oct 16 US govt closes down due to budget problems

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