Mar 11 187.27 million shares traded in New York Stock Exchange

Mar 08 4 French TV crew members are abducted in west Beirut Lebanon

Mar 27 Disney-MGM Studio Tour ground breaking

Mar 17 Haemers gang robs gold transport in Belgium of 35 million BF

Mar 05 "Today" tabloid launched (Britain's first national color newspaper)

Mar 22 Heart's "These Dreams", single goes #1

Mar 13 Space probe Giotto encounters Halley's Comet

Mar 12 Susan Butcher wins 1,158 mile Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race

Mar 29 Beatle records officially go on sale in Russia

Mar 20 Sondra Gotlieb, wife of Canada's then-ambassador to the USA Alan Gotlieb, slaps an aide in public during a reception for Prime Minister Brian Mulroney.

Mar 20 228 KPH gust of wind strikes Cairngorm (UK record)

Mar 22 Karin Kania skates ladies world record 1500 meter (1 9.30)

Mar 07 Phillies outfielder Garry Maddox, retires

Mar 06 USSR's Vega 1 flies by Halley's Comet at 8,889 km

Mar 31 167 die when Mexicana Airlines Boeing 727 crashes

Mar 24 Suriname army Captain Etienne Boerenveen arrested for cocaine smuggling

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

Sep 26 William Rehnquist becomes Chief Justice of the Supreme Court

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