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The Gwangju Massacre: Airborne and army troops of South Korea retake the city of Gwangju from civil militias, killing at
The African National Congress in South Africa publishes a call to fight from their imprisoned leader Nelson Mandela
During the Lebanese Civil War, 83 Tiger militants are killed during what will be known as the Safra massacre.
Aeroflot Flight 4225 crashes near Almaty International Airport in the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic (present day…
Phạm Tuân becomes the first Vietnamese citizen and the first Asian in space when he flies aboard the Soyuz 37 mission…
Iran adopts a new "holy" flag after the Islamic Revolution.
Vigdís Finnbogadóttir is elected President of Iceland and becomes the world's first democratically elected female head…
A bomb explodes at the railway station in Bologna, Italy, killing 85 people and wounding more than 200.
Otłoczyn railway accident: In Poland's worst post-war railway accident, 67 people lose their lives and a further 62…
After John Birges plants a bomb at Harvey's Resort Hotel in Stateline, Nevada, in the United States, the FBI…
South Korean presidential election: After successfully staging the Coup d'état of May Seventeenth, General Chun…
South Korean presidential election: After successfully staging the Coup d'état of May Seventeenth, General Chun…
Blair Peach, a British activist, is fatally injured after being knocked unconscious during an Anti-Nazi League demonstra
Blair Peach, a New Zealand teacher, dies after being knocked unconscious during an Anti-Nazi League demonstration agains
The Conservative Party wins the United Kingdom general election
The Conservative Party wins the United Kingdom general election
Margaret Thatcher becomes the first female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
White Night riots in San Francisco following the manslaughter conviction of Dan White for the assassinations of George M