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South Korean presidential election: After successfully staging the Coup d'état of May Seventeenth, General Chun…
A new constitution of Chile is established under the influence of then Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, which is…
The 43rd government of Turkey is overthrown in a coup d'état led by General Kenan Evren.
The 43rd government of Turkey is overthrown in a coup d'état led by General Kenan Evren.
After weeks of strikes at the Lenin Shipyard in Gdańsk, Poland, the nationwide independent trade union Solidarity is…
Former Nicaraguan President Anastasio Somoza Debayle is killed in Asunción, Paraguay.
Iraq invades Iran, sparking the nearly eight year Iran–Iraq War.
A terrorist bombing at the Oktoberfest in Munich, Germany, kills 13 people and injures 213 others.
Ethernet specifications are published by Xerox working with Intel and Digital Equipment Corporation.
Michael Myers becomes the first member of either chamber of Congress to be expelled since the Civil War.
Michael Myers becomes the first member of either chamber of Congress to be expelled since the Civil War.
The 6th Congress of the Workers' Party ended, having anointed North Korean President Kim Il Sung's son Kim Jong Il as…
The government of Poland legalizes the Solidarity trade union.
The government of Poland legalizes the Solidarity trade union.
The Chun Doo-hwan government forcibly arrests and investigates monks and personnel of the Jogye Order.
El Salvador and Honduras agree to put the border dispute fought over in 1969's Football War before the International…
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