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Eleven members of the American Black liberation group MOVE were killed when a Philadelphia police helicopter dropped a b
The remains of Josef Mengele, a Nazi physician notorious for performing human experiments on Auschwitz inmates, were exh
Metropolitan Police officer Yvonne Fletcher was shot and killed while on duty during a protest outside the Libyan embass
Vanessa Williams, the first African-American Miss America, was forced to resign after the magazine Penthouse published…
The constitution of Singapore was amended to apportion seats to defeated opposition candidates in Parliament, which…
Followers of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh (pictured) began deliberately infecting people in The Dalles, Oregon, with…
Followers of Osho began deliberately infecting people in The Dalles, Oregon, with Salmonella in the first and largest…
Discovery, the third orbiter of NASA's Space Shuttle program, lifted off on its maiden voyage from Kennedy Space…
A team of researchers led by French virologist Luc Montagnier published their discovery of HIV, but were not then certai
After writing a letter to Soviet premier Yuri Andropov, American schoolgirl Samantha Smith visited the Soviet Union as…
Jean-Baptiste Ouédraogo, the president of Upper Volta, was ousted in a coup d'état led by Thomas Sankara.
The clandestine Boricua Popular Army staged a bank robbery in West Hartford, Connecticut, making off with $7 million…
The clandestine Boricua Popular Army staged a bank robbery in West Hartford, Connecticut, making off with $7 million…
The ZX Spectrum (pictured), Britain's best-selling microcomputer, was released
British prime minister Margaret Thatcher told journalists in Downing Street to "rejoice" upon hearing news of the succes
British prime minister Margaret Thatcher told journalists in Downing Street to "rejoice" upon hearing news of the succes
Falklands War: HMS Conqueror sank the Argentine cruiser General Belgrano (pictured), the only ship ever to have been del
Falklands War: HMS Conqueror sank the Argentine cruiser General Belgrano (pictured), the only ship ever to have been del
Falklands War: HMS Sheffield was struck by an Exocet missile, killing 20 sailors and leading to its sinking six days lat
Falklands War: The British War Cabinet, which never considered using nuclear weapons in the conflict, ordered that the n