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A British Special Air Service unit ambushed a Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) unit in Loughgall, Northern Irelan
Mass protests demanding direct presidential elections broke out across South Korea
Cold War: During a speech at the Brandenburg Gate by the Berlin Wall, US president Ronald Reagan challenged Soviet leade
Cold War: During a speech at the Brandenburg Gate by the Berlin Wall, US president Ronald Reagan challenged Soviet leade
The Basque separatist group ETA detonated a car bomb at a Hipercor shopping centre in Barcelona, killing 21 people and i
Iran–Iraq War: In opposition to the American plan to protect Kuwaiti tankers, Iran laid mines and damaged the…
While he was abroad, Burundian president Jean-Baptiste Bagaza was deposed in a military coup d'état by Pierre Buyoya.
While he was abroad, Burundian president Jean-Baptiste Bagaza was deposed in a military coup d'état by Pierre Buyoya.
Sri Lankan Civil War: The Indian Peace Keeping Force began Operation Pawan to take control of Jaffna from the Tamil…
Iran–Iraq War: U.S. Navy forces destroyed two Iranian oil platforms in the Persian Gulf in response to an Iranian…
The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell by 22.6 percent on Black Monday, the largest one-day percentage decline in the…
The Netherlands and the Isles of Scilly declared peace, having hypothetically been at war for 335 years without a single
The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant (pictured) near Chernobyl, Ukrainian SSR, suffered a steam explosion, resulting in a f
A stationary front began over the central Caribbean Sea, leading to severe floods that over two weeks killed dozens of p
Eugene Hasenfus's plane was shot down by Nicaraguan forces while carrying weapons to the Contra rebels on behalf of…
British prime minister Margaret Thatcher officially opened the M25, one of Britain's busiest motorways.
The Animal Liberation Front raided a laboratory at the University of California, Riverside, rescuing 467 animals and cau
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