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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…
An explosion on board a Maltese patrol boat that was disposing of illegal fireworks at sea off Gozo killed seven…
The Provisional Irish Republican Army detonated a bomb at the Grand Hotel in Brighton, England, in a failed attempt to…
The Provisional Irish Republican Army detonated a bomb at the Grand Hotel in Brighton, England, in a failed attempt to…
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…
Flying from Pakistan, Gulf Air Flight 771 was bombed up by the Abu Nidal Organization while on approach over the…
In one of the largest prison escapes in British history, 38 Provisional Irish Republican Army prisoners hijacked a…
In one of the largest prison escapes in British history, 38 Provisional Irish Republican Army prisoners hijacked a…
Cold War: Soviet lieutenant colonel Stanislav Petrov averted a potential nuclear war by identifying as a false alarm…
Cold War: Soviet lieutenant colonel Stanislav Petrov averted a potential nuclear war by identifying as a false alarm…
American software developer Richard Stallman announced plans for the Unix-like operating system GNU, the first free…
As the military dictatorship came to an end, Argentina's first democratic election in a decade resulted in Raúl…