- July 12
- Checker Motors Corporation ceases production of automobiles. [116]
- July 13
- In Canada, the Interprovincial Lottery Corporation launches the Super Loto lottery game, with top prize CDN$1 million. [40.42]
- July 19
- David S Dodge becomes the first American hostage in Lebanon. [1]
- July 20
- The Provisional IRA detonates two bombs in central London, killing 8 soldiers, wounding 47. [1] [116]
- July 21
- HMS Hermes, the Royal Navy flagship during the Falklands War, returns home to Portsmouth to a hero's welcome. [116]
- July 23
- The International Whaling Commission decides to end commercial whaling by 1985-1986. [116]
- July 24
- Torrential rain and mudslides in Nagasaki, Japan destroy bridges and kill 299. [116]
- July 26
- Canada's Anik D1 Comsat launched by US Delta rocket. [1]
- July 27
- Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's first visit to US in almost 11 years. [1]
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- July 31
- 53 persons, 46 of them children, die in a highway accident in Beaune in France's worst road accident. [1] [116]
- August 4
- The United Nations Security Council votes to censure Israel because its troops are still in Lebanon. [116]
- August 7
- Canadian pilots Dan Muir and André Daemen in a single-engine Cessna 210 2-seat aircraft land in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, completing a flight around the world in a record-breaking 151 hours, 25 minutes. [986.458]
- Italian Prime Minister Giovanni Spadolini resigns. [116]
- August 9
- (to August 21) In Vienna, Austria, the 2nd United Nations Conference on Peaceful Uses of Outer Space is held. [1419.18]
- August 12
- Mexico announces it is unable to pay its large foreign debt, triggering a debt crisis that quickly spreads throughout Latin America. [116]
- August 13
- In Hong Kong, health warnings on cigarette packets are made statutory. [116]
- August 17
- The first compact discs (CDs) are released to the public in Germany. [116]
- August 19
- Soyuz T-7 launched, Svetlana Savtiskaya second woman in space. [1]
- August 20
- A multinational force lands in Beirut to oversee the PLO withdrawal from Lebanon. [116]
- August 21
- Death of King Sobhuza II of Swaziland, at the time the longest reigning living monarch (born 1899). [116]
- Palestinian terrorists are dispersed from Beirut, Lebanon. [1]
- August 22
- General Ariel Sharon urges Palestinians to discuss peaceful coexistence. [1]
- September 1
- Mexico's President Lopez Portillo nationalizes banks. [435.38]
- Palestinian Liberation Organization leaves Lebanon. [1]
- September 3
- Italian general Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa is killed in a mafia ambush. [116]
- September 5
- Eddie Hill sets propeller-driven boat water speed record of 229 mph. [1]
- September 6
- Polish dissidents seize the Polish Embassy in Bern, Switzerland. [1] [37]
- September 9
- Conestoga 1, first private commercial rocket, makes suborbital flight. [1]
- September 13
- Fifty die in Spantax Airlines DC-10 on takeoff from Malaga, Spain. [1]
- September 14
- Lebanese President-elect Bachir Gemayel is assassinated in Beirut. [1] [116]
- September 15
- Massacre of 1000+ Palestinian refugees at Chatila and Sabra begins. [1] [116] [900.28]
- Israeli forces begin pouring into west Beirut, Lebanon. [1]
- Sadegh Ghotbzadeh, Iran's former foreign minister, executed by Iran. [1]
- First issue of today usa published by Gannett Company Inc. [1]
- September 23
- Amin Gemayel, brother of Bachir, is elected president of Lebanon. [116]
- September 24
- US, Italian, and French peacekeeping troops begin arriving in Lebanon. [1]
- September 25
- In Israel, 400,000 marchers demand the resignation of Prime Minister Menachem Begin. [116]
- September 29
- In Guatemala, a magnitude 5.5 earthquake occurs. [53]
- (to October 1) The Tylenol scare is sparked when 7 people in the Chicago area die after ingesting capsules laced with potassium cyanide. [1] [116]
- October 1
- Sony launches the first consumer compact disc player (model CDP-101). [116]
- EPCOT Center opens, at Walt Disney World in Florida. It has two main sections, Future World, and World Showcase. It cost more than US$1.2 billion to build. [6] [116]
- Helmut Kohl becomes the German Bundeskanzler. His political party is the CDU. [1] [37] [116]
- October 5
- Unmanned rocket sled reaches 9,851 kph at White Sands, New Mexico. [1]
- October 7
- Cats musical opens a nearly 18-year run on Broadway. [5]
- October 8
- Poland bans Solidarity after having suspended it on 13 December 1981. [1] [116]
- October 10
- Pope John Paul II canonizes Rev M Kolbe, who volunteered to die in place of another inmate at Auschwitz concentration camp. [1]
- October 11
- English ship Mary Rose, which sank during an engagement with France in 1545, is raised at Portsmouth, England. [1] [116]
- October 13
- The Ford Sierra automobile is launched in Europe. It replaces the Ford Cortina. [116]
- October 14
- 6,000 Unification church couples wed in Korea. [1]
- October 16
- Mount Palomar Observatory first to detect Halley's comet on 13th return. [1]
- George Shultz warns US will withdraw from United Nations if they vote to exclude Israel. [1]
- October 19
- American Automaker John De Lorean is arrested for selling cocaine to undercover FBI agents (he is later found not guilty due to entrapment). [1] [116]
- October 20
- The Saint Louis Cardinals beat the Milwaukee Brewers 6-3 in Game 7, winning the World Series. [1] [56] [116]
- During the UEFA Cup match between FC Spartak Moscow and HFC Haarlem at least 63 people are crushed to death. [116]
- Billy Martin fired as manager of the Oakland Athletics. [1]
- October 27
- In Canada, Dominion Day is officially renamed to Canada Day. [116]
- China announces its population at over one billion people. [1]
- (to October 29) In New York City, Bowers and Ruddy Galleries conducts The United States Gold Coin Sale, known as the Eliasberg Sale. Total auction sales: $12.4 million, a record for a single coin auction session. Some highlights:
- 1870-S $3, believed unique: $687,500, highest amount paid for a single US Mint coin;
- 1822 $5, VF-30, one of three known: $687,500;
- 1825/4 $5, PR-60: $220,000;
- 1854-S $5, AU-50: $187,000;
- 1839 $10, PR-65, head of 1838, large letters, one of three known: $121,000;
- 1907 $20, ultra-high relief, roman numerals: $242,000;
- 1927-D $20, MS-65: $176,000.
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- October 28
- The Socialist Party wins the election in Spain; Felipe González is elected Prime Minister. [116]
- October 31
- Pope John Paul II becomes first pontiff to visit Spain. [1]
- November 2
- Channel 4, the fourth terrestrial television channel, is launched in England, Scotland and Northern Ireland with the first program broadcast being the game show Countdown. [5] [116]
- November 3
- The Dow Jones Industrial Average surges 43.41 points, or 4.25 prercent, to close at 1,065.49, its first all-time high in more than nine years. [116] [905.28]
- A gasoline tanker explodes in the Salang Tunnel in Afghanistan, killing at least 2,000 people. [116]
- November 4
- Compaq Computer introduces the Compaq Portable PC, compatible with the IBM PC, though not violating the IBM BIOS copyright. (Compaq sells about 50,000 in the first year, worth $111 million, a U.S. business record.) [4]
- November 6
- Cameroon president Ahmadou Ahidjo resigns, replaced by Paul Biya. [116]
- November 7
- The Thames Barrier is first publicly demonstrated. [116]
- November 8
- In Wethersfield, Connecticut, USA a falling meteorite pierces the roof of a house. [521]
- November 10
- Leonid I Brezhnev, Soviet first secretary, dies of a heart attack at age 75 (born 1906). [1] [116]
- November 11
- 5th space shuttle mission-Columbia 5-launches first commercial flight. [1]
- Solidarity leader Lech Walesa is let out of jail in Poland. [1]
- November 12
- In the Soviet Union, former KGB head Yuri Andropov is selected to become the general secretary of the Soviet Communist Party's Central Committee, succeeding the late Leonid I. Brezhnev. [1] [116]
- November 13
- The Vietnam Veterans Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C., after a march to its site by thousands of Vietnam War veterans. [1] [116]
- November 14
- The leader of Poland's outlawed Solidarity movement, Lech Walesa, is released from 11 months of internment near the Soviet border. [116]
- November 15
- Funeral services held in Moscow's Red Square for Leonid I Brezhnev. [1]
- November
- The Royal Canadian Mint begins selling 1/10-ounce ($5 face) and 1/4-ounce ($10 face) 0.9999 gold Maple Leaf bullion coins, in addition to continuing the one-ounce coins. These are the purest gold coins available anywhere in the world. [3]
- November 16
- In Albania, a magnitude 5.5 earthquake occurs. [53]
- November 27
- Yasuhiro Nakasone is elected Prime Minister of Japan succeeding Zenko Suzuki. [116] (November 26 [1])
- November 28
- Representatives from 88 countries gather in Geneva to discuss world trade and ways to work toward aspects of free trade. [116]
- November 29
- The United Nations General Assembly passes United Nations Resolution 37, stating that the Soviet Union should withdraw from Afghanistan. [116]
- November 30
- US submarine Thomas Edison collides with US Navy destroyer in South China Sea. [1]
- December 1
- Miguel de la Madrid inaugurated as President of México. [1]
- December 2
- At the University of Utah, 61-year-old retired dentist Barney Clark becomes the first person to receive a permanent artificial heart (he will live for 112 days with the device). Doctor William DeVries performs the implant of a Jarvik-7 artificial heart. [116] [891.52]
- December 4
- The People's Republic of China adopts its constitution. [1] [116]
- Police and racist demonstrators clash in Antwerp, Belgium. [1]
- December 5
- Seattle University Baptist Church declares sanctuary for Central American refugees. [1]
- USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk. [1]
- December 6
- Eleven soldiers and six civilians die when a bomb planted by Irish National Liberation Army explodes in a pub/disco in Ballykelly, Northern Ireland. [1]
- December 7
- Charlie Brooks Junior, convicted murderer, becomes first US prisoner to be executed by lethal injection, at a prison in Huntsville, Texas. [1] [116]
- Suriname army under Desi Bouterse fires on radio station building. [1]
- December 8
- Suriname army leader Desi Bouterse murders 15 opponents, including Surendre Rambocus, Suriname army lieutenant; Leslie Rahman, Suriname journalist; Kenneth Goncalves, Deacon of Surinamese order of advocate; Jozef Slagveer, Suriname journalist; John Baboeram, Suriname lawyer; Harald Riedewald, Suriname attorney; Gerald Leckie, Suriname scholar; Cyrill Daal, Suriname worker's union leader; Bram Behr, Suriname revolutionary; André Kamperveen, Suriname minister; and Frank Wijngaarde, Suriname journalist. [1] [116]
- Demanding an end to nuclear weapons, Norman Mayer holds the Washington Monument hostage; after ten hours, police kill him; he had no explosives. [1]
- December 10
- Soyuz T-5 returns to Earth, 211 days after take-off. [1]
- December 12
- US$9.8 million in cash stolen from money transport car in New York City, New York. [1]
- Women's peace protest at Greenham Common: 30,000 women hold hands and form a human chain around the 14.5-km (9-mile) perimeter fence. [116]
- December 13
- In Yemen, a magnitude 6.0 earthquake occurs, centered about 46 miles south of Sana, the capital. Deaths of more than 2,800 people killed, 1,500 injured, 700,000 homeless and about 300 villages destroyed or badly damaged. [1] [53]
- December 15
- Sao Tome and Principe constitution approved. [1]
- Spain re-opens border with Gibraltar. [1]
- December 16
- In the Hindu Kush region, Afghanistan, a magnitude 6.9 earthquake occurs. 450 people killed. [53]
- December 25
- In the Flores Island region, a magnitude 5.9 earthquake occurs. Thirteen people killed, 390 injured, 1,875 homes destroyed and other buildings damaged. [53]
- December 26
- Time magazine's Man of the Year is a computer, first non-human. [1] [5] [116]
- USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk. [1]
- Forces of Coalition Government of Democratic Kampuchea seize village of Yeang Dangkum, holding it two weeks. [889.29]
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