Events in History
Events 201 - 300 of 382
- Jul 14 USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
Election of Interest
Jul 14 New Zealand snap election, David Lange's Labour Party defeats Robert Muldoon's National Party

David Lange

Robert Muldoon
Presidential Convention
Jul 18 Walter Mondale wins the Democratic Party presidential nomination in San Francisco

Walter Mondale
Event of Interest
Jul 19 Geraldine Ferraro (US Representative, New York), becomes the 1st US female major-party vice-presidential nominee, officially joining Walter Mondale's Democratic Party ticket

Geraldine Ferraro

Walter Mondale
- Jul 21 Marita Koch of East Germany sets world women's mark for 200m, 21.71s
- Jul 21 USSR performs underground nuclear Test
- Jul 25 Cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya becomes 1st woman to walk in space
- Jul 30 Alvenus tanker at Cameron Louisiana, spills 2.8 million gallons of oil
- Jul 30 Holly Roffey aged 11 days is the youngest ever to receive a heart transplant
- Jul 31 Venz commandos terminate hijacking of an aircraft, 2 killed
- Aug 2 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- Aug 3 365.7 million shares traded in NY Stock Exchange
- Aug 3 Bomb attack on Madras India airport, 32 killed
- Aug 4 Republic of Upper Volta becomes Burkina Faso (National Day)
- Aug 6 203.05 million shares traded in NY Stock Exchange
- Aug 7 David Rabe's "Hurlyburly" premieres in NYC
- Aug 8 Milwaukee 10-game losing streak ends
- Aug 9 STS 41-D vehicle again moves out to launch pad
Event of Interest
Aug 11 During a radio voice test, US President Reagan jokes he "signed legislation that would outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in 5 minutes."

Ronald Reagan
- Aug 11 Men's choir Maranatha Netherlands forms
- Aug 11 USSR performs (underground) nuclear test
- Aug 13 Morocco & Libya sign "Arabic-African Union" treaty
- Aug 14 IBM releases PC DOS version 3.0
- Aug 14 West Indies complete 5-0 series annihilation of England
- Aug 15 The PKK in Turkey starts a campaign of armed attacks upon the Turkish military
- Aug 16 Sunken liner Andrea Doria's safe opened
- Aug 16 LA federal jury acquits auto maker John Z DeLorean on cocaine charges
- Aug 16 NASA launches Ampte
- Aug 18 Triangle Oil Corp, above-ground storage tank at Jacksonville Fla, spills 2.5 m gallons of oil burned after lightning sparked a fire
- Aug 19 Republican convention in Dallas, Texas nominates incumbent Ronald Reagan for President
- Aug 22 Evelyn Ashford of US ties world women's mark for 100 m, 10.76 sec
- Aug 22 Last Volkswagen Rabbit produced
- Aug 22 Republican convention in Dallas renominates President Ronald Reagan and Vice President George H. W. Bush
- Aug 22 The United Democratic Front, an internal coalition of anti-apartheid groups in South Africa, organizes a highly successful boycotts of the Colored and Indian elections to parliament
- Aug 25 French airship capsizes
- Aug 25 USSR performs underground nuclear test
- Aug 26 Tatyana Kazankina of USSR sets 3k woman record (8:22.62) in Leningrad
- Aug 27 US President Ronald Reagan announces 'Teacher in Space' project
- Aug 27 USSR performs underground nuclear test
- Aug 27 War Against Indiscipline is launched by the Buhari regime in Nigeria
- Aug 28 USSR performs underground nuclear test
- Aug 30 12th Space Shuttle Mission (41-D)-Discovery 1-launched (6 days)
- Aug 30 Sotheby's in London begins 2 day auction of rock memorabilla
- Sep 3 28 year old Chicagoan wins $40 million in Illinois state lottery
- Sep 3 South Africa adopts constitution
- Sep 5 12th Space Shuttle Mission (41-D) -Discovery 1- lands at Edwards AFB
- Sep 6 Lanford Wilson's "Balm in Gilead" premieres in NYC
- Sep 6 Today Show begins live remote telecasts from Moscow
- Sep 8 Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 41G mission
- Sep 10 Discovery returns to Kennedy Space Center via Altus AFB, Oklahoma
- Sep 10 Sean O'Keefe (11) is youngest to cycle across US (24 days)
- Sep 12 Cyndi Lauper sings "She-Bop" on The Tonight Show
- Sep 12 Ethiopia forms socialist republic
- Sep 13 STS 41-G launch vehicle moves to launch pad
Event of Interest
Sep 13 Shimon Peres forms Israeli government with Likud

Shimon Peres
Event of Interest
Sep 17 Brian Mulroney sworn in as Canada's 18th Prime Minister, succeeding John Turner

Brian Mulroney

John Turner
- Sep 17 USSR performs underground nuclear test
- Sep 18 Joe Kittinger completes 1st solo balloon crossing of Atlantic
- Sep 18 Tigers clinch AL East championship (spent all year in 1st place)
- Sep 19 Britain & China complete a proposed agreement to transfer Hong Kong to China by 1997
- Sep 20 Suicide car bomb attacks US Embassy annex in Beirut, kills 23
- Sep 21 NASA launches Galaxy-C
- Sep 25 Egypt & Jordan regain diplomatic relations
- Sep 26 Britain & China initial agreement return Hong Kong to China in 1997
- Sep 26 Dutch Queen Beatrice opens University
- Sep 26 Phila's Juan Samuel sets record for steals by a rookie with his 72nd
- Sep 26 President Reagan vetoes sanctions against South Africa
- Sep 28 1st floodlit ODI outside of Australia (India v Aust, New Delhi)
- Sep 29 "Yes Or No" by Go-Go's peak at #84
- Sep 30 Browns set a team record for allowing most sacks (11), KC wins 10-6
- Oct 1 Gary Trudeau's Doonesbury comic strip resumes after 2-year hiatus
- Oct 2 3 cosmonauts return after a record 237 days in orbit
- Oct 2 Richard Miller becomes 1st (former) FBI agent to be charged with espionage
- Oct 2 Papa John's Pizza is founded by John Schnatter in Jeffersonville, Indiana; it would go on to become the fourth-largest pizza delivery restaurant chain in the United States
- Oct 3 US government shuts down due to lack of agreement over passage of bills
Event of Interest
Oct 5 13th Space Shuttle Mission (41-G) Challenger 6 launched with the first Canadian in space Marc Garneau on board

Marc Garneau
- Oct 9 Astronaut Kathy Sullivan becomes 1st US woman to walk in space during a Space Shuttle Challenger mission (STS-41-G)
- Oct 11 1st space walk by US woman (Dr Kathryn D Sullivan)
- Oct 11 August Wilson's "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom" premieres in NYC
- Oct 11 NASA launches space vehicle S-208
- Oct 11 US Vice Presidential candidates' debate - Geraldine Ferraro (D) and George H. W. Bush (R), in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Event of Interest
Oct 12 IRA bombs the Grand Hotel, Brighton, where British PM Margaret Thatcher is staying, 5 die

Margaret Thatcher
Nobel Prize
Oct 16 Desmond Tutu, South African Anglican Archbishop, wins Nobel Peace Prize

Desmond Tutu
- Oct 17 Nobel prize for chemistry awarded to Bruce Merrifield
- Oct 18 Discovery moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 51A mission
- Oct 18 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
- Oct 20 Cleveland Metroparks' Valley Parkway All Purpose Trails are completed
- Oct 20 The Monterey Bay Aquarium opens in Monterey Bay, California.