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May 26th - Phillie Steve Carlton is 1st NLer to record 6, 1-hitters
May 26th - Soyuz 36 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 Hungarian) to Salyut 6
May 27th - South Korean police ends people's uprising; 2,000 killed
May 27th - The Gwangju Massacre: Airborne and army troops of South Korea retake the city of Gwangju from civil militias, killing at least 207 and possibly many more.
May 28th - 2 Oakland A's steal home in 1st inning
May 28th - Joe Darby does a standing long jump of 12'5"
May 28th - Nottingham Forrest wins 25th Europe Cup 1 in Madrid
May 29th - "Billy Bishop Goes to War" opens at Morosco Theater NYC for 12 perfs
May 29th - 53rd National Spelling Bee: Jacques Bailly wins spelling elucubrate
May 29th - Attempted assassination on Vernon Jordan Jr National Urban League pres
May 29th - J Turners "Juliet & Her Nurse" sold for $6,400,000 in NYC
May 29th - Larry Bird beats out Magic Johnson for NBA rookie of year
May 30th - 1st papal visit to France since 1814
May 30th - Tiger reliever John Hiller, 37, (who had a 1971 heart attack), retires
May 30th - Turner's painting "Juliet & Her Nurse" sells for $6.4 million
May 30th - Twins Ken Landreaux ends his hitting streak after 31 games
May 31st - "Love Stinks" by J Geils Band peaks at #38
May 31st - Police & youthful rebels battle in Zurich
Jun 1st - 1st transmission of CNN, Cable News Network
Jun 1st - ANC sets fire to Sasol oil installations in South Africa
Jun 1st - Barbra Streisand appears at an ACLU Benefit in Calif
Jun 1st - Beth Daniel wins LPGA Golden Lights Golf Championshipship
Jun 1st - Steve Garvey, hits the 7,000th Dodger home run
Jun 1st - Ted Turner's Cable News Network begins broadcasting
Jun 2nd - "Your Arm's Too Short to Box..." opens at Ambassador NYC for 149 perfs
Jun 3rd - "It's So Nice to Be Civilized" opens at Martin Beck NYC for 8 perfs
Jun 3rd - Crew of Soyuz 36 returns to Earth aboard Soyuz 35
Jun 3rd - ESPN begins televising college world series games
Jun 3rd - Jimmy Carter wins enough delegates for renomination
Jun 3rd - NY Mets draft Darryl Strawberry, 18, #1
Jun 5th - Soyuz T-2 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station
Jun 6th - Bjorn Borg beats John McEnroe for Wimbledon title
Jun 7th - "Billy Bishop Goes to War" closes at Morosco NYC after 12 perfs
Jun 7th - "Cars," by Gary Numan hits #9
Jun 7th - 112th Belmont: Eddie Maple aboard Temperence Hill wins in 2:29.8
Jun 7th - 50th French Mens Tennis: Bjorn Borg beats Vitas Gerulaitis (64 61 62)
Jun 7th - Jeff Norman runs world record 50k (2:48:06)
Jun 7th - John McEnroe beats Bjorn Borg for US Open
Jun 7th - Tommy John wins his 200th, 3-0 on a 2-hitter
Jun 8th - "It's So Nice to Be Civilized" closes at Martin Beck NYC after 8 perfs
Jun 8th - 26th LPGA Championship won by Sally Little
Jun 8th - 34th Tony Awards: Children of a Lesser God & Evita win
Jun 8th - 50th French Womens Tennis: Chris Evert beats Virginia Ruzici (60 63)
Jun 9th - 14th Music City News Country Awards: Statler Brothers & Loretta Lynn
Jun 9th - Comedian Richard Pryor suffers burns from free basing cocaine
Jun 9th - Phillies & SF Giants end their game at 3:11 AM
Jun 9th - Soyuz T-2 returns to Earth
Jun 11th - K-Ingleside streetcar converts to METRO service (SF)
Jun 12th - Reagan said he would submit to periodic medical tests
Jun 13th - Billy Joel's "Glass Houses" hits #1
Jun 13th - Deborah Harry/Meat Loaf film, "Roadie," premieres
Jun 13th - Paul McCartney releases "Waterfall"
Jun 13th - Rep John Jenrette Jr (D-SC) indicted in "Abscam" investigation
Jun 13th - UN Security Council calls for South Africa to free Nelson Mandela
Jun 14th - Theme From NY, NY by Frank Sinatra hits #32
Jun 15th - "Fearless Frank" opens at Princess Theater NYC for 12 performances
Jun 15th - 80th US Golf Open: Jack Nicklaus shoots a 272 at Baltusrol GC NJ
Jun 15th - Dale Lundquis wins LPGA Boston Five Golf Classic
Jun 15th - Jorge Orta of Cleveland gets 6 hits in a baseball game
Jun 16th - "Blues Brothers," premieres in Chicago
Jun 16th - Supreme Court rules new forms of life created in labs could be patents
Jun 17th - Led Zeppelin begins their last European tour
Jun 18th - Dutch 2nd Chamber joins oil boycott of South Africa
Jun 18th - Mrs Shakuntala Devi mentally multiplies 2 13-digit #s in 28 sec
Jun 19th - Battle between police & demonstrators in Capetown, 34 killed
Jun 20th - "Blues Brothers" with Dan Akwoyd & John Belushi opens in 594 theaters
Jun 20th - Calif Angels Freddie Patek, hits 3 HRs & double to beat Red Sox 20-2
Jun 20th - Roberto Duran takes WBC welterweight title from Sugar Ray Leonard at Olympic Stadium in Montreal by unanimous decision
Jun 22nd - Jim King begins riding Miracle Strip Roller coaster 368 hours
Jun 22nd - Joanne Carner wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open
Jun 23rd - "David Letterman Show," debuts on NBC-TV daytime
Jun 23rd - 1st solar-powered coast-to-coast two-way radio conversation
Jun 23rd - West German wins European soccer title (2-1 against Belgium)
Jun 24th - Affirmed wins $500,000 Hollywood Cup, 1st horse to win $2 million
Jun 25th - "Fearless Frank" closes at Princess Theater NYC after 12 performances
Jun 27th - 1st female state police graduates (NJ)
Jun 27th - Dodger's Jerry Reuss' no-hits SF Giants 8-0
Jun 27th - Italian plane crashes into Tyrrheense Sea, kills 81
Jun 27th - US revives draft registration
Jun 28th - NYC transit fare rises from 50 cents to 60 cents
Jun 29th - "Sweeney Todd" closes at Uris Theater NYC after 557 performances
Jun 29th - Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Sarah Coventry Golf Tournament
Jun 30th - West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt visits Moscow
Jul 1st - Steve Overt runs world record 3:48.8 mile in Oslo
Jul 1st - O Canada officially becomes the national anthem of Canada.
Jul 2nd - Grateful Dead's Bob Weir & Mickey Hart are arrested for incitement
Jul 2nd - Julie Marie Bryan, 18, of Georgia, crowned America's Young Woman of Yr
Jul 3rd - 1st US Seniors Golf Open: Roberto deVicenzo
Jul 3rd - 73,096 in Cleveland watch Indians beat Yankees 7-0
Jul 4th - Nolan Ryan is 4th to strikeout 3,000
Jul 5th - 87th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Evonne Goolagong beats C Evert (61 76)
Jul 5th - 94th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Bjorn Borg beats McEnroe (16 75 63 67 86)
Jul 6th - Amy Alcott wins LPGA Mayflower Golf Classic
Jul 6th - France performs nuclear test
Jul 6th - Steve Carlton (14-4) pitches most strikeouts by a lefty (2,836)
Jul 7th - 1st solar-powered aircraft crosses English Channel
Jul 7th - Az Judge Sandra Day O'Connor 1st female nominated to Supreme Court
Jul 7th - Jim King completes riding Miracle Strip Roller coaster 368 hours
Jul 7th - Larry Holmes TKOs Scott LeDoux in 7 for heavyweight boxing title
Jul 7th - Shawn Weatherly, of USA, crowned 29th Miss Universe
Jul 7th - Jineane Ford, (AZ) replaces S Weatherly (Miss Univ) as 29th Miss USA
Jul 7th - Institution of sharia in Iran.
Jul 7th - The Safra massacre in Lebanon.
Jul 8th - 51st All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 4-2 at Dodger Stadium, LA
Jul 8th - All star MVP: Ken Griffey (Cin Reds)
Jul 9th - 7 die in a stampede to see Pope in Brazil
Jul 9th - Dutch war criminal Pieter Menten sentenced to 10 years
Jul 9th - Walt Disney's "Fox & The Hound," released
Jul 10th - Ayatollah Khomeini releases Iran hostage Richard I Queen
Jul 10th - Willie Jones hospitalized for heat stroke with record 46.5°C temp
Jul 10th - Alexandra Palace burnt down for a second time.
Jul 11th - American hostage Richard I Queen freed by Iran
Jul 13th - 35th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Amy Alcott
Jul 13th - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
Jul 15th - Johnny Bench hits his 314th HR as a catcher breaks Yogi Berra's record
Jul 16th - Polish railway workers block railway to Russia
Jul 16th - Ronald Reagan nominated for Pres by Republicans in Detroit
Jul 17th - Bolivian military coup; general Garcia Meza becomes president
Jul 17th - Ronald Reagan formally accepts Republican nomination for president
Jul 17th - Zenko Suzuki becomes premier of Japan
Jul 18th - Billy Joel's Glass Houses album tops charts
Jul 18th - Failed attack on Iran ex-premier Bakhtiar in Neuilly France
Jul 18th - Federal court voids Selective Service Act as it doesn't include women
Jul 18th - Quett Masire installed as president of Botswana
Jul 18th - Rohini 1, 1st Indian satellite, launches into orbit
Jul 19th - 22nd modern Olympic games opens in Moscow; US & others boycott
Jul 19th - David Bowie appears in role of "Elephant Man" in Denver
Jul 20th - 109th British Golf Open: Tom Watson shoots a 271 at Muirfield Gullane
Jul 20th - Joop Zoetemelk wins Tour de France
Jul 20th - Pat Bradley wins LPGA Greater Baltimore Golf Classic
Jul 21st - Jean-Claude Droyer climbs Eiffel Tower in 2 hrs 18 mins
Jul 23rd - Billy Carter admits to being paid by Libya
Jul 23rd - River of No Return Wilderness Area designated by Jimmy Carter
Jul 23rd - Soyuz 37 ferries 2 cosmonauts (1 Vietnamese) to Salyut 6
Jul 25th - Train crash at Winsum, 9 die
Jul 25th - US performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site
Jul 27th - Palestinian throws hand grenade on Jewish children in Antwerp, 1 dead
Jul 27th - Sally Little wins LPGA WUI Golf Classic
Jul 28th - Peru adopts constitution, Fernando Belaúnde Terry becomes president
Jul 30th - Houston Astro pitcher J R Richard suffers a stroke
Jul 30th - Vanuatu (New Hebrides) gains independence from Britain & France
Jul 31st - John Phillips of Mamas & Papas is arrested on drug charges
Jul 31st - Rangers snap Orioles pitcher Steve Stone's 14-game winning streak
Jul 31st - Soyuz 37 crew returns to Earth aboard Soyuz 36
Jul 31st - USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
Aug 1st - Gerd Wessig of East Germany set high jump record
Aug 1st - Waldemar Cierpinski wins 19th olympics marathon (2:11:03
Aug 1st - Buttevant Rail Disaster kills 18 and injures dozens of train passengers in Ireland.
Aug 2nd - Fascist bomb attack on Bologna Italy train station, 86 killed
Aug 2nd - US swimmers set 3 world records at National championships