Space Shuttle Atlantis
Space Shuttle Atlantis launches on mission STS-30 to deploy the Venus-bound Magellan space probe.
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PEPCON disaster
The PEPCON disaster rocks Henderson, Nevada, as tons of Space Shuttle fuel detonate during a fire.
Type 42 destroyer
Twenty sailors are killed when the British Type 42 destroyer HMS Sheffield is hit by an Argentinian Exocet missile during the Falklands War.
Margaret Thatcher
Margaret Thatcher becomes the first female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
South African Defence Force
The South African Defence Force attacks a SWAPO base at Cassinga in southern Angola, killing about 600 people.
Willis Tower
The 108-story Sears Tower in Chicago is topped out at 1,451 feet (442 m) as the world's tallest building.
Don't Make a Wave Committee
The Don't Make A Wave Committee, a fledgling environmental organization founded in Canada in 1971, officially changes its name to Greenpeace Foundation.
Vietnam War
Vietnam War: Kent State shootings: The Ohio National Guard, sent to Kent State University after disturbances in the city of Kent the weekend before, opens fire killing four unarmed students and wounding nine others. The students were protesting the Cambodian Campaign of the United States and South Vietnam.
Civil rights movement
American civil rights movement: The "Freedom Riders" begin a bus trip through the South.
Malcolm Ross (balloonist)
Malcolm Ross and Victor Prather attain a new altitude record for manned balloon flight ascending in the Strato-Lab V open gondola to 113,740 feet (34.67 km).