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| 1982 |
| | | US fillm actress Grace Kelly is killed in a car accident in Monte Carlo | |
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| 1982 |
| | | Christian militiamen massacre Palestinian refugees in the Sabra and Chatila camps in Lebanon | |
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| 1982 |
| | | Leaders of Canada's Aboriginal peoples form the Assembly of First Nations (AFN) | |
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| 1982 |
| | | CDU leader Helmut Kohl follows Helmut Schmidt as chancellor of Germany | |
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| 1982 |
| | | The trade union movement Solidarnośc (Solidarity) is declared illegal by the Polish government | |
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| 1982 |
| | | George Segal's bronze monument The Holocaust is unveiled in San Francisco | |
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| 1982 |
| | | Hezbollah emerges in Lebanon as an Iranian-sponsored resistance movement against the Israeli occupation of the southern part of the country | |
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| 1982 |
| | | After 18 years as General Secretary of the Communist party in the USSR, Leonid Brezhnev dies in office | |
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| 1982 |
| | | Michael Jackson's releases the album Thriller, which goes on to sell 40 million copies in ten years | |
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| 1983 |
| | | British economist Nicholas Kaldor attacks monetarism in The Economic Consequences of Mrs Thatcher | |
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| 1983 |
| | | Bob Hawke is Australia's prime minister after a Labor victory in the election | |
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| 1983 |
| | | Ronald Harwood's play The Dresser is partly inspired by the British actor Donald Wolfit | |
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| 1983 |
| | | President Reagan proposes a Strategic Defence Initiative (SDI) against nuclear attack | |
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| 1983 |
| | | The first all-digital synthesizer, the DX7, is put on the market by Yamaha | |
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| 1983 |
| | | A civilian government, voted into power in Argentina, prosecutes members of the military junta for civil rights abuses | |
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| 1983 |
| | | Philip Johnson completes the A.T. & T. skyscraper in New York, an early example of Post-Modernism | |
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| 1983 |
| | | The US system MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) becomes the industry standard for electronic communication in music | |
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| 1983 |
| | | Philips and Sony jointly introduce a new device, the compact disc | |
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| 1983 |
| | | Manuel Noriega wins control of the National Guard in Panama on his way to achieving absolute power | |
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| 1983 |
| | | South African novelist J.M. Coetzee publishes The Life and Times of Michael K, and wins the Booker Prize | |
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| 1983 |
| | | A new version of the Apple adds the mouse to personal computers | |
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| 1983 |
| | | Philippine opposition leader Benigno Aquino is assassinated at Manila International Airport | |
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| 1983 |
| | | The Tamil Tigers launch a civil war against the Sinhalese majority in Sri Lanka | |
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| 1983 |
| | | Classical ballerina Natalia Makarova triumphs on Broadway in On Your Toes | |
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| 1983 |
| | | Rudolf Nureyev begins a successful 6-year period as artistic director of the Paris Opera Ballet | |
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| 1983 |
| | | Government imposition of Islamic law (sharia) triggers renewed civil war in Sudan between the Muslim north and Christian south | |
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| 1983 |
| | | Polish union leader and activist Lech Walesa is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize | |
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| 1983 |
| | | President Reagan sends US marines to Grenada after the execution of the island's prime minister, Maurice Bishop | |
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| 1983 |
| | | Olivier Messiaen's opera St Francis of Assisi has its premiere in Paris | |
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| 1983 |
| | | Luc Montagnier, at the Pasteur Institute in Paris, discovers a new human retrovirus that he names LAV (later changed to HIV) | |
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| 1984 |
| | | British skaters Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean earn a perfect score for their Bolero programme in the Sarajevo winter Olympics | |
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| 1984 |
| | | Milos Forman directs the screen version of Peter Shaffer's Amadeus | |
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| 1984 |
| | | British prime minister Margaret Thatcher and union leader Arthur Scargill begin a bitter personal struggle in the miners' strike | |
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| 1984 |
| | | US poet Robert Pinsky publishes an acclaimed verse translation, The Inferno of Dante | |
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| 1984 |
| | | The name of Upper Volta is changed to Burkina Faso, meaning 'land of incorruptible people' | |
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