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| 1981 |
| | | A Turkish assailant in St Peter's Square in Rome shoots and seriously wounds John Paul II | |
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| 1981 |
| | | AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) is described for the first time in a US medical journal | |
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| 1981 |
| | | The Humber Bridge crosses the Humber estuary in Britain, and is the world's longest suspension bridge with a main span of 4626 feet (1410m) | |
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| 1981 |
| | | Karlheinz Stockhausen's Thursday from Light, the first of a seven-part opera cycle, is performed in Milan | |
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| 1981 |
| | | Prince Charles marries Diana Spencer in St Paul's Cathedral in London | |
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| 1981 |
| | | The IBM PC 5150, the first Personal Computer, is launched with a chip by Intel and software by Microsoft | |
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| 1981 |
| | | English author Anita Brookner publishes her first novel, A Start in Life | |
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| 1981 |
| | | Raiders of the Lost Ark launches an ongoing series for director Steven Spielberg and actor Harrison Ford | |
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| 1981 |
| | | Stolen Generations, by Peter Read, reveals the scandal of Aboriginal children forcibly removed from their parents | |
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| 1981 |
| | | Muslim terrorists assassinate Anwar el-Sadat, in response to his peace agreement with Israel | |
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| 1981 |
| | | Sadat is peacefully succeeded in Egypt by his vice-president, Hosni Mubarak | |
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| 1981 |
| | | British snooker player Steve Davis wins the first of six world championship titles | |
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| 1981 |
| | | 16-year-old ballerina Sylvie Guillem joins the Paris Opera Ballet | |
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| 1981 |
| | | Polish prime minister Wojciech Jaruzelski imposes martial law and suspends Solidarnośc (Solidarity) | |
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| 1981 |
| | | Leopoldo Galtieri becomes leader of the military junta ruling Argentina | |
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| 1981 |
| | | Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical Cats, based on the Old Possum poems by T.S. Eliot, opens in London | |
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| 1982 |
| | | The Saudi fundamentalist Osama bin Laden joins the mujaheddin in their fight against the Soviet occupiers of Afghanistan | |
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| 1982 |
| | | Steven Spielberg directs E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, in which an alien is stranded on earth and is befriended by a young boy | |
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| 1982 |
| | | 5000 Argentinian troops land in the Falkland Islands, provoking war with Britain | |
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| 1982 |
| | | Dustin Hoffman, in Tootsie, plays a man who becomes a star in the persona of an actress | |
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| 1982 |
| | | Chilean author Isabel Allende publishes her first novel, The House of the Spirits | |
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| 1982 |
| | | Congress in Washington passes the Boland Amendment, banning US military aid to the Contras | |
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| 1982 |
| | | The Argentinian cruiser General Belgrano is sunk by a British torpedo, with the loss of 368 lives | |
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| 1982 |
| | | Little Shop of Horrors, by Howard Ashman and Alan Menken, opens in New York | |
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| 1982 |
| | | Michael Frayn's farce Noises Off opens in London's West end | |
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| 1982 |
| | | Sun Myung Moon, founder of the Unification Church (or 'Moonies'), is convicted in the USA of tax fraud and imprisoned | |
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| 1982 |
| | | Senegal and the Gambia partially merge as Senegambia, in a confederation which lasts seven years | |
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| 1982 |
| | | Israeli Minister of Defence Ariel Sharon heads Israel's invasion of Lebanon to expel the PLO | |
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| 1982 |
| | | British troops recapture Port Stanley, after which the Argentinian forces in the Falklands surrender | |
|  | Instrument of Surrender at the end of the Falklands War
National Archives, Kew
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| 1982 |
| | | The leader of the Argentinian junta, Leopoldo Galtieri, resigns three days after the Falklands defeat | |
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| 1982 |
| | | Australian novelist Thomas Keneally publishes Schindler's Ark and wins the Booker Prize | |
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| 1982 |
| | | Yasser Arafat and the PLO move to Tunisia, after being driven out of Lebanon by Israel | |
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| 1982 |
| | | Argentinian footballer Diego Maradona is sold to Barcelona for a new record fee of about £3 million, almost double the highest previous figure | |
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| 1982 |
| | | 8,000-year-old human remains are found in a waterlogged burial site at Windover, in Florida | |
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| 1982 |
| | | British fashion designer Vivienne Westwood, promoter of the punk style, shows a collection called Punkature | |
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