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| 1976 |
| | In a daring raid on Entebbe airport, Israeli troops rescue hostages hijacked on a flight from Tel Aviv to Paris | |
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| 1979 |
| | Partial meltdown of a US nuclear power station at Three Mile Island, near Harrisburg, spreads radioactive steam over a large surrounding area | |
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| 1981 |
| | Prince Charles marries Diana Spencer in St Paul's Cathedral in London | |
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| 1982 |
| | British fashion designer Vivienne Westwood, promoter of the punk style, shows a collection called Punkature | |
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| 1984 |
| | More than 2000 die in the Indian city of Bhopal when toxic gas escapes from a Union Carbide plant | |
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| 1985 |
| | A dormant volcano erupts in Colombia, burying some 20,000 victims under a deep layer of silt | |
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| 1985 |
| | Ayers Rock is returned to the Mutitjulu people and given its Aboriginal name, Uluru | |
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| 1986 |
| | A Soviet nuclear power station explodes at Chernobyl, scattering radioactive material over a wide area | |
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| 1986 |
| | Desmond Tutu is the first black African to be archbishop of Cape Town | |
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| 1988 |
| | Britain stops funding Zimbabwe's purchase of land for redistribution, on the grounds that many of the farms are being given to the political elite | |
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