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Deployment of Pershing II Missiles in West Germany

The Release of Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” Music Video

The Brink’s-Mat Robbery: Gold Bullion Heist in the United Kingdom

TV miniseries “The Day After” Aired November 20, 1983

The Able Archer 83 Exercise: NATO’s War Simulation and Soviet Reaction

The Release of Microsoft Word

US invasion of Grenada: Operation Urgent Fury

The Beirut Barracks Bombings: Attacks on U.S. and French Military Forces

First Hooters Restaurant Opened in Clearwater, Florida

Korean Air Flight 007: Soviet Union’s Shootdown of a Civilian Aircraft

The Assassination of Benigno Aquino Jr.

The Sri Lankan Civil War: Tamil Tigers

Sally Ride: First American Woman in Space

The Bombing of the US Embassy in Beirut

The Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI)

The Founding of Swatch

Final Episode of MAS*H

The Washington Redskins’ Super Bowl XVII Victory

1982 Facts, History and Fun Trivia

1981 Fun Facts, Trivia and History

The HIV/AIDS Epidemic Begins

1980 History, Fun Facts and Trivia

1979 Fun Facts, Trivia and History

Jimmy Carter’s “Malaise Speech”

1978 Trivia, History and Fun Facts

Sid Vicious’ List of his girlfriend Nancy Spungen’s Best Attributes

1977 Fun Facts, Trivia and History

1976 Fun Facts, Trivia and History

1975 Fun Facts, Trivia and History

1974 Fun Facts, History and Trivia