| | Reagan orders Marines offshore in Lebanon |
| | Senate Resolution Opposes CIA Mining of Nicaraguan Harbors |
| | Russia Announces Boycott of Los Angeles games |
| | 22 American prisoners freed when Jesse Jackson meets Castro |
| | British agree to leave Hong Kong in 1997 |
| | Challanger astranaughts make two free-flying space walks |
| | Gas leak kills 2,000 at Union Carbide Plant in Bhopal India |
| | Hit songs, "Ghostbusters", "Uptown Girl |
| | "Discovery" becomes the third space shuttle |
| | Walter Paton breaks Jim Browns life time rushing record of 12,213 yards |