Helsinki Accords signed in Finland; Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie died; “Fawlty Towers” debuted on BBC Two

Rudolph Valentino died at 31; Gene Tunney defeated Jack Dempsey; “Winnie-the-Pooh” published

Jacque Chirac elected President of France; NASA lost contact with Pioneer 11 probe; “Toy Story” released by Pixar

Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan; Sudan B. Anthony dollar coin introduced; Skylab space station fell from sky

Russo-Japanese War began; Helen Keller graduated from Radcliffe College; First section of New York subway opened

Interleague play began in Major League Baseball; Animated show “King of the Hill” debuted; Poet Allen Ginsberg died

Larry Bird played Magic Johnson in NCAA Final; Jimmy Carter attacked by swamp rabbit; Sid Vicious found dead at 21

Cassius Clay won Olympic gold medal; “Flintstones” debuted on TV; First kidney transplant.

Felix Baumgartner jumped from 24 miles in space; Miguel Cabrera first Triple Crown winner since 1967

Iraq invaded Iran; Playboy Playmate Dorothy Stratten murdered; Jimmy Durante died

Audio cassette was invented; Wilt Chamberlain scored 100 points in a game; Jamaica became independent

12 students killed in Texas A&M bonfire collapse; Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge officially dissolved; Stanley Kubrick died

Lyndon Johnson “We Shall Overcome” speech; Che Guevara left Cuba; St. Louis Arch completed

Fidel Castro assumed power in Cuba; Dalai Lama escaped from Tibet to India; Khrushchev toured United States

“Night Stalker” killed first victim; Crack cocaine introduced into Los Angeles; Alex Trebek began hosting Jeopardy

Ceausescu became secretary of Romanian Communist party; Sandy Koufax pitched perfect game; Brooke Shields born

Nikita Khrushchev became Premier of Soviet Union; Elvis Presley joined U.S. Army; First U.S. satellite launched

Charity single “We Are the World” recorded; Coca-Cola introduced “New Coke”; Wreck of “Titanic” discovered

Elvis Presley & Priscilla Beaulieu married; 12th St. Riot in Detroit; Corp. for Public Broadcasting established

NATO formed; Apartheid began in South Africa; Soviet Union began testing nuclear weapons; Meryl Streep born

Mikhail Gorbachev visited America; Mathias Rust flew Cessna airplane into Red Square; “The Princess Bride” released

First woman ran in the Boston Marathon; Beach Boys released “Pet Sounds”; “It’s a Small World” opened at Disneyland

Winston Churchill resigned as P.M.; 8 European countries signed Warsaw Pact; James Dean died in car accident.

John Gotti became head of Gambino crime family; Pete Rose became all-time MLB hits leader; Marc Chagall died

Charles Whitman shot 13 people from clock tower; “Star Trek” debuted; Walt Disney died

World Series broadcast in color for first time; William Golding published “Lord of the Flies”; Oprah Winfrey born

Gorbachev & Reagan met in Iceland; Paul Simon released “Graceland”; Supreme Court Justice William Burger retired

U.S.S. Pueblo seized by North Korea; LBJ signed Civil Rights Act; France exploded their first hydrogen bomb

Franklin Roosevelt died; Manhattan Project tested first atomic bomb; United Nations established.

Dow Jones Industrial Average closed above 2,000 for the first time; Rudolf Hess committed suicide

Charlie Chaplin released final film; Stalin’s daughter defected to United States; Che Guevara executed

Libya gained independence from Italy; The Rosenbergs sentenced to death for treason; First NBA All-Star game played

Space Shuttle Challenger exploded; Andrew Wyeth revealed “Helga” paintings; Painter Georgia O’Keefe died

Astronauts Grissom, White, and Chaffee killed; Pink Floyd released debut album; World’s first heart transplant

Korean War began; “Guys and Dolls” premiered on Broadway; First successful kidney transplant performed.

Dow Jones dropped 508 pts. on “Black Monday”; Condom commercials allowed on U.S. television; Pianist Liberace died

Robert Kennedy assassinated in Los Angeles; Pitcher Denny McClain won 30 games in season; “Heidi” football game

Facebook launched; “Shrek 2” was highest-grossing film; Ken Jennings won 74 consecutive games on “Jeopardy”

World AIDS Day held for first time; “Who Framed Roger Rabbit” released; “A Brief History of Time” published

Six-Day War began; Beatles manager Brian Epstein found dead; Musical “Hair” opened off-Broadway

Babe Ruth died; Olivier’s “Hamlet” debuted in the U.S.; Alger Hiss indicted on 2 counts of perjury

U.S. bombed Libya; Pianist Vladimir Horowitz returned to Soviet Union; Willie Shoemaker won Kentucky Derby

“Summer of Love” in San Francisco; “One Hundred Years of Solitude” published; Spencer Tracy died

Treaty of Dunkirk signed between Britain & France; Dead Sea Scrolls discovered; “Diary of Anne Frank” published

Dwight Eisenhower died; First confirmed case of HIV in North America; Gadaffi became leader of Libya

Boston Red Sox won first World Series since 1918; Tony Blair met with Muammar Gaddafi; Marlon Brando died

Pete Rose banned from baseball; 200th anniversary of French Revolution; Iran called for death of Salman Rushdie

The “Hindenburg” exploded in New Jersey; Edgar Bergen & Charlie McCarthy made debut; Golden Gate Bridge completed

Final episode of “Tonight Show” with Johnny Carson; Folies Bergere in Paris closed; Comedian Benny Hill died