1981 - UK No 1 - Stand and Deliver - Adam and the Ants. USA No 1 - Bette Davis Eyes - Kim Carnes. Seven coaches of an overcrowded passenger train fall off the tracks into the River Kosi, in Bihar, India - about 800 dead
1982 - Lebanon War begins: Forces under Israeli Defense Minister Ariel Sharon invade southern Lebanon. United Nations Security Council votes to demand that Israel withdraw its troops from Lebanon
1986 - Film Premiere - Raw Deal starring Arnold Schwarzenegger
1987 - UK No 1 - I Wanna Dance With Somebody - Whitney Houston. USA No 1 - You Keep Me Hanging On - Kim Wilde
1988 - Three giant snapping turtles ended up inside a Bronx sewage treatment plant. Each weighed about 50 lbs and had probably been unwanted pets, flushed down the loo when quite small.
