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Ayatollah Khomeini dies
Belize gained independence from Britain
Bettino Craxi leads coalition government
Britain introduced the pound coin
Brunei gained independence from Britain
Coal strikes crushed by riot police
End of the British Miners' strike
Eruption of Mount St Helens (60 killed)
Exxon Valdez oil-spill in Alaska
Famine in Ethiopia
Gdansk Shipyard Strike in Poland
Greece becomes a member of the EEC
Greece votes in Socialist Andreas Papandreou
Helmut Kohl becomes German Chancellor
International Convention Against Torture
IRA prisoners go on hunger strike
Iran-Contra Affair - arms for aid scandal
Israel pulls out of the Sinai
Jacques Chirac becomes Prime Minister
John Lennon (singer) shot
Lawrence Olivier, British actor, died
Lech Walesa forms Solidarity
Mad Cow was first confirmed
Palistine Intifada begins
Ronald Reagan becomes US President
SAS storms Iranian embassy in London
Single European Act
Social Democratic Party (SDP) formed
Solidarity, formed in Poland
Tamil separatist resurgence in Sri Lanka
Thatcher abolished the Greater London Council
Thatcher's anti-trade uion legislation
Trade union act
US and Canada sign free trade agreement
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