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Secret Arms Deal With Iran In Breach Of The U.S. Arms Embargo Nobel Peace Prize: Elie Wiesel (U.S.) Author And Human Rights Campaigner Robert Penn Warren Appointed Official Poet Laureate Of The U.S. Final Supplement (Se-Z) Of The Oxford English Dictionary is Published Desmond Tutu Becomes The First Black Archbishop Of Cape Town, South Africa Academy Awards Best Picture, "Out Of Africa"; "The Phantom Of The Opera" Musical Makes Its World Premiere In London; "Les Miserables" Musical Wins Eight Tony Awards On Broadway Whitney Houston and Madonna Reign As Divas Of Popular Music Nobel Prize For Physiology And Medicine, Stanley Cohen,(U.S.) For Analyses Of Chemical Growth Factors; Nobel Prize For Chemistry, Dudley Hersbach (U.S.), Yuan Lee (U.S.) For Work On Reaction Dynamics The Space Shuttle "Challenger" Explodes On Take-Off Killing All Seven Crew Members Dick Rutan And Jeanna Yeager In The Aircraft "Voyager" Make The First Nonstop Flight Around The World In Nine Days Without Refueling Twenty-Five Thousand AIDS Cases Are Diagnosed In The U.S. A Bomb In West Berlin Discotheque Kills Two and Injures Two Hundred The World's Worst Nuclear Accident Takes Place When A Reactor Blows Up At Chernobyl Power Station, Kiev, U.S.S. R. General Motors Replaces Exxon As The Largest Company In The U.S. President Reagan Unveils Renovated Statue Of Liberty On Independence Day Live Television Coverage Of U.S. Senate Debates Begins Prince Andrew And Sarah Ferguson Are Married In Westminister Abbey |
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