UWF Events

• UWF SBDC first in SUS honored with designation as associate office of U.S. Department of Commerce Campus plans Educational Research and Development Center
• UWF alumnus Maj. James F. Buchli wins selection as newest astronaut

World Events

• Israel and Egypt sign Camp David Agreement
• Jim Jones and followers commit mass suicide in Guyana
• Margaret Mead and Norman Rockwell die
• Inflation heats up
• Snail Darter stops the Tellico Dam
• Love Canal declared a disaster area
• Konica introduces the point-and-shoot camera
• PBS goes to satellite for delivery and abandons telephone lines
• Electronic typewriters go on sale
• Pete Rose is the youngest baseball player to get 3,000 career hits