UWF Events

• WUWF-FM goes on the air Jan. 15
• Argonaut baseball team has first season, softball joins athletic line-up
• Argo Booster Club formed
• Pulitzer Prize-winning author Eudora Welty speaks at commencement
• University switches to semester system

World Events

• Algerian aircraft leaves Teheran, Iran, with 55 hostages held at U.S. Embassy for 444 days
• Sandra Day O’Connor first woman appointed to Supreme Court
• Tax Reform Act lowers rates
• Price of crude oil peaks at $36 per barrel
• President Reagan and Pope John Paul II shot
• Economy falters
• Reagan fires striking air traffic controllers
• Supreme Court allows cameras in the courtroom
• AIDS is first identified
• IBM PC and the laptop computer are introduced
• The computer mouse is born