UWF Events

• U.N. Ambassador Jeanne Kirkpatrick speaks at commencement
• UWF’s first Eminent Scholar Chair funded
• Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Edward Albee visits during Playwright’s Repertory Festival featuring his plays
• Campus Information Center opens

World Events

• U.S. Marines land in Beirut
• Secretary of State Alexander Haig resigns
• Air Florida jet crashes into a bridge in Washington, D.C.
• Seven die from cyanide-laced Tylenol capsules
• Reagan proposes MX missile deployment scheme
• Recession peaks with falling unemployment and cost of living
• First space shuttle flight
• First artificial heart and MRI machine introduced
• Kodak camera uses film on a disc cassette
• Princess Grace of Monoco dies in auto accident
• Cats, musical based on T.S. Eliot work, opens on Broadway