UWF Events

• UWF admits first freshman class
• Board of Regents signs a five-year-lease to temporarily house UWF-OWCC Center in the old Oakland Heights Elementary School in Fort Walton Beach
• First fall commencement held
• Lady Argonaut basketball team tours South Africa

World Events

• Car bomb destroys U.S. embassy in Beirut
• USSR downs South Korean Airliner
• U.S. invades Grenada
• U.S. withdraws from UNESCO
• Sally Ride first woman and Guion Bluford first African-American in space
• Holiday named for Martin Luther King Jr.
• Cellular phone network starts in U.S.
• Cabbage Patch doll is a must-have toy
• Ira Gershwin and Harry James die
• Final episode of M*A*S*H draws largest TV audience in history
• Time magazine names the computer “Man of the Year”