UWF Events

• Construction begins on computer and systems science center
• Campus contest names Thompson’s Bayou alligator Captain Thunder
• Hank Aaron speaks at second annual Athletic Banquet

World Events

• U.S. resumes diplomatic relations with Vatican after 117 years
• U.S. Marines withdraw from Lebanon
• Ronald Reagan elected to second term as president
• Donald Duck turns 50
• Portable compact disc player arrives
• Japanese introduce high quality facsimile machine
• Apple Macintosh and IBM PC AT debut
• The one megabyte memory chip is invented
• AIDS virus identified
• Chicken pox vaccine developed
• First planet outside this solar system detected
• Ansel Adams, Count Basie die
• LA Olympics held without Russia and most of rest of Eastern Block