UWF Events

• Alumnus James Buchli is UWF’s first man in space
• University establishes second eminent scholar chair
• Grammar Hotline is created
• New computer center opens
• Ribbon-cutting opens 400-meter track

World Events

• President Reagan proposes Strategic Defense Initiative (“Star Wars”)
• Reagan imposes sanctions on South Africa for apartheid
• Mikhail Gorbechev becomes premier of Soviet Union
• Leaded gasoline banned
• Teacher Christa McAuliffe chosen for space shuttle mission
• Titanic wreckage located
• Henry Cabot Lodge, Orson Welles, Roger Maris and Rock Hudson die
• VCR sales take off
• CD-ROM can put 270,000 papers of text on a compact disk
• Coke changes its soft drink formula, then backtracks and reintroduces Coca-Cola classic