UWF Events

• Alumni Student Ambassador program begins
• Faculty teaching center opens
• Milton Usry selected to hold Mary Ball Washington Chair of Accountancy
• William Craig Nystul Chair of Computer Science established

World Events

• American “retaliatory” air raid, sanctions on Libya
• Immigration Act grants amnesty to long-term illegal aliens
• Secret Iran-Contra arms deal exposed
• William Rehnquist named Chief Justice of the United States
• Space Shuttle Challenger explodes killing all on board include space teacher
• Income tax reform passed
• W. Averill Harriman, Benny Goodman, Cary Grant and Rudy Vallee die
• Congress names Rose the U.S. flower