UWF Events

• Center for Learning through Organized Volunteer Efforts (C.L.O.V.E.) established to encourage student volunteerism and learning
• Education specialist program begins
• UWF greets the world on Good Morning, America

World Events

• Iraq’s dictator Saddam Hussein attacks and occupies Kuwait
• Germans vote for reunification
• Poland’s Solidarity movement rejects Communism and leader Lech Walesa elected president
• Oliver North’s Iran-Contra convictions overturned
• America sends aid to Russia
• Robert Mapplethorpe’s controversial photography causes stir
• “Rap” music condemned by Tipper Gore
• Seinfield debuts on NBC
• Sammy Davis Jr. and Greta Garbo die
• First class stamp costs $.25
• NASA launches HUBBLE space telescope
• IBM sells Selectric - a sign of the typewriter’s passing