5th » Bobby Sands dies in the Long Kesh prison hospital after 66 days of hunger strike or hunger-striking, aged 27.
10th » François Mitterrand wins the presidential election and becomes the first Socialist Party (France) e.g Socialist President of France in the France or French Fifth Republic.
12th » Francis Hughes Hunger strike starves to death in the Maze Prison in a Irish republicanism Republican campaign for political prisoner political prisoner status to be granted to Provisional Irish Republican Army Provisional IRA prisoners.
21st » The Italian government releases the membership list of Propaganda Due, an illegal pseudo-Freemasonry known as Masonic lodge that was implicated in numerous Italian crimes and mysteries.
24th » Ecuadorian president Jaime Roldós Aguilera, his wife, and his presidential committee die in an aircraft accident while travelling from Quito to Zapotillo minutes after the president gave a famous speech regarding the 24 de mayo anniversary of the Battle o
25th » In Riyadh, the Gulf Cooperation Council is created between Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
26th » Prime Minister of Italy Italian Prime Minister Arnaldo Forlani and his coalition cabinet resign following a scandal over membership of the Freemasonry pseudo-masonic lodge Propaganda Due P2 '(Propaganda Due)'.
26th » An Northrop Grumman EA-6B Prowler known as EA-6B Prowler crashes on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN-68) e.g USS 'Nimitz' (CVN-68), killing 14 crewmen and injuring 45 others.
31st » The burning of Jaffna library in Sri Lanka. It is one of the violent examples of ethnic Book burning e.g biblioclasm of the twentieth century.