7th » Twenty-eight years of one-family rule end in Haiti, when President Jean-Claude Duvalier flees the Caribbean nation.
16th » The Soviet Union Soviet liner MS Mikhail Lermontov 6 runs aground in the Marlborough Sounds, New Zealand.
19th » Akkaraipattu massacre: the Sri Lankan Army massacres 80 Tamil people called Tamil farm workers the eastern province of Sri Lanka.
20th » The Soviet Union launches its Mir spacecraft. Remaining in orbit for 15 years, it is occupied for 10 of those years.
21st » 'The Legend of Zelda (video game) called The Legend of Zelda', the first game of The Legend of Zelda series, was released in Japan on the Famicom Disk System.
22nd » Start of the People Power Revolution in the Philippines.
27th » The United States Senate allows its debates to be television named televised on a trial basis.
28th » Olof Palme, prime minister of Sweden, is Assassination of Olof Palme or assassinated in Stockholm.