- Stock market levels plummet around the world on ‘Black Monday’
- World population reaches five billion
- DNA is used to convict criminals for the first time
- Thatcher’s Conservative government wins a third term
- IRA detonates bomb at war memorial in Enniskillen
- Andy Warhol dies
- Documenta 8 opens in Kassel, an international exhibition that takes place every five years
- Van Gogh’s Irises sell at auction for record
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