The Khobar Towers are bombed in Saudi Arabia kills 19 US servicemen.

A combined British and Indian combined force defeats the United States Army – the Battle of Beaver Dams.

A terrorist bomb aboard Air India flight 182 brings the Boeing 747 down off the coast of Ireland killing all 329 aboard.

Checkpoint Charlie taken down in Berlin.

The Tauranga Campaign of the New Zealand Land Wars ends.

A British garrison gets imprisoned in the Black Hole of Calcutta.

Riots involving over 10 000 people and 10 000 police occur in Shishou, China, following the dubious circumstances surrounding the death of a local chef.

The Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk makes its first flight.

The country of Bhutan becomes the first to have a total ban on tobacco.