Britain and China initialed the Sino-British Joint Declaration, agreeing Hong Kong would return to Chinese rule in 1997 under 'one country, two systems.'

A day after the IRA's Brighton bombing nearly killed her, Margaret Thatcher insisted the Conservative Party conference proceed on schedule, delivering her speech as planned.

The Nobel Committee awarded South African Bishop Desmond Tutu the Peace Prize for his nonviolent campaign against apartheid.

Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi is shot dead by two of her own Sikh bodyguards at her residence, avenging a military raid on the Golden Temple.

A leak of toxic methyl isocyanate gas from a Union Carbide pesticide plant killed thousands in their sleep in one of history's worst industrial disasters.

A Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal, India leaked 40 tons of methyl isocyanate gas, killing thousands in one of history's worst industrial disasters.