The largest dinosaur fossil is found:
American palaeontologist Sue Hendrickson found the fossilised remains of a Tyrannosaurus rex in the state of South Dakota. The dinosaur has been thought to be 14 feet tall when alive.

The IBM Personal Computer is stocked in stores for the first time:
Known as the IBM PC or the IBM 5150, the computer had no disk drives and sold for about $1500.

About 3000 refugees are killed during a massacre at a Palestinian refugee camp:
The UN-run Tel al-Zaatar Palestinian refugee camp in the outskirts of Beirut, Lebanon had been sieged by the members of extremist group called the Phalange during the Lebanese civil war.