1976: First solo show of color photographs at the Museum of Modern Art, William

Eggleston's Guide
1977: Cindy Sherman begins work on Untitled Film Stills, completed in 1980; Jan
Groover begins exploring kitchen utensils
1978: Hiroshi Sugimoto begins work on seascapes.
1980: Elsa Dorfman begins making portraits with the 20x24" Polaroid.
1982: Sony demonstrates Mavica "still video" camera
1983: Kodak introduces disk camera, using an 8x11mm frame (the same as in the Minox spy
camera)
1985: Minolta markets the world's first autofocus SLR system (called "Maxxum" in the
US); In the American West by Richard Avedon
1988: Sally Mann begins publishing nude photos of her children
1987: The popular Canon EOS system introduced, with new all-electronic lens mount

1986 - Kodak scientists develop the world's first megapixel sensor.

1976

Soweto uprising in South Africa

First artifical gene

Capable of working in a living cell, it was the first living cell created entirely in a
test tube without any other gene as a template.

Apple Computer is launched

Legionnaire's disease strikes 182, kills 29

The first appearance of the flu like disease struck at an American Legion
convention in Philadelphi

Tall Ships celebration in New York Harbor

To celebrate the bicentennial of the country.

CB radio popularity peaks

656,000 CB radio applications were filed each month 1976

Courts allow removal of life support

Karen Ann Quinlan had been in a coma for over a year before her parents won
the right to remove the life support equipment keeping her alive. It took 9 years
for her to die afterwards.

First Cray Supercomputer

 Betamax and VHS VCRs released

Doctors protest increase in mapractice insurance

Mao Tse-tung died

The communist leader of China died in 1976 after over 25 years of rule.

Concord Supersonic Airliner

First Concord (Supersonic Airliner) to make trans-Atlantic commercial flight.

Entebbe Air Raid

Israeli commandos stormed hijacked Air France plane in Uganda's Entebbe
Airport, releasing 103 hostages held by a pro-Palestinian terrorist group.

Ebola Outbreak
First Ebola outbreak in Africa, marked beginning of an epidemic that still plagues
African countries today.

Bicenntenial
The United States of America's 200th Birthday.

The Viking Probe lands on Mars

In July the Viking Probe set down safely on Mars and sent back pictures of rocky
terrain.

West Point admits women

West Point military academy started accepting women.

1977

Egyptian president visits Israel

President Anwar al-Sadat was the first Arab country to visit and acknowledge
Israel's right to exist. This began the long peace process in the region.

Neutron bomb funding began

The Neutron bomb was an atomic weapon designed to spread radiation to kill
people and leave buildings intact.

Red Dye No. 2 isbanned

It was found to cause cancer, so it's use was discontinued, but led to a red dye
scare.

MRI is first used

Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is used to map the brain and other parts of
the body.
 Son of Sam murderer arrested
His arrest ended a 12 month long killing spree. He was clinically paranoid and
believed the 1000 year old spirit of a black dog named Sam ordered him to kill
people.

Treaty to signover Panama Canal passed

Control was given back to the country of Panama on December 31, 1999.

The first Concorde SST leaves from New York City

Despite design setbacks and environmental protests, a flight route was
established between New York and Pairs.

Alaskan pipeline is completed

New York City blackout

July 13th saw a 25 hour blackout in the city, resulting in widespread looting.

Carter halts development of B-1 bomber

Airline Disaster
The worst air disaster in history. Two 747's collide at airport in Tenerife, Canary
Islands killing nearly 600 people

First black Miss Universe crowned

On July 16th, Janelle Commissiong of Trinidad & Tobago becomes the first black
woman in the pageant's 26-year history to win the coveted crown.

Neutron Bomb Funding Began

The Neutron bomb was an atomic weapon designed to spread radiation to kill
people and leave buildings intact.

Treaty to signover Panama Canal passed

Control was given back to the country of Panama on December 31, 1999.

President Carter Pardons VietNam Draft Dodgers

President Jimmy Carter officially pardons all those who avoided the draft during
the Vietnam war.

Legoinnaire's Disease Source Identified

Legionnaire's Disease, which was affecting people in 1976, was identified as a
bacterium by scientists on January 18, 1977.

First Woman Episcopal Priest Ordained

First woman Episcopal priest ordained on January 1.
 Nuclear-Proliferation Pact Signed
On September 21, 1977, The Nuclear-Proliferation Pact was signed by 15
countries, including the United States and the then, USSR, which was to "curb"
the spread of nuclear weapons.

1978

Jonestown massacre
The suicide and murder of 900 people who drank cyanide in fruit-flavored drink,
the leader shot himself.

First test tube baby - In vitro fertilization

Camp David accords for Middle East peace

Egypt, Israel and the US met in the presidential retreat in Maryland to hammer
out a peace agreement between the two leaders.

Ultrasound first used

Atlantic City permits gambling

Garfield the Cat is syndicated

Love Canal in New York declared federal disaster

Hustler Publisher Larry Flynt Shot & Paralyzed

Larry Flynt, publisher of the hardcore porno mag HUSTLER, was shot and
paralyzed from the waist down by an unknown assailant. There are rumours that
the assailant was infuriated by a multi-racial photo spread in one issue of
HUSTLER.

1979

The Shah flees Iran

The Ayatollah Khomeini assumes power an introduces Islamic law

Iranian students storm the US embassy

They held 52 of the 66 people in the embassy hostage for 444 days, which
helped to undermine Jimmy Carters re-election efforts in the 1980.
 Margaret Thatcher becomes British PM
The Conservatives had taken over the Parliment, and Margaret Thatcher became
the first woman to hold the highest office in a European country.

The Soviets invade Afghanistan

The Sony Walkman is introduced

Moral Majority is begun by Jerry Falwell

Susan B Anthony dollar coin

Skylab fell into the Indian Ocean

Diplomatic ties with China formalized

Three Mile Island partial meltdown

In March a series of mechanical and human errors caused a near meltdown of
the reactor at one of the plants in Three Mile Island Pennsylvania near
Harrisburg.

Sioux Nation awarded $100 million in land claim

Ayatollah Khomeini
Ayatollah took power in Iran on February 11, 1979.

The Greensboro Massacre

On Nov. 3, a group of Klu Klux Klan members and American Nazi party members
attacked a group of Communist Worker's Party members who were gathered for
a demonstration that was speaking out against the klan.

Mother Teresa Wins Nobel Peace Prize

In Stockholm Sweden, Mother Teresa is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her
saint-like presence in India.

Terrorism at Saudi Mosque

Radical militants of the Wahhabi sect of Islam stormed the grand mosque of
Mecca and held it until Saudi security forces with the help of French special
forces were able to retake it.

The Who Concert Tragedy

December 3, 1979. 11 people were trampled to death outside the Riverfront
Coliseum in Cicinnatti, OH. The city of Cicinnatti passed a by-law banning festival
seating and general admission.
 Nicaraguan Revolution
On July 17, 1979, the Sandinistas and the Nicaraguan people won their freedom
from the dictator Anastasio Somoza, who fled to Miami with the Nicaraguan
treasury. A junta was set up to run Nicaragua until their first real election, in 1984,
in which Daniel Ortega was elected president.

ESPN starts broadcasting

ESPN started as an alternative to standard television news broadcasts and the
information found in "Sports" sections of newspapers. It launched on September
7, 1979.

This is a list of important events the occured during 1980. Exact dates are listed when
known.

1980

Who Shot JR? is talked about heavily from the TV show Dallas. On November
21, the conclusion draws more viewers than any other show in TV history up to
that point.

Summer Olympics in Moscow, USSR, The US boycotts

Post-It Notes are introduced by 3-M

The first all news service started by Turner Cable Network begins

John Lennon is assassinated by Mark David Chapman

Brook Shields whispers, &quotYou know what comes between me and my

Calvins? Nothing." the ad was banned.

Ronald Reagan is elected, defeating Jimmy Carter, and takes credit for freeing
the Iranian hostages in his innaugural speech.

Poland has massive strikes, eventually the unions become legal, censorship is
lessened.

About 125,000 Cubans leave Cuba for America, most are criminals hand picked
by Castro's men, only a few are relatives of those in America.

RU-486, the abortion pill is released in France.

 The US Supreme Court allows patents on living organisms.

Mt. Saint Helens erupts, killing 60 people.

CNN is launched as the first all news network

ABSCAM, FBI agents pose as rich arabs and bribed politicians with cash for
favors.

Richard Pryor gets badly burned trying to freebase cocaine.

Small pox is considered eradicated by the World Health Orginization.

Sadam Hussein launches war against Iran for close to a decade over oil rights.

Japan passes the US as the largest automaker

Bill Gates licenses MS-DOS to IBM, makes next to nothing on the deal. The pair
buys the rights to a simple operating system manufactured by Seattle Computer
Products and use it as a template. The money is made later from licensing it to
third party clone makers.

SEPTEMBER 22, 1980 - Procter and Gamble Co. announces a recall of its Rely
brand tampons when federal studies conclude their use increases chances of
toxic shock syndrome.

Genetic Engineering of insulin began clinical trials.

US suspends grain sales to the Soviet Union in respond to their support of the
war in Afghanistan.

President Carter attempted a helicopter rescue of the hostages in Iran, failing

miserably.

US hockey team beat Russia for the gold in the Winter Olympics.

1981

The 1st launch of a space shuttle (Columbia)

Reagan fires the striking air traffic controllers and breaks up their union.

Pope shot by insane Turk, May 13.

 Sandra Day O'Connor becomes first female Supreme Court Justice

Mitterand becomes French president (and will remain pres. well into the 90s)

Prince Charles and Diana Spencer marry on July 29

Luke and Lauras's Wedding (General Hospital), Most watched wedding in history
next to Charles and Diana.

Dynasty premiers in primetime hours and becomes a hit.

The US Agriculture Department trys making ketchup a school lunch vegetable

The first IBM-PC's begin to roll of the lines.

The first DeLorean sports cars roll off the assembly line.

August 1, The birth of MTV, the 24 hour-a-day music television station

Private satelite dishes are given the ok by the FCC

Fruit fly break out in California.

Regan starts toying with the Libyains, and deploys ships in the Gulf of Sidra,
which Libya claimed rights to even though no one else recognized it as theirs.

Pac-Man is introduced in the US and sparks a huge craze.

Spain allows legal divorces.

Poland government crushes the Solidarity movement.

The first reports of homosexual men dying due to a mysterious breakdown of the
bodies' immuminzation system. Later it becomes known as Acquired Immune
Deficiency Syndrome, aka AIDS and researches realize it can strike anyone.

52 American hostages released in January after 14 months in captivity in Iran

Antigua gained its independence November 1,1981

Assasination attempt on Ronald Regean on March 30, 1981 by John Hinkley

1982

Michael Jackson's "Thriller" sells 20 million albums to become the largest selling
record ever.

Ozzy bites the head off a live bat thrown at him at a January 20 performance.

Argentina invades the Falklands (UK); Argentina has to withdraw its troops after
two months.

Italy wins the Soccer World Cup in Spain

Helmut Kohl becomes chancellor in Germany (and STILL is chancellor)

Leonid Breznjev dies, Yuri Andropov takes over

The Reverend Sun Myung Moon marries 4,150 of his "Moonie" followers at
Madison Square Garden.

Tylenol Scare, October 5th

Nancy Reagan appears at a Washington benefit dressed as a bag lady to protest

criticism of her expensive outfits.

Princess Grace of Monaco dies when her car hurtles over a cliff.

John Belushi dies March 5 of cocaine and herion.

Prine William is born to Charles and Di.

Mexico's economy collapses.

Liposuction is introduced.

Telephone company breaks up into 22 distinct regional phone companies.

The Equal Rights Amendment dies, three states short of ratification.

The Vietnam Memorial is erected in Washington D.C.

The first artificial heart transplant takes place, the receipent lives 112 days.
 Delorean Motor Company goes bankrupt

Larry Walters on July 2nd ties 42 weather balloons to a lawn chair and flies as
high as 16 thousand feet before shooting the balloons with a pellet gun and
landing about 90 minutes later. The FAA fined him $1,500.

1983

Cabbage Patch kids are released.

Ronnie introduces 'Star Wars'

"Just Say No" is the new tool to combat growing drug use in the US.

Thatcher's second term as PM

USSR shoots and destroys South Korean flight 007.

Camcorders are introduced.

US invades Grenada after coup on the island, more medals are handed out
during the invasion than during the entire Vietnam war.

Karen Carpenter dies of anorexia nervosa at the age of 32, February 4th.

The final episode of M*A*S*H airs, advertising cost more than during the Super
Bowl that year, and surpassing the record Dallas set for most viewers.

Sally Ride becomes first American woman in space, June 18th on the Challenger

Compact discs are first released.

U.S Embasy is bombed in Beirut, killing 40 people.

Hackers invade sensitive military computers such as Los Alamos National

Labratory.

Australia wins the America's Cup for the first time in 132 years.

Fake Hitler diaries surface.

The Tylenol Murders happen in Chicago.

 Last DeLoreans produced

Bob Hawke becomes Prime Minister of Australia. The first Labor PM in nine
years.

French scientist Dr. Luc Montagnier discovered HIV.

The Tylenol murders happened in the fall of 1982, not 1983.

1984

The Cosby show premiers.

Sikhs occupy Golden Temple in Amritsar, India

Indira Gandhi is assassinated.

Chemical disaster in Bhopal, India, December 3rd.

Geraldine Ferraro becomes the first woman Vice President running mate.

Reagan re-elected in landslide election, Walter Mondale is never heard from

again.

Congress cuts off aid to Nicaragua, illegal guns sales start to fund the contras.

Stonewashed jeans are introduced.

The first megabit chip is made at Bell Labs

Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, US. The Soviets boycott.

Mary Lou Retton wins two gold, two silver and two bronze medals.

Old nude photos of Vanessa Williams, the current Miss America. She is forced
from her throne.

The AIDS virus is discovered

On January 28, Michael Jackson's hair caught fire during the shooting of Pepsi
commercial, many children's rhymes ensued.

The first infomercials appear on TV due to de-regulation by the FCC.

 The first all rap radio format is introduced at LA's KDAY

Run-D.M.C. are the first ever rap group to have an album certified gold.

The term cyberspace is coined by William Gibson in his novel "Neuromancer"

Bob Geldof and Band Aid release "Do They Know It's Christmas"

Vanessa Williams becomes first African American Miss America

In 1984 Reagan makes famous joke: "My fellow Americans, I've signed
legislation that will outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in five minutes." He
supposedly didn't know the mic was on.

Apple Computer releases the Macintosh personal computer.

Calling themselves the PMRC (Parents' Music Resource Coalition), concerned

parents, including Tipper Gore, wife of then-Tennessee Senator Albert Gore,
Susan Baker, wife of Treasury Secretary James Baker, Georgie Packwood, wife
of Oregon Senator Robert Packwood, and Nancy Thurmond, wife of South
Carolina Senator Strom Thurmond, construct a campaign designed to 'educate'
parents about certain alarming new trends in rock music.

1985

"We Are The World" is recorded by USA for Africa, America's response to the
British "Do They Know It's Christmas"

LIVE AID in London and Philadelphi, beamed around the world

Crack coccaine starts to appear.

Billy Joel marries Christie Brinkley... millions of men suddenly feel like they stand
a chance with an attractive woman.

Brussels, Belgium: 39 dead, 250 wounded during a soccer match between

Liverpool and Juventus

Greenpeace's Rainbow Warrior is bombed by the French goverment during

protests of it's nuclear testing in the Pacific

Earthquake in Mexico / Volcano erupts in Colombia; 1000s killed

Gorbachev becomes (the last) president of the Soviet Union

 New coke is introduced in April and quickly replaced with original Coke

Titanic wreckage found and filmed by robotic camera in July

Bernhard Goetz is charged with attempted murder

Ethiopa blocks the airlift of thousands of Ethiopian Jews.

Hole in the ozone layer, first detected in 1977, is now indisputable.

In October, the worlds largest atom smasher goes online in Illinois.

Nintendo home entertainment system introduced.

Extra second added to the calender year.

Leaded gas is officially banned in the US

Swedish premier Olaf Palme is assassinated.

Rock 'n' Roll Hall of fame is opened.

Rock Hudson, the first major public figure to die to AIDS, dies on October 2.

Karen Ann Quinlan, coma patient, dies of pneumonia. She was the first person to
die in the "right-to-die" controversy debate.

1986

January 28, the Challenger explodes.

Worst nuclear disaster ever in Chernobyl, USSR, April.

In Nyos, Cameroon, a cloud of carbon dioxide rumbled out of the nearby lake
Nyos on August 21 and killed approximently 1,700 people.

Bill Buckner lets World Series squirt through his legs. The Mets win in 7 games.

US vs Lybia's Col. Khadafi

Argentina wins Soccer World Cup in Mexico

Fox Network starts in America

 June 19th, Len Bias, a first round pick by the Celtics, died of a cocaine overdose.

Mandatory recycling programs started in Rhode Island.

Iran Contra Scandal (Who can forget Ollie North?) is reported in November in a
Lebanese magazine.

Vice President George Bush's broccoli incident, tons of the stuff is delivered to
the White House.

Return of Haley's Comet

Hands Across America, May 25, 1986

Statue of Liberty celebrates the 100th Anniversary and gets a face lift in the
process.

Arnold Schwarzenegger marries Maria Shriver.

Kurt Waldheim's Nazi past is revealed as he runs for president of Austria, and he
still wins despite having been a staff officer responsible for deporting thousands
of Greek Jews to the concentration camps.

"A.M. Chicago" changes its name to the "Oprah Winfrey Show" and goes national
September 8th.

Turner Broadcasting begins to colorize black and white classics.

Miami Hurricanes' Quarterback Vinny Testaverde wins the Heisman Trophy

John McCarthy, a British journalist was kidnapped by Islamic Jihad. Remained in

captivity for a staggering 5.5 years.

America celebrates national holiday Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. day for the first
time.

Not only did the Red Sox went to the World Series (They lost in 7 to the Mets)
,the Boston Celtics won the 1986 NBA Championship, and New England went to
the the Super Bowl but lost to the Chicago Bears 46-10.

Supermodel Gia, after years of heroin addiction, dies of AIDS. She is the first
woman to sucumb to the AIDS virus in the US.
 Election of Corazon Aquino ends corrupt Marcos regime in the Philippines. "Win
or lose, we go shopping after the election." - Imelda Marcos

1987

"Baby Jessica," Jessica McClure falls down the well and is later rescued.
Wednesday October 14th, 1987 --9:30am cst through Friday October 16th,
1987--8:30pm cst

Battle for "Baby M" begins. William and Eilizabeth Stern of New Jersey hired
Mary Beth Whitehead to carry a baby to term for them. After it was all over,
surrogate contracts were declared illegal and the Sterns won the right to bring
"Baby M" up and allow Mrs. Whitehead visitation rights.

Herald of Free Enterprise sinks in North Sea; 189 die

German lands airplane on Red Square, Moscow

Thatcher re-elected (again)

The INF agreement between the US and the USSR

Black Monday - Stock market drops 22% on October 19th.

Artists protest the ongoing Sistine Chapel restoration.

Condom commericals begin to appear on TV for the first time.

US budget reaches the trillion dollar mark.

Robert Bork was denied a Supreme Court appointment after opposition to his
involvement in Richard Nixon's "Saturday Night Massacre" was raised.

Jessica Hahn is implicated in the Jimmy Bakker scandal

Gary Hart scandal with model Donna Rice destroys his career.

Bruce Willis marries Demi Moore, November 21

Klaus Barbie is convicted of Nazi war crimes and sentenced to life in prision. On
a similar note, Rudolf Hess strangled himself at age 93 after having been in
prision since 1941. He was the sole prisioner at the facility.

Porn star Cicciolina wins a seat in the Italian parliment

 The last California Condor was taken in to captivity. There were only 27 in
captivity at that point. By 1992 57 were in captivity and were beginning to be re-
released into the wild.

The marriage of Charles and Diana starts to deteriorate, they begin living alone.

World Population reaches 5 billion

The largest stock-market drop in Wall Street history occurred on "Black Monday"
-- October 19, 1987 -- when the Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged 508.32
points, losing 22.6% of its total value. That fall far surpassed the one-day loss of
12.9% that began the great stock market crash of 1929 and foreshadowed the
Great Depression

The year that Lane Frost won the PRCA World Championship in Bull Riding.

Les Miserables is awarded 8 Tony awards, including Best Musical.

1988

CDs outsell vinyl for the first time ever.

Soviets leave Afghanistan

Jimmy Swaggart admits to being with prostitutes.

Summer Olympics in Seoul, South-Korea; Ben Johnson caught for steriods after
setting a World Record in the 100 meter dash.

Pan Am Flight 103 explodes over Lockerbie, Scotland; Lybian terrorists are
suspected of planting the bomb

Earthquake in the USSR

Bobby McFerrin tells everyone "Don't worry, be happy"

Prozac is introduced as an anti-depresent.

US advertising is permitted on Soviet TV

The first plutonium pacemaker is made.

World's longest undersea tunnel is completed. Work begins on the Chunnel

which will then become the world's longest undersea tunnel.
 Sonny Bono becomes Mayor in Palm Springs.

Robin Givens files for divorce from Mike Tyson

Benazir Bhutto becomes the first woman to head an Islamic nation

Willie Horton ads during the '88 re-election

Dukakis loses to the "Read My Lips" guy, he's never heard from again.

McDonalds in the USSR (might have been 1989)

Long Island beaches close due to medical waste coming ashore July 6th.

Iran-Iraqi war ends in August.

Human Genome project begins.

Soviets withdraw from Afghanastan.

Australia celebrates it's bicentenary

Supreme Court case, California v. Greenwood, tested the Bill of Rights 4th
Amendment, addressing search and seizure in trash.

Fires in Yellowstone National Park. The rains didn't come when expected but
months later.

1989

The fall of the Berlin wall on November 9th.

Cold fusion is announced in March and then denounced at the end of summer as
clumsy science.

Arsenio Hall becomes first African-American to host a nightly talk show January
3rd.

The "beginning of the end" for the communist rulers in Eastern Europe; the Cold
War comes to an end

Salmon Rushdie wanted dead by Iranian leader Khomeini

Kim Basinger buys Braselton, Georgia for $20 million.

 Exxon Valdez oil disaster in Alaska in March.

Lucille Ball dies April 26.

Hillsborough Stadium, Sheffield, UK: 96 dead, 170 wounded during a soccer

match between Liverpool F.C. and Nottingham Forest F.C. in April.

Students protest on Tienanmen Square, Beijing, China - the army intervenes;

3000-7000 killed, June 3rd.

Worldwide ban of ivory

The Fourteenth Dalai Lama won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1989

The stealth bomber is finished.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles become an over night sensation

Time and Warner combine to become Time Warner Inc.

Panama invasion, loud rock music drives Manuel Noreiga from his asylum.

Rob Lowe is spotted in a soft porn video with an underage girl.

The parents of the Menendez brothers are found murdered, Lyle and Erik are
later accused of the murders.

Milli Vanilli gets Best New Artist Grammy which is later stripped when it's learned
they were lip synching for another (much uglier) duo.

Geraldo Riveria gets his nose broken on his show by a violent guest

Pete Rose is banned from baseball for betting on games, August 24.

Collin Powell is appointed Joint Cheifs of Staff, highest army post to ever be held
by a black officier.

October 17th quake disrupts the third game of the world series between San
Francisco Giants and Oakland Athletics.

TV Guide releases a picture of a newly slim Oprah Winfrey which turns out to be
her head on Ann-Margret's body.

Princess Anne anounces her seperation from her husband.

 Michael Milken is indicted on 98 fraud and racketering charges.

Vietnam withdraws from Cambodia, September 26, after almost 11 years of

occupation.

Pan Am files chapter 11

Burma changes it's name to Myanmar

Earthquake hits Newcastle, N.S.W. Australia in December. Several people died

with more injured. Millions of dollars of damage.

Soviet Union begins fully withdraws from Afghanistan after 10 years of fighting
with Afghan mujihadeen forces.

December 6, 1989 deemed the Montreal Massacre. At approximately 5 o'clock

pm, 25 year old women hater walks into Ecole Polytechnique in Montreal and
kills 14 women, injuring 13 others before turning the shot gun on himself. This
day is remembered as the worst single-day massacre in Canadian history.
Attached to his suicide note was a list of 19 women in Montreal who had
succeeded in non-traditional female employment - firefighters, police officer,
journalist but said "The lack of time (because I started too late) has allowed these
radical feminists to survive." Ironically, everyone remembers the murderer but
only their survivors remember the women murdered because they were female.
The women were:Genevive Bergeron, aged 21; Hlne Colgan, 23; Nathalie
Croteau, 23; Barbara Daigneault, 22; Anne-Marie Edward, 21; Maud Haviernick,
29; Barbara Maria Klucznik, 31; Maryse Leclair, 23; Annie St.-Arneault, 23;
Michle Richard, 21; Maryse Laganire, 25; Anne-Marie Lemay, 22; Sonia
Pelletier, 28; and Annie Turcotte, aged 21.

Vance vs. Judas Priest: Parents of two teenaged Judas Priest fans who
attempted suicide in December 1985 sue the band, claiming that a subliminal
message in the song "Better by You, Better than Me" influenced their actions.
(Justice Jerry Carr Whitehead will rule in favor of the band in 1993.)