| 1958 | Benjamin Britten's one-act opera Noye's Fludde premiered at the Aldeburgh Festival. |
| 1965 | Vietnam War: The United States Air Force uses B-52 bombers to attack guerrilla fighters in South Vietnam. |
| 1972 | Staines air disaster: One hundred eighteen people are killed when a BEA H.S.
Trident crashes minutes after takeoff from London's Heathrow Airport. |
| 1979 | SALT II is signed by the United States and the Soviet Union. |
| 1981 | The Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk, the first operational aircraft initially designed around stealth technology, makes its first flight. |
| 1982 | Italian banker Roberto Calvi's body is discovered hanging beneath Blackfriars Bridge in London, England. |
| 1983 | Space Shuttle program: STS-7, Astronaut Sally Ride becomes the first American woman in space. |
| 1983 | Mona Mahmudnizhad, together with nine other women of the Baháʼí Faith, is sentenced to death and hanged in Shiraz, Iran over her religious beliefs. |
| 1984 | A major clash between about 5,000 police and a similar number of miners takes pla
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