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- Boy George is Britain's latest pop idol
- The halfpenny coin is phased out
- Torvill and Dean skate off with the Olympic gold for ice dancing
- National miners' strike begins
- Sarah Tisdall, a Foreign Office clerk, is jailed for six months for whistle-blowing
- Thames Barrier is officially opened
- Eric Morecambe dies aged 58
- Robert Maxwell buys the Mirror newspaper group for £113.4 million
- 11-day-old Holly Roffey becomes the world's youngest heart transplant patient
- York Minster is set ablaze by a bolt of lightning. £1 million damage
- Martina Navratilova wins the women's championship at Wimbledon for the fifth time
- BMX bike cult hits Britain
- Richard Burton dies at 58 in Geneva
- 22 people die from salmonella-type poisoning at a hospital in Wakefield
- An IRA bomb blasts the Conservative conference headquarters in Brighton
- Indira Gandhi, prime minister of India, assassinated by her bodyguards
- A 15-day-old baby receives a baboon's heart in a transplant at Loma Linda University Medical Centre in California
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