Leon Spinx wins the world heavyweight boxing crown only to be defeated seven months later by Muhammad Ali. World News Jim Jones, leader of the People's Temple, dies with 917 others in a murder-suicide in Guyana. World population stands at 4.4 billion. Princess Diana dies in a car crash. Chernobyl A company named Microsoft starts making software.
Communist rule falls in several East block countries, including the Soviet Union.
The Class of 78 passes the mid-thirties mark and heads toward forty.