Prince Charles and Diana Spencer marry on July 29 Dynasty premiers in prime time hours and becomes a hit. The US Agriculture Department tries making ketchup a school lunch vegetable Bill Gates licenses MS-DOS to IBM, makes next to nothing on the deal. The money is made later from licensing it to third party clone makers. The first IBM-PC's begin to roll of the lines. The first DeLorean sports cars roll off the assembly line.
Fruit fly break out in California.
Reagan starts toying with the Libyans, and deploys ships in the Gulf of Sidra, which Libya claimed rights to even though no one 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 immunization system.