241 U.S. Marines killed in car-bomb blast in Beirut. US invades Grenada, first combat mission since 1975. President accepts report reorganizing three ethnic studies programs into one department. UW reinstitutes Freshmen Convocation. President Reagan re-elected in landslide over Walter Mondale.
Legislature passes budget.
Out of all the state's employees, only UW and WSU faculty see salary raises. UW Medical Center's first in vitro fertilization babies are born. Dr. Margaret Allen holds the transplanted heart. Photo by Davis Freeman. Northwest's first heart transplant performed at UW Medical Center.