The resulting year-long media frenzy helps elect Ronald Reagan U.S. President. Everett Central Labor Council formed. Washington state voters reject an initiative that would ban the export of raw logs. Voters ban underground bomb tests, Colorado. Gandhi leads Great March into Transvaal, South Africa.
Parliament institutes racial segregation in public facilities, Rhodesia.
Bolshevik revolution launched in Russia. Within a decade white settlers, business interests, and the U.S. Army seize the region. 20,000 black and white workers stage general strike, New Orleans. 500 University of Washington students protest against campus visit by recruiters for Dow Chemical. Charges against eight National Guardsmen stemming from the 1970 Kent State shootings were dropped in federal court.