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January 20 - End of the Iran hostage crisis.
March 21 - Michael Donald, a 19-year old African-American man, is kidnapped, beaten, and murdered by members of the Ku Klux Klan, in one of the last recorded lynchings in the United States.
March 30 - John Hinckley, Jr. attempts to assassinate U.S. President Ronald Reagan.
April 27 - Operation Red Dog takes place.
May 13 - Mehmet Ali Ağca, a member of the Grey Wolves, attempts to assassinate Pope John Paul II in St. Peter's Square in Vatican City.
July 6 - The Cuban American National Foundation is founded.
July 27 - Serial killer Ottis Toole abducts 6-year old Adam Walsh from the parking lot of the Hollywood Mall in Hollywood, Florida, later raping him and decapitating him with a machete.
October 6 - Egyptian President Anwar Sadat is assassinated in Cairo by Egyptian Islamic Jihad members Khalid Islambouli and Muhammad abd-al-Salam Faraj.
December 6 - The Communist Party of Kampuchea is dissolved.
December 13 - Wojciech Jaruzelski, the head of state of Poland, declares martial law in Poland in response to protests by the Solidarity trade union. The Military Council of National Salvation is established to maintain order.

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 *July 24 - [[Steven Anderson]]
 *September 11 - [[Dylan Klebold]]
+*November 4 - [[Jho Low]]
 *November 30 - [[War Machine]]
 ===Victim births===
 *January 3 - Polly Klaas