1980 - UK No 1 - Going Underground - Jam. USA No 1 - Another Brick in the Wall - Pink Floyd.
1981 - Bob Hite of the blues band Canned Heat dies at age 36 of a drug-related heart seizure
1985 - Broadcasters banded together to play the single, We Are the World, at 10:50 a.m. E.S.T. Stations in the United States were joined by hundreds of others around the world in a sign of unification for the African relief cause.
1986 - UK No 1 - Living Doll - Cliff Richard. USA No 1 - Rock Me Amadeus - Falco. A bomb explodes in the La Belle disco crowded with US servicemen in Berlin, Germany, killing at least two and injuring over 100.
