The American baseball team New York Yankees, played their 13,000th game.
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James Bond's 13th installment, 'Octopussy,' was released.
The Soviet Union's ill-fated Soyuz 11 mission was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.
Alexey Pajitnov shared his first playable version of Tetris with his colleagues.
Henry W. Seely patented the electric iron in the US.
The US started plans to construct its first nuclear battlefield weapon.
