At the 33rd Cannes Film Festival, “All That Jazz” and “Kagemusha” were jointly awarded the Palme d’Or award.
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Wilfred Benítez became the youngest 3-division world champion in history at age 22 after knocking out Maurice Hope in 12 rounds.
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, the second in the film series, directed by Steven Spielberg, was released in the US.
Twelve doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston performed the first successful reattachment of a human limb – it was the severed arm of a boy.
South Carolina became the 8th state to join the United States of America.
Benjamin Franklin announced his invention of bifocal eyeglasses.
