Ozzy Osbourne bit the head off a bat that a fan threw onto the stage during a performance in Des Moines, Iowa.
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In a letter and on television, President Jimmy Carter announced that the Olympics should not take place in Moscow, Russia.
Marvin Gaye's 'What's Going On' single was released.
NASA mission STS-72 landed at the Kennedy Space Center after eight days in space.
Feminist Elizabeth Cady Stanton became the first woman to testify before Congress.
Buzz Aldrin, the second man to set foot on the Moon, married Anca Faur on his 93rd birthday.