Wall Street film directed by Oliver Stone starring Michael Douglas and Charlie Sheen, was released.
Source
The first yacht race across the Atlantic Ocean began.
Time magazine called Susan Sontag 'one of Manhattan's brightest intellectuals' in a review of her groundbreaking essay 'Notes on Camp.'
A trial for Huntington's disease procured positive results.
Thirty Native Americans attacked Myles Standish and a group of eighteen settlers. This became known as the 'First Encounter.'
Edward VIII officially announced his abdication.
