Events
The ARA General Belgrano is sunkThe HMS Sheffield is sunk by an Argentine Exocet MissileThe People's Revolutionary Government of Grenada is overthrownIraq begins a costly and pointless invasion of IranThe Iraq-Iran war ends with no changesThe last Soviet troops leave AfghanistanThe Falklands vote almost unanimously to stay BritishPoland holds its first free election, and Solidarity wins in a landslideThe USS Stark is attacked by a sole Iraqi fighterIran Air Flight 655 is shot down by the USS VincennesThe first Lebanon war ends, beginning Syrian hedgemony in LebanonThe 'Christmas War' ends 5 days after it beginsIndia captures the Siachen glacier
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