Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini bans music broadcasting in Iran, arguing that it has corrupted Iranian youth. The prohibition follows other bans against men and women swimming together, most Western movies, alcohol, and singing by women.

13 Aug.

China announces a new program to limit population growth by discouraging couples from having more than one child.

18 Aug.

Muslim rebels in Afghanistan announce the formation of an insurgent government.

19 Aug.

Two Soviet cosmonauts set a new 175-day spaceflight record.

27 Aug.

The Irish Republican Army explodes a bomb on a fishing boat off the Irish coast, killing Earl Mountbatten of Burma, cousin to Queen Elizabeth of Britain.

13 Sept.

In Peking's Tiananmen Square nearly one thousand people attend a protest against Communist Party privileges.

21 Sept.

Britain and France announce the cancelation of the supersonic Concorde program. Citing prohibitive expenses, they parcel out the remaining seven unsold aircraft to Air France and British Airways.

12 Oct.

President...