• Soviets free Natan Scharansky
• Nuclear disaster at Chernobyl
• Summit at Reykjavik
• Spain and Portugal enter the common market
• Marcos flees the Philippines
• US planes attack Tripoli
• Space Shuttle Challenger explodes in midair
• Iran Contra Affair
• US responds to Libyan terror

Fiction
1. "It" by Stephen King
2. "Red Storm Rising" by Tom Clancy
3. "Whirlwind" by James Clavell
4. "The Bourne Supremacy" by Robert Ludlum
5. "Hollywood Husbands" by Jackie Collins

Nonfiction
1. "Fatherhood" by Bill Cosby
2. "Fit for Life" by Harvey and Marilyn Diamond
3. "His Way" by Kitty Kelly
4. "The Rotation Diet" by Martin Katahn
5. "You're Only Old Once" by Dr. Seuss

Most Popular Television Shows

Academy Awards

Grammy Awards

Record of the Year: "Higher Love" ... Steve Winwood
Song of the Year: "That's What Friends Are For" ... Burt Bacharach, Carole Bayer Sager
Best Album:"Graceland" ... Paul Simon
Male Vocalist: Steve Winwood ... "Higher Love"
Female Vocalist:Barbra Streisand ... "The Broadway Album"

Nobel Prizes

Chemistry

The prize was awarded jointly to:

HERSCHBACH, DUDLEY R., U.S.A., Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, b. 1932;

LEE, YUAN T., U.S.A., University of California, Berkeley, CA, b. 1936 (in
Hsinchu, Taiwan); and

POLANYI, JOHN C., Canada, University of Toronto, Toronto, b. 1929:

"for their contributions concerning the dynamics of chemical elementary
processes"
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Literature

SOYINKA, WOLE, Nigeria, b. 1934:

"who in a wide cultural perspective and with poetic overtones fashions the
drama of existence"
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Peace

WIESEL, ELIE, USA, b. 1928: Chairman of 'The President's Commission on the Holocaust'. Author, humanitarian.
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Physiology or Medicine

The prize was awarded jointly to:

COHEN, STANLEY, U.S.A., Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN, b. 1922; and

LEVI-MONTALCINI, RITA, Italy and U.S.A., Institute of Cell Biology of the
C.N.R., Rome, Italy, b. 1909 (in Turin, Italy):

"for their discoveries of growth factors"
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Physics

The prize was awarded by one half to:

RUSKA, ERNST, Federal Republic of Germany, Fritz- Haber-Institut der
Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Berlin, b. 1906, d. 1988:

"for his fundamental work in electron optics, and for the design of the
first electron microscope"

and the other half jointly to:

BINNIG, GERD, Federal Republic of Germany, IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, R&Mac217;schlikon, Switzerland, b. 1947; and

ROHRER, HEINRICH, Switzerland, IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, Ruschlikon, Switzerland, b. 1933:

"for their design of the scanning tunneling microscope"

Pulitzer Prizes

Drama:Larry McMurtry ... "Lonesome Dove"
History: Walter A. McDougall ... "The Heavens and the Earth"
International Reporting: Lewis M. Simons, Pete Carey & Katherine Ellison ... "San Jose (CA) Mercury News"
National Reporting:Arthur Howe ... "Philadelphia Inquirer
Craig Flournoy & George Rodrigue ... "Dallas Morning News"
Public Service:"Denver Post"

Tony Awards

Best Play: "I'm Not Rappaport" ... Herb Gardner
"The Mystery of Edwin Drood"
"Best Actor in a play: Judd Hirsch ... "I'm Not Rappaport
Best Actress in a play:Bernadette Peters ... "Song & Dance"