Events of this year in the Illustrated London News

• US hostages released from Teheran
• President Anwar Sadat of Egypt was assassinated in Cairo, succeeded by Hosni Mubarak
• Race riots in Brixton, Toxteth and other parts of the UK
• IRA hunger striker dies in prison
• July 29th - The Prince of Wales married Lady Diana Spencer at St Paul's Cathedral
• François Mitterand was elected French President
• The Social Democratic Party SDP was launched in Britain, Dr David Owen as leader
• First report of AIDS epidemic
• Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical Cats
• The first London Marathon

December

• cover photo of Princess Diana.
• County of Worcestershire;
• Dame Leila Paget;
• The Royal Navy at Cape Bon;
• Battersea Power Station

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