The German magazine Stern reveals the existence of what are purported to be Adolf Hitler's diaries. The diaries are later exposed as a hoax.

South African novelist J. M. Coetzee publishes The Life and Times of Michael K.

Stanley and the Women, by British novelist Kingsley Amis, is published.

Swedish director Ingmar Bergman releases Fanny and Alexander.

Robert Bresson's L'Argent is released.

The "New Romantic" style of British pop music, exemplified by artists such as A Flock of Seagulls, Duran Duran, and Culture Club, enjoys popularity.

In a stunning upset, Australia strips the United States of the America's Cup for the first time since 1851 when the Australia II defeats Liberty four races to three in international sailboat racing.

In a portent of a coming ecological disaster, Soviet haulers quit fishing the Aral Sea, once the source of 10 to 15 percent of the nation's freshwater catch. By the 1990s the sea will...