December 1981: Lennon and More

On December 8 1981, John Lennon was shot and killed outside his home in the Dakota Hotel in New York City. I've never been much of a fan, but remember I was riding on the bus to school in the 9th Grade when the news came over the radio. If you were sentient in December 1981, it was not the only news story of the month. Do you remember these?

• December 1 - Ronald Reagan signs a presidential order approving covert aid for the Contras - rebels fighting against the leftist Sandinista regime in Nicaragua.
• December 8 - A methane gas explosion in a coal mine near Whitwell, Tennessee kills 13 miners. It is the third fatal mine accident in six days.
• December 10 - The U.S. requests that all its citizens leave Libya immediately and invalidates U.S. passports for travel to that country.
• December 11 – Boxing: Muhammad Ali loses to Trevor Berbick; this proved to be Ali's last-ever fight.
• December 11 - The Salvadoran armed forces massacre 900 villagers in the El Mozote massacre
• December 13 – Wojciech Jaruzelski declares martial law in Poland, to prevent the dismantling of the communist system by Solidarity.
• December 15 – A car bomb destroys the Iraqi Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, killing 61 people; Syrian intelligence is blamed.
• December 20 – The Penlee lifeboat disaster occurs off the coast of South-West Cornwall.
• December 28 – The first American test-tube baby, Elizabeth Jordan Carr, is born in Norfolk, Virginia.
• December 28 - The HBO pay cable television service expanded its schedule offering to 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
• December 30 - Wayne Gretzky scores his 50th goal in 39 games, an NHL record to this day.
• December 31 – A coup d'état in Ghana removes President Hilla Limann's PNP government and replaces it with the PNDC led by Flight Lieutenant Jerry Rawlings.

Anything I've forgotten?