May 5, 1981: Iraqi forces numering 120,000 are trapped in a pocket by an Iranian counter-attack, of the 120,000, only 20,000 make it back to Iraqi lines.
June 22, 1981: Soviet forces march into Poland at the request of hardline communists and crack down hard on Solidarity and on reformist elements within the Polish communist party.
July 2, 1981: Leonid Brezhnev is found dead in his office after a sudden stroke.