gunman, as he enters St. Peter's Square in Vatican City to address a general audience. The Pope recovers. May 15 – A prison officer, 31-year-old Donna Payant, disappears at Green Haven Correctional Facility in New York. She is later found to have been murdered by convicted serial killer Lemuel Smith. It is the first time a female prison officer has been killed while on duty in the United States. May 21 – François Mitterrand becomes the first socialist President of the French Fifth Republic. May 22 – Serial killer Peter Sutcliffe is found guilty and sentenced to life imprisonment on 13 counts of murder and 7 of attempted murder in England. May 25 – In Riyadh, the Gulf Cooperation Council is created between Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. May 26 – The Italian government resigns over its links to the fascist Masonic cell Propaganda Due. May 30 – Bangladesh President Ziaur Rahman is assassinated in Chittagong. May 31 – Burning of Jaffna library, one of the most violent examples of ethnic biblioclasm of the century. June June 5 – The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the United States report that 5 homosexual men in Los Angeles have a rare form of pneumonia seen only in patients with weakened immune systems, the first recognized cases of AIDS. June 6 – Bihar train disaster: Seven coaches of an overcrowded passenger train fall off the tracks into the Bagmati River in Bihar, India, killing between 500 and 800. June 7 – The Israeli Air Force destroys Iraq's Osirak nuclear reactor killing ten Iraqi troops and a French technician. June 10 – Alfredo Rampi, a 6-year-old boy, falls into an artesian well in Vermicino, near Rome. After nearly three days of failed rescue attempts followed with bated breath from all over Italy, Alfredino dies inside the well, at a depth of 60 meters. June 13 – At the Trooping the Colour ceremony in London, teenager Marcus Sarjeant fires 6 blank shots close to Queen Elizabeth II, startling her horse. June 18 The Organization of Eastern Caribbean States is founded. The Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk Stealth Fighter makes its first flight at Groom Lake (Area 51), Nevada. June 22 – Iranian president Abolhassan Banisadr is deposed. June 27 The first game of paintball is played, in Henniker, New Hampshire, United States. The E-mu Emulator sampler keyboard with floppy