HIV (human immunodeficiency virus)

• HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) is adopted as name of the retrovirus that was first proposed as the cause of AIDS by Luc Montagnier of France, who named it LAV (lymphadenopathy associated virus) and Robert Gallo of the United States, who named it HTLV-III (human T-lymphotropic virus type III)
• January 14, "...one million Americans have already been infected with the virus and that this number will jump to at least 2 million or 3 million within 5 to 10 years..." - NIAID Director Anthony Fauci, New York Times.^[25]
• Attorney Geoffrey Bowers is fired from the firm of Baker & McKenzie after AIDS-related Kaposi's sarcoma lesions appeared on his face. The firm maintained that he was fired purely for his performance.^[26] He sued the firm, in one of the first AIDS discrimination cases to go to a public hearing. These events were inspiration for the film Philadelphia.^[27]
• Model Gia Carangi dies of AIDS related illness on November 18.
• First officially known cases in the U.S.S.R.^[28] and India.^[29]