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Mark Thatcher disappears

The invasion of the Falklands wasn't the only thing causing British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher sleepless nights in 1982.

On January 11, her son Mark Thatcher disappeared in the Sahara desert during the Paris-Dakar rally. Worse yet, on January 15, he was found again.

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