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Overview:
1981
Failed U.S. Rescue Attempt to Save Hostages
in Tehran
John Lennon Assassinated
Mount St. Helens Erupts
Rubik's Cube Popular
Ted Turner Establishes CNN
Assassination Attempt on the Pope
Assassination Attempt on U.S. President Reagan
First Woman Appointed to the U.S. Supreme
Court
Millions Watch Royal Wedding on T.V.
New Plague Identified as AIDS
Pac-Man is Extremely Popular
Personal Computers (PC) Introduced by IBM
1982
E.T. Movie Released
Falkland Islands Invaded by Argentina
King Henry VIII's Ship the Mary Rose Raised
After 437 Years
Michael Jackson Releases Thriller
Reverend Sun Myung Moon Marries 2,075 Couples
at Madison Square Garden
1983
Cabbage Patch Kids are Popular
Reagan Announces Defense Plan Called Star Wars
Sally Ride Becomes the First American Woman
in Space
Soviets Shoot Down a Korean Airliner
U.S. Embassy in Beirut Bombed
1984
Huge Poison Gas Leak in Bhopal, India
Indira Gandhi, India's Prime Minister, Killed
by Two Bodyguards
PG-13 Movie Rating Created
Vietnam War Memorial Opened in Washington,
DC
1985
Famine in Ethiopia
Hole in the Ozone Layer Discovered
Mikhail Gorbachev Calls for Glasnost and Perestroika
New Coke Hits the Market
Wreck of the Titanic Found
1986
Challenger Space Shuttle Explodes
Chernobyl Nuclear Accident
Ferdinand Marcos Flees the Philippines
Iran-Contra Scandal Unfolds
U.S. Bombs Libya
U.S.S.R. Launches Mir Space Station
1987
DNA First Used to Convict Criminals
Klaus Barbie, the Nazi Butcher of Lyons, Sentenced
to Life in Prison
New York Stock Exchange Suffers Huge Drop on "Black
Monday"
West German Pilot Lands Unchallenged in Russia's
Red Square
1988
Pan Am Flight 103 Is Bombed Over Lockerbie
U.S. Shoots Down Iranian Airliner
1989
Berlin Wall Falls
Exxon Valdez Spills Millions of Gallons of
Oil on Coastline
Students Massacred in China's Tiananmen Square
U.S. President Bush Announces That He Doesn't
Like Broccoli
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