Timeline of the 1980's
1980
-Failed U.S. Rescue Attempt to Save Hostages in Tehran
-John Lennon Assassinated
-Mount St. Halens Erupts
-Pac-Man Video Game Released
-Rubik's Cude Becomes Popular
-Ted Turner Establishes CNN
1981
-Assassination Attempt on the Pope
-Assassination Attempt on President Regan
-First Women appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court
-Millions Watch Royal Wedding
-New Pleague Identified as AIDS
-Person Computers 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 released his hit song Thriller.
-Reverend Sun Myung Moon marries 2,075 couples at Madison Square Garden
-Vietnam War Memorial opened in Washington, DC
1983
-Cabbage Patch Kids become popular
-Reagan announces defense plan called Star Wars
-Sally Ride becomes the first woman in space
-Soviets shoot down a Korean airliner
-U.S. Embassy in Beirut bombed
1984
-Huge posion gas leak in Bhopal India
-Indira Gandih, India's prime minister was killed by 2 of his guards
-PG-13 Movie Rating was created
1985
-Famine in Ethipoia
-Hole in the Ozone layer was disovered
-Mikhail Gorbachev calls for Glasnost and Perestrokia
-New coke hits market
-Wreck of the Titanic found
1986
-Space shuttle challenger explodes
-Chernobyl nuclear disaster
-Ferdinand Maros flees the Philippines
-Iran-Contra scandal unfolds
-U.S. bombs Libya
-U.S.S.R launches Mir space shuttle
1987
-DNA first used to convict criminals
-Klaus Barbie, the Nazi Butcher of Lyons, sentenced to death
-New York Stock Exchange suffers huge drop on "Black Monday"
-West German Piolt 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
-Failed U.S. Rescue Attempt to Save Hostages in Tehran
-John Lennon Assassinated
-Mount St. Halens Erupts
-Pac-Man Video Game Released
-Rubik's Cude Becomes Popular
-Ted Turner Establishes CNN
1981
-Assassination Attempt on the Pope
-Assassination Attempt on President Regan
-First Women appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court
-Millions Watch Royal Wedding
-New Pleague Identified as AIDS
-Person Computers 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 released his hit song Thriller.
-Reverend Sun Myung Moon marries 2,075 couples at Madison Square Garden
-Vietnam War Memorial opened in Washington, DC
1983
-Cabbage Patch Kids become popular
-Reagan announces defense plan called Star Wars
-Sally Ride becomes the first woman in space
-Soviets shoot down a Korean airliner
-U.S. Embassy in Beirut bombed
1984
-Huge posion gas leak in Bhopal India
-Indira Gandih, India's prime minister was killed by 2 of his guards
-PG-13 Movie Rating was created
1985
-Famine in Ethipoia
-Hole in the Ozone layer was disovered
-Mikhail Gorbachev calls for Glasnost and Perestrokia
-New coke hits market
-Wreck of the Titanic found
1986
-Space shuttle challenger explodes
-Chernobyl nuclear disaster
-Ferdinand Maros flees the Philippines
-Iran-Contra scandal unfolds
-U.S. bombs Libya
-U.S.S.R launches Mir space shuttle
1987
-DNA first used to convict criminals
-Klaus Barbie, the Nazi Butcher of Lyons, sentenced to death
-New York Stock Exchange suffers huge drop on "Black Monday"
-West German Piolt 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