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1980 the Mount Saint Helens erupted, this was one of the most volcanic explosions that have happened in the united state.
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The greatest amount of medals won by Eric Heiden in new york. He established the record in race of 500, 1,000, 1,500, 5,000 y 10,000 mts.
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John Lennon dead because gunshots, he was a member of THE BEATLES.
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The first trip of the Space Shuttle Columbia, the first shuttle that could be (and would be) launched into space more than once.
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Illness started to worry in united states, this illness affects immune system and did that a lot of people died( in 1984 discovered that is SIDA)
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starts the Late Night with David Letterman
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The doctor Barney Clark is the first man in recibe an artificial heart, he survived 112 days.
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President Reagan signs legislation that makes the third monday in January a national holiday commemorating Dr. Martin Luther King's birthday. This is the only federal holiday commemorating an African-American.
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seven thousand US troops invaded the island of Granada
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US Peace Keepers are killed in Lebanon. Over 200 Marines were killed when a truck loaded with explosives crashed into the US Marine compound at Beirut Airport.
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Navy Captain Bruce McCandless and Army Lt. Colonel Robert Stewart become the first astronauts to fly free of a spacecraft in orbit during a space shuttle flight that began four days earlier.
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Democratic candidate for President, Walter Mondale, selects Geraldine Ferraro as his Vice Presidential running mate, the first woman chosen for that position.
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The opening ceremony of the Los Angeles Olympic Games is held. The games run by Peter Ueberroth, prove a financial and U.S. success, despite a retaliatory boycott by most allies of the Soviet Union due to the U.S. boycott of the 1980 Moscow games.
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President Ronald Reagan wins reelection over Democratic challenger Walter F. Mondale, increasing his Electoral College victory since the 1980 election to a margin of 525 to 13.
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The first meeting in six years between the leaders of the Soviet Union and the United States occurs when Mikhail Gorbachev and Ronald Reagan engage in a five hour summit conference in Geneva, Switzerland.
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The first version of the Windows operating system for computers is released.
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Martin Luther King Day is officially observed for the first time as a federal holiday in the United States.
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A tentative agreement on a world-wide ban on medium-range missiles is reached between the Soviet Union and the United States. This agreement would not be expanded to include long-range missiles when President Reagan refused capitulation to the demand from Mikhail Gorbachev to limit development of the Star Wars missile defense shield.
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The first reporting of the Iran-Contra affair, diverting money from arm sales to Iran to fund Nicaraguan contra rebels, begins the largest crisis in the Reagan tenure.
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New York, a meeting of UN experts confirmed that above Antarctica is opening a hole in the ozone layer.
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The animated series The Simpsons is broadcast for the first time in the United States as a space within the Tracey Ullman Show
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United States lifts economic sanctions against Poland, established by the introduction of martial law in 1981.
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In the United States, the shepherd Swaggart a televangelist known, causes a scandal on American television to publicly confess their sexual "sins".
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In the United States, the Supreme Court revokes the sentence to Larry Flynt, publisher of Hustler magazine, Jerry Falwell to compensate for defamation.
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US and Japan cooperate in the construction of a new fighter plane, the FSX.
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The US spacecraft Voyager 2 makes its closest approach to the planet Neptune. Six new satellites are discovered planet.
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On November 9, 1989, as the Cold War began to thaw across Eastern Europe, the spokesman for East Berlin’s Communist Party announced a change in his city’s relations with the West. Starting at midnight that day, he said, citizens of the GDR were free to cross the country’s borders. East and West Berliners flocked to the wall, drinking beer and champagne and chanting “Tor auf!” (“Open the gate!”). At midnight, they flooded through the checkpoints.
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Hernández Gallardo Elizabeth
Guerrero Capulín Nadia Yolitzin
López Flores María del Rocío
Referencias:
https://sites.google.com/site/abcdelosanos80/home/sucesos-importantes-de-los-80
http://americasbesthistory.com/abhtimeline1980.html
