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Privitization of utilities and services
Deregulation and privatization of formerly publicly-owned utilities , services and corporations becomes increasingly popular around the world. -
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Alfred Hitchcock
Suspense and thriller film director -
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Arthur Koestler
Arthur Koestle was a Hungarian-British author -
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Leonid Brezhnev
Leonid Brezhnev waas one of the leaders of the communist party of the Soviet union -
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John Lennon
Assassinated by gunshot. One of the world-popular Beatles -
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Carter's Presidency
Carter was not the most liked preseident, and was easily beaten by Reagan in 1981. -
Rubik's cube invented and popularized
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First personal computer
First affordable IBM Personal computer goes on sale and opens the way for the modern personal computer revolution -
Mt. Saint Hellen's erupts
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STDs sky-rocket
STDs multiply and the number of infections soars, leading to suffering debility, sterility and death. -
Assassination attempt of Ronald Reagan
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First woman appointed to the Supreme Court
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Ronald Reagan's Presidency
This decade is sometime considered the Reagan decade as he brought America back to being great. -
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U.S. debt. Ah!
U.S. federal debt spins out of control and, by the late 1990s and early 2000s, it doesn’t matter whether liberals or conservatives are in charge, no one seems concerned truly to address the problem. -
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No more telephone monopoly
AT&T antitrust lawsuit leads to breakup of the telephone monopoly and subsequent proliferation of telephone options and unbelievably lower long-distance prices. -
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CD invention
CD is introduced and begins to take off. This is crazy! In merely 30 years, this invention was popular, and now almost obselete. -
Cable Television
Cable television comes into its own -
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Before the fall of the USSR
Public disaffection with the Soviet government becomes so great in Russia and the Soviet states that the Soviet Union falls apart after “glastnost”. “Peristroika” = economic restructuring in 1987 leads to massive inflation and there are shortages of food, clothes, and other basic supplies. -
Chernobyl nuclear disaster
Nuclear accident that dessimated an entire town. -
U.S. Challenger explodes
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Saings and loan crisis
U.S. Savings and Loan Crisis leads to the closure of half of all “Thrifts” and a bill to U.S. taxpayers in excess of $125 billion. -
Cameroon Death Cloud
In Cameroon, a deathcloud passed over the river Nyon and killed over 1,700 people. -
DNA first used for convicting criminals
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Channel is built beneath the English Channel.
Channel connecting France and the U.K. under water. It is the longest underwater tunnel in the world and the 2nd longest tunnel in the world at 31 miles -
World Wibe Web Created
