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1980's
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explosion
Vostok rocket exploded on launch pad while being refueled, killing 50 -
Mt. St. Helens
The Mt. St. Helens volcano, in Washington State, erupts, killing fifty-seven people and economic devastation to the area with losses near $3 billion -
Low Tempature
-35°F (-37°C), Chester, Massachusetts -
Raiders Nation
Oakland raiders won the super bowl 27-10 -
dad was born
my dad was born -
Regan assanation attempt
President Ronald Reagan withstands an assassination attempt, shot in the chest while walking to his limousine in Washington, D.C. -
First pc
IBM introduced the IBM-PC personal computer, the IBM 5150. It was designed by twelve engineers and designers under Don Estridge of the IBM Entry Systems Division. It sold for $1,565 in 1981. -
Sandra Day
Sandra Day O'Connor is approved unanimously, 99-0, by the United States Senate to become the first female Supreme Court associate justice in history. -
She a Maniac
Maniac song came out -
terrorist
A terrorist truck bomb kills two hundred and forty-one United States peacekeeping troops in Lebanon at Beirut International Airport. A second bomb destroyed a French barracks two miles away, killing forty there. -
Thriller
michael jackson come out with thriller -
Aids
Aids discovered -
champions
38-9 win over redskins -
Olympics
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. -
Ethiopia
A famine relief concert organized by British artist Bob Geldof and held simultaneously in London and Philadelphia is seen in one hundred and fifty-two countries. The seventeen hour concert raised $70 million for relief efforts in Ethiopia and other African nations. -
MLK Day
Martin Luther King Day is officially observed for the first time as a federal holiday in the United States. -
Stock Crash
- The stock market crash known as Black Monday occurred on the New York Stock Exchange, recording a record 22.6% drop in one day. Stock markets around the world would mirror the crash with drops of their own.
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Abortion
Canada's Supreme court declares anti-abortion law unconstitutional -
bombs
2 French TV newsmen arrested for trying to plant fake bombs on 3 airlines at JFK airport in security test -
Berlin Wall take down
The Berlin Wall, after thirty-eight years of restricting traffic between the East and West German sides of the city, begins to crumble when German citizens are allowed to travel freely between East and West Germany for the first time. One day later, the influx of crowds around and onto the wall begin to dismantle it, thus ending its existence.
