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A political movement for reformation within the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
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An ill-fated military operation to rescue the 52 American hostages held in Tehran ends with eight U.S. servicemen dead and no hostages rescued.
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Was first released in May in Japan, then by October, it was released in the US
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CNN first broadcast was on June 1, 1980
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Pryor was drinking rum and doing cocaine.
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Lennon was shot in New York by a crazed fan
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The first version of the Microsoft Disk Operating System. It is a command-line-based system, where all commands are entered in text form and there is no graphical user interface.
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Reagan was shot once by John Hinckley Jr. because he was trying to get Jodi Fosters attention.
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Elizabeth Jordan Carr is the United States first baby born from in-vitro fertilization.
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Michael Jackson released the song Thriller.
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U.S.A for Africa releases We are the World
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Nike released the first Air Jordan for $65
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Student who was diagnosed with AIDS and returned to school.
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A public event in which approximately 6.5 million people held hands for fifteen minutes in an attempt to form a continuous human chain across the contiguous United States.
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At a nuclear plant in Ukraine, a nuclear rector exploded and burned.
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The final and complete withdrawal of Soviet combatant forces from Afghanistan.
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Yusef Salaam, Antron McCray, Raymond Santana, Korey Wise, Kevin Richardson. Five teenagers who were arrested and charged with attempted murder, rape and assault.
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The famous and future predicting show was first televised in 1989
