The 1980's By jamesh14 May 18, 1980 Mt. St. Helen Erupts Aug 12, 1981 Personal Computers (PC) Introduced by IBM Nov 30, 1982 Michael Jackson Releases Thriller Jun 18, 1983 Sally Ride Becomes the First American Woman in Space Dec 2, 1984 Huge Poison Gas Leak in Bhopal, India Sep 1, 1985 Wreck of the Titanic Found Jan 28, 1986 Challenger Space Shuttle Explodes Jun 15, 1987 DNA First Used to Convict Criminals Aug 20, 1988 The Iran–Iraq War ends, with an estimated one million lives lost. Nov 9, 1989 The Fall of the Berlin Wall
