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"We Are The World" is recorded by USA for Africa, America's response to the British "Do They Know It's Christmas"
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•LIVE AID in London and Philadelphi, beamed around the world
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•Crack coccaine starts to appear
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•Gorbachev becomes (the last) president of the Soviet Union
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Billy Joel marries Christie Brinkley.
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•New coke is introduced in April and quickly replaced with original Coke
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Brussels, Belgium: 39 dead, 250 wounded during a soccer match between Liverpool and Juventus
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•Greenpeace's Rainbow Warrior is bombed by the French goverment during protests of it's nuclear testing in the Pacific
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•Titanic wreckage found and filmed by robotic camera in July
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•Bernhard Goetz is charged with attempted murder
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•Ethiopa blocks the airlift of thousands of Ethiopian Jews
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•Hole in the ozone layer, first detected in 1977, is now indisputable.
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•Earthquake in Mexico / Volcano erupts in Colombia; 1000s killed
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•In October, the worlds largest atom smasher goes online in Illinois.
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•Nintendo home entertainment system introduced
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•Extra second added to the calender year.
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•Rock 'n' Roll Hall of fame is opened
