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The U.S. news television station CNN is founded by media mogul Ted Turner. It is the first all-news network.
On this day in 1980, CNN (Cable News Network), the world’s first 24-hour television news network, makes its debut. The network signed on at 6 p.m. EST from its headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia, with a lead story about the attempted assassination of civil rights leader Vernon Jordan -
Eruption of Mount St. Helens
About 150 square miles were destroyed and over 65 people died. A second blast occurred a week later; there was a third eruption on April 11, 1981. This has been one of the biggest volcanic explosions that have occurred in North America in historical time -
The First Persian Gulf War between Iran and Iraq
Started by Iraq dictator Saddam Hussein in September 1980, the war was marked by indiscriminate ballistic-missile attacks, extensive use of chemical weapons and attacks on third-country oil tankers in the Persian Gulf.
Although Iraq was forced on the strategic defensive, Iran was unable to reconstitute effective armoured formations for its air force and could not penetrate Iraq’s borders. -
The most popular television shows
The viewers in the United States found out who shot J.R. Ewing as 90 million of them massed in front of half the nation’s TVs watching “Dallas” the evening of Nov. 21, 1980. -
.There was a fire breaks out at the MGM Grand Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas.
The blaze broke out inside the establishment known at the time as MGM Grand Hotel and Casino early in the morning on November 21, 1980, taking the lives of 87 people and leaving some 650 others injures.
This was the deadliest fire in Nevada’s history broke out in the early morning of Friday, November 21, in The Deli restaurant on the main floor of the hotel. -
The tragic death of drummer John Bonham, Led Zeppelin
On Dec. 4, 1980, approximately two months after the tragic death of drummer John Bonham, Led Zeppelin made the difficult decision to break up.
The group had been preparing to commence a tour in the fall of 1980 when Bonham passed away. After a day of heavy drinking, he had gone to bed and died via asphyxiation from his own vomit. The death was ruled accidental. -
Lennon died
Because of a crazed fan, Lennon was shot twice and died -
Ronald Reagan is president
In 1981 Ronald Reagan began his mandate as a President of the United States. -
Existence of AIDS/HIV
The existence of AIDS/HIV is made public for the first time in June 1981 and eventually appearing before the world as an epidemic of enormous proportions. -
1st MTV transmition
Was the first television station dedicated to music 24 hours a day. The first video on MTV happened was the band's song "The Buggles" titled "Video Killed the Radio Star". -
Moving Ceremony
In November in a moving ceremony, opened in Washington Vietnam Veterans Memorial, a tribute to the Americans who died in the Vietnam War. -
Operation of artificial heart
Medical Center of the University of Utah, USA, was successfully carried out the first operation of artificial heart implant a human being -
The first woman vice presidential candidate
Geraldine Ferraro was the first woman vice presidential candidate US presidential election by the Democratic Party. -
The first woman in space
On 18 July this year, Svetlana Yev Savitskaya becomes the first woman in space and the first to make two spaceflights. -
Olympic Games
Four years earlier, the United States led a boycott of the Moscow Olympics; the Soviet Union boycotting the Olympic corresponded 1984. -
The Soviet Union
In 1985 The rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union was very important, because the whole world was to nuclear threat. Because of perestroika policies of Gorbachev, the two blocks had to negotiate. -
Kennedy Space Center
The "Challenger" with 7 astronauts was launched from the Kennedy Space Center, and exploded 73 seconds takeoff, as a result of leaking fuel drivers. It was a fact that moved across the United States. -
Titanic was found.
It was found in the bottom of the northern region of the Atlantic Ocean. However, you cannot upload it to the surface because of the state in which it is located. -
Capture the general Manuel Antonio Noriega
in 1989 the United States invaded Panama to capture the general Manuel Antonio Noriega of Panama -
Berlin Wall
It was downfall Berlin Wall. It became the end of the Cold War, and it was important for the US to have conflicts with the Soviet Union, and later could become a war between them if he had not passed the Berlin Wall.
