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John Lennon was a musician part of the Beatles. He was shot seven times and bled to death. Mark David Chapman, the shooter, was a Honolulu security guard killed him being inspired by Catcher in the Rye.
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While at a speaking arrangement at Washington Hilton Hotel John Hinckley Jr.shot and injured Reagan and three others. Hinckly was found to be mentally unstable and therefore not guilty.
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Pope John Paul the second in St. Peter's Square in Vatican City almost killed when shot.
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The Center of Disease Control reported an outbreak of PCP which was mistakenly enough AIDS in 5 homosexual men. At first it was only a "gay" disease, but it was later to be found to be transmittable to any.
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Sandra Day O'Connor is appointed by Reagan.
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MTV startes showing music videos around the clock.
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Egyptian president Anwar el-Sadat is assassinated by Islamic extremists during a military parade in Cairo.
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Reverand Sun Myung Moon and his wife marries 2,075 couples.
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At University of Utah Medical Center in Salt Lake City. Medical practices around the world start to look at its helpfullness.
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"Crack" is developed in the Bahamas. Soon makes it way to US starting major drug abuse.
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Sally ride becomes the first woman into space. Ride joined NASA and went up on the shuttle flight STS-7.
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Movie Red Dawn the first PG-13 movie.
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Huge market failure changed it back to original "classic" coke soon after.
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Scientist from Woods Hole Deep Lab , based in Massachussetts, found the Titanic. Bob Ballard was one of the main researches and had been looking for the Titanic for almost a decade. It was found in the Atlantic Ocean 450 miles from NY.
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seven crew members died in the challenger explosion. It broke apart 73 seconds into it's flight. Pressurized hot gas broke through the hull superheating the Challenger until explosion.
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Whole world's stock markets crash including the US's New York Stock Exchange. DOW Jones dropped by 508 points.
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