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First Mandatory Seatbelt Law
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Period: to
1980s
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First Internet Domain
The first internet domain name is registered as symbolics.com. -
Nike released the first Air Jordan shoes
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New formula for Coca-Cola
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"We Are the World" is released
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Hole in Ozone Layer Discovered
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John A Walker Jr. is arrested by the FBI for spying for the Soviet Union
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John Hendricks launched the Discovery Channel in the US
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US Route 66 is officially decommissioned
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Back to the Future Opens
The TV show, Back to the Future, is released for the first time. -
Live Aid, a concert to raise awareness of famine in Ethiopia, was held in the John F. Kennedy Stadium in Philadelphia
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Iran-Contra Scandal Errupts
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Wreck of the Titanic found
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Rock Hudson died of AIDS
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Reagan meets with Gorbachev for 5 hour Summit conference in Switzerland
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First Windows operating system for computers is released
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First Martin Luther King Day
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Challenger exploded
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US bombs Libya
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Firearm Owners Protection act was signed into law
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5 million people make a human chain across US
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Agreement between US and Soviet Union to ban medium-range missiles
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Fox Broadcasting Company was founded
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Tax Reform Act of 1986 was signed into law
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DNA first used to convict criminals
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No Smoking Rule in Federal Buildings
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First Beatles CD Released
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The Simpsons cartoon first appears as a series of shorts on the Tracey Ullman Show
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First Heart-Lung transplant
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Ronald Reagan challenged Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall
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"Black Monday" Stock Exchange Drop
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The Evangelical Lutheran Church is established in America
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The Phantom of the Opera, Broadway's longest ever running musical, opens
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Time Inc. and Warner Communications announce plans to merge into Time Warner
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Flrst Patent for genetically engineered animal issued to Harvard researchers
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The first National Cancer Survivors Day
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Yellowstone Fires of 1988 burned 793,880 acres of Yellowstone National Park
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US shoots down Iranian airliner
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Al-Qaeda is formed by Osama bin Laden
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George Herbert Walker Bush wins presidential election
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First World AIDS Day
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A kindergartener was caught with a loaded handgun at a school in Bronx
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Eastern Airlines filed for bankruptcy
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Exxon Valdez oil spill
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The case of Oliver North and the Iran-Contra scandal went to the jury
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The US launched its Magellan spacecraft to go to Venus
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First Complete Ring of Neptune was discovered
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The first Walmart store in the Northeastern US, a Sam's Club, is opened in Delran, NJ
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Berlin wall fell
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World Wide Web invented