technology project #3 P3 1980-2001

By Lord berus

  • 1980

    mount St Helens erupts in Washington DC kills 57

  • 1981

    MTV is born

  • 1982

    Michael Jackson's Thriller

  • 1983

    241 U.S. marines killed in suicide bomb in Lebanon

  • 1984

    China and the United Kingdom agreed to transfer power in Hong Kong from the UK to China.

  • 1985

    “we are the world”

  • 1986

    Space Shuttle Challenger

  • 1987

    “The Simpsons” cartoon shown on The Tracey Ullman Show

  • 1988

    Canada - Winter Olympics

  • 1989

    United Kingdom - Hillsborough Disaster

  • 1990

    Switzerland -- World Wide Web

  • 1991

    United States / Canada - Air Quality Agreement

  • 1992

    Hurricane Andrew

  • 1993

    The storm of the century hits

  • 1994

    Tonya Harding wins the national Figure Skating championship title

  • 1995

    OJ Simpson Case

  • 1996

    TWA flight 800 explodes off long island, kills all

  • 1997

    Mars -- NASA Pathfinder Lands

  • 1998

    Mathew shepard murdered

  • 1999

    SpongeBob Premieres

  • 2000

    The Y2K Bug

  • 2001

    9/11 terroist attack, killing 3,000.