The 1980's

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    The 1980's

  • Mount St. Helens erupted

  • Pacman is released

  • Ted Turner establishes CNN

  • Hurricane Allen begins

  • Hurricane Allen ends

  • Assassination attempt on President Reagan

    John Hicklry Jr. made the attempt.

  • Prince Charles marries Princess Diana

  • First IBM Personal Computer

  • First vaccine of Hepatitis B

  • Falkland Islands Invaded by Argentina

  • Sony Betacam 12

  • Compact Disc Invented

  • Michael Jackson Thriller released

  • President Reagan announces defence plan called Star Wars

  • U.S. Embassy in Beirut bombed

  • Sally Ride becomes the first American woman in space

  • Hurricane Alicia

  • The first commercial cell phone call is made

  • Apple Macintosh released

  • DNA fingerprinting discovered

  • Indira Gandhi killed by two bodyguards

  • Poison Gas leak in Bhopal, India

  • Mikhail Gorbachev Calls for Glasnost and Perestroika

  • New Coca Cola hits the market

  • Hole in the Ozone Layer Discovered

  • Wreck of Titanic found

  • Disposable Camera invented

    Fuji was the first company to make a disposable camera.

  • Space Shuttle Challenger explodes shortly after lift-off

  • Chernobyl nuclear meltdown occurs

  • RUN DMC releases “Walk This Way”

  • First 3-D video game made and released

  • Disposable contacts invented

  • Klaus Barbie, the Nazi Butcher of Lyons, Sentenced to Life in Prison

  • DNA used to convict criminals

  • National Geographic Society founded

  • Great blizzard of '88 strikes Nebraska

  • U.S. Shoots Down Iranian Airliner

  • Pan Am Flight 103 is bombed over Lockerbie

  • Exxon Valdez spills millions of gallons of oil on Alaskan coastline

  • Student protesters killed in China’s Tiananmen Square

  • Hurricane Hugo

  • Berlin Wall falls

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