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The opening ceremonies of the 1980 Winter Olympics Games are held in Lake Placid, New York. The U.S would go on and beat the Soviet Union in hockey which is known as the "miracle on ice".
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The Mt. St. Helens volcano, in Washington State, erupts, killing fifty-seven people and economic devastation to the area with losses near $3 billion.
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John Lennon, a member of the famous Beatles, was killed at around 10 pm on 8 December 1980
When Lennon and Ono returned to their apartment, Mark David Chapman shot Lennon in the back four times at the entrance to the building. Lennon was taken to the emergency room of nearby Roosevelt Hospital and was pronounced dead around 11 pm that evening. -
This attempt of assassination happened on March 30,1981. Affter just 69 days into his prediency at the Washington Hilton Hotel. Him, and three others were shot and wounded by John Hinckley Jr. Reagan was shot in the chest and in the lower right arm.
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On November 5, 1982, the highest unemployment rate ever in U.S history was recorded. Where 10.4% of Americans did not have jobs. By the end of the year over seven million Americans were unemployed.
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Thriller is the sixth studio album by the American recording artist Michael Jackson. It was released on November 30, 1982, by Epic Records.
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The movie rating PG-13 was created in a1984
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On November 20,1985, the very first version of windows was realeased. They called it windows 1.0.
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Martin Luther King Day is officially observed for the first time as a federal holiday in the United States.
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Tim Berners-Lee, a British scientist invented the World Wide Web in 1989. The web was originally developed to meet the demand for automatic information sharing between scientists in universities and institutes.
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The Hubble Telescope is placed into orbit by the United States. One month later the telescope becomes operational.
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The Gulf War ends one day after Iraq withdraws its forces from Kuwait and sets the oil fields on fire.
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The 27th Amendment to the Constitution is passed two hundred and two years after its initial proposal.
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The World Trade Center is bombed by Islamic terrorists when a van parked below the North Tower of the structure explodes. Six people are killed and over one thousand are injured.
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President Bill Clinton signs the Assault Weapons Ban, which bars the use of these weapons for ten years.
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The World Trade Organization is created, replacing the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade.
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President Bill Clinton signs the Assault Weapons Ban, which bars the use of these weapons for ten years.
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President William J. Clinton defeats Republican Presidential candidate Bob Dole
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The simpsons becomes the longest running show passing the flinstones.
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John Glenn, thirty-six years after becoming the first American astronaut to orbit the earth, becomes the oldest astronaut in space at seventy-seven years old.
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The 2000 census recorded a population of281,421,906,
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Tiger Woods becomes the first golfer to hold all fourmajor golf titles simultaneously by winning the Master's tournament in Augusta, Georgia.
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A tragedy at NASA occurs when the Space Shuttle Columbia explodes upon reentry over Texas. All seven astronauts inside are killed.
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Civil Rights activist, Rosa Parks, dies. She dies of narural causes at the age of 92 in her apartment.
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New Orleans, the Louisiana Superdome reopens after repairs caused by Hurricane Katrina damage.
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The first female speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, Representative Nancy Pelosi of San Francisco, California, is sworn into office.
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A terror plot to blow up JFK International Airport in New York City is thwarted when four terrorists are arrested and charged with its plan.
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Michael Phelps, the United States swimmer from Baltimore, wins his 8th Gold Medal of the Beijing Summer Olympic Games, surpassing the record of seven won by Mark Spitz.
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Barack Obama takes the oath of office for President of the United States, becoming the first African-American president in the history of the nation.
