Government
New Technology
Entertainment\ Fashion
Establishments
Law
Deaths\Plagues
Disaster
Achievements
1980
· Mt. St Helens erupted killing 36 people
· Dukes of hazard
· Different stokes
· John Lennon died
· About 60,000 US oil refinery workers went on nationwide strike for the 1st time in 11 years.
· The California coast Channel Islands National Park was established.
· Rubik's Cube gains worldwide popularity
· Smallpox is considered to be gone.
· Japanese pass the US as the largest automaker.
· CNN is the first all news network
· Regan Becomes the 40th president in the United States
· The US supreme court allows patents on living organisms
· President carter attempts a Helicopter rescue of the hostages in Iran and fails
1981
· Ronald Reagan is elected as president
· Pac man is introduced to the US
· MTV ( 24hr music channel)
· 52 American hostages are released from Iran after 14months
· First woman appointed to the US supreme court
· IBM introduces Personal Computer (PC)
· Cheers
· The First Blood (Rambo)
· The first launch of a space shuttle
· A new plague identified as AIDs
1982
· Do you really want to hurt me – Culture Club
· Our house –Madness
· Michael Jacksons “Thriller” becomes the best seller ever at that time
· E.T released
· The first artificial heart transplant takes place
· Equal Rights amendment dies
· Tylenol scare kills 7 people, spawning childproof bottles
· President Reagan declares his "War On Drugs”
· New television company, HBO
· 14 people were killed when a Marine jet crash
1983
· Cabbage patch Kid are popular
· Sally Ride becomes the first woman in space
· “Just Say No.” new slogan to combat growing drug use in the US
· The final epode of M*A*S*H airs
· Catholics expand women’s rights in the church
· A short-Wave Pirate radio
1984
- Vietnam memorial opens in Washington DC
- First megabit chip is made
- Stonewashed jeans are introduced
- First all rap radio format is introduced
- LA hosts the Olympic games
- PG-13 movie rating created
!985
- Rock’n’Roll hall of fame was introduced
- The first Nintendo home entertainment system introduced
- Titanic wreckage found and filmed
- Led gas is banned in the US
- The hole found in the ozone layer is now considered indisputable
- New Coke hits the market
- “New York New York” became the official anthem of NYC
1986
- “Challenger” space shuttle explodes
- US bombs Libya
- Fox Network starts in America
- Supermodel Gia was the first women to die of aids in the US
- The statue of liberty celebrates its 100th anniversary
- Paradise city – Guns’n’Roses
1987
- DNA first used to convict criminals
- Bill Gates becomes micro computing first billionaire
- Condom commercials appear on TV for the first time
- World population reaches five billion
- The largest stock-market drop in wall street history occurred on black Monday
1988
- Fires in Yellow Stone national park
- Prozac is introduced as and anti depressant
- Michael Dukakis loses presidency to George bush and is never heard of again
- CDs out sell vinyl for the first time
- Massive diesel oil spill in Ohio and Monongahela
- School board began censoring school newspaper, play, and other school sponsor activities
- US shoots down Iranian airliner
- Poor some sugar on me Def Leopard
1989
· Oil disaster in Alaska
· Worldwide ban of ivory
· Lucille Ball “I love Lucy” dies
· Wild Thing—Tone Loc
· Teenage mutant ninja turtle become and all night sensation
· Arsenio Hall becomes the first African-American to host a nightly talk show
· Weird Al recorded “ she drives like crazy”
