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Pac-Man video game released
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1981
Assassination attempt on the pope.
Assassination attempt on U.S president Reagan.
First women appointed to the U.S supreme court. -
1982
King Henry VIII's ship the Mary Rose raised after 437 years.
Veitnam War memorial opened in Washington D.C. -
1983
Soviets shoot down a Korean Airliner -
1984
Huge poison gas leak in Bhopal, India.
Indira Gandhi, india's prime minister, killed by two body guards. -
1985
Wreck of the titanic found.
New coke hits the markets.
Famine in Ethiopia. -
1986
Challenge space shuttle explodes.
Chernobyl nuclear accident.
U.S bomb Libya.
U.S.S.R launches Mir space station. -
1987
DNA first used to convict criminals.
West german pilot lands unchallenged in Russia's red Square.