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1981
Assassination Attempt towards the Pope -
1981
Assassination Attempt on U.S. President Ronald Reagan -
1981
First Woman Appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court -
1981
Millions watched the royal wedding on T.V. -
1981
New Plague Identified as AIDS -
1981
(PC) Introduced by IBM -
1982
King Henry VIII's ship the Mary Rose raised after 437 years -
1982
the movie E.T. is released -
1982
Falkland Islands were invaded by Argentina -
1982
Michael Jackson releases thriller -
1982
Reverend Sun Myung Moon Marries 2,075 Couples at Madison Square Garden -
1982
Vietnam War Memorial opened in Washington, DC -
1983
The Cabbage Patch Kids became popular -
1983
Reagan announces defense plan called Star Wars -
1983
Sally Ride becomes the first American woman in space -
1983
Soviets Shoot Down a Korean Airliner -
1983
U.S. Embassy in Beirut Bombed -
1984
Huge poison gas leak in Bhopal, India -
1984
Indira Gandhi, India's Prime Minister, Killed by Two Bodyguards -
1984
PG-13 Movie Rating Created -
1985
Famine in Ethiopia -
1985
Hole in the Oozone layer disocovered -
1985
Mikhail Gorbachev Calls for Glasnost and Perestroika -
1985
New Coke Hits the Market -
1985
Wreck of the Titanic Found -
1986
The Challenger explodes -
1986
Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster -
1986
Ferdinand Marcos Flees the Philippines -
1986
Iran-Contra Scandal Unfolds -
1986
U.S. Bombs Libya -
1986
U.S.S.R. Launches Mir Space Station -
1987
DNA First Used to convcit criminals -
1987
Klaus Barbie, the Nazi Butcher of Lyons, Sentenced to Life in Prison -
1987
New York Stock Exchange Suffers Huge Drop on "Black Monday" -
1987
West German Pilot Lands Unchallenged in Russia's Red Square -
1988
Pan Am Flight 103 Is Bombed Over Lockerbie -
1988
U.S. Shoots Down Iranian Airliner -
1989
Berlin Wall Fell -
1989
Exxon Valdez Spills Millions of Gallons of Oil on Coastline -
1989
Students Massacred in China's Tiananmen Square -
1989
U.S. President Bush Announces That He Doesn't Like Broccoli