Tara and Sarah's 1985-1989 Timeline

By sarahc12s

  • First Mandatory Seatbelt Law

  • Period: to

    1980s

  • First Internet Domain

    The first internet domain name is registered as symbolics.com.

  • Nike released the first Air Jordan shoes

  • New formula for Coca-Cola

    (Response in negative, old formula is back on the market in less than 3 months)

  • "We Are the World" is released

  • Hole in Ozone Layer Discovered

  • John A Walker Jr. is arrested by the FBI for spying for the Soviet Union

  • John Hendricks launched the Discovery Channel in the US

  • US Route 66 is officially decommissioned

  • Back to the Future Opens

    The TV show, Back to the Future, is released for the first time.

  • Live Aid, a concert to raise awareness of famine in Ethiopia, was held in the John F. Kennedy Stadium in Philadelphia

  • Iran-Contra Scandal Errupts

  • Wreck of the Titanic found

  • Rock Hudson died of AIDS

  • Reagan meets with Gorbachev for 5 hour Summit conference in Switzerland

  • First Windows operating system for computers is released

  • First Martin Luther King Day

  • Challenger exploded

  • US bombs Libya

  • Firearm Owners Protection act was signed into law

  • 5 million people make a human chain across US

    For Hands Across America to fight hunger and homelessness

  • Agreement between US and Soviet Union to ban medium-range missiles

  • Fox Broadcasting Company was founded

  • Tax Reform Act of 1986 was signed into law

  • DNA first used to convict criminals

  • No Smoking Rule in Federal Buildings

  • First Beatles CD Released

  • The Simpsons cartoon first appears as a series of shorts on the Tracey Ullman Show

  • First Heart-Lung transplant

  • Ronald Reagan challenged Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall

  • "Black Monday" Stock Exchange Drop

  • The Evangelical Lutheran Church is established in America

  • The Phantom of the Opera, Broadway's longest ever running musical, opens

  • Time Inc. and Warner Communications announce plans to merge into Time Warner

  • Flrst Patent for genetically engineered animal issued to Harvard researchers

  • The first National Cancer Survivors Day

  • Yellowstone Fires of 1988 burned 793,880 acres of Yellowstone National Park

  • US shoots down Iranian airliner

  • Al-Qaeda is formed by Osama bin Laden

  • George Herbert Walker Bush wins presidential election

  • First World AIDS Day

  • A kindergartener was caught with a loaded handgun at a school in Bronx

  • Eastern Airlines filed for bankruptcy

  • Exxon Valdez oil spill

  • The case of Oliver North and the Iran-Contra scandal went to the jury

  • The US launched its Magellan spacecraft to go to Venus

  • First Complete Ring of Neptune was discovered

  • The first Walmart store in the Northeastern US, a Sam's Club, is opened in Delran, NJ

  • Berlin wall fell

  • World Wide Web invented

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