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Mount St. Helen erupts
-Mount St. Helen erupts in Washington
-causes the death of 57 people
-explosion blasts away parts of the mountain -
John Lennon was assasinated
-John Lennon was an English musician who gained worldwide fame as one of the founders of The Beatles
-He was shot by Mark David Chapman at the entrance of the building where he lived
-the murder was obsessed with the political message of John Lennon's music -
first AIDS death
-Nick Rock dies with AIDS
-the first case ever, where provably someone died from AIDS -
Assassination attempt on Ronald Reagan
-Washingtion D.C.: the president and three others got shot and were wounded, as they returned to their limousine
-the perpetrator was John Hinckley, Jr., who hoped to impress teen actress Jodie Foster. -
famine in Ethiopia
-1983-1985: there was a really big famine in Ethipia
-over 400,000 people died
-the famine was an effect of the 20 years of insurgencies and civil was -
Michael Jackson releases Thriller
- Thriller was omposed by Rod Temperton, and produced by Quincy Jones. Thriller was the first official music video ever
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Challenger space shuttle explodes
-the space shuttle exploded 73 seconds after it launched
-all the 7 crew members died
-The disaster resulted in a 32-month hiatus in the shuttle program -
U.S. bombs LIbya
-the codename of the operation was Operation El Dorado Canyon
- 60 tons of munition were dropped
-The attack was carried out in response to the 1986 Berlin discotheque bombing, where discoteques in Berlin were attacked, that were frequently frequented by US soldiers -
The nuclear power plant of Tschernobyl explodes
-the nuclear power plant "Tschernobyl" exploded due to human mistake
-it was the first time that a catastrophy got the emergency rating 7 on the atomic emergency scale
-the effects were noticable for about 20 years. nobody was allowed to eat mushrooms, salads and fruit for a long time
-there are still small impacts of the radiation provable -
DNA first used in court to convict rapist
-DNA had been a controversial issue for several years
-on Novemer 6th, 1986 the DNA was first used to convict a man in california
-the man had raped and impregnated his own daughter
-the time of a systematical DNA profiling has started -
Tiananmen Square protests of 1989
-Tiananmen a place in Bejing in China
-demonstrations against the government started on 15th of April 1989
-the event is also known as the June Forth Incident
-it was a simple demonstration until June 4th
-about 10,000 iniured people. death estimations vary from a couple 100 to 2,500
-on June 4th China used its military to knock the protesters down, expel all the foreign journalists -
Berlin Wall falls
-The Berlin Wall was a barrier constructed by the German Democratic Republicstarting on 13 August 1961
-it completely cut off West Berlin from surrounding East Germany and from East Berlin
-he Wall served to prevent the massive emigration to Western Europe
-the Wall fell, after years of underground demonstartions, on Novemeber 10th, 1989
-the reconciliation of Germany started
