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1980
-Summer Olympics in Moscow
-Mt. St. Helens erupts -
1981
-1st launch of space shuttle
-Birth of MTV -
1982
-Thriller is released
-Mexico economy collapes -
1983
-Camcoders are invented
-HIV is discovered -
1984
-AIDS is discovered
-Summer Olympics in L.A. -
1985
-Crack coccaine starts to appear.
-Rock 'n' Roll Hall of fame is opened -
1986
-Fox Network starts in America
-Worst nuclear disaster ever in Chernobyl, USSR, April -
1987
-Black Monday - Stock market drops 22% on October 19th.
-World Population reaches 5 billion -
1988
-Iran-Iraqi war ends in August.
-Fires in Yellowstone National Park -
1989
-Cold War comes to an end
-December 6, 1989 deemed the Montreal Massacre