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​Time Line

__**WARNING: THIS IS COPY AND PASTED. DO NOT DIRECTLY WORD.**__ 1980 > __**1981**__ = =
 * Who Shot JR? is talked about heavily from the TV show Dallas. On November 21, the conclusion draws more viewers than any other show in TV history up to that point.
 * **Summer Olympics** in Moscow, USSR, The US boycotts
 * **Post-It Notes** are introduced by 3-M
 * The first all news service started by Turner Cable Network begins
 * **John Lennon is assassinated by Mark David Chapman**
 * **Ronald Reagan is elected**, defeating Jimmy Carter, and takes credit for freeing the Iranian hostages in his innaugural speech.
 * Poland has massive strikes, eventually the unions become legal, censorship is lessened.
 * About 125,000 **Cubans leave Cuba for America**, most are criminals hand picked by Castro's men, only a few are relatives of those in America.
 * RU-486, the **abortion pill** is released in France.
 * The US Supreme Court allows patents on living organisms.
 * **Mt. Saint Helens erupts**, killing 60 people.
 * CNN is launched as the first all news network
 * ABSCAM, FBI agents pose as rich arabs and bribed politicians with cash for favors.
 * Richard Pryor gets badly burned trying to freebase cocaine.
 * **Small pox** is considered eradicated by the World Health Orginization.
 * **Sadam Hussein launches war against Iran for close to a decade over oil rights.**
 * Japan passes the US as the **largest automaker**
 * Bill Gates licenses MS-DOS to IBM, makes next to nothing on the deal. The pair buys the rights to a simple operating system manufactured by Seattle Computer Products and use it as a template. The money is made later from licensing it to third party clone makers.
 * US suspends grain sales to the Soviet Union in respond to their support of the war in Afghanistan.
 * President Carter attempted a helicopter rescue of the hostages in Iran, failing miserably.
 * US hockey team beat Russia for the gold in the **Winter Olympics.**
 * US hockey team beat Russia for the gold in the **Winter Olympics.**
 * **The 1st launch of a space shuttle** (Columbia)
 * **Pope shot** by insane Turk, May 13.
 * Sandra Day O'Connor becomes **first female Supreme Court Justice**
 * Mitterand becomes French president (and will remain pres. well into the 90s)
 * Prince Charles and Diana Spencer marry on July 29
 * Luke and Lauras's Wedding (General Hospital), Most watched wedding in history next to Charles and Diana.
 * //Dynasty// premiers in primetime hours and becomes a hit.
 * The US Agriculture Department trys making ketchup a school lunch vegetable
 * The first IBM-PC's begin to roll of the lines.
 * The first DeLorean sports cars roll off the assembly line.
 * August 1, **The birth of MTV**, the 24 hour-a-day music television station
 * Private satelite dishes are given the ok by the FCC
 * Fruit fly break out in California.
 * Regan starts toying with the Libyains, and deploys ships in the Gulf of Sidra, which Libya claimed rights to even though no one else recognized it as theirs.
 * **Pac-Man is introduced** in the US and sparks a huge craze.
 * Spain allows legal divorces.
 * Poland government crushes the Solidarity movement.
 * **The first reports of homosexual men dying due to a mysterious breakdown of the bodies' immuminzation system. Later it becomes known as Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, aka AIDS and researches realize it can strike anyone.**
 * 52 American hostages released in January after 14 months in captivity in Iran
 * Antigua gained its independence November 1,1981
 * **Assasination attempt on Ronald Regean** on March 30, 1981 by John Hinkley

> > **__ 1982 __** > > ** __1983__ **
 * Cabbage Patch kids are released.
 * Ronnie introduces 'Star Wars'
 * "Just Say No" is the new tool to combat growing drug use in the US.
 * Thatcher's second term as PM
 * USSR shoots and destroys South Korean flight 007.
 * Camcorders are introduced.
 * US invades Grenada after coup on the island, more medals are handed out during the invasion than during the entire Vietnam war.
 * Karen Carpenter dies of anorexia nervosa at the age of 32, February 4th.
 * The final episode of M*A*S*H airs, advertising cost more than during the Super Bowl that year, and surpassing the record Dallas set for most viewers.
 * Sally Ride becomes first American woman in space, June 18th on the [|Challenger]
 * Compact discs are first released.
 * U.S Embasy is bombed in Beirut, killing 40 people.
 * Hackers invade sensitive military computers such as Los Alamos National Labratory.
 * Australia wins the America's Cup for the first time in 132 years.
 * Fake Hitler diaries surface.
 * The Tylenol Murders happen in Chicago.
 * Last DeLoreans produced
 * Bob Hawke becomes Prime Minister of Australia. The first Labor PM in nine years.
 * French scientist Dr. Luc Montagnier discovered HIV.
 * The Tylenol murders happened in the fall of 1982, not 1983.

> > **__ 1984 __**


 * The Cosby show premiers.
 * Indira Gandhi is assassinated.
 * Chemical disaster in Bhopal, India, December 3rd.
 * Geraldine Ferraro becomes the first woman Vice President running mate.
 * Reagan re-elected in landslide election, Walter Mondale is never heard from again.
 * Congress cuts off aid to Nicaragua, illegal guns sales start to fund the contras.
 * Stonewashed jeans are introduced.
 * Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, US. The Soviets boycott.
 * The AIDS virus is discovered
 * On January 28, Michael Jackson's hair caught fire during the shooting of Pepsi commercial, many children's rhymes ensued.
 * The first [|infomercials] appear on TV due to de-regulation by the FCC.
 * The first all rap radio format is introduced at LA's KDAY
 * Run-D.M.C. are the first ever rap group to have an album certified gold.
 * The term cyberspace is coined by William Gibson in his novel "Neuromancer"
 * Bob Geldof and Band Aid release [|"Do They Know It's Christmas"]
 * Vanessa Williams becomes first African American Miss America
 * In 1984 Reagan makes famous joke: "My fellow Americans, I've signed legislation that will outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in five minutes." He supposedly didn't know the mic was on.
 * Apple Computer releases the Macintosh personal computer.
 * Calling themselves the PMRC (Parents' Music Resource Coalition), concerned parents, including Tipper Gore, wife of then-Tennessee Senator Albert Gore, Susan Baker, wife of Treasury Secretary James Baker, Georgie Packwood, wife of Oregon Senator Robert Packwood, and Nancy Thurmond, wife of South Carolina Senator Strom Thurmond, construct a campaign designed to 'educate' parents about certain alarming new trends in rock music.

> ** __1985__ ** > [|"We Are The World"] is recorded by USA for Africa, America's response to the British [|"Do They Know It's Christmas"] > LIVE AID in London and Philadelphi, beamed around the world > Crack coccaine starts to appear. > Billy Joel marries Christie Brinkley... millions of men suddenly feel like they stand a chance with an attractive woman. > Brussels, Belgium: 39 dead, 250 wounded during a soccer match between Liverpool and Juventus > Greenpeace's Rainbow Warrior is bombed by the French goverment during protests of it's nuclear testing in the Pacific > Earthquake in Mexico / Volcano erupts in Colombia; 1000s killed > Gorbachev becomes (the last) president of the Soviet Union > New coke is introduced in April and quickly replaced with original Coke > Titanic wreckage found and filmed by robotic camera in July > Bernhard Goetz is charged with attempted murder > Ethiopa blocks the airlift of thousands of Ethiopian Jews. > Hole in the ozone layer, first detected in 1977, is now indisputable. > In October, the worlds largest atom smasher goes online in Illinois. > Nintendo home entertainment system introduced. > Extra second added to the calender year. > Leaded gas is officially banned in the US > Swedish premier Olaf Palme is assassinated. > Rock 'n' Roll Hall of fame is opened. > Rock Hudson, the first major public figure to die to AIDS, dies on October 2. Karen Ann Quinlan, coma patient, dies of pneumonia. She was the first person to die in the "right-to-die" controversy debate. > > **__ 1986 __**
 * Worst nuclear disaster ever in Chernobyl, USSR, April.
 * In Nyos, Cameroon, a cloud of carbon dioxide rumbled out of the nearby lake Nyos on August 21 and killed approximently 1,700 people.
 * Bill Buckner lets World Series squirt through his legs. The Mets win in 7 games.
 * US vs Lybia's Col. Khadafi
 * Argentina wins Soccer World Cup in Mexico
 * Fox Network starts in America
 * June 19th, Len Bias, a first round pick by the Celtics, died of a cocaine overdose.
 * Mandatory recycling programs started in Rhode Island.
 * Vice President George Bush's broccoli incident, tons of the stuff is delivered to the White House.
 * Return of Haley's Comet
 * Hands Across America, May 25, 1986
 * Statue of Liberty celebrates the 100th Anniversary and gets a face lift in the process.
 * Arnold Schwarzenegger marries Maria Shriver.
 * Kurt Waldheim's Nazi past is revealed as he runs for president of Austria, and he still wins despite having been a staff officer responsible for deporting thousands of Greek Jews to the concentration camps.
 * "A.M. Chicago" changes its name to the "Oprah Winfrey Show" and goes national September 8th.
 * Turner Broadcasting begins to colorize black and white classics.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Miami Hurricanes' Quarterback Vinny Testaverde wins the Heisman Trophy
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">John McCarthy, a British journalist was kidnapped by Islamic Jihad. Remained in captivity for a staggering 5.5 years.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">America celebrates national holiday Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. day for the first time.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Not only did the Red Sox went to the World Series (They lost in 7 to the Mets) ,the Boston Celtics won the 1986 NBA Championship, and New England went to the the Super Bowl but lost to the Chicago Bears 46-10.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Supermodel Gia, after years of heroin addiction, dies of AIDS. She is the first woman to sucumb to the AIDS virus in the US.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Election of Corazon Aquino ends corrupt Marcos regime in the Philippines. "Win or lose, we go shopping after the election." - Imelda Marcos

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> **__ 1989 __**