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**Hurricane Allen - Jamaica & Texas - August 6-10, 1980** media type="youtube" key="TgEUNEIpvsY?fs=1" height="385" width="480"

=** Mount St. Helens Eruption- May 18, 1980 ** media type="youtube" key="bgRnVhbfIKQ?fs=1" height="385" width="480" =





FOX Network Premiers in April 1987 media type="youtube" key="dSWzmABzPNI?fs=1" height="385" width="480"

Hands Across America, May 25, 1986 media type="youtube" key="WZorfXa5pBc?fs=1" height="385" width="480"



Sally Ride is the First Woman Launched into Space - June 18, 1983 media type="youtube" key="hffVvDNNBoI?fs=1" height="385" width="480"





Terrorists seize the Iranian Embassy in London, five people killed in rescue raid. President Carter orders failed military mission to rescue hostages in the U.S. Embassy in Iran. 87 million American TV viewers wonder "Who Shot J.R.?" Ronald Reagan becomes president, Republicans gain control of Senate. Former Beatle John Lennon shot dead in New York. || Peter Sutcliffe, "The Yorkshire Ripper," is arrested after 13 murders. The first U.S. space shuttle, "Columbia," makes inaugural flight. Sandra Day O'Connor becomes the U.S. Supreme Court's first female judge. || The Vietnam Veterans' War memorial is dedicated in Washington, bearing 58,000 names. The North Carolina Tar Heels win the NCAA basketball championship. Lethal injection is used as a death sentence for the first time. || A bomb planted by Shiites kills 87 at the U.S. Embassy in Lebanon. Reagan openly backs Contras against Marxist Sandinistas in Nicarauga. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Martin Luther King Jr. Day becomes national holiday. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Two-year drought causes massive famine in Ethiopia. || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">"Do They Know It's Christmas?" tops the charts in hunger relief effort. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">AIDS virus is discovered. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">A toxic gas leak from Union Carbide plant in India kills 2,500. || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">A tidal wave kills 10,000 in southern Bangladesh. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Palestinians hijack cruise ship "Achille Largo" with 450 aboard. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Pete Rose breaks Ty Cobb's all-time hits record in baseball. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The U.S. becomes the world's biggest debtors, with a deficit of $130 billion. || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">"Colorization" of black-and-white classics bothers some film fans. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Phillipine President Ferdinand Marcos flees in the wake of election rigging allegations. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Reagan admits to secret arms deal with Iran, the beginning of the Iran-Contra affair. || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Reagan implores Gorbachev to "tear down this wall" in Berlin. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Bill Gates becomes the computer industry's first billionaire. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Van Gogh's "Irises" is sold for $49 million. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Dow Jones drops 23 percent in one day during "Black Monday." || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">George Bush defeats Michael Dukakis in the presidential race. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">An earthquake in Armenia kills 80,000. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">A jury orders tobacco company to pay $400,000 in smoker's death.
 * **1980** || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Soviets and Mujaheddin guerrillas clash in Afghanistan after Soviet invasion.
 * **1981** || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">John Hinckley wounds President Reagan in assassination attempt.
 * **1982** || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">England drives invading Argentines from Falkland Islands.
 * **1983** || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Reagan dubs the USSR the "Evil Empire" amid steep domestic budget cuts.
 * **1984** || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The United Kingdom agrees to give China eventual control of Hong Kong.
 * **1985** || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Mikhail Gorbachev becomes General Secretary of the U.S.S.R.
 * **1986** || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">South Africa institutes a "state of emergency," detaining 20,000 people.
 * **1987** || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">President Reagan announces the U.S.'s first trillion-dollar budget.
 * **1988** || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The USS Vincennes accidentally shoots down an Iranian airliner, killing 290.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">270 are killed in airliner bomb over Scotland. || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Thousands of prodemocracy students occupy Tiananmen Square in Peking. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">U.S. invades Panama to oust Manuel Noriega. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">DNA evidence is allowed in some criminal trials. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The Exxon Valdez spills eleven million gallons of oil in Alaska. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Bush authorizes $300 billion tax dollars to prop up the collapsing savings and loan industry. ||
 * **1989** || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">China imposes martial law in Tibet.







"We Are the World" charity song for the famine in Africa
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One of the founders of the Beatles was murdered- John Lennon

Princess Grace Kelly dies in 1982

Challenger Space Shuttle Explodes during launch in 1986 media type="youtube" key="j4JOjcDFtBE?fs=1" height="385" width="480"