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The 1980’s
1980
• Failed attempt to save hostages in Tehran
• John Lennon Assassinated
• Mount St. Helen’s Erupts
• Pac-Man released• Rubik’s Cube • Ted Turner est. CNN
1980’s Hits
• #1 Song• Top Movie• #1 TV Show• Top Toy
1981
• Assassination Attempt on the Pope• Assassination Attempt on U.S. President Reaga
n• First Woman Appointed to the U.S. Supreme C
ourt• Millions Watch Royal Wedding on T.V.• New Plague Identified as AIDS• Personal Computers (PC) Introduced by IBM
1982
• E.T. Movie Released• Falkland Islands Invaded by Argentina• King Henry VIII's Ship the Mary Rose Raised
After 437 Years• Michael Jackson Releases Thriller• Reverend Sun Myung Moon Marries 2,075
Couples at Madison Square Garden• Vietnam War Memorial Opened in Washington,
DC
1982
• Top Song• Top rated show• Popular Toy
1983
• Cabbage Patch Kids Are Popular• Reagan Announces Defense Plan Called Star
Wars• Sally Ride Becomes the First American Woman
in Space• Soviets Shoot Down a Korean Airliner• U.S. Embassy in Beirut Bombed
1983
• #1 Song• #1 Movie
1984
• Huge Poison Gas Leak in Bhopal, India• Indira Gandhi, India's Prime Minister, Killed by
Two Bodyguards• PG-13 Movie Rating Created
1985
• Famine in Ethiopia• Hole in the Ozone Layer Discovered• Mikhail Gorbachev Calls for Glasnost and
Perestroika• New Coke Hits the Market• Wreck of the Titanic Found
Brat Pack
Brat Pack
• Starred in coming of age movies
• Name these movies• Movie 1• Movie 2• Movie 3
1985
• #1 Song• #1 Movie
1986
• Space Shuttle Challenger Explodes• Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster• Ferdinand Marcos Flees the Philippines• Iran-Contra Scandal Unfolds• U.S. Bombs Libya• U.S.S.R. Launches Mir Space Station
1987
• DNA First Used to Convict Criminals• Klaus Barbie, the Nazi Butcher of Lyons,
Sentenced to Life in Prison• New York Stock Exchange Suffers Huge Drop
on "Black Monday"• West German Pilot Lands Unchallenged in
Russia's Red Square
1987
• #1 Song• #1 Movie
1988
• Pan Am Flight 103 Is Bombed Over Lockerbie• U.S. Shoots Down Iranian Airliner
1988
• #1 Song• #1 Movie• #2 Movie
1989
• Berlin Wall Falls• Exxon Valdez Spills Millions of Gallons of Oil on
Coastline• Students Massacred in China's Tiananmen
Square• U.S. President Bush Announces That He
Doesn't Like Broccoli
1989
• Box office Hit• #1 Song• Top Rate TV Show