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.

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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 Show1 TV Show Top Toy

1981 Assassination Attempt on the Pope Assassination Attempt on U.S. President Reagan Assassination Attempt on U.S. President Reagan First Woman Appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court First Woman Appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court Millions Watch Royal Wedding on T.V. New Plague Identified as AIDS Personal Computers (PC) Introduced by IBM

1981 #1 Movie

1982 E.T. Movie Released 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 showop 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

1984 #1 Song – Prince When Doves Cry #1 Movie

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 Wreck of the Titanic Found

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 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

1986 #1 Movie

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

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