Major events that happened between 1980-1989?

Question:I'm reasearching for a timeline project, and if anyone could just give me a little help. (Just 1-2 words to give a name of an event that impacted the U.S. during this time so I can research it.)

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Again, I would prefer to do the more detailed research myself, I'm just looking for names of events. (Such as an election/presidents name.. 9/11... etc.)

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: I'm reasearching for a timeline project, and if anyone could just give me a little help. (Just 1-2 words to give a name of an event that impacted the U.S. during this time so I can research it.)

Thank you!

Everyone who helps, please give thumbs up to the other people, as I'm not lvl 2 yet, so I can't.

Again, I would prefer to do the more detailed research myself, I'm just looking for names of events. (Such as an election/presidents name.. 9/11... etc.)

Reagan elected

Hostages returned from Iran

Recession

Iran Contra scandal

Geraldine Ferraro-First woman on a presidential ticket

Challenger disaster

Invasion of Greneda

Personal Computers start becoming popular for the home.

Music CD's

Cable TV

Cell Phones

MTV :p

Breakup of Ma Bell

count the stock market crash of 1987.

1980

Soviets and Mujaheddin guerrillas clash in Afghanistan after Soviet invasion.

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.

John Hinckley wounds President Reagan in assassination attempt.

The first U.S. space shuttle, "Columbia," makes inaugural flight.

1982

Reagan dubs the USSR the "Evil Empire" amid steep domestic budget cuts.

Martin Luther King Jr. Day becomes national holiday.

The United Kingdom agrees to give China eventual control of Hong Kong.

AIDS virus is discovered.

Mikhail Gorbachev becomes General Secretary of the U.S.S.R.

The U.S. becomes the world's biggest debtors, with a deficit of $130 billion.
1986

South Africa institutes a "state of emergency," detaining 20,000 people.

"Colorization" of black-and-white classics bothers some film fans.

Reagan admits to secret arms deal with Iran, the beginning of the Iran-Contra affair.
1987

President Reagan announces the U.S.'s first trillion-dollar budget.

Reagan implores Gorbachev to "tear down this wall" in Berlin.

Bill Gates becomes the computer industry's first billionaire.

Dow Jones drops 23 percent in one day during "Black Monday."

1989

China imposes martial law in Tibet.

Thousands of prodemocracy students occupy Tiananmen Square in Peking.

The Exxon Valdez spills eleven million gallons of oil in Alaska.

Bush authorizes $300 billion tax dollars to prop up the collapsing savings and loan industry

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You can add the Philippine People Power Revolution on 1986. That had a far-reaching effect on democracy movements throughout the world.

1980 - Pope John Paul II is shot in Saint Paul Square
1983 - Islamic terrorist drives a truck thru a barracks in Lebanon and kills more than 230 U.S. Marines.