2. Eruption of Mt. St Helens The Mt. St Helens is an active stratovolcano located in Skamania Country, Washington in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States.
3. U.S Hockey Team beat Russia in the Olympic Games In the 1980’s the U.S Hockey Team beat the Russian Team. It was something that nobody expected to happen cause of the reason that the U.S team were not professional guys and the Russian’s were.
4. Death of John Lennon John Lennon was killed by Mark David Chapman. Lennon was a man called “smart Beatle” he brought a penetrating intelligence and a stinging wit both to the band’s music and its self-presentation.
5. Sandra Day O’Connor Sandra Day O'Connor was born in El Paso, Texas, on August 26, 1930. O’Connor die when she was 81 years old she used to work for the supreme court.
6. MTV MTV is a cable television network that devotes most of its programming time to video clips that accompany popular songs, has had a profound influence on young people, and on popular culture in general, since its first broadcast in 1982.
7. Iran-Contra Affair The Iran-Contra Affair was a clandestine action not approved of by the United States Congress. It began in 1985, when President Ronald Reagan’s administration supplied weapons to Iran a sworn enemy in hopes of securing the release of American hostages held in Lebanon by Hezbollah terrorists loyal to the Ayatollah Khomeini, Iran's leader.
8. Assassination Attempt of Reagan President Ronald Reagan got killed by John Hinckley. He was just two months into his first term on that fateful day in 1981. He wrapped up a speech to union members at the Washington Hilton Hotel and stepped outside to leave.
9. Thriller Thriller was the first song that Michael Jackson got. This song is 14 minutes long and it was made in 1983. It was a Pop song with a horror theme.
10. Liposuction In the early 1980s, dermatologic surgeons pioneered liposuction techniques to safely and effectively remove undesired fat from nearly all body area, including the face, neck, chin, breast, back, arms, abdomen, hips, flanks, inner and outer thighs, buttocks, knees and ankles
11. Cocaine During the 1980s few subjects were in the news as consistently as the widespread and increasing use of cocaine in the United States. There were two main stages in this growing problem. In the first stage, during the early 1980s, many considered cocaine a harmless, even glamorous, "recreational" drug it was the drug of choice of the famous and successful professional athletes, celebrities in the arts and entertainment, lawyers, university professors, and Wall Street brokers who were among the few who could afford the high black-market price of cocaine.
12. South Korean Flight 007 Soviet jet fighters intercept a Korean Airlines passenger flight in Russian airspace and shoot the plane down, killing 269 passengers and crewmembers. The incident dramatically increased tensions between the Soviet Union and the United States.
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14. Beirut terrorist attack occurred during the Lebanese Civil War, when two truck bumbstruck separate buildings housing United States and French military forced members of the Multinational forced in Lebanon killing 299 American and French servicemen. The organization Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the bombing.
15. CDs Most of the CDs that came out in the 1980s were pop CDs. Pop music is commonly defined as popular music listened to, purchased, nominated for special events. Styles of pop music in the 2000s (today) include rock music, hip hop, and pop punk. ano, drums & other.
16. Olympics in Los Angeles The 1984 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXIII Olympiad, was an international multi sport events held in Los Angeles, California, United States in 1984. When Tehran, the only other interested city on the international level, declined to bid due to the concurrent Iranian political and social changes the IOC awarded Los Angeles the Games by default.
17. Vanessa Williams Vanessa Williams born in March 18, 1963. She is one of the most respected and multi-faceted performers in entertainment today. She has conquered the musical charts, Broadway, music videos, television and motion pictures. She has sold millions of albums worldwide and she has achieved critical acclaim as an actress on stage, in film and on television.
18. We are the world This was another of the songs of Michael Jackson. He sings this song with Lionel Richie. This song came out in the 1985.
19. Crack Cocaine It is abused because it produces an immediate high and because it is easy and inexpensive to produce rendering it readily available and affordable.
20. Len Bias He was one of the greatest basketball players in college of the modern era. Len Bias born in Landover, Maryland. He died on June 19, 1986 he was just 22 years old. He died from a cocaine intoxicated.
21. Nintendo Nintendo started as a small Japanese business by Fusajiro Yamauchi near the end of 1887 as Nintendo Koppai. Now it’s a thing to play video games. It use to be so famous everyone used to wanted it but now not everyone uses it.
22. Challenger Disaster The Space Shuttle Challenger disaster occurred on Tuesday, January 28, 1986, when Space Shuttle Challenger broke apart 73 seconds into its flight, leading to the deaths of its seven crew members. The spacecraft disintegrated over the Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of central Florida, United States, at 11:38 am
23. AIDS Is the final stage of HIV disease, which causes severe damage to the immune system. Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) causes AIDS.
24. Supermodel GIA She born in January 29, 1960. GIA died in Philadelphia P.A. Then she died in November 18, 1986 at the same place. She was an American fashion model during the late 1970s and early 1980s.
25. Baby Jessica Jessica McClure Morales born in March 26, 1986 she became famous at the age of 18 months after falling into a well in Midland, Texas, on October 14, 1987. Between that day and October 16, rescuers worked for 58 hours to free Baby Jessica from the eight-inch-wide well casing 22 feet below the ground.
26. Michael Dukakis Michael Stanley Dukakis born in November 3, 1933 served as the 65th and 67th Governor of Massachusetts from 1975–1979 and from 1983–1991, and was the Democratic presidential nominee in 1988
27. Soviets leave Afghanistan In Feb 16, 1989 the last soviet leave Afghanistan. The Soviet War in Afghanistan was a nine-year conflict involving the Soviet Union, supporting the Marxist-Leninist government of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistanagainst the indigenous Afghan Mujahideen and foreign Arab–Afghan volunteers.
28. Fashion of the Times In the 1970s, the silhouette of fashion tended to be characterized by close fitting clothes on top with wider, looser clothes on the bottom.
29. Famous movies of the times One of the best movies it was in the 1986 and it was called Aliens others are Brazil, Amadeus, Do the right thing and then The empire strike back.
