1. The 1980’sDecade in Review By Zachary Kuhn

2. Eruption of Mt. St Helens When the mountain erupted in obliterated the entire forest around it. The ash and soot from the eruption went as far as 200 miles in all directions.

3. U.S. Hockey Teams Beats Russia in Olympic games For the first time we beat Russia at something.

4. Death of John Lennon The Death was a major event that shocked the people all around the world

5. Sandra Day O’Connor She was the first women ever to be a supreme court justice.

6. MTV The first music TV channel for teens of the 1980’s

7. Iran-Contra Affair It was an affair and a political scandal during the 1980’s that came to be known.

8. Assassination attempt of Reagan A man tried to assassinate President Reagan but only punctured one of his lungs his secret service agents then tackled the guy and captured him.

9. Thriller The first ever music video to ever be showed on television The video started Michael Jackson’s career

10. Liposuction The first type of body appearance altering surgery now avaliable to people with lots of money mostly the stars.

11. Cocaine Cocaine was the choice drug of the 1980’s everybody thought it was cool still people started dieing from overdoseing. Many famous people died from Oding on cocaine.

12. South Korean Flight 007 The plane was flying over soviet union and was intercepted by soviet jets and was shot down.

13. Sally Ride She was the first women to go up into space.

14. Beirut Terrorist attack Suicide bombers killed 241 american troops.

15. CD’s The first ever cd’s came out on the market and were very easy to use.

16. Olympics in Los angeles They held the olympics in los angeles for the first time

17. Vanessa Williams Vanessa Lynn Williams was africanamerican to be crownd miss america.

18. Crack Cocaine

19. We are The World The song with Michel Jackson and steve wonder

20. Len Bias He was a baseball player that died of a cocaine overdose 8 hours after being accepted.

21. Nintendo The first gamestation to come on the market and the beginning of something big.

22. Challenger disaster The spacecraft was too take people of all different races and places to space for the first time and it was going and then it exploded on live television.

23. Aids The gay disease as some reffered to it as the spread of aids was on the rise.

24. Michael Dukakis Ran against reagan in the election

25. Supermodel Gia First model to die from a cocaine overdose.

26. Baby Jessica A baby that fell down a well they rescued her.

27. Soviets leave afganistan The soviets left and didn’t come back.

28. Fashion of the 80’s

29. Movies of the 80’s