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1980
Aug 20 U.N. Comdemns Israel for Claiming All of Jerusalem As Its Capital United Nations Israel
Reinhold Messner Completes First Successful Solo Ascent of Mount Everest Reinhold Messner Mount Everest Historic Firsts
Aug 26 Macauley Culkin Macauley Culkin Actors Film
Sept 05 St. Gothard's (world's longest) Tunnel Opens in Switzerland Switzerland Automobile Travel
Sept 12 The April Six Movement Bombs Nine Buildings in Metro Manila Area The Philippines
Sept 17 Former Nicaraguan President Somoza Assassinated while in Exile in Paraguay. Nicaragua Paraguay
Sept 18 Katherine Anne Porter Katherine Anne Porter American Authors
Sept 18 Cuba's Arnoldo Tamazo First Black Man in Space Aboard Soviet Soyuz 38. Cuba Russia Astornauts & Cosmonauts
Sept 20 Iran & Iraq Begin Eight-year War Iran Iraq War
Sept 30 Martina Hingis Switzerland Tennis
Oct 10 "Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front" (FMLN) Founded in El Salvador El Salvador
Oct 23 Soviet Premier Alexei N. Kosygin Resigns Soviet Union The Cold War
1981
Aug 19 Final Episode of Charlie's Angels Airs Television
Aug 26 Steve Ovett Sets World Record for the Mile Run (3:48.4) Steve Ovett Track & Field
Aug 28 New York Daily News Publishes Final Afternoon Edition New York City Journalism
Sept 10 Town of Guernica Receives Picasso Mural Guernica Pablo Picasso
Sept 17 Indoneasian Army Assassinates East Timor Resistance Party President Indonesia Death
Sept 25 Sandra Day O'Connor Sworn in As First Female Justice, U.S. Supreme Court. Sandra Day O'Connor Women U.S. Supreme Court U.S. History Historic Firsts
Sept 26 Maiden Flight of the Boeing 767 Aviation
Oct 07 Hosni Mubarak Selected to Succeed Assassinated Anwar Sadat Egypt
Oct 08 President Reagan Greets Nixon, Ford & Carter at White House Ronald Reagan Richard Nxion Gerald Ford Jimmy Carter The Amrican Presidency
Oct 22 Air Traffic Controllers Organization Decertified because of Strike Aviation Labor Unions
Oct 24 Ariel Durant Ariel Durant Authors & Historians
1982
Aug 19 Russian Soyuz T-7 Launched (2 Men, 1 Woman: 113 days) Russian Space Program Space Exploration
Aug 27 A Turkish Military Attache Is Assassinated in Canada by Armenian Extremists Turkey Canada Armenia Death
Aug 29 Ingrid Bergman Ingrid Bergman Film
Sept 16 Christian Militia Massacre of Hundreds of Palestinians in Beirut Refugee Camps Lebanon Palestine Religion
Sept 30 H. Ross Perot & Jay Colburn Complete First World Circumnavigation in a Helicopter Aviation Historic Firsts
Sixth and Final Chicago Victim Dies from Cyanide-laced Tylenol Chicago Crime Drugs and Medication Death
Oct 07 Andrew Lloyd Webber-Tim Rice Cats Opens in New York City New York City Andrew Lloyd Webber Musical Theater
Oct 08 All Labor Organizations in Poland Are Banned Poland Labor Organizations The Cold War
Oct 11 The Sunken (1545) Mary Rose Raised to the Surface Mary Rose King Henry VIII of England Naval History
1983
Aug 21 Filipino Opposition Leader Benigno S. Aquino, Jr. Assassinated at Manila Airport Republic of the Philippines Death
Aug 30 Guy Bluford Becomes First African-American in Space Guy Bluford U.S. Astronauts U.S. History Famous African Americans Historic Firsts
Sept 17 Vanessa Williams Is First African American Crowned as Miss America Women African-American History
Sept 19 St. Kitts and Nevis Gain Independence from the United Kingdom St. Kitts
Final Episode of "M*A*S*H" Airs Television
Sept 23 Bomb Destroys Omani Aircraft In Flight: 111 dies Oman Air Disasters Terrorism Death
Sept 27 A Chorus Line Becomes the Longest-running Broadway Musical Musical Theater
Oct 04 Richard Noble Breaks 1-mile Land Speed Record: 633.468 mph Auto Racing Historic Firsts
Oct 11 Last Crank Telephones Taken Out of U.S. Service The Telephone
Oct 23 Islamic Jihad Bombings Kill 241 U.S. Marines & 58 French Paratroopers Lebanon War on Terrorism Death
Oct 25 U.S. Invades Grenada to Restore Order and Evacuate American Citizens Grenada Ronald Reagan U.S. History
1984
Aug 27 Christa McAuliffe Selected to be First Teacher in Space Space Exploration Education U.S. History
Aug 30 Space Shuttle Discovery Lifts Off for First Time Space Exploration
Sept 10 Sean O'Keefe Is Youngest Person to Bicycle across the US (24 days) Bicycling
Sept 12 Michael Jordan Signs 7-year Contract with Chicago Bulls Michael Jordan Basketball Famous African Americans
Sept 19 British Agree to Transfer Hong Kong to Chinese by 1997s Great Britain China World History
Sept 20 Terrorist Van Explodes in Front of U.S. Embassy, Lebanon: 14 die Lebanon United States Government Terrorism Death
Sept 20 The Cosby Show Premires Television African-American History
Oct 07 Walter Payton Passes Jim Brown's NFL Career Rushing Record of 12,312 Yards Football
Ronald Reagan & Walter Mondale Meet in a Presidential Debate (Economics) Ronald Reagan The American Presidency
Oct 08 Anne Murray Wins Country Music Association Award Anne Murray Country Musicians
Oct 11 Mario Lemieux Scores a Goal on His First NHL Shot Ice Hockey
Oct 16 Bishop Desmond Tutu Awarded Nobel Peace Prize Desmond Tutu Catholicism 1984 Nobel Peace Prize
Baboon Heart Transplanted into 15-day-old Baby Fae Medical Research Heart
1985
Aug 20 Original Xerox 914 Copier Is Donated to the Smithsonian Institution Inventors & Inventions Museums History of Technology
Aug 26 Yugo Is Introduced to the American Market Automobiles Business & Economics U.S. History
Aug 27 General Ibrahim Babangida Overthrows Nigeria's Buhari Regime Nigeria War African History
Aug 28 Colombia Government Troops Kill April 19 Movement (M-19) Leader Ivan Ospina Colombia Death
Sept 11 Pete Rose Breaks Ty Cobb's Record with Hit 4,192 Ty Cobb Baseball
Sept 18 Steve Jobs Resigns at Apple Steve Jobs History of Technology
Sept 19 Mexico City Earthquake Kills Thousands Mexico City Earthquakes Death
Sept 20 Second Major Earthquake Hits Mexico City Mexico Earthquakes
Sept 27 Hurricane Gloria Shuts Down Wall Street Wall Street Investment Markets Hurricanes
Sept 30 Charles Richter (seismologist) Earthquakes
Oct 01 E.B. White E.B. White Charlotte's Web Children's Literature
Oct 01 Israeli Air Force Bombs Palestinian Liberation Organization Headquarters in Tunis. Palestine Israel Tunisia War on Terrorism
Oct 02 Rock Hudson AIDS Film
Oct 07 Palestinians Hijack Italian Cruise Ship "Achille Lauro": 1 Passenger Will Die Italy Palestine War on Terrorism Death
Oct 07 Lynette Woodard Is the First Female Member of the Harlem Globetrotters Basketball Female
Oct 08 Palestinian Hijackers of the Achille Lauro Kill a Wheelchair-bound American Terrorism Death
Oct 10 Orson Welles Orson Welles Radio Film
Oct 15 Morris Brown College is Founded GeorgiA" Education" African-American
Oct 16 Intel Introduces the 386 Processor History of Technology
1986
Sept 05 4 Arab Gunmen Kill 21 in Aborted Airline Hijacking in Pakistan Pakistan Terrorism World History
Sept 06 Terrorists Murder 21 Jewish Worshipers in an Istanbul Synagogue Turkey Israel Terrorism
Oct 10 1,500 Die in San Salvador Earthquake (7.5) El Salvador Earthquakes Death
Oct 11 Reagan and Gorbachev Meet in Reykjavik Ronald Reagan Mikhail Gorbachev Iceland
Oct 14 Holocaust Survivor Elie Wiesel Named Laureate for the Nobel Peace Prize Elie Wiesel The Holocaust 1986 Nobel Prize for Peace
Oct 15 Edward J. Perkins First African-American Ambassador to South Africa. South U.S. African-American
Oct 17 Congress Approves $100M Aid for Nicaraguan Contras Iran-Contra Scandal U.S. Congress
Oct 22 President Reagan Signs Tax Reform Act into Law President Reagan Taxes
1987
Aug 27 Mutinous Soldiers Fail to Overthrow the Philippines' Aquino Government Republic of the Philippines War
Aug 28 John Huston Filmmakers
Sept 05 American Bandstand Canceled after 30 Years on the Air Popular Music Television
Sept 16 24 Countries Sign the Montreal Protocol to Save Earth's Ozone Layer Ozone
Sept 25 Duffy Daugherty (coach) Football
Oct 01 Eight Killed in Los Angeles Earthquake Los Angeles Earthquakes Death
Oct 15 Coup in Ouagadougou Overthrows Sankara, Brings Compaore Burkina
1988
Sept 13 Hurricane Gilbert Becomes Strongest Ever Recorded Hurricanes
Sept 18 General Saw Maung Seizes Power in Burma Military Coup Burman/Myanmar
Sept 19 U.S. Senate Ratifies Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement Canada United States U.S. Congress Business & Economics
Sept 20 Prodigy On-line Internet Is Service Launched K-12 Internet
Sept 23 Joes Conseco Is Baseball's First 40-40 Man (homeruns & steals) Baseball Famous Latin Americans
Oct 01 Mikhail Gorbachev Becomes Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev
Oct 11 Computers Successfully Factor 100-digit Number Mathematics History of Technology
Oct 21 NY Grand Jury Indicts Ferdinand & Imelda Marcos on Fraud & Racketeering New York The Republic of the Philippines Law & Legal Resources
1989
Aug 19 Lil' Romeo (rapper) Lil' Romeo
Aug 19 Bishop Desmond Tutu Defies Apartheid with South African Beach Walk Bishop Desmond Tutu Human Rights
Aug 22 Nolan Ryan - First Pitcher to Record 5000 Strikeouts Baseball
Aug 28 John Steptoe John Steptoe
Sept 05 Chris Evert Retires from Professional Tennis Chris Evert Tennis
Sept 10 Hungary Opens Borders for East Germans Hungary Germany Fall of Soviet Communism
Sept 19 Bomb Destroys UTA flight 772 in the Air over Niger: all on board die Niger Air Disasters Terrorism Death
Sept 20 F.W. de Klerk Sworn in As President of South Africa South Africa
Sept 26 Soviet Legislature Approves Anti-Censorship Law Soviet Union Fall of Soviet Communism
Sept 27 SONY Buys Columbia Pictures Business & Economics Film
Oct 02 Quantum Changes Its Name to America Online Businesses & Companies
Oct 03 Attempted Coup Fails Against Panamá's Manuel Noriega Panamá
Art Shell Selected as First Black Head Coach in the NFL Football African-American History
Oct 07 Hungary's Communist Party Adopts Democratic Socialism Hungary Fall of Soviet Communism
Oct 15 President de Klerk Frees Imprisoned African National Congress (ANC) Members South
Wayne Gretzky Sets NHL Scoring Record: 1,850 Career Pts Ice
Oct 17 San Francisco Earthquake San Francisco Earthquakes
Oct 18 Hungarian Constitution Amended for Open and Free Elections Hungary Fall of Soviet Communism Elections
Erich Honecker Removed as Head of East Germany Germany Fall of Soviet Communism
Space Shuttle Atlantis Launched with Galileo Probe Aboard NASA Space Exploration
Oct 23 Hungary Becomes a Republic Independent of Soviet Rule Hungary Soviet Union Fall of Soviet Communism
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