• The ‘80s is not about nostalgia; it is abouta decade of people, decisions andinventions that changed our future, toldfrom the perspective of unknowinghistory makers who lived these iconicmoments. It was 10 years of nonstopglamour, unchecked excess, ruthlessambition and explosive technologicalinnovation that combined to produce thehistoric changes and global events thatmade us who and what we are today.

• The history of the United States from 1980until 1991 includes the last year of the JimmyCarter presidency, eight years of the RonaldReagan administration, and the first two yearsof the George H. W. Bush presidency, up to thecollapse of the Soviet Union.

1980• John Lennon Assassinated

• Pac-Man Video Game Released

• Rubik's Cube Becomes Popular

• Ted Turner Establishes CNN

1981 Humber Bridge opens, the longest single-span bridge in the

world

The Humber Bridge was built between 1972 and 1980. At the time, it was the longest single-span bridge in the world at nearly 2,200m.

In the U.K.

• The best thing to happen to '80s hair along with the perm, Sun-In turned your barnet blonde (or more likely, orange) in an instant.

PEZ sweet dispensers

• Dispensing little tiny fizzy sweets was never so much fun!

Grange Hill

• In the '80s, British children liked nothing more than coming home from school to watch a show about children at school. Which was perfectly understandable, because that show was 'Grange Hill'.

The Sony Walkman

Five Star• "Britain's answer to The Jackson Five" weren't

really that. But they were fine purveyors of kid-friendly bubblegum pop and shoulder pads.

Michael Jackson's "Thriller" sells 20 million albums to become the largest

selling record ever.1982

• In August 1981 the first 24-hour music channel, MTV.

Lady Di • Twenty-year-old Diana became Princess of

Wales when she married the Prince of Wales on 29 July 1981 at St Paul's Cathedral.

Around 1982-1985

• Mobile phones are launched in Europe

• The American poet Joseph Brodsky won the Nobel prize in literature.

• President Jimmy Carter announces the embargo on sale of grain and high technology to the Soviet Union due to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.

• "Just Say No" is the new tool to combat growing drug use in the US.

• Advertising campaign, part of the U.S. "War on Drugs", prevalent during the 1980s and early 1990s.

• First Woman Appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court

• Personal Computers (PC) Introduced.

• Tax cut legislation proposed by President Ronald Reagan, the largest in history, is passed by both houses of the U.S. Congress. It would reduce taxes by $750 billion over the next five years.

And so…

• In 1984 Reagan makes famous joke: "My fellow Americans, I've signed legislation that will outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in five minutes." He supposedly didn't know the mic was on.

• America celebrates national holiday Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. day for the first time.

• Fox Network starts in America

• November 5, 1982 - The highest unemployment rate since 1940 is recorded at 10.4%. By the end of November, over eleven million people would be unemployed.

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November 13, 1982 - The Vietnam Veterans Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C., holding the names of the more than 58,000 killed or missing in action during the conflict.

• Cabbage Patch Kids Are Popular

• Sally Ride Becomes the First American Woman in Space

• Vance vs. Judas Priest: Parents of twoteenaged Judas Priest fans who attemptedsuicide in December 1985 sue the band,claiming that a subliminal message in the song"Better by You, Better than Me" influencedtheir actions.

• British astronomer Edmund Halley was the first to calculate the orbit of a comet. So Halley's comet, which happens every 76 years, bears his name. The last time this comet passed was in 1986.

George Bush as the new president in 1988

Republican President Ronald Reagan's vice-president George H. W. Bush ascended to thepresidency, defeating Democratic Massachusettsgovernor Michael Dukakis by an electorallandslide in the 1988 election. The campaignwas marked by numerous blunders by Dukakis,including most famously a campaign adfeaturing Dukakis in an M1 Abrams tank

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The “Rebel” Years-Heavy metal:

Introduces that rebel voice to the youth

Games and entertainment

80’s Candy

MOST IMPORTANT PEOPLE.

80’s