Other than movies, tv, or music related info, can you name other special events that happened in the 80's? (I'm putting together 80's trivia!)
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In 1985 (I think) the World Series was both Missouri teams -- St Louis Cardinals and Kansas City Royals; Also in 1986 (again, I think it's the right year) the space shuttle exploded.
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Berlin wall came down, and The Tiananmen Square protests both in 1989
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This is *kind* of music related. But John Lennon was killed in 1980.
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Oh yeah! And in weird news, in 1982 seven people were killed from taking poisoned Tylenol.
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The cold war, my birth, the creation of cute-yet-tacky things that we're seeing all over again.
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The Statue of Liberty 100th anniversay in 1986. Major nuclear accident at Soviet Union's Chernobyl power station alarms world April 26 ,1986. Soviet leader Chernenko dies and is replaced by Mikhail Gorbachev in 1985. Egyptian president Anwar el-Sadat is assassinated by Islamic extremists during a military parade in Cairo 1981. Ronald Reagan nominates Judge Sandra Day O'Connor, 51, of Arizona, as first woman on US Supreme Court 1981.
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