Time line question from 1980-2000?

Question

Could someone share with me what in thier opinion was 20 things that stand out in time that happened from 1980 to 2000? Berlin wall, Regan getting shot, that type of stuff? There is no wrong answer but the most informed will definitely be chosen!

Answer 1

Hi,

Great question .. here is my go

1.1980 - John Lennon is assassinated by Mark David Chapman
2.1980 - Small pox is considered eradicated by the World Health Orginization.
3.1981 - Prince Charles and Diana Spencer marry on July 29
4.1981 - Assasination attempt on Ronald Regean on March 30, 1981 by John Hinkley
5.1984 - The AIDS virus is discovered
6.1985 - LIVE AID in London and Philadelphi, beamed around the world
7.1985 - Titanic wreckage found and filmed by robotic camera in July
8.1986 - January 28, the Challenger explodes.
9.1989 - The fall of the Berlin wall on November 9th.
10.1990 - Iraq invades Kuwait
11.1990 - The Hubble space telescope is launched into orbit
12.1991 - Iraq is attacked by UN forces
13.1991 - The Soviet Union Ends
14.1993 – Feb 26 - Explosion at the World Trade Center in New York
15.1994 - South African Black Get to Vote, April - Mandela got 60 percent of the vote, far more than FW de Klerk who began dismantling aparthaid 5 years earlier. The flag was also changed to help erase some of their past.
16.1994 - Civil war in Rwanda - The spark that ignited a bloody civil war (500,000 people killed) was started by Hutu troops, which shot down a plan carrying the president of Rwanda and Burundi in revenge for allowing the Tutsi to share power.
17.1995 - April 19, 1995 - The Oklahoma City Bombing - 168 people, including 8 Federal Marshals, were killed in the bombing of a federal building in Oaklahoma City. Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols were charged and convicted in this case. For their roles in the bombing Terry Nichols received a life sentence and Timothy McVey was sentenced to death.
18.1996 - Port Arthur Massacre The Port Arthur Massacre in Hobart, Australia, when lone gunman Martin Bryant randomly shoots 34 people dead during an 18-hour spree at the historic site in Tasmania. Three of the dead include a mother and her two children, both less than 8. After a seige which lasted well into the night, Bryant is eventually arrested. At his trial, he laughs and giggles before being sentenced to prison forever.
19.1997 - China resumes control of Hong Kong - July 1, after 156 years of British rule, the colony was turned back over to China.
20.Columbine Tragedy - April 20, 1999, two students go on a shooting rampage in Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado. They kill 12 students, 1 teacher and themselves.

Answer 2

This is very hard to get it down to 20 events. I spent about an hour trying to answer this the first time. I will try again. This is no particular order.

1) April 15 - June 4, 1989 - Tiananmen Square
2) December 21, 1988 - Pan AM Flight 103 explodes over Lockerbie, Scotland.
3) January 16 - February 28, 1991 - Operation Desert Storm
4) November 9, 1989 - Start of the dismantling of the Berlin Wall.
5) February 26, 1993 - The first bombing of the World Trade Center.
6) February 28 - April 19, 1993 - The standoff between ATF and the Branch Davidians at Waco, Texas.
7) April 12, 1981 - The Space Shuttle Columbia launches into space for first time. It starts the era of the reusable space vehicles.
8) 1984 - Famine in Ethiopia.
9) January 19, 1986 - The first PC computer virus, Brain, starts to spread.
10) February 22, 1980 - The "Miracle On Ice" takes place, when the U.S. hockey team beats the Soviets. The U.S. will take the gold medal when they beat Finland.
11) December 3, 1984 - A chemical leak at a Union Carbide plant at Bhopal, India kills 6,000 and injures 150,000 - 600,000.
12) September 1, 1983 - Korean Air Flight 007 is shot down by Soviet fighters.
13) July 5, 1996 - The first cloned sheep, Dolly, is born.
14) April 7 to mid-July 1994 - The Rwandan Genocide of about 800,000 to 1,071,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus by Hutu extremists.
15) Jul 1, 1991 - The Warsaw pact official dissolves.
16) Febraury 7, 1990 - December 31, 1991 - The decline and collapse of the Soviet Union.
17) January 1, 1999 - The new European currency, the Euro, is introduced.
18) August 7, 1998 - Simultaneous bombings of U.S. Embassies in Tanzania and Kenya.
19) April 19, 1995 - The Murrah Federal Building in Okalahoma City is bombed killing 168 people.
20) May 13, 1981 - Pope John Paul II is shot by Turkish gunman Mehmet Ali Agca.

Honorable mention
Ocotber 5, 1988 - In their only vice-presidential debate, Dan Quayle compares himself to John Kennedy, which Lloyd Bentsen responds, "Senator, I knew Jack Kennedy. I served with Jack Kennedy. Jack Kennedy was a friend of mine. Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy." Bensten destorys Quayle in the polls.

Answer 3

1980s
Operation Eagle Claw, the aborted rescue mission to free American hostages in Iran

Operation Urgent Fury, the invasion of Grenada to prevent the communist from taking over the island state

Falklands War

Reagan shot

Pope John Paul 2 shot

Iranian embassy taken over by Iraqi terrorists in London & rescued by SAS

Fall of the Iron Curtain & Berlin Wall

Russia withdraws from Afghanistan

Operation Just Cause, US invasion of Panama to topple & capture Noriega

1990s

Operation Desert Storm

Iraq war 2

Mother Theresa dies

Princess Diana dies

Serbian-Bosnian war

World Trade Center bombing (1993)

Shining Path (Sendoro Illuminoso) takes hostage in an embassy in Peru & killed/captured by Peruvian spec ops soldiers

Answer 4

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