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80's News and Disasters

News Stories


US News

Bioterror attack in Oregon, infecting 751 people with Salmonella

First Space Shuttle Launched

Challenger Shuttle explodes

President Reagan is nearly assassinated

Mass Inflation of the USD

Left: Space Shuttle
Right: Exploded Challenger Shuttle

Global News

Iran-Iraqi War starts

US embassy is attacked in Lebanon by a suicide bomber

South Africa President pledges to remove Apartheid Acts

Global Revolts happen in third-world countries like Sudan

Costly Tohoku Earthquake ravages Japan (360B USD!)

Left: Tohuko Earthquake
Right: US Lebanon Embassy

Disasters and Conflicts

Global Warming now declared as a problem

1983-85 Famine ravages Ethiopia

1982-83 El Nino caused many Hurricanes

1985 Eruption of Nevado del Ruiz with casualties of 28000

1980 Mt St Helens erupts

1986 Chernobyl Nuclear Reactor in Ukraine overheats and explodes


US Launches attacks on Libya due to rising terrorism

Soviet-Afghan War

Argentinian invasion of the Falklands

1989 Tiananmen Square Massacare in China occurs due to protests

Left: Tiananmen Square and Chernobyl Reactor
Right: Mt St Helens