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