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- Vietnam War Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C.
- Space Shuttle Columbia completes its first mission to space
- E.T. is top grossing movie
- First Successful Heart Transplant
- Olivet High School, Class of 1982 Graduates
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| 1983 |
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- U.S. Embassy in Lebanon is bombed in a terrorist attack
- Cellular phones make their first U.S. appearance in Chicago
- Crack cocaine is developed
- Cabbage Patch dolls is the toy of the year
- Michael Jackson’s Thriller Album sells millions
- Australia II wins the America’s Cup
- America invades Grenada
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| 1984 |
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- Madonna has first hit with “Like a Virgin”
- Apple Computers releases the first Macintosh personal computer
- Photographer Ansel Adams dies at age 82
- Famine in Ethiopia kills hundreds of thousands
- Geraldine Ferraro is the first woman to run for vice-president from a
major party
- Ronald Reagan wins re-election
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| 1985 |
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- Mikhail Gorbachev becomes general secretary of the Communist party in
the U.S.S.R.
- Les Miserables premieres in London
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| 1986 |
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- Space shuttle Challenger explodes after lift-off
- The Chernobyl plant in the Ukraine explodes
- Platoon, earns Best Picture at the Academy Awards.
- Electronic games from Nintendo debut.
- The U.S. is caught selling arms to Iran during its war with Iraq and
using the profits to fund Contra forces in Nicaragua.
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| 1987 |
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- Iran-Contra
- The Class of 1982 Celebrate 5 year Reunion
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| 1988 |
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- The Satanic Verses, is published
- Dustin Hoffman wins the Best Actor Academy Award for Rain Man, which
also wins Best Picture.
- Vice-President George Bush wins the presidential election
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| 1989 |
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- Soviet forces leave Afghanistan after nine years of war.
- The Berlin Wall begins to be dismantled
- The Exxon Valdez runs aground.
- The United States invades Panama
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| 1990 |
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- Nelson Mandela is released from prison
- The Hubble Space Telescope is launched.
- Operation Desert Shield begins in the Persian Gulf
- East and West Germany are united
- Dances With Wolves is released.
- Lech Walesa becomes president of post-communist Poland.
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| 1991 |
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- The Persian Gulf War begins
- Clarence Thomas goes to the Supreme Court
- The USSR officially ends
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| 1992 |
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- The Internet Society is chartered, and 1,000,000 host computers are
connected in a network.
- Euro Disney opens in France,
- China opens its first McDonald's.
- Riots erupt in Los Angeles after local policemen are acquitted of
beating Rodney King the previous year in a videotaped incident.
- Bill Clinton, is elected president of the United States.
- The North American Free Trade Agreement establishes the world's
largest trading bloc.
- The Class of 1982 Celebrate 10 year Reunion
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| 1993 |
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- The Elvis Presley stamp goes on sale
- The bombing of the World Trade Center
- FBI and ATF raid the Branch Davidian sect in Waco, Texas
- cloned nonviable human embryos.
- The Hubble Space telescope is repaired
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| 1994 |
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- Janet Reno, appoints an independent counsel to investigate the
Whitewater
- Nancy Kerrigan is physically assaulted
- South Africa elects Nelson Mandela as president
- Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis dies
- Paula Jones files a sexual harassment suit against Bill Clinton.
- O.J. Simpson is arrested for murders.
- Forrest Gump, wins the Oscar for Best Picture of 1994.
- America Online announces 1 million subscribers.
- The Channel Tunnel (Chunnel) opens
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| 1995 |
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- The bombing of the Murrah Federal building in Oklahoma City kills 168
people
- The first rendezvous of a NASA spacecraft with Mir
- O.J. Simpson is acquitted of the murders
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| 1996 |
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- Theodore Kaczynski, the Unabomber is arrested
- The line-item veto is signed into law
- A bomb explodes During the Olympic in Atlanta
- TWA flight 800 explodes off the coast of Long Island
- Tiger Woods wins the U.S. Amateur Golf Tournament for the third year
in a row and turns to Pro.
- Prince Charles and Princess Diana are divorced.
- Bill Clinton is re-elected president
- Jon Benet Ramsey is found dead
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| 1997 |
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- Titanic, becomes a blockbuster hit.
- Heaven's Gate cult commit suicide
- Timothy McVeigh is found guilty of the Oklahoma City bombing
- NASA's Pathfinder lands on Mars
- Dolly the sheep is a cloned
- Princess Diana is killed in an automobile accident
- Mother Teresa, dies of a heart attack
- America Online reaches 10 million subscribers
- The Class of 1982 Celebrate 15 year Reunion
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| 1998 |
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- El Nino, affects the world climate
- The Internet. users numbers between 30-60 million
- Microsoft, is charged with allegedly using an operating-system
monopoly to unfairly expand into the Internet industry.
- India and Pakistan, conduct independent underground nuclear tests.
- Two American embassies are destroyed by terrorist bombings
- The Clinton sex scandal explodes
- Starr Report is released in September
- Clinton becomes the second American president to be impeached.
- Mark McGwire breaks record with 70 home runs
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| 1999 |
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- Michael Jordan announces his retirement from basketball.
- President Clinton is acquitted of impeachment charges.
- Joe DiMaggio, dies at age 84.
- Stanley Kubrick, dies at age 70.
- Two teenage students kill 15 and wound 23 in Columbine High School
- John F. Kennedy Jr., his wife, sister-in-law die in plane crash
- Microsoft is found to be a monopoly
- Panama gains control of the Panama Canal in December.
- World prepares for Y2K Bug
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| 2000 |
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- Charles M. Schulz, dies at age 77
- Completion of mapping the genetic code of a human DNA
- Elian Gonzalez, returns to Cuba with his father.
- Hillary Rodham Clinton wins her bid for the U.S. Senate
- George W. Bush is finally declared the president-elect more than a
month after Election Day
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| 2001 |
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- Dale Earnhardt is killed during the final lap of the Daytona 500
- California's energy shortage worsens
- U.S. Navy spy plane makes an emergency landing in China
- Convicted Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh is executed
- The Enron scandal begins to unravel
- Slobodan Milosevic faces criminal charges at The Hague.
- September 11, two hijacked airliners slam into the twin towers of the
World Trade Center
- Third airliner crashed into the Pentagon building in Washington, D.C.
- Fourth airliner crashes in to a field near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- September 18, President Bush addresses the nation
- Multi-national coalition led by the United States begins a War on
Terrorism
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| 2002 |
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- Hubble Telescope captures images of the edges of space
- 1st Anniversary of September 11th attacks.
- Euro begins official circulation in 12 European
countries
- Chechen rebels take hundreds hostage in Moscow
- UN resumes arms inspection in Iraq
- The Class of 1982 Celebrate 20 year Reunion
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| 2003 |
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- Shuttle Columbia is lost on re-entry
- Beginning of Operation Iraqi Freedom
- The Concord SST, the fastest commercial airplane was retired from
service.
- China launched its first manned spaceship to
become the third country to send a human into orbit
- Martha Stewart indicted on nine counts stemming from insider-trading
scandal
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| 2004 |
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- Lights replace missing towers in New York to remember 9/11
- George W. Bush is reelected President
- SpaceShipOne Wins $10 Million Ansari X
Prize in Historic 2nd Trip to Space
- Tsunami hits Indian Ocean
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| 2005 |
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- Hurricanes Katrina and Rita strike Gulf Coast area and New Orleans
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| 2006 |
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- Apple Macintosh switches to Intel processor
- Gerald Ford, the 38th President of the United States dies at 93
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| 2007 |
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- Final Harry Potter novel is released
- Apple introduces the iPhone
- Final Harry Potter, book number 7 released
- The War on Terrorism continues...
- The Class of 1982 Celebrate 25 year Reunion
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