News
Indian Prime minister Indria Ghandi assassinated
Widespread Famine in Ethiopia The UK and China agree Hong Kong will revert to China in 1997
The Olympic Games are held in Los Angeles
Twelve month long strike by coal miners begins in British coal industry
English pound notes are to be taken out of circulation
700 year old wing of York Minster destroyed by fire
IRA Bomb goes off in Grand Hotel Brighton during Conservative Conference
The UK replaces GCE O-Level's and CSE's and replaces them with GCSE's
The Winter Olympic Games are held in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia
Widespread Famine in Ethiopia The UK and China agree Hong Kong will revert to China in 1997
The Olympic Games are held in Los Angeles
Twelve month long strike by coal miners begins in British coal industry
English pound notes are to be taken out of circulation
700 year old wing of York Minster destroyed by fire
IRA Bomb goes off in Grand Hotel Brighton during Conservative Conference
The UK replaces GCE O-Level's and CSE's and replaces them with GCSE's
The Winter Olympic Games are held in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia
Technology
Aids Virus identified by French Immunologist
AT&T Broken Up
The first Apple Macintosh goes on sale
Sony and Philips introduce the first commercial CD Players
Sony makes the first 3 1/2" computer disk
The Space Shuttle Discovery has its maiden voyage
First Ever flight in Space by Human untethered using jet back Packs
Genetic fingerprinting or DNA profiling was developed and is now in wide by Forensic scientists when obtaining evidence in a crime
Aids Virus identified by French Immunologist
AT&T Broken Up
The first Apple Macintosh goes on sale
Sony and Philips introduce the first commercial CD Players
Sony makes the first 3 1/2" computer disk
The Space Shuttle Discovery has its maiden voyage
First Ever flight in Space by Human untethered using jet back Packs
Genetic fingerprinting or DNA profiling was developed and is now in wide by Forensic scientists when obtaining evidence in a crime
The MTV Video Music Awards Started
36 of Britain and Ireland's top pop musicians gathered in a Notting Hill studio to form Band Aid and recorded the song "Do They Know It's Christmas" in order to raise money for famine relief in Ethiopia
Michael Jackson wins unprecedented acclaim for his Album Thriller and sales over 37 million copies
Popular Films
Ghostbusters
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Gremlins
Beverly Hills Cop
Terms of Endearment
The Karate Kid
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock
Police Academy
Romancing the Stone
Splash
The Terminator
Amadeus
The Killing Fields
A Passage To India
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