A Time line of Occurance from 1976-1992

This is a list of important events the occured during 1976. Exact dates are listed when known.

Soweto uprising in South Africa

First artifical gene Capable of working in a living cell, it was the first living cell created entirely in a test tube without any other gene as a template.

Apple Computer is launched

Legionnaire's disease strikes 182, kills 29 The first appearance of the flu like disease struck at an American Legion convention in Philadelphi

Tall Ships celebration in New York Harbor To celebrate the bicentennial of the country.

CB radio popularity peaks 656,000 CB radio applications were filed each month 1976

Courts allow removal of life support Karen Ann Quinlan had been in a coma for over a year before her parents won the right to remove the life support equipment keeping her alive. It took 9 years for her to die afterwards.

First Cray Supercomputer

Betamax and VHS VCRs released

Doctors protest increase in mapractice insurance

Mao Tse-tung died The communist leader of China died in 1976 after over 25 years of rule.

This is a list of important events the occured during 1977. Exact dates are listed when known.

• Egyptian president visits Israel
  President Anwar al-Sadat was the first Arab country to visit and acknowledge Israel's right to exist. This began the long peace process in the region.
  
  
• Neutron bomb funding began
  The Neutron bomb was an atomic weapon designed to spread radiation to kill people and leave buildings intact.
  
  
• Red Dye No. 2 isbanned
  It was found to cause cancer, so it's use was discontinued, but led to a red dye scare.
  
  
• MRI is first used
  Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is used to map the brain and other parts of the body.
  
  
• Son of Sam murderer arrested
  His arrest ended a 12 month long killing spree. He was clinically paranoid and believed the 1000 year old spirit of a black dog named Sam ordered him to kill people.
  
  
• Treaty to signover Panama Canal passed
  Control was given back to the country of Panama on December 31, 1999.
  
  
• The first Concorde SST leaves from New York City
  Despite design setbacks and environmental protests, a flight route was established between New York and Pairs.
  
  
• Alaskian pipeline is completed
  
  
• New York City blackout
  July 13th saw a 25 hour blackout in the city, resulting in widespread looting.
  
  
• Carter halts development of B-1 bomber
  
  

This is a list of important events the occured during 1978. Exact dates are listed when known.

• Jonestown massacre
  The suicide and murder of 900 people who drank cyanide-flavored fruit drink, the leader shot himself.
  
  
• First test tube baby - In vitro fertilization
  
  
• Camp David accords for Middle East peace
  Egypt, Israel and the US met in the presidential retreat in Maryland to hammer out a peace agreement between the two leaders.
  
  
• Ultrasound first used
  
  
• Atlantic City permits gambling
  
  
• Garfield the Cat is syndicated
  
  
• Love Canal in New York declared federal disaster
  
  
• Hustler Publisher Larry Flynt Shot & Paralyzed
  Larry Flynt, publisher of the hardcore porno mag HUSTLER, was shot and paralyzed from the waist down by an unknown assailant. There are rumours that the assailant was infuriated by a multi-racial photo spread in one issue of HUSTLER.
  
  

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  This is a list of important events the occured during 1979. Exact dates are listed when known.

  • The Shah flees Iran
    The Ayatollah Khomeini assumes power an introduces Islamic law
    
    
  • Iranian students storm the US embassy
    They held 52 of the 66 people in the embassy hostage for 444 days, which helped to undermine Jimmy Carters re-election efforts in the 1980.
    
    
  • Margaret Thatcher becomes British PM
    The Conservatives had taken over the Parliment, and Margaret Thatcher became the first woman to hold the highest office in a European country.
    
    
  • The Soviets invade Afghanistan
    
    
  • The Sony Walkman is introduced
    
    
  • Moral Majority is begun by Jerry Falwell
    
    
  • Susan B Anthony dollar coin
    
    
  • Skylab fell into the Indian Ocean
    
    
  • Diplomatic ties with China formalized
    
    
  • Three Mile Island partial meltdown
    In March a series of mechanical and human errors caused a near meltdown of the reactor at one of the plants in Three Mile Island Pennsylvania near Harrisburg.
    
    
  • Sioux Nation awarded $100 million in land claim
    
    

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    This is a list of important events the occured during 1981. Exact dates are listed when known.

    • The 1st launch of a space shuttle (Columbia)
      
      
    • Reagan shot by a man obsessed with Jodie Foster on March 30
      
      
    • Reagan fires the striking air traffic controllers and breaks up their union.
      
      
    • Pope shot by insane Turk, May 13.
      
      
    • Sandra Day O'Connor becomes first female Supreme Court Justice
      
      
    • Mitterand becomes French president (and will remain pres. well into the 90s)
      
      
    • Prince Charles and Diana Spencer marry on July 29
      
      
    • Luke and Lauras's Wedding (General Hospital), Most watched wedding in history next to Charles and Diana.
      
      
    • Dynasty premiers in primetime hours and becomes a hit.
      
      
    • The US Agriculture Department trys making ketchup a school lunch vegetable
      
      
    • The first IBM-PC's begin to roll of the lines.
      
      
    • The first DeLorean sports cars roll off the assembly line.
      
      
    • August 1, The birth of MTV, the 24 hour-a-day music television station
      
      
    • Private satelite dishes are given the ok by the FCC
      
      
    • Fruit fly break out in California.
      
      
    • Regan starts toying with the Libyains, and deploys ships in the Gulf of Sidra, which Libya claimed rights to even though no one else recognized it as theirs.
      
      
    • Pac-Man is introduced in the US and sparks a huge craze.
      
      
    • Spain allows legal divorces.
      
      
    • Poland government crushes the Solidarity movement.
      
      
    • The first reports of homosexual men dying due to a mysterious breakdown of the bodies' immuminzation system. Later it becomes known as Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, aka AIDS and researches realize it can strike anyone.
      
      
    • 52 American hostages released in January after 14 months in captivity in Iran
      
      
    • Antigua gained its independence November 1,1981
      
      
    • Assasination attempt on Ronald Regean on March 30, 1981 by John Hinkley
      
      

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    This is a list of important events the occured during 1982. Exact dates are listed when known.

    • Michael Jackson's "Thriller" sells 20 million albums to become the largest selling record ever.
      
      
    • Ozzy bites the head off a live bat thrown at him at a January 20 performance.
      
      
    • Argentina invades the Falklands (UK); Argentina has to withdraw its troops after two months.
      
      
    • Italy wins the Soccer World Cup in Spain
      
      
    • Helmut Kohl becomes chancellor in Germany (and STILL is chancellor)
      
      
    • Leonid Breznjev dies, Yuri Andropov takes over
      
      
    • The Reverend Sun Myung Moon marries 4,150 of his "Moonie" followers at Madison Square Garden.
      
      
    • Tylenol Scare, October 5th
      
      
    • Nancy Reagan appears at a Washington benefit dressed as a bag lady to protest criticism of her expensive outfits.
      
      
    • Princess Grace of Monaco dies when her car hurtles over a cliff.
      
      
    • John Belushi dies March 5 of cocaine and herion.
      
      
    • Prine William is born to Charles and Di.
      
      
    • Mexico's economy collapses.
      
      
    • Liposuction is introduced.
      
      
    • Telephone company breaks up into 22 distinct regional phone companies.
      
      
    • The Equal Rights Amendment dies, three states short of ratification.
      
      
    • The Vietnam Memorial is erected in Washington D.C.
      
      
    • The first artificial heart transplant takes place, the receipent lives 112 days.
      
      
    • Delorean Motor Company goes bankrupt
      
      
    • Larry Walters on July 2nd ties 42 weather balloons to a lawn chair and flies as high as 16 thousand feet before shooting the balloons with a pellet gun and landing about 90 minutes later. The FAA fined him $1,500.
      
      

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    This is a list of important events the occured during 1983. Exact dates are listed when known.

    • Cabbage Patch kids are released.
      
      
    • Ronnie introduces 'Star Wars'
      
      
    • "Just Say No" is the new tool to combat growing drug use in the US.
      
      
    • Thatcher's second term as PM
      
      
    • USSR shoots and destroys South Korean flight 007.
      
      
    • Camcorders are introduced.
      
      
    • US invades Grenada after coup on the island, more medals are handed out during the invasion than during the entire Vietnam war.
      
      
    • Karen Carpenter dies of anorexia nervosa at the age of 32, February 4th.
      
      
    • The final episode of M*A*S*H airs, advertising cost more than during the Super Bowl that year, and surpassing the record Dallas set for most viewers.
      
      
    • Sally Ride becomes first American woman in space, June 18th on the Challenger
      
      
    • Compact discs are first released.
      
      
    • U.S Embasy is bombed in Beirut, killing 40 people.
      
      
    • Hackers invade sensitive military computers such as Los Alamos National Labratory.
      
      
    • Australia wins the America's Cup for the first time in 132 years.
      
      
    • Fake Hitler diaries surface.
      
      
    • The Tylenol Murders happen in Chicago.
      
      
    • Last DeLoreans produced
      
      
    • Bob Hawke becomes Prime Minister of Australia. The first Labor PM in nine years.
      
      
    • French scientist Dr. Luc Montagnier discovered HIV.
      
      
    • The Tylenol murders happened in the fall of 1982, not 1983.
      
      

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    Year 1984

    This is a list of important events the occured during 1984. Exact dates are listed when known.

    • The Cosby show premiers.
      
      
    • Sikhs occupy Golden Temple in Amritsar, India
      
      
    • Indira Gandhi is assassinated.
      
      
    • Chemical disaster in Bhopal, India, December 3rd.
      
      
    • Geraldine Ferraro becomes the first woman Vice President running mate.
      
      
    • Reagan re-elected in landslide election, Walter Mondale is never heard from again.
      
      
    • Congress cuts off aid to Nicaragua, illegal guns sales start to fund the contras.
      
      
    • Stonewashed jeans are introduced.
      
      
    • The first megabit chip is made at Bell Labs
      
      
    • Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, US. The Soviets boycott.
      
      
    • Mary Lou Retton wins two gold, two silver and two bronze medals.
      
      
    • Old nude photos of Vanessa Williams, the current Miss America. She is forced from her throne.
      
      
    • The AIDS virus is discovered
      
      
    • On January 28, Michael Jackson's hair caught fire during the shooting of Pepsi commercial, many children's rhymes ensued.
      
      
    • The first infomercials appear on TV due to de-regulation by the FCC.
      
      
    • The first all rap radio format is introduced at LA's KDAY
      
      
    • Run-D.M.C. are the first ever rap group to have an album certified gold.
      
      
    • The term cyberspace is coined by William Gibson in his novel "Neuromancer"
      
      
    • Bob Geldof and Band Aid release "Do They Know It's Christmas"
      
      
    • Vanessa Williams becomes first African American Miss America
      
      
    • In 1984 Reagan makes famous joke: "My fellow Americans, I've signed legislation that will outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in five minutes." He supposedly didn't know the mic was on.
      
      
    • Apple Computer releases the Macintosh personal computer.
      
      
    • Calling themselves the PMRC (Parents' Music Resource Coalition), concerned parents, including Tipper Gore, wife of then-Tennessee Senator Albert Gore, Susan Baker, wife of Treasury Secretary James Baker, Georgie Packwood, wife of Oregon Senator Robert Packwood, and Nancy Thurmond, wife of South Carolina Senator Strom Thurmond, construct a campaign designed to 'educate' parents about certain alarming new trends in rock music.
      
      

    Year 1985

    This is a list of important events the occured during 1985. Exact dates are listed when known.

    • "We Are The World" is recorded by USA for Africa, America's response to the British "Do They Know It's Christmas"
      
      
    • LIVE AID in London and Philadelphi, beamed around the world
      
      
    • Crack coccaine starts to appear.
      
      
    • Billy Joel marries Christie Brinkley... millions of men suddenly feel like they stand a chance with an attractive woman.
      
      
    • Brussels, Belgium: 39 dead, 250 wounded during a soccer match between Liverpool and Juventus
      
      
    • Greenpeace's Rainbow Warrior is bombed by the French goverment during protests of it's nuclear testing in the Pacific
      
      
    • Earthquake in Mexico / Volcano erupts in Colombia; 1000s killed
      
      
    • Gorbachev becomes (the last) president of the Soviet Union
      
      
    • New coke is introduced in April and quickly replaced with original Coke
      
      
    • Titanic wreckage found and filmed by robotic camera in July
      
      
    • Bernhard Goetz is charged with attempted murder
      
      
    • Ethiopa blocks the airlift of thousands of Ethiopian Jews.
      
      
    • Hole in the ozone layer, first detected in 1977, is now indisputable.
      
      
    • In October, the worlds largest atom smasher goes online in Illinois.
      
      
    • Nintendo home entertainment system introduced.
      
      
    • Extra second added to the calender year.
      
      
    • Leaded gas is officially banned in the US
      
      
    • Swedish premier Olaf Palme is assassinated.
      
      
    • Rock 'n' Roll Hall of fame is opened.
      
      
    • Rock Hudson, the first major public figure to die to AIDS, dies on October 2.
      
      
    • Karen Ann Quinlan, coma patient, dies of pneumonia. She was the first person to die in the "right-to-die" controversy debate.
      
      
    • 1987, Star Wars' Chewbacca was caught with cocaine.
      
      

    Year 1986

    This is a list of important events the occured during 1986. Exact dates are listed when known.

    • January 28, the Challenger explodes.
      
      
    • Worst nuclear disaster ever in Chernobyl, USSR, April.
      
      
    • In Nyos, Cameroon, a cloud of carbon dioxide rumbled out of the nearby lake Nyos on August 21 and killed approximently 1,700 people.
      
      
    • Bill Buckner lets World Series squirt through his legs. The Mets win in 7 games.
      
      
    • US vs Lybia's Col. Khadafi
      
      
    • Argentina wins Soccer World Cup in Mexico
      
      
    • Fox Network starts in America
      
      
    • June 19th, Len Bias, a first round pick by the Celtics, died of a cocaine overdose.
      
      
    • Mandatory recycling programs started in Rhode Island.
      
      
    • Iran Contra Scandal (Who can forget Ollie North?) is reported in November in a Lebanese magazine.
      
      
    • Vice President George Bush's broccoli incident, tons of the stuff is delivered to the White House.
      
      
    • Return of Haley's Comet
      
      
    • Hands Across America, May 25, 1986
      
      
    • Statue of Liberty celebrates the 100th Anniversary and gets a face lift in the process.
      
      
    • Arnold Schwarzenegger marries Maria Shriver.
      
      
    • Kurt Waldheim's Nazi past is revealed as he runs for president of Austria, and he still wins despite having been a staff officer responsible for deporting thousands of Greek Jews to the concentration camps.
      
      
    • "A.M. Chicago" changes its name to the "Oprah Winfrey Show" and goes national September 8th.
      
      
    • Turner Broadcasting begins to colorize black and white classics.
      
      
    • Miami Hurricanes' Quarterback Vinny Testaverde wins the Heisman Trophy
      
      
    • John McCarthy, a British journalist was kidnapped by Islamic Jihad. Remained in captivity for a staggering 5.5 years.
      
      
    • America celebrates national holiday Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. day for the first time.
      
      
    • Not only did the Red Sox went to the World Series (They lost in 7 to the Mets) ,the Boston Celtics won the 1986 NBA Championship, and New England went to the the Super Bowl but lost to the Chicago Bears 46-10.
      
      
    • Supermodel Gia, after years of heroin addiction, dies of AIDS. She is the first woman to sucumb to the AIDS virus in the US.
      
      
    • Election of Corazon Aquino ends corrupt Marcos regime in the Philippines. "Win or lose, we go shopping after the election." - Imelda Marcos
      
      

    Year 1987

    This is a list of important events the occured during 1987. Exact dates are listed when known.

    • "Baby Jessica," Jessica McClure falls down the well and is later rescued. Wednesday October 14th, 1987 --9:30am cst through Friday October 16th, 1987--8:30pm cst
      
      
    • Battle for "Baby M" begins. William and Eilizabeth Stern of New Jersey hired Mary Beth Whitehead to carry a baby to term for them. After it was all over, surrogate contracts were declared illegal and the Sterns won the right to bring "Baby M" up and allow Mrs. Whitehead visitation rights.
      
      
    • Herald of Free Enterprise sinks in North Sea; 189 die
      
      
    • German lands airplane on Red Square, Moscow
      
      
    • Thatcher re-elected (again)
      
      
    • The INF agreement between the US and the USSR
      
      
    • Black Monday - Stock market drops 22% on October 19th.
      
      
    • Artists protest the ongoing Sistine Chapel restoration.
      
      
    • Condom commericals begin to appear on TV for the first time.
      
      
    • US budget reaches the trillion dollar mark.
      
      
    • Robert Bork was denied a Supreme Court appointment after opposition to his involvement in Richard Nixon's "Saturday Night Massacre" was raised.
      
      
    • Jessica Hahn is implicated in the Jimmy Bakker scandal
      
      
    • Gary Hart scandal with model Donna Rice destroys his career.
      
      
    • Bruce Willis marries Demi Moore, November 21
      
      
    • Klaus Barbie is convicted of Nazi war crimes and sentenced to life in prision. On a similar note, Rudolf Hess strangled himself at age 93 after having been in prision since 1941. He was the sole prisioner at the facility.
      
      
    • Porn star Cicciolina wins a seat in the Italian parliment
      
      
    • The last California Condor was taken in to captivity. There were only 27 in captivity at that point. By 1992 57 were in captivity and were beginning to be re-released into the wild.
      
      
    • The marriage of Charles and Diana starts to deteriorate, they begin living alone.
      
      
    • World Population reaches 5 billion
      
      
    • The largest stock-market drop in Wall Street history occurred on "Black Monday" -- October 19, 1987 -- when the Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged 508.32 points, losing 22.6% of its total value. That fall far surpassed the one-day loss of 12.9% that began the great stock market crash of 1929 and foreshadowed the Great Depression
      
      
    • The year that Lane Frost won the PRCA World Championship in Bull Riding.
      
      
    • Les Miserables is awarded 8 Tony awards, including Best Musical.
      
      

    Year 1988

    This is a list of important events the occured during 1988. Exact dates are listed when known.

    • CDs outsell vinyl for the first time ever.
      
      
    • Soviets leave Afghanistan
      
      
    • Jimmy Swaggart admits to being with prostitutes.
      
      
    • Summer Olympics in Seoul, South-Korea; Ben Johnson caught for steriods after setting a World Record in the 100 meter dash.
      
      
    • Pan Am Flight 103 explodes over Lockerbie, Scotland; Lybian terrorists are suspected of planting the bomb
      
      
    • Earthquake in the USSR
      
      
    • Bobby McFerrin tells everyone "Don't worry, be happy"
      
      
    • Prozac is introduced as an anti-depresent.
      
      
    • US advertising is permitted on Soviet TV
      
      
    • The first plutonium pacemaker is made.
      
      
    • World's longest undersea tunnel is completed. Work begins on the Chunnel which will then become the world's longest undersea tunnel.
      
      
    • Sonny Bono becomes Mayor in Palm Springs.
      
      
    • Robin Givens files for divorce from Mike Tyson
      
      
    • Benazir Bhutto becomes the first woman to head an Islamic nation
      
      
    • Willie Horton ads during the '88 re-election
      
      
    • Dukakis loses to the "Read My Lips" guy, he's never heard from again.
      
      
    • McDonalds in the USSR (might have been 1989)
      
      
    • Long Island beaches close due to medical waste coming ashore July 6th.
      
      
    • Iran-Iraqi war ends in August.
      
      
    • Human Genome project begins.
      
      
    • Soviets withdraw from Afghanastan.
      
      
    • Australia celebrates it's bicentenary
      
      
    • Supreme Court case, California v. Greenwood, tested the Bill of Rights 4th Amendment, addressing search and seizure in trash.
      
      
    • Fires in Yellowstone National Park. The rains didn't come when expected but months later.
      
      

    Year 1989

    This is a list of important events the occured during 1989. Exact dates are listed when known.

    • The fall of the Berlin wall on November 9th.
      
      
    • Cold fusion is announced in March and then denounced at the end of summer as clumsy science.
      
      
    • Arsenio Hall becomes first African-American to host a nightly talk show January 3rd.
      
      
    • The "beginning of the end" for the communist rulers in Eastern Europe; the Cold War comes to an end
      
      
    • Salmon Rushdie wanted dead by Iranian leader Khomeini
      
      
    • Kim Basinger buys Braselton, Georgia for $20 million.
      
      
    • Exxon Valdez oil disaster in Alaska in March.
      
      
    • Lucille Ball dies April 26.
      
      
    • Sheffield, UK: 96 dead, 170 wounded during a soccer match between Liverpool and Sheffield in April.
      
      
    • Students protest on Tienanmen Square, Beijing, China - the army intervenes; 3000-7000 killed, June 3rd.
      
      
    • Worldwide ban of ivory
      
      
    • The Fourteenth Dalai Lama won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1989
      
      
    • The stealth bomber is finished.
      
      
    • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles become an over night sensation
      
      
    • Time and Warner combine to become Time Warner Inc.
      
      
    • Panama invasion, loud rock music drives Manuel Noreiga from his asylum.
      
      
    • Rob Lowe is spotted in a soft porn video with an underage girl.
      
      
    • The parents of the Menendez brothers are found murdered, Lyle and Erik are later accused of the murders.
      
      
    • Milli Vanilli gets Best New Artist Grammy which is later stripped when it's learned they were lip synching for another (much uglier) duo.
      
      
    • Geraldo Riveria gets his nose broken on his show by a violent guest
      
      
    • Pete Rose is banned from baseball for betting on games, August 24.
      
      
    • Collin Powell is appointed Joint Cheifs of Staff, highest army post to ever be held by a black officier.
      
      
    • October 17th quake disrupts the third game of the world series between San Francisco Giants and Oakland Athletics.
      
      
    • TV Guide releases a picture of a newly slim Oprah Winfrey which turns out to be her head on Ann-Margret's body.
      
      
    • Princess Anne anounces her seperation from her husband.
      
      
    • Michael Milken is indicted on 98 fraud and racketering charges.
      
      
    • Vietnam withdraws from Cambodia, September 26, after almost 11 years of occupation.
      
      
    • Pan Am files chapter 11
      
      
    • Burma changes it's name to Myanmar
      
      
    • Earthquake hits Newcastle, N.S.W. Australia in December. Several people died with more injured. Millions of dollars of damage.
      
      
    • Soviet Union begins fully withdraws from Afghanistan after 10 years of fighting with Afghan mujihadeen forces.
      
      
    • December 6, 1989 deemed the Montreal Massacre. At approximately 5 o'clock pm, 25 year old women hater walks into Ecole Polytechnique in Montreal and kills 14 women, injuring 13 others before turning the shot gun on himself. This day is remembered as the worst single-day massacre in Canadian history. Attached to his suicide note was a list of 19 women in Montreal who had succeeded in non-traditional female employment - firefighters, police officer, journalist but said "The lack of time (because I started too late) has allowed these radical feminists to survive." Ironically, everyone remembers the murderer but only their survivors remember the women murdered because they were female. The women were:Geneviève Bergeron, aged 21; Hélène Colgan, 23; Nathalie Croteau, 23; Barbara Daigneault, 22; Anne-Marie Edward, 21; Maud Haviernick, 29; Barbara Maria Klucznik, 31; Maryse Leclair, 23; Annie St.-Arneault, 23; Michèle Richard, 21; Maryse Laganière, 25; Anne-Marie Lemay, 22; Sonia Pelletier, 28; and Annie Turcotte, aged 21.
      
      
    • Vance vs. Judas Priest: Parents of two teenaged Judas Priest fans who attempted suicide in December 1985 sue the band, claiming that a subliminal message in the song "Better by You, Better than Me" influenced their actions. (Justice Jerry Carr Whitehead will rule in favor of the band in 1993.)
      
      

    Year 1990

    This is a list of important events the occured during 1990. Exact dates are listed when known.

    • First Elections in Romania
      The first free elections in 53 years occured in May.
      
      
    • German Reunification
      After the wall fell, the push towards reuniting the two Germany's was set, October 3, 1990.
      
      
    • Gene Therapy debuts
      In Bethesda Mayland on September, used to treat ADA deficiency
      
      
    • Margaret Thatcher Resigns
      After passing a flat tax called the "poll tax" which lead to rioting, and trying to block the EC's plan for a common currency, her rivals began calling for her resignation. She resigned in November and was replaced by John Major.
      
      
    • Contraceptive Implant Approved by FDA
      Norplant is the first implant contraceptive approved by the FDA.
      
      
    • Smoking on Domestic Airplane Flights is Banned
      
      
    • New movie rating
      NC-17 is passed in order to allow for an adults-only rating without the stigma of an X rating.
      
      
    • Spotted Owl Added to the threatened species list
      The timber industry was of course quite outraged, since this would protect the old growth forests of the Pacific Northwest and cost jobs.
      
      
    • Sandinistas voted out of Nicaragua,
      Chamorro was elected president, the first female president of Central America
      
      
    • Iraq invades Kuwait
      Saddam Hussein accuses Kuwait of undercutting Iraq's petroleum revenues and of stealing from a border oil field. Kuwait's offers concessions considered inadequate to Hussein, so he sends in 100,000 troops. Kuwait's army flees along with the king. Iraq is then condemmed by the Arab League, the Soviets and especially the US who sends in 500,000 troops to defend Saudi Arabia and prepare for an invasion.
      
      
    • Three Tenors perform duing World Cup Soccer Finals
      Jose Carreras, Placido Domingo, and Luciano Pavarotti unite to perform, and later record an album and a video. The album reaches 43 on the US pop charts, the highest a classical album reaches on a US pop chart since the 1960s. Their performance is however widley panned by music critics who label them "past their prime"
      
      
    • Liberia is invaded by Charles Taylor
      A former junta member who was driven out of the country accused of embezzlement, he invades the country with 150 Libyan trained guerrillas. The government responds by attacking the Gio and Mano groups, which then retaliate against the goverment, ripping apart the country.
      
      
    • Mapplethorpe show results in controversy
      Cincinnati files obscenity charges against museum director Dennis Barrie for displaying Robert Mapplethorpe's work, some of which featured children's genitals and sadmomasochistic sex. This occurs at a time when Jesse Helms begins his crusade against goverment funding of artwork.
      
      
    • Dr. Jack Kevorkian assists his first
      June 1990, he assists 54 year old Janet Adkins, who was suffering from Alzheimer's disease. This goes against the Hippocratic oath, "I will give no deadly medicine to anyone if asked nor suggest any such counsel"
      
      
    • The Hubble space telescope is launched into orbit
      At a cost of $1.5 million, the telescope was launched with a lot of expectations of success. Once in orbit however, one of the mirrors was discovered to be incorrectly ground, resulting in blurred pictures. In 1993 it was repaired by a Space Shuttle mission.
      
      
    • Clean Air Act passed
      
      
    • Manuel Noreiga turns himself in to US Military
      Ending his stand-off inside the Vatican embassy, he returned to the US to face drug trafficing charges.
      
      
    • Nelson Mandela is freed
      
      
    • Africanized Honey Bees first enter U. S.
      The Africanized Honey Bees, the agressive honey bees which escaped from Brazil in 1957, were first discovered in the United States at the border town of Hidalgo, Texas in October of 1990. They later would spread throughout all of the Southwest U. S.
      
      
    • Johnny Carson leaves Tonight show.
      
      
    • Mayor Busted!
      Mayor of Washington, D.C. Marion Shepilov Barry, Jr. is arrested by the FBI in a drug "sting" operation and later convicted of misdemeanor drug possession. Barry served 6 months in prison.
      
      

      Year 1991

      This is a list of important events the occured during 1991. Exact dates are listed when known.

      • Iraq is attacked by UN forces
        January 16, 1991 signalled the start of an air campaign against Iraq. February 27, after 100 hours of ground fighting, Kuwait was liberated, and a ceasefire was declared. 200,000 Iraqis were dead, including hundreds of civilians, 148 UN allies were killed.
        
        
      • Yugoslavia falls apart
        June 1991, Serbian president Slobodan Milosevic blocked croatian leader Stipe Mesic from assuming the presidency, Croatia and Slovenia seceded. The Yugoslav army moved into both republics. In July they left Slovenia, but began "ethnic cleansing" in Croatia until January 1992 when a UN supervised ceasefire took place. 25,000 were dead.

        Macedonia declared independence in September 1991, though Greece requested they find a different name since they also had an area named Macedonia.
        
        

      • Lithuania , Latvia, and Estonia leave Soviet Union
        Lithuania tried to leave the Soviet Union in January 1991, but is attacked by the Soviets. After a coup against Gorbachev failed in August, the Baltic states again declare their independence. This time, the Kremlin acknoledged them as seperate countries.
        
        
      • Albania refugees flee their country
        The summer of 1991 saw over 40,000 people leave thier country for Italy. Aprroximately 20,000 were able to stay, most were flown back. As a result of the great exodus, autocrat Ramiz Alia was forced to begin reforming the government.
        
        
      • The Soviet Union Ends
        Yeltsin, president of the Russian republic, lead a revolution against Gorbachev inorder to preserve the crumbling Soviet Union power structure. Yeltsin however didn't lose much, after the failed revolt, the 15 seperate republics were granted their independence and Yeltsin remained the president of the newly independent republic.
        
        
      • FDA approves ddl
        AIDS treatment
        
        
      • USA Sanctions Against South Africa lifted
        
        
      • First address to US Congress by a British monarch
        May 16, 1991 Queen Elizabeth II gives a speech in the US Congress.
        
        
      • US President Zachary Taylor is exhumed
        In order to discover whether his death was caused by arsenic poisoning instead of acute gastrointestinal illness. No arsenic was found.
        
        
      • Biosphere II is launched
        Later the subject of a bad Pauly Shore film, the Biosphere II is sealed with four men and four women in the Arizona desert. The expirement was being conducted in order to determine whether or not a self-sustaned ecosystem could be maintained without outside influences. It was a failure, several food crops died, and fresh air needed to be pumped in at one point.
        
        
      • Earvin 'Magic' Johnson tests HIV positive
        Magic retired November 7th after learning of his test results, and became an AIDS spokesperson.
        
        
      • Tailhook Association Scandal
        The 4,000 person convention of top naval fliers is revealed to have been the gathering for rowdy men who groped, pinched, and fondled women and even had some cases of women being stripped by men. The Navy initially tried to discredit the accusations and tried to block an investigation.
        
        
      • Jeffery Dahlmer is arrested
        Over a 13 year period, this serial killer was responsible for at least 17 deaths. He would lure young men home for sex, and would then drug and kill them. He would then continue to have sex with the corpses, and would sometimes dismember and eat his victims. He was sentenced to 15 consective life terms, but was killed two years into his sentence by a prison inmate.
        
        
      • Bank of Credit and Commerce International closed
        Banking regulators from 69 countries shut down the BCCI claiming it laundered money, dealt in illegal arms, and was reponsible for smuggling, fraud, extortion and bribery. $12 billion was claimed to have disappeared within it's walls. BCCI was responsible for Iran-Contra transfers, providing nuclear weapons technology to Iraq, and secretly buying three American banks.
        
        
      • Chlorea outbreak in Peru
        It was the first outbreak since the 19th century, and it spread to Ecuador and Colombia.
        
        
      • Robert Maxwell dies, discovered to be a con-man
        The British tabloid tycoon disappeared, and turned up dead in the Atlantic Ocean. An investigation into his business turned up that he had stolen nearly $2 billion from the pension funds of his companies. He was also $4 billion in debt. Due to poor lending practices by major international banks, he was able to take out larges loans without anything to back them up.
        
        
      • Pablo Escobar Gaviria turns himself into jail
        The drug lord of Colombia surrendered in June of 1991. Turns out, he was allowed to build his own jail, complete with unsupervised visits. When they tried to crack down on this policy, Escobar fleed into the jungles, and was responsible for terrorizing the country, even blowing up a Colombian airliner at one point. He was killed in 1993.
        
        
      • Clarence Thomas sexual harrasment hearings
        Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas is accused by Anita Hill of sexual harrasment when she worked for him 10 years earlier. He was appointed anyways, 52-48 by the Senate, despite having no real qualifications for the post.
        
        
      • Rodney King
        A videotape of black man (Rodney King) being beaten by four white police officers makes national headlines. It shows King being beaten and kicked, without offering any resistence.
        
        
      • Rajiv Gandhi assasinated
        Rajiv Gandhi former Prime minister of India was killed in a bomb explosion in south India, while campaigning for reelection. His mother, Indira Gandhi, was assasinated in 1984, and his brother, Sanjay, was killed in a plane crash in 1980.
        
        
      • Harmelin v. Michigan
        The U.S. Supreme Court rules in Harmelin v. Michigan (501 U.S. 957, 994-997), that a sentence of life imprisonment for drug possession while cruel is not unusual and thus does not violate the 8th Amendment's prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment.
        
        
      • Princess Diana and Prince Charles split.
        It is announced from Buckingham Palace that, with regret, the Prince and Princess of Wales have decided to seperate. They have no intention to divore and will both continue to have an active role in their boys' lives.
        
        
      • Mt Pinatubo Volcano Erupts
        Volcanic eruption in Philippines. Clark Air Base is evacuated and then abandoned. World weather patterns effected.
        
        

        Year 1991

        This is a list of important events the occured during 1992. Exact dates are listed when known.

        • Night Tracks cancellation
          Night Tracks final airing May 30, 1992
          
          
        • President Clinton elected
          In November, Democrat Bill Clinton becomes 42nd president of the United States, defeating Republican incumbant George Bush.
          
          
        • LA Riots
          Rodney King was beaten badly by police officers in L.A when resisting arrest. Unknown to the police, there was somebody filming it in the bushes. The police officers were handed a verdict of not guilty by the first review board. This caused racial riots to break out in south central L.A. and led to several days of rioting.
          
          
        • Bosnia and Hercegovina Secede from Yugoslavia
          April 1992, pretty much leaving Serbia and Macedonia as the last provinces of Yugoslavia
          
          
        • Peace in El Salvador
          In February, El Salvador signed peace agreements between the leftist rebels and the rightist government. Open elections followed two years later.
          
          
        • Quebec votes to remain part of Canada
          Quebec had been campaiging for many years to become independent, but the vote fell short of what was needed for the change to happen.
          
          
        • Largest shopping mall in the US is constructed
          Minnesota's Mall of America, 78 acres, with the largest indoor amusment park
          
          
        • Nicoderm, first nicotine transdermal patch
          The first patch for smokers to quit smoking...
          
          
        • John Gotti is Convicted
          Guilty on 13 counts, including racketeering and murder. The "Teflon Don" was convicted primarily on testimony by a close member of his crime syndicate, "Sammy the Bull" Gravano.
          
          
        • Congress Bank Check Fiasco
          The congress voted in October to close the US House of Representatives Bank, the only clients were the congressmen. Over 8000 bad checks had been written by the members of the bank. They also owed over $300,000 in the House restaurant.
          
          
        • Hurricane Andrew hits Florida
          Killing 14, it left 250,000 people homeless, and was one of the costliest hurricanes in history.
          
          
        • Johnny Carson leaves the Tonight Show
          Bette Midler was his his last guest, Jay Leno was his replacement. David Letterman then left for CBS and beat him in ratings for a year or so.
          
          
        • Amy Fisher pleads guilty
          Amy Fisher plead guilty to shooting her lover's wife, Mary Jo Buttafuoco. "The Long Island Lolita" was a 16 year old at the time, which lead to Joey Buttafuoco being convicted on statutory rape charges.
          
          
        • Mike Tyson is found guilty of rape
          In July Tyson was sentenced for 6 years for raping 18 year old Miss Black America contestant Desiree Washington.
          
          
        • Brazil president resigns
          Impeachment precedings helped to force the corrupt president out of power, after charges that he stole more than $32 million from the government.
          
          
        • Fire at Windsor Castle
          
          
        • British Monarchy Divorces
          Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson divorced first, then Princess Anne divorced her husband. The final and most noticable divorce was Princess Di and Prince Charles.
          
          
        • First Black Female Astronaut.
          Dr. Mae C. Jemison becomes the first African-American woman astronaut, spending more than a week orbiting Earth in the space shuttle Endeavor.
          
          
        • The 1992 World Series
          For the first time in world series history the banner flew north of the border as the Toronto Blue Jays beat the Atlanta Braves in 6 games.