From left, clockwise: The first
Space Shuttle
,
Columbia
, lifts off in 1981; US president
Ronald Reagan
and
Soviet
leader
Mikhail Gorbachev
ease tensions between the two superpowers, leading to the
end of the Cold War
; The
fall of the Berlin Wall
in 1989 is considered to be one of the most momentous events of the 1980s; In 1981, the
IBM Personal Computer
is released; In 1985, the
Live Aid
concert is held in order to fund relief efforts for the
famine in Ethiopia
during the time
Mengistu Haile Mariam
ruled the country;
Pollution
and ecological problems persisted when the
Soviet Union
and much of the world is filled with radioactive debris from the 1986
Chernobyl disaster
, and in 1984, when thousands of people perished in
Bhopal
during a
gas leak from a pesticide plant
; The
Iran?Iraq War
leads to over one million dead and $1 trillion spent, while
another war between the Soviets and Afghans
leaves over 2 million dead.
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Invasion of Grenada
, October 1983
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The following articles contain brief timelines which list the most prominent events of the decade:
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1989
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