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welcome to the 80s!

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Many people in the early 80s started to wear their hair in big curls or puffed out. Brooke Shields was the person who primarily made volumized hair popular.

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Super Bowl XIV was hosted in California and was played between the Los Angeles Rams and the Pittsburgh Steelers. The Steelers won by an overwhelming amount (31-19) and even became the first team to win four super bowls consecutively.

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AC/DC releases one of their most famous songs, back in black. This was their first song that had featured the news lead singer, Brian Johnson.

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BIG EVENT 1980 - RONALD REAGAN GETS ELECTED

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BIG EVENT 1980 - RONALD REAGAN GETS ELECTED

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Right at the start of the 1980s, Ronald Reagan officially became president of the United States of America. He stayed in office until 1989 meaning that he had run two terms. In his first election defeated Jimmy Carter and won nearly all of the electoral votes, being the first non-incumbent presidential candidate to win that many electoral votes. And In the second election, he defeated Walter Mondale and won about 55 percent of the popular vote. He left office when he was 77 years old and died in June of 2004

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The Rubik's cube hit market shelves in the early 80s and quickly became popular because of how hard it was to beat the puzzle. In 81’ it was famous nationwide.

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United States of America won the men’s open golf championship. The location of the tournament was in Sandwich, England.

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Dr. Robert Jarvik successfully implanted his artificial human heart (Jarvik 7) into someone who was willing to try the surgery. After the success of the first surgery, people started to get the artificial heart more as they were waiting for real hearts to be transplanted.

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Cabbage Patch Kids got their debut and became a popular Christmas gift for children. Riots even happened between parents about the dolls.

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The coming-of-age drama film The Outsiders was released and quickly became popular. People were waiting for the movie reversion of the book to come out, and they finally got it during march of 1983.

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The Winter Olympics were played in Yugoslavia, which also happened to be the overall winner of the Olympics for that year. The Soviets demanded ice hockey as an olympic sport just so they could show off and win all gold medals for the sport.

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FEBRUARY 1985 - TEARS FOR FEARS 'SONGS FROM THE BIG CHAIR'

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FEBRUARY 1985 - TEARS FOR FEARS 'SONGS FROM THE BIG CHAIR'

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Tears from Fears released their hit and second studio album ‘Songs from the Big Chair’. In that album the band had their breakthrough with the song ‘Everybody wants to rule the world’ with it being in the US top 100 and charting for 6 weeks in the UK top 5.

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First version of windows was released which was an iconic moment for Bill Gates and his company. After that they consistently came out with more updates to follow the technology through the decades.

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FEBRUARY 1986 - GLASNOST AND PERESTROIKA BROUGHT INTO RUSSIA

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FEBRUARY 1986 - GLASNOST AND PERESTROIKA BROUGHT INTO RUSSIA

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Former Russian politician, Mikhail Gorbachev, and his advisers introduced glasnost, and together with the term Perestroika “restructuring”. He chose to input this as a new way of political thinking after the Soviet Union. It was a long awaited change that was needed in Russia and was planned to increase economic growth and capital investment.

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The 4th reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine exploded, only killing 31 people but forever leaving that whole area around Chernobyl uninhabitable. The city of Pripyat had to evacuate 50,000 people out of their homes because the explosion was highly toxic. Even now not a lot of people are allowed to go to the site, and if you’re lucky enough to go you have to take very strict precautions about going around Chernobyl.

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JUNE 1986 - THE SMITHS 'THE QUEEN IS DEAD'

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JUNE 1986 - THE SMITHS 'THE QUEEN IS DEAD'

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The Smith released their third studio album called ‘The Queen is Dead’ that spent 22 weeks in the UK top albums, and charted to second at one point. Still to this day it is featured in the Rolling Stones 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.

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Kodiak consumer-ready disposable cameras were introduced to the U.S after being manufactured in Japan. They quickly became popular and in the 88s to 92 other companies even made their own version of the cameras, with sales going from 3 million to 21.5 million.

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Teen comedy film, Heathers, was released and quickly became one of the best movies from the 80s. The movie later became a musical and had a tv series adaptation. It premiered January of 1989 at the Sundance Film Festival and was officially released in March of that same year.

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JUNE 1989 - STAR TREK: THE FINAL FRONTIER 

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JUNE 1989 - STAR TREK: THE FINAL FRONTIER 

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American Sci-fi, Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, was released. The movie is nearly 2 hours long.

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now officially the 90s