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Re: **~Timetravel~**
Posted: Jun 29th, '15, 09:15
by ArmyAunt
I remember that all too well. I watched it live on TV, as did many, many others -- including my then 6-year-old nephew who was watching with his class at school.
There was lots going on in 1985, and I couldn't pick just one.
January 1
- US's 1st manadatory seat belt law goes into effect in New York.
- VH-1 made its broadcasting debut.
- The Internet's Domain Name System is created.
- The first British mobile phone call is made by Ernie Wise to Vodafone.
April 23 – Coca-Cola changes its formula and releases New Coke. (The response is overwhelmingly negative, and the original formula is back on the market in less than three months.)
October 18 – The Nintendo Entertainment System is released in U.S. stores.
November 18 – The comic strip Calvin and Hobbes debuts in 35 newspapers.
Re: **~Timetravel~**
Posted: Jul 15th, '15, 05:22
by VEE
1984
May 14, 1984
The one dollar coin is introduced in Australia.
Re: **~Timetravel~**
Posted: Jul 30th, '15, 23:42
by Sanjiyan Kitsune
1983
(sorry, it's a lot...)
January 1st - The migration of the ARPANET to TCP/IP is officially completed (this is considered to be the beginning of the true Internet).
March 25th – Motown celebrates its 25th anniversary with the television special Motown 25, during which Michael Jackson performs "Billie Jean" and introduces the moonwalk.
June 13th – Pioneer 10 passes the orbit of Neptune, becoming the first man-made object to leave the vicinity of the major planets of the Solar System.
September 1st – Cold War: Korean Air Lines Flight 007 is shot down by Soviet Union Air Force Su-15 Flagon pilot Major Gennadi Osipovich near Moneron Island when the commercial aircraft enters Soviet airspace. All 269 on board are killed including U.S. Congressman Larry McDonald.
November 2 - Martin Luther King, Jr. Day: At the White House Rose Garden, U.S. President Ronald Reagan signs a bill creating a federal holiday on the third Monday of every January to honor American civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. It is first observed in 1986.
- Able Archer 83: Many Soviet officials misinterpret this NATO exercise as a nuclear first strike, causing the last nuclear scare of the Cold War.
Re: **~Timetravel~**
Posted: Aug 12th, '15, 09:18
by Mikael Hart
1982
May 18 – Falklands War: The British Special Air Service launches an operation to destroy three Argentinean Exocet missiles and five Super Étendard fighter-bombers in mainland Argentina. It fails when the Argentineans discover about the plot.
Re: **~Timetravel~**
Posted: Nov 16th, '15, 23:28
by EmeraldsLyn
1981
April 12 – The Space Shuttle program: Space Shuttle Columbia with NASA astronauts John Young and Robert Crippen launches on the STS-1 mission, returning to Earth on April 14. It is the first time a manned reusable spacecraft has returned from orbit.
Re: **~Timetravel~**
Posted: Dec 4th, '15, 14:59
by ArmyAunt
1980
May 18, 1980, a 5.1 magnitude earthquake struck under Mt. St. Helens in southern Washington, triggering the worst volcanic disaster in U.S. history, causing the deaths of 57 people and approximately 7,000 large animals.
Re: **~Timetravel~**
Posted: Dec 5th, '15, 14:42
by Akili Li
1979
The One Child Policy in China was implemented (and announced? That might have happened a teensy bit earlier) this year.
Also "The Life of Brian" was released. And if you have not seen that yet, you should. (
one small caveat, though... if you're not Christian? Don't take the movie for actual Christian history/dogma. It.... um.... won't help you.) 
Re: **~Timetravel~**
Posted: Dec 6th, '15, 02:49
by Angel-WolfBunny
1978
February 16
-The Hillside Strangler, a serial killer prowling Los Angeles, claims a tenth and final victim.
-The first computer bulletin board system (CBBS) is created in Chicago.
Re: **~Timetravel~**
Posted: Dec 7th, '15, 18:18
by ArmyAunt
1977
January 3 - Apple Computer is incorporated
January 23-30 - an estimated 130 viewers park themselves in front of their TVs to watch the miniseries "Roots" on ABC
February 2 - Radio Shack begins creating TRS-80 computer
April 2 - Fleetwood Mac's "Rumours" album goes to #1 & stays #1 for 31 weeks
April 18 - Alex Haley, author of "Roots", awarded Pulitzer Prize
May 25 - Star Wars is released
June 18 - Space Shuttle test model "Enterprise", fixed to a modified Boeing 747, carries a crew aloft for the first time
June 26 - Elvis Presley performs his last-ever concert, in Indianapolis, Indiana's Market Square Arena
August 16 – Elvis Presley dies in his home in Graceland at age 42
September 5 – Voyager 1 is launched
September 29 - Soviet space station Salyut 6 launched into Earth orbit
October 1 - Brazilian soccer great Pele retires with 1,281 goals in 1,363 games
October 26 - The last natural case of smallpox was discovered in Merca district, Somalia. The WHO and the CDC consider this date the anniversary of the eradication of smallpox, the most spectacular success of vaccination
November 21 - First flight of the Concorde (London to New York)
November 22 - First three nodes of the ARPAnet are connected, in what would eventually become the Internet
December 1 – Lockheed's top-secret stealth aircraft project, designated Have Blue, precursor to the U.S. F-117A Nighthawk, makes its first flight
Re: **~Timetravel~**
Posted: Dec 8th, '15, 07:39
by Akili Li
1976
-the Soweta Riots in South Africa occur, which many consider the beginning of the end of apartheid. Related to this, a large number of nations boycott the Olympics that year in support...
-An enormous Earthquake in China kills nearly a quarter of a million people (especially including the tidal waves/more minor earthquakes elsewhere in the world which were related to the same tectonic event)
-First recorded Ebola Virus outbreak
-Israeli forces are deployed internationally to deal with several airplane hijackings (in different countries, involving different airlines), successfully freeing almost 400 hostages.
-the last Cod War between Iceland and the UK ends this year, with quite a bit of territory ceded to Iceland for an exclusive fishing zone. The UK also faced record droughts that year, although how that might have played in I've no clue.
-and a schoolbus full of young children are abducted along with their driver in the U.S. They are driven away from the site for 11 hours in the company of armed gunmen, buried alive in a moving van with a small quantity of food and water inside an old quarry..... and manage to eventually escape by tunneling out.