Years 1980-1989

19 September 1980

Iraqi troops hold 90 square miles of Iran after invasion; 8-year Iran-Iraq War begins

1980

John Lennon of the Beatles shot dead in New York City

1980

Ted Turner launches CNN, the first all-news network

1980 November

Voyager I reaches Saturn, returning data on its 14 moons as well as its more than 1,000 rings

25 April 1980

Eight US servicemen are killed and five are injured as helicopter and cargo plane collide in abortive desert raid to rescue American hostages in Teheran

29 January 1980

Six US embassy aides escape from Iran with Canadian help

4 November 1980

Ronald Reagan elected president in Republican sweep

7 April 1980

US breaks diplomatic ties with Iran

1980

Italy, Algeria, Al Asnam - 4.500 deads - magnitudo 7,3

23 November 1980

Italy, Irpinia e Basilicata, 6.9 Richter (2.914 deads)

1980

Nobel Prizes Chemistry: Paul Berg, per i suoi fondamentali studi sulla biochimica degli acidi nucleici, in particolare il DNA ricombinante

1980

Nobel Prizes Physiology or Medicine: Baruj Benacerraf, Jean Dausset, George Snell

1980

Nobel Prizes Peace: Adolfo PÚrez Esquivel

1980

Nobel Prizes Economy: Lawrence R. Klein

1980

Nobel Prizes Literature: Czeslaw Milosz

1980

Nobel Prizes Physics: James W. Cronin, Val L. Fitch

1980

Nobel Prizes Chemistry: Walter Gilbert, Frederick Sanger, per il loro contributo alla determinazione della sequenza base negli acidi nucleici

1980

Academy Award Best Director: Robert Redford, Ordinary People

1980

Academy Award Best Actor: Robert De Niro, Raging Bull

1980

Academy Award Best Supporting Actor: Timothy Hutton, Ordinary People

1980

Academy Award Best Supporting Actress: Mary Steenburgen, Melvin and Howard

1980

Academy Award Best Actress: Sissy Spacek, Coal Miner's Daughter

1980

Academy Award Best Original Screenplay:

1980

53 Academy Award Best Picture: Ordinary People

1980

SUMMER OLYMPICS, Summer Olympics XXII: Moscow (Russia)

1980

NBA, Basketball NBA Championship: Los Angeles Lakers d. Philadelphia 76ers (4-2)

1980

Football XXIV Super Bowl: Pittsburgh Steelers d. Los Angeles Rams (31-19)

1980

Tennis Wimbledon Women: Evonne Cawley d. C. Evert Lloyd (6-1 7-6)

1980

Tennis Wimbledon Men: Bjorn Borg d. J. McEnroe (1-6 7-5 6-3 6-7 8-6)

1980

Baseball World Series: Philadelphia Phillies (NL) 4-2 Kansas City Royals (AL)

1980

WINTER OLYMPICS, Winter Olympics XIII: Lake Placid, United States

1980

UEFA Champions League, UEFA Champions League: Nottingham Forest (England)

14 December 1981

Israel annexes the disputed Golan Heights territory

14 May 1981

Pope John Paul II wounded by gunman

1981

AIDS is first identified

1981

IBM introduces its first personal computer, running the Microsoft Disk Operating System (MS-DOS)

1981

The 236-m.p.h. TGV, Europe's first high-speed passenger train, begins operating out of Lyons, France

20 January 1981

Ronald Reagan takes oath as 40th President

20 January 1981

US-Iran agreement frees 52 hostages held in Teheran since 1979; hostages welcomed back in USA (January 25)

30 March 1981

President Reagan wounded by gunman, with press secretary and two law-enforcement officers

6 October 1981

Egyptian president Anwar el-Sadat is assassinated by Islamic extremists during a military parade in Cairo

7 July 1981

Reagan nominates Judge Sandra Day O'Connor, 51, of Arizona, as first woman on USA Supreme Court

1977-1981

Jimmy Carter (October 01, 1924). 39° President , Democratic

1981-1989

Ronald Reagan (February 06, 1911-Jun 05, 2004). 40° President , Repubblican

1981

Nobel Prizes Physics: Nicolaas Bloembergen, Arthur L. Schawlow, Kai M. Siegbahn

1981

Nobel Prizes Literature: Elias Canetti

1981

Nobel Prizes Chemistry: Kenichi Fukui, Roald Hoffmann, per le loro teorie, sviluppate indipendentemente l'uno dall'altro, sui meccanismi delle reazioni chimiche

1981

Nobel Prizes Economy: James Tobin

1981

Nobel Prizes Peace: United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)

1981

Nobel Prizes Physiology or Medicine: David H. Hubel, Roger W. Sperry, Torsten N. Wiesel

1981

54 Academy Award Best Picture: Chariots of Fire

1981

Academy Award Best Supporting Actress: Maureen Stapleton, Reds

1981

Academy Award Best Original Screenplay:

1981

Academy Award Best Actor: Henry Fonda, On Golden Pond

1981

Academy Award Best Actress: Katharine Hepburn, On Golden Pond

1981

Academy Award Best Supporting Actor: John Gielgud, Arthur

1981

Academy Award Best Director: Warren Beatty, Reds

1981

Tennis Wimbledon Men: John McEnroe d. B. Borg (4-6 7-6 7-6 6-4)

1981

Tennis Wimbledon Women: Chris Evert Lloyd d. H. Mandlikova (6-2 6-2)

1981

NBA, BasketBall NBA Championship: Boston Celtics d. Houston (4-2)

1981

Baseball World Series: Los Angeles Dodgers (NL) 4-2 New York Yankees (AL)

1981

Football XXV Super Bowl: Oakland d. Philadelphia (27-10)

1981

UEFA Champions League, UEFA Champions League: Liverpool FC (England)

10 November 1982

Leonid I. Brezhnev, Soviet leader, dies at 75. Yuri V. Andropov, 68, chosen as successor at November 15

14 September 1982

Princess Grace, 52, dies of injuries when car plunges off mountain road; daughter Stephanie, 17, suffers serious injuries

15 September 1982

Lebanese Christian Phalangists kill hundreds of people in two Palestinian refugee camps in West Beirut

16 November 1982

The space shuttle Columbia makes its first mission, deploying two communications satellites

1982

Cats opens on Broadway. Becomes Broadway's longest-running play

1982

A permanent artificial heart is implanted in a human for first time in Dr. Barney B. Clark, 61, at University of Utah Medical Center in Salt Lake City (December 2

1982

Washington University in St. Louis develops the Flavr Savr tomato, the first genetically-engineered plant approved for sale

1982

Michael Jackson releases Thriller, which sells more than 25 million copies, becoming the biggest-selling album in history

1982

John Belushi dies of a drug overdose at age 33

2 April 1982 -June 15

British overcome Argentina in Falklands war

4 June 1982

Israel invades Lebanon in attack on PLO

1982

Yemen, 2.800 deads - magnitudo 6

1982

Nobel Prizes Economy: George Stigler

1982

Nobel Prizes Peace: Alva Myrdal, Alfonso Garcia Robles

1982

Nobel Prizes Physiology or Medicine: Sune K. Bergstroem, Bengt I. Samuelsson, John R. Vane

1982

Nobel Prizes Chemistry: Aaron Klug, per lo sviluppo del microscopio elettronico cristallografico e il suo chiarimento sulla struttura biologica della proteina acido nucleica complessa

1982

Nobel Prizes Physics: Kenneth G. Wilson

1982

Nobel Prizes Literature: Gabriel Garcia Marquez

1982

55 Academy Award Best Picture: Gandhi

1982

Academy Award Best Director: Richard Attenborough, Gandhi

1982

Academy Award Best Actor: Ben Kingsley, Gandhi

1982

Academy Award Best Actress: Meryl Streep, Sophie's Choice

1982

Academy Award Best Supporting Actor: Louis Gossett Jr., An Officer and a Gentleman

1982

Academy Award Best Supporting Actress: Jessica Lange, Tootsie

1982

Academy Award Best Original Screenplay:

1982

Tennis Wimbledon Men: Jimmy Connors d. J. McEnroe (3-6 6-3 6-7 7-6 6-4)

1982

UEFA_Champions_League, Soccer World Cup: Italy d. W. Germany (3-1) in Spain

1982

Tennis Wimbledon Women: Martina Navratilova d. C. Evert Lloyd (6-1 3-6 6-2)

1982

NBA, Basketball NBA Championship: Los Angeles Lakers d. Philadelphia 76ers (4-2)

1982

Baseball World Series: St. Louis Cardinals (NL) 4-3 Milwaukee Brewers (AL)

1982

Football XXVI Super Bowl: San Francisco d. Cincinnati Bengals (26-21)

1982

UEFA Champions League, UEFA Champions League: Aston Villa (England)

18 June 1983

Sally K. Ride, 32, first USA woman astronaut in space as a crew member aboard space shuttle Challenger

1983

With the introduction of noise-free compact discs, the vinyl record begins a steep decline

1983

Crack cocaine is developed in the Bahamas, and soon appears in the United States

1983

The FCC authorizes Motorola to begin testing cellular phone service in Chicago

1983

The El Niño phenomenon disrupts global weather patterns

21 August 1983

Benigno S. Aquino, Jr., 50, political rival of Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos, is assassinated in Manila

23 October 1983

Terrorist explosion kills 237 USA Marines in Beirut

25 Janary 1983

Pope John Paul II signs new Roman Catholic code incorporating changes brought about by Second Vatican Council

25 October 1983

US invades Grenada

30 August 1983

South Korean Boeing 747 jetliner bound for Seoul apparently strays into Soviet airspace and is shot down by a Soviet SU-15 fighter after it had tracked the airliner for two hours; all 269 aboard are killed

4 April 1983

Second space shuttle, Challenger, makes successful maiden voyage, which includes the first USA space walk in nine years

1983

Japan, Honshu - 81 deads - magnitudo 7,7

1983

Colombia, 250 deads - magnitudo 5,5

1983

Turkey, 1.300 deads - magnitudo 7,1

1983

Nobel Prizes Physics: Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, William A. Fowler

1983

Nobel Prizes Literature: William Golding

1983

Nobel Prizes Chemistry: Henry Taube, per il suo lavoro sui meccanismi delle reazioni di trasferimento degli elettroni, specificamente nei complessi metallici

1983

Nobel Prizes Physiology or Medicine: Barbara McClintock

1983

Nobel Prizes Peace: Lech Walesa

1983

Nobel Prizes Economy: Gerard Debreu

1983

56 Academy Award Best Picture: Terms of Endearment

1983

Academy Award Best Actor: Robert Duvall, Tender Mercies

1983

Academy Award Best Actress: Shirley MacLaine, Terms of Endearment

1983

Academy Award Best Supporting Actor: Jack Nicholson, Terms of Endearment

1983

Academy Award Best Supporting Actress: Linda Hunt, The Year of Living Dangerously

1983

Academy Award Best Original Screenplay:

1983

Academy Award Best Director: James L. Brooks, Terms of Endearment

1983

Football XXVII Super Bowl: Washington Redskins d. Miami Dolphins (27-17)

1983

UEFA Champions League, UEFA Champions League: Hamburg (West Germany)

1983

Tennis Wimbledon Women: Martina Navratilova d. A. Jaeger (6-0 6-3)

1983

Baseball World Series: Baltimore Orioles (AL) 4-1 Philadelphia Phillies (NL)

1983

NBA, Basketball NBA Championship: Philadelphia 76ers d. Los Angeles Lakers (4-0)

1983

Tennis Wimbledon Men: John McEnroe d. C. Lewis (6-2 6-2 6-2)

1 January 1984

France gets first deliveries of Soviet natural gas

1 January 1984

Bell System broken up

10 April 1984

Congress rebukes President Reagan on use of federal funds for mining Nicaraguan harbors

10 January 1984

USA and Vatican exchange diplomats after 116-year hiatus

10 January 1984

US and Vatican exchange diplomats after 116-year hiatus

11 May 1984

José Napoleón Duarte, moderate, elected president of El Salvador

11 May 1984

José Napoleón Duarte, moderate, elected president of El Salvador

16-19 July 1984

Thirty-ninth Democratic National Convention, in San Francisco, nominates Walter F. Mondale and Geraldine A. Ferraro

18 February 1984

Italy and Vatican agree to end Roman Catholicism as state religion

18 February 1984

Italy and Vatican agree to end Roman Catholicism as state religion

1984

Apple introduces the user-friendly Macintosh personal computer

20-25 August 1984

Thirty-third Republican National Convention, at Dallas, renominates President Reagan and Vice President Bush

3 December 1984

Toxic gas leaks from Union Carbide plant in Bhopal, India, killing 2,000 and injuring 150,000

3 December 1984

Toxic gas leaks from Union Carbide plant in Bhopal, India, killing 2,000 and injuring 150,000

3 January 1984

Syria frees captured USA Navy pilot, Lieut. Robert C. Goodman, Jr.

3 January 1984

Syria frees captured USA Navy pilot, Lieut. Robert C. Goodman, Jr.

30 March 1984

Reagan ends USA role in Beirut by relieving Sixth Fleet from peacekeeping force

31 October 1984

Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi assassinated by two Sikh bodyguards; 1,000 killed in anti-Sikh riots; son Rajiv succeeds her

31 October 1984

Indian prime minister Indira Gandhi assassinated by two Sikh bodyguards; 1,000 killed in anti-Sikh riots; son Rajiv succeeds her

4 September 1984

Brian Mulroney and Conservative party win Canadian election in landslide

6 June 1984

Three hundred slain as Indian Army occupies Sikh Golden Temple in Amritsar

6 June 1984

Three hundred slain as Indian Army occupies Sikh Golden Temple in Amritsar

6 November 1984

President Reagan re-elected in landslide with 59% of vote

7 February 1984

Reagan orders USA Marines withdrawn from Beirut international peacekeeping force

7 February 1984

Reagan orders USA Marines withdrawn from Beirut international peacekeeping force

7 May 1984

Soviet Union withdraws from summer Olympic games in US, and other bloc nations follow

7 May et seq. 1984

Soviet Union withdraws from summer Olympic games in U.S., and other bloc nations follow

7 November 1984

President Reagan re-elected in landslide with 59% of vote

9 February 1984

Yuri V. Andropov dies at 69; Konstantin U. Chernenko, 72, named Soviet Union leader

9 February 1984

Yuri V. Andropov dies at 69; Konstantin U. Chernenko, 72, named Soviet leader

1984

Nobel Prizes Economy: Richard Stone

1984

Nobel Prizes Literature: Jaroslav Seifert

1984

Nobel Prizes Chemistry: Robert Bruce Merrifield, per lo sviluppo della metodologia di sintesi chimica su una matrice solida

1984

Nobel Prizes Physics: Simon Van Der Meer, Carlo Rubbia

1984

Nobel Prizes Peace: Desmond Mpilo Tutu

1984

Nobel Prizes Physiology or Medicine: Niels K. Jerne, $Georges K'hler$, Cesar Milstein

1984

Academy Award Best Supporting Actor: Haing S. Ngor, The Killing Fields

1984

57 Academy Award Best Picture: Amadeus

1984

Academy Award Best Actress: Sally Field, Places in the Heart

1984

Academy Award Best Supporting Actress: Peggy Ashcroft, A Passage to India

1984

Academy Award Best Original Screenplay:

1984

Academy Award Best Actor: F. Murray Abraham, Amadeus

1984

Academy Award Best Director: Milos Forman, Amadeus

1984

Tennis Wimbledon Women: Martina Navratilova d. C. Evert Lloyd (7-6 6-2)

1984

Football XXVIII Super Bowl: Los Angeles Raiders d. Washington Redskins(38-9)

1984

Baseball World Series: Detroit Tigers (AL) 4-1 San Diego Padres (NL)

1984

Tennis Wimbledon Men: John McEnroe d. J. Connors (6-1 6-1 6-2)

1984

WINTER OLYMPICS, Winter Olympics XIV: Sarajevo, Yugoslavia

1984

NBA, Basketball NBA Championship: Boston Celtics d. Los Angeles Lakers (4-3)

1984

SUMMER OLYMPICS, Summer Olympics XXIII: Los Angeles (USA)

1984

UEFA Champions League, UEFA Champions League: Liverpool FC (England)

11 March 1985

USSR leader Chernenko dies at 73 and is replaced by Mikhail Gorbachev, 54

14 June 1985

Two Shi'ite Muslim gunmen capture TWA airliner with 133 aboard, 104 of them Americans

19 November 1985

Reagan and Gorbachev meet at summit

1985

Rock Hudson dies of AIDS at age 59. He's the first major star to fall victim to the disease.

1985

British scientists report the opening of an enormous hole in the earth's ozone layer over Antarctica.

20 February 1985

Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher addresses Congress, endorsing Reagan's policies

20 January 1985

Ronald Reagan, 73, takes oath for second term as 40th president

23 November 1985

Terrorists seize Egyptian Boeing 737 airliner after takeoff from Athens

24 November 1985

59 dead as Egyptian forces storm plane on Malta

30 June 1985

39 remaining hostages freed in Beirut

7 October 1985

P.L.O. terrorists hijack Achille Lauro, Italian cruise ship, with 80 passengers, plus crew. American, Leon Klinghoffer, killed

1985

Cile, 146 deads - magnitudo 7,8

September 1985 19

Mexico, 10.000 deads a Città del Messico - 8.0

1985

Nobel Prizes Economy: Franco Modigliani

1985

Nobel Prizes Peace: International Physicians For The Prevention Of Nuclear War

1985

Nobel Prizes Physiology or Medicine: Michael S. Brown, Joseph L. Goldstein

1985

Nobel Prizes Chemistry: Herbert A. Hauptman, Jerome Karle, per i loro successi nello sviluppo dei metodi diretti per la determinazione delle strutture dei cristalli

1985

Nobel Prizes Physics: Klaus von Klitzing

1985

Nobel Prizes Literature: Claude Simon

1985

58 Academy Award Best Picture: Out of Africa

1985

Academy Award Best Director: Sydney Pollack, Out of Africa

1985

Academy Award Best Actor: William Hurt, Kiss of the Spider Woman

1985

Academy Award Best Actress: Geraldine Page, The Trip to Bountiful

1985

Academy Award Best Supporting Actor: Don Ameche, Cocoon

1985

Academy Award Best Supporting Actress: Anjelica Huston, Prizzi's Honor

1985

Academy Award Best Original Screenplay:

1985

Baseball World Series: Kansas City Royals (AL) 4-3 St. Louis Cardinals (NL)

1985

UEFA Champions League, UEFA Champions League: Juventus FC (Italy)

1985

Tennis Wimbledon Men: Boris Becker d. K. Curren (6-3 6-7 7-6 6-4)

1985

NBA, Basketball NBA Championship: Los Angeles Lakers d. Boston Celtics (4-2)

1985

Football XIX Super Bowl: San Francisco 49ers d. Miami Dolphins (38-16)

1985

Tennis Wimbledon Women: Martina Navratilova d. C. Evert Lloyd (4-6 6-3 6-2)

1 January 1986

Spain and Portugal join European Economic Community

10 April 1986

Halley's comet yields information on return visit

11 June 1986

Supreme Court reaffirms abortion rights

14 April 1986

US planes attack Libyan 'terrorist centers'

14 April 1986

Desmond Tutu elected archbishop in South Africa

14 August 1986

Senate Judiciary Committee approves William H. Rehnquist as chief justice of USA

14 January 1986

Supreme Court bars racial bias in trial jury selection

15 August 1986

House votes arms appropriations bill rejecting administration's 'Star Wars' policy

17 October 1986

USA Congress approves immigration bill barring hiring of illegal aliens, with amnesty provision

19 November 1986

Reagan denies exchanging arms for hostages and halts arms sales

22 March 1986

Union Carbide agrees to settlement with victims of Bhopal gas leak in India

22 October 1986

Reagan signs $11.7-billion budget reduction measure (October 21). He approves sweeping revision of USA tax code

24 July 1986

Jerry A. Whitworth, ex-Navy radioman, convicted as spy

25 November 1986

diversion of funds from arms sales to Nicaraguan Contras revealed

26 April 1986 et seq.

Major nuclear accident at Soviet Union's Chernobyl power station alarms world

26 February 1986

President Marcos flees Philippines after ruling 20 years, as newly elected Corazon Aquino succeeds him

26 January 1986

Voyager 2 spacecraft reports secrets of Uranus

26 July 1986

he is also part of Walker family spy ring. Muslim captors release Rev. Lawrence Martin Jenco

27 June 1986

World Court rules USA broke international law in mining Nicaraguan waters

28 February 1986

Prime Minister Olof Palme of Sweden shot dead

28 January 1986

Space shuttle Challenger explodes after launch at Cape Canaveral, Fla., killing all seven aboard

29 August 1986

Three Lutheran church groups in USA set to merge

29 September 1986 and October 2

Congress overrides Reagan veto of stiff sanctions against South Africa

3 March 1986

Austrian president Kurt Waldheim's service as Nazi army officer revealed

4 June 1986

Ex-Navy analyst, Jonathan Jay Pollard, 31, guilty as spy for Israel

4 November 1986

Democrats triumph in elections, gaining eight seats to win Senate majority

6 November 1986 et seq.

Secret initiative to send arms to Iran revealed

7 February 1986

Haiti president Jean-Claude Duvalier flees to France

7 July 1986

Supreme Court voids automatic provisions of budget-balancing law

8 January 1986

President freezes Libyan assets in USA

1986

Nobel Prizes Physiology or Medicine: Stanley Cohen, Rita Levi-Montalcini

1986

Nobel Prizes Chemistry: Dudley R. Herschbach, Yuan T. Lee, John C. Polanyi, per i loro contributi alle dinamiche dei processi chimici elementari

1986

Nobel Prizes Literature: Wole Soyinka

1986

Nobel Prizes Physics: Gerd Binnig, Heinrich Rohrer, Ernst Ruska

1986

Nobel Prizes Peace: Elie Wiesel

1986

Nobel Prizes Economy: James M. Buchanan

1986

Academy Award Best Actor: Paul Newman, The Color of Money

1986

Academy Award Best Original Screenplay:

1986

Academy Award Best Supporting Actress: Dianne Wiest, Hannah and Her Sisters

1986

Academy Award Best Supporting Actor: Michael Caine, Hannah and Her Sisters

1986

Academy Award Best Director: Oliver Stone, Platoon

1986

Academy Award Best Actress: Marlee Matlin, Children of a Lesser God

1986

59 Academy Award Best Picture: Platoon

1986

UEFA_Champions_League, Soccer World Cup: Argentina d. Germany (3-2) in Mexico

1986

Tennis Wimbledon Men: Boris Becker d. Ivan Lendl (6-4, 6-3, 7-5)

1986

UEFA Champions League, UEFA Champions League: Steaua Bucarest (Romania)

1986

Football XX Super Bowl: Chicago Bears b. New England Patriots (46-10)

1986

Baseball World Series: New York Mets (NL) 4-3 Boston Red Sox (AL)

1986

NBA, Basketball NBA Championship: Houston Rockets d. Boston Celtics (4-2)

1986

Tennis Wimbledon Women: Martina Navratilova d. Hana Mandlíková (7-6(7-1), 6-3)

1 October 1987

Severe earthquake strikes Los Angeles, leaving 100 injured and six dead

11 June 1987

Prime Minister Thatcher wins rare third term in Britain

12 August 1987

Reagan says Iran-Contra arms policy went astray and accepts responsibility

15-22 July 1987

Admiral John M. Poindexter, former National Security Adviser, testifies he authorized use of Iran arms sale profits to aid Contras

17 May 1987

Iraqi missiles kill 37 in attack on USA frigate Stark in Persian Gulf

18 May 1987

Iraqi president apologizes

20 January 1987

William Buckley, USA hostage in Lebanon, reported slain

23 October 1987

Senate, 58-42, rejects Robert H. Bork as Supreme Court justice

23-24 July 1987

Secretary of State George P. Shultz testifies he was deceived repeatedly on Iran-Contra affair

26 June 1987

Supreme Court justice Lewis F. Powell, Jr., retires

31 July 1987,August 3

Defense Secretary Caspar W. Weinberger tells inquiry of official deception and intrigue

4 July 1987

Klaus Barbie, 73, Gestapo wartime chief in Lyon, sentenced to life by French court for war crimes

4 May 1987

Supreme Court rules Rotary Clubs must admit women

7-10 July 1987

Oliver North, Jr., tells congressional inquiry higher officials approved his secret Iran-Contra operations

1987

ECUADOR, 4.000 deads - magnitudo 7,3

1987

Nobel Prizes Literature: Joseph Brodsky

1987

Nobel Prizes Peace: Oscar Arias Sanchez

1987

Nobel Prizes Physiology or Medicine: Susumu Tonegawa

1987

Nobel Prizes Physics: Georg Bednorz, Karl Alexander Müller

1987

Nobel Prizes Economy: Robert M. Solow

1987

Nobel Prizes Chemistry: Donald J. Cram, Jean-Marie Lehn, Charles J. Pedersen, per il loro studio sulle interazioni struttura-specifiche ad alta selettivitÓ

1987

Academy Award Best Director: Bernardo Bertolucci, The Last Emperor

1987

Academy Award Best Actor: Michael Douglas, Wall Street

1987

Academy Award Best Actress: Cher, Moonstruck

1987

Academy Award Best Supporting Actor: Sean Connery, The Untouchables

1987

Academy Award Best Supporting Actress: Olympia Dukakis, Moonstruck

1987

Academy Award Best Picture: The Last Emperor

1987

Academy Award Best Original Screenplay:

1987

Tennis Wimbledon Women: Martina Navratilova d. Steffi Graf (7-5, 6-3)

1987

NBA, Basketball NBA Championship: Los Angeles Lakers d. Boston Celtics (4-2)

1987

Tennis Wimbledon Men: Pat Cash d. Ivan Lendl (7-6(7-5), 6-2, 7-5)

1987

Baseball World Series: Minnesota Twins (AL) 4-3 St. Louis Cardinals (NL)

1987

Football XXI Super Bowl: New York Giants b. Denver Broncos (39-20)

1987

UEFA Champions League, UEFA Champions League: Porto (Portugal)

11 July 1988

Terrorists kill nine tourists on Aegean cruise

11 March 1988

Robert C. McFarlane, former National Security Adviser, pleads guilty in Iran-Contra case

15 August 1988 et seq.

Republicans nominate George Bush for president and Indiana senator Dan Quayle for vice president

17 August 1988

Plane blast kills Pakistani president Mohammad Zia ul-Haq

17 July 1988 et seq.

Democratic convention nominates Gov. Michael Dukakis of Massachusetts for president and Texas senator Lloyd Bentsen for vice president

2 December 1988

Benazir Bhutto, first Islamic woman prime minister, chosen to lead Pakistan

2 January 1988

US and Canada reach free trade agreement

21 December 1988

Pan-Am 747 explodes from terrorist bomb and crashes in Lockerbie, Scotland, killing all 259 aboard and 11 on ground

3 July 1988

US Navy ship shoots down Iranian airliner in Persian Gulf, mistaking it for jet fighter; 290 killed

8 November 1988

Republicans sweep 40 states in election. Bush beats Dukakis

07 December 1988

Armenia, Spitak, circa 25.000 deads (6,9 Richter)

1988

India, near Nepal - 1.000 deads - magnitudo 6,5

1988

China, confine con la Birmania - 1.000 deads - magnitudo 7,3

1988

Nobel Prizes Literature: Naguib Mahfouz

1988

Nobel Prizes Physics: Leon Max Lederman, Melvin Schwartz, Jack Steinberger

1988

Nobel Prizes Peace: United Nations Peace-Keeping Forces

1988

Nobel Prizes Physiology or Medicine: James W. Black, Gertrude Elion, George H. Hitchings

1988

Nobel Prizes Chemistry: Johann Deisenhofer, Robert Huber, Hartmut Michel, per la determinazione della struttura tridimensionale del centro di reazione fotosintetica

1988

Nobel Prizes Economy: Maurice Allais

1988

Academy Award Best Picture: Rain Man

1988

Academy Award Best Director: Barry Levinson, Rain Man

1988

Academy Award Best Actor: Dustin Hoffman, Rain Man

1988

Academy Award Best Actress: Jodie Foster, The Accused

1988

Academy Award Best Supporting Actor: Kevin Kline, A Fish Called Wanda

1988

Academy Award Best Supporting Actress: Geena Davis, The Accidental Tourist

1988

Academy Award Best Original Screenplay:

1988

UEFA Champions League, UEFA Champions League: PSV Eindhoven (Netherlands)

1988

Tennis Wimbledon Women: Steffi Graf d. Martina Navratilova (5-7, 6-2, 6-1)

1988

Tennis Wimbledon Men: Stefan Edberg d. Boris Becker (4-6, 7-6(7-2), 6-4, 6-2)

1988

Football XXII Super Bowl: Washington Redskins b. Denver Broncos (42-10)

1988

WINTER OLYMPICS, Winter Olympics XV: Calgary, Canada

1988

NBA, Basketball NBA Championship: Los Angeles Lakers d. Detroit Pistons (4-3)

1988

SUMMER OLYMPICS, Summer Olympics XXIV: Seul (Corea)

1988

Baseball World Series: Los Angeles Dodgers (NL) 4-1 Oakland Athletics (AL)

11 November 1989

After 28 years, Berlin Wall is open to West

14 August 1989

P. W. Botha quits as South Africa's president

14 February 1989

Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini declares author Salman Rushdie's book The Satanic Verses offensive and sentences him to death

19 April 1989 et seq.

Tens of thousands of Chinese students take over Beijing's Tiananmen Square in rally for democracy

20 January 1989

George Herbert Walker Bush inaugurated as 41st USA president

24 March 1989

Ruptured tanker Exxon Valdez sends 11 million gallons of crude oil into Alaska's Prince William Sound

25 December 1989

President Ceausescu and wife executed

25 May 1989

Mikhail S. Gorbachev named Soviet president

29 August 1989

Voyager 2 spacecraft speeds by Neptune after making startling discoveries about the planet and its moons

4 January 1989

US planes shoot down two Libyan fighters over international waters in Mediterranean

4 June 1989 et seq.

Thousands killed in Tiananmen Square as Chinese leaders take hard line toward demonstrators

9 August 1989

Army general Colin R. Powell is first black chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff

9 November 1989

Deng Xiaoping resigns from China's leadership

mid-May et seq. 1989

More than one million in Beijing demonstrate for democracy; chaos spreads across nation

1981-1989

Ronald Reagan (February 06, 1911-Jun 05, 2004). 40° President , Repubblican

1989-1993

George Bush (June 12, 1924). 41° President, Repubblican

1989

USA, Baia di S. Francisco - 62 deads - magnitudo 6,9

1989

Nobel Prizes Physics: Hans G. Dehmelt, Wolfgang Paul, Norman F. Ramsey

1989

Nobel Prizes Physiology or Medicine: J. Michael Bishop, Harold E. Varmus

1989

Nobel Prizes Chemistry: Sidney Altman, Thomas R. Cech, per la scoperta delle proprietÓ catalizzatrici dell' acido ribonucleico

1989

Nobel Prizes Literature: Camilo JosÚ Cela

1989

Nobel Prizes Peace: Tenzin Gyatso (14° Dalai Lama)

1989

Nobel Prizes Economy: Trygve Haavelmo

1989

Academy Award Best Director: Oliver Stone, Born on the Fourth of July

1989

Academy Award Best Actor: Daniel Day-Lewis, My Left Foot

1989

Academy Award Best Actress: Jessica Tandy, Driving Miss Daisy

1989

Academy Award Best Supporting Actor: Denzel Washington, Glory

1989

Academy Award Best Supporting Actress: Brenda Fricker, My Left Foot

1989

Academy Award Best Original Screenplay:

1989

Academy Award Best Picture: Driving Miss Daisy

1989

Football XXIII Super Bowl: San Francisco 49ers b. Cincinnati Bengals (20-16)

1989

Baseball World Series: Oakland Athletics (AL) 4-0 San Francisco Giants (NL)

1989

Tennis Wimbledon Men: Boris Becker d. Stefan Edberg (6-0, 7-6(7-1), 6-4)

1989

Tennis Wimbledon Women: Steffi Graf d. Martina Navratilova (6-2, 6-7(1-7), 6-1)

1989

NBA, Basketball NBA Championship: Detroit Pistons d. Los Angeles Lakers (4-0)

1989

UEFA Champions League, UEFA Champions League: AC Milan (Italy)

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