1. Instituto de Ciencias de la Salud
Área académica de Nutrición
English
80’S
Teacher: Cruz García Lorena
Student: C. Montserrat Fuentes Rodríguez
3° “2”

2. The eruption of Mt. St. Helens in 1980 was
the worst volcanic disaster in U.S. history;
however, it offered scientists an
exceptional opportunity to examine and
study a large volcanic eruption, which has
enriched scientific knowledge of
volcanoes.
On May 22, 1980, the Pac-Man video game
was released in Japan and by October of
the same year it was released in the United
States. The yellow, pie-shaped Pac-Man
character, who travels around a maze
trying to eat dots and avoid four mean
ghosts, quickly became an icon of the
1980s. To this day, Pac-Man remains one of
the most popular video games in history.

3. The wreck of the RMS Titanic is located
about 370 miles (600 km) south-southeast
of the coast of Newfoundland, lying at a
depth of about 12,500 feet (3,800 m).
At 1:23 a.m. on April
26th, 1986, reactor four at the nuclear
power plant near Chernobyl, Ukraine
exploded, releasing more than a
hundred times the radiation of the
bombs dropped on Hiroshima and
Nagasaki. Thirty-one people died
shortly after the explosion and
thousands more are expected to die
from the long-term effects of
radiation.

4. In 1988 Pan Am Flight 103, a London to
New York flight, exploded over Lockerbie,
Scotland. A total of 270 people were killed,
259 of which had been on board the plane
and another 11 had been killed from the
debris that hit the ground.
The Fall of the Berlin Wall (1989):
In the evening of November 9, 1989,
East German government official
Günter Schabowski stated during a
press conference that travel through
the border to the West was open.