The document is a timeline of major events from 1980 to 1989. Some of the key events included Pope John Paul II and President Reagan surviving assassination attempts in 1981, Sandra Day O'Connor becoming the first woman on the Supreme Court in 1981, the release of Michael Jackson's "Thriller" album in 1982, Sally Ride becoming the first American woman in space in 1983, the Chernobyl nuclear accident in 1986, and the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.