The document discusses several notable events from the 1980s including increased Cold War tensions between the US and Soviet Union in 1980, the public emergence of AIDS in 1982, the popularity of Pac-Man in 1981, the death of John Lennon in 1980, the assassination of Indira Gandhi in 1984, Michael Jackson's Thriller becoming the best-selling album of all time in 1982, Madonna beginning her music career in 1982, NASA launching spacecraft in 1989, and Svetlana Savitskaja becoming the second woman in space in 1984.