The document provides brief descriptions of people, events, inventions and cultural aspects from the 1980s. Some of the topics covered include the first music video channel MTV, the first female black model Vanessa Williams, the blockbuster movie Thriller and its 14 minute music video, the deaths of John Lennon and Len Bias, the introduction of compact discs, the election of the first female Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, the eruption of Mount St. Helens, the emergence of the AIDS epidemic, Olympic hockey victory over the Soviet Union, the rise of video game company Nintendo, supermodel Gia Carangi and her death from drug addiction, and the 1983 bombing of the US embassy in Beirut

1. 1980’s1980’s1980’s1980’s1980’sDELSA LEGERPD.8

2. MTVMTV was the first music channel

3. VANESSA WILLIAMSAn American pop R&B recording artist, producer, dancer, model and actress. The first female black model.

4. THRILLERThriller was the first music video created of 14minutes

5. Death of John LennonJohn Lennon was the leader of the BEATLES

6. CDSCD’S were when they put music on and movies.

7. LEN BIASHe was a first team All-American college basketball player. He was selected by the Boston Celtics.

8. FASHION EVERY FIT IN BACK THEN. THEY ALL WORE THE SAME TYPE OF CLOTHES AND DIDN’T MATTER HOW U LOOKED.

9. BABY JESSICABaby Jessica was a baby that her parents pushed down a well.

10. Michael DukakisMichael Dukakis served as the65th and 67th Governor of Massachusetts from 1975–1979 and from 1983–1991, and was the Democratic presidential nominee in 1988.

11. SANDRA DAY O’ CONNERan American jurist who was the first female member of the Supreme Court of the United States. She served as an Associate Justice from 1981 until her retirement from the Court in 2006. O'Connor was appointed by President Ronald Reagan in 1981. In the latter years of her tenure, she was regarded as having the swing opinion in many cases.

12. MT. ST. HELENSis an active strato volcano located in Skamania County, Washington, in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. It is 96 miles (154 km) south of Seattle, Washington and 50 miles (80 km) northeast of Portland, Oregon. Mount St. Helens takes its English name from the British

13. AIDSAIDS (acquired immune deficiency syndrome) is the final stage of HIV disease, which causes severe damage to the immune system.

14. CRACK COCAINE You snort crack cocaine

15. COCAINECocaine (benzoylmethylecgonine) (INN) is a crystalline propane alkaloid that is obtained from the leaves of the coca plant. Cocaine is a powerful nervous system stimulant. Its effects can last from 15–30 minutes to an hour, depending upon the method of ingestion.

16. SALLY RIDE She was a American physicist and a former NASA astronaut.

17. OlympicThe game was during the 1980 Winter Olympic sat Lake Placid, New York on Friday, February 22. The United States team made up of amateur and collegiate players and led by coach Herb Brooks defeated the Soviet team who were considered to be the best ice hockey team in the world at the time.

18. NINTENDONintendo developed into a video game company, becoming one of the most influential in the industry, and Japan's third most valuable listed company, with a market value of over US$85 billion. Besides video games, Nintendo of America is the majority owner of the Seattle Mariners Major League Baseball team.

19. GIAGia Marie Carangi (January 29, 1960 – November 18, 1986) was an Americanfashion model during the late 1970s and early 1980s. Carangi was considered by some to be the first supermodel, although that title has also been given to others, including Janice Dickinson,Dorian Leigh, and Jean Shrimpton,Cindy Crawford, who also appeared on the covers of fashion publications during her time, was later referred to as "Baby Gia" due to her resemblance to Carangi. But then she got addicted to heroine and that’s what caused her death.

20. LIPOSUCTIONLiposuction also known as lipoclastic ("fat modeling"), lip sculpture suction lumpectomy or simply lip ("suction-assisted fat removal")

21. BEIRUTThe 1983 U.S. embassy bombing was a suicide bombing against the United States embassy in Beirut, Lebanon on April 18, 1983 that killed over 60 people, mostly embassy staff members and United States Marines and sailors. It was the deadliest attack on a U.S. diplomatic mission up to that time, and is seen by someas marking the beginning of anti-U.S. attacks by Islamist groups.Hezbollah claimed responsibility for the blast with a message "promising not to allow a single American to remain on Lebanese soil ... we mean every inch of Lebanese territory. The attack came in the wake of the intervention of a Multinational Force made up of Western countries, including the US, in the Lebanese Civil War to try and restore order and central government authority. It also followed the Sabra and Shatila massacre of Palestinian refugees by Lebanese Christian militiamen, and four years after the anti-Western Islamic Revolution in Iran.

22. FLIGHT 007Korean Air Lines Flight 007 (KAL 007, KE 007) was a Korean Air Lines civilian airliner that was shot down by Soviet interceptors on 1 September 1983, over the Sea of Japan, near Moneron Island just west of Sakhalin island. All 269 passengers and crew aboard were killed, including Lawrence McDonald, a sitting member of the United States Congress. The aircraft was en route from New York City to Seoul via Anchorage when it strayed into prohibited Soviet airspace around the time of a planned missile test.

23. challenger disasterThis was the rocket that was going to space, and exploded in mid air. This was the rocket that choose one teacher out of a million to get on.

24. WE ARE THE WORLDIt was another song by Michael Jackson. It came out in 1985. many artist got together to re sing it.

25. REAGANReagan had only been in presidency for 69 days until he was assassinated.

26. IRAN-CONTRA AFFAIRwas a political scandal in the United States that came to light in November 1986. ...

27. LOS ANGELESThe 1984 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXIII Olympiad, was an international multi-sport event held in Los Angeles, California, United States in 1984. When Tehran, the only other interested city on the international level, declined to bid due to the concurrent Iranian political and social changes.

28. Soviets leave AfghanistanWhen all the soldiers left Afghanistan from a very domestic war.

29. 1980’s MOVIES