The document provides brief notes on various events that occurred annually from 1980 to 1988. Key events included the assassination attempt on Pope John Paul II in Mexico in 1981, the announcement of the AIDS epidemic in June 1982, Michael Jackson releasing his album Thriller in 1982, an explosion in San Juanico, Mexico in 1984, an earthquake in Mexico City in 1985, the premiere of the TV series "Plaza Sesamo" in 1985, the creation of cell phones in Europe in 1985, and a war starting between Iran and Iraq in 1988.