• Ronald Reagan is elected in 1980 in a landslide over Jimmy Carter. Only a few hours into his presidency, the Iranian hostages are set free and Reagan is given the credit.

• The US Supreme Court allows patents on living organisms.

• FBI agents pose as rich Arabs and bribe politicians with cash for favors.

• US suspends their grain sales to the USSR in a response to their side in the Afghanistan War

• Saddam Hussein launches a war against Iran over oil rights

• President Reagan fires the striking air traffic controllers and breaks up their union

• John Hinkley attempts to assassinated President Reagan

• Private satellite dishes are given the ok by the FCC

• Spain allows divorces

• Polish Government crushes the Solidarity Movement

• Zimbabwe achieves Black African rule. Robert Mugabe becomes the first Prime Minister

• 125,000 Cubans leave Cuba for American, most of whom are criminals hand picked by Fidel Castro's men. Only some of them have relatives in America

 

• The Indian government makes the Taj Mahal a pollution free zone

 

• Israel invades Lebanon and advances on Beirut to drive PLO soldiers from the country

 

• President Reagan dubs the Soviet Union the Evil Empire and then propeses a new anti-missile defense system he nicknamed "Star Wars"

 

• Israel and Lebanon sign a peace treay, but the civil war in Lebanon continues

 

• Indian Prime Minister, Indira Ghandi is assassinated

 

• Peter Sutcliffe is arrested and charged with the 13 "Yorkshire Ripper" murders

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