1985-1989 Government and Politics
President:
Ronald Reagan: President from 1981-1989. Reagan won his second term in office in January of 1985.
Events:
1985
January 1, 1985: The first British cell phone call was made.
January 17, 1985: British Telecom phases out its famous red telephone boxes.
April 15, 1985: South Africa ends is ban on interracial marriages.
June 27, 1985: Route 66 was officially decommissioned
1986
January 1, 1986- the first PC virus, Brain, began to spread.
March 9, 1986- US Navy divers find the Challenger with bodies of all 7 astronauts still inside.
April 13, 1986- Pope John Paul II visited the synagogue of Rome. This was the first time a modern pope had visited a synagogue.
1987
January 3, 1987- Arethra Franklin was the first woman inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
June 10, 1987- Ronald Reagan challenges Soviet Union's premir, Gorbachev, to tear down the Berlin Wall.
December 8, 1987- The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty is signed in Washington DC by President Reagan and Gorbachev.
1988
April 14, 1988- The Soviet Union begins to withdraw troops from Afghanistan as promised in the Geneva Accords.
October 11, 1988- Magdalene College allows its first woman students to start classes. Men wear black arm bands and tie a black flag in protest.
November 18, 1988- Reagan sentences death penalities for murderous drug traffickers.
1989
January 18, 1989- the Communist Party of Poland votes to legalize solidarity.
August 25, 1989- the Voyager II passes Neptune and its moon Triton.
October 9, 1989- the Soviet Union reports seeing a UFO landing in Voronezh.