Chronology

chronology

1980 

·         1)  First videoconference.

2) Appear the first card payphones.

·        3)  is assassinated the leader and founder of The Beatles, John Lennon, into the hands of a fan.

1981

·         1) Ronald Reagan takes office as President of the United States.

·         2) The U.S. president., Ronald Reagan suffers an assassination attempt.

·       3)  Marketing of the first IBM PC personal computer.

 1982

·       1)  R. K. Jarvik: Successful implementation of the first artificial heart in the U.S

·       2)  The Michael Jackson's Thriller album became the best-selling history (more than 140 million units).

·       3)  Stanley B. Prusiner discovered the prions.

1983

·      1)   Worldwide Premieres of Thriller, the music video of Michael Jackson, considered "the most successful music video" by Guinness World Records Association.

·       2)  Robert Gallo and Luc Montagnier identified the AIDS virus.

As these two viruses turned out to be the same, in 1986, both virus were renamed HIV.

·         3) Starts the GNU project

1984

·    1)     Geraldine Ferraro, first female candidate for Vice President of the United States in the presidential election for the Democratic Party.

1985

·     1)    It is created the Free Software Foundation by Richard Stallman and other free software activists.

·        2)  Robert Ballard find the remains of the Titanic.

1986

·     1)    The Space Shuttle Challenger  explodes on takeoff  (January 28^th)

·     2)    United States bombards Libya.

·        -  3) Halley's Comet is observed in detail by spacecraft.

1987

·      1)    Financial Disaster on international stock exchanges.

1988

·         1) The pharmaceutical Roussel-Uclaf gets approval of the abortion pill, Georges Teutsch synthesized it in 1980.