1980, just a few things..... U.S. President Jimmy Carter authorizes legislation giving $1.5 billion in loans to bail out the Chrysler Corporation. The infamous New Mexico State Penitentiary Riot takes place: 33 inmates are killed and more than 100 inmates injured. Mount St. Helens erupts in Washington, killing 57 and causing US$3 billion in damage. A series of deadly tornadoes strikes Grand Island, Nebraska, causing over $300m in damage, killing 5 people and injuring over 250. U.S. President Jimmy Carter signs a bill requiring 19- and 20-year-old males to register for a peacetime military draft, in response to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. 1980 United States heat wave claimed anywhere between 1,250 and 10,000 lives and massive drought, creating agricultural damage estimates neared US$44 billion. Alexandra Palace in London destroyed by fire. U.S. presidential election, 1980: Republican challenger and former Governor Ronald Reagan of California defeats incumbent Democratic President Jimmy Carter in a landslide victory, exactly 1 year after the beginning of the Iran hostage crisis. In Australia, baby Azaria Chamberlain disappears from a campsite at Ayers Rock, reportedly taken by a dingo. The St. Gothard Tunnel opens in Switzerland as the world’s longest highway tunnel at 10.14 miles (16.32 km) stretching from Goschenen to Airolo. The command council of Iraq orders its army to “deliver its fatal blow on Iranian military targets,” initiating the Iran-Iraq War. The Staggers Rail Act is enacted, deregulating American railroads. Voyager program: The NASA space probe Voyager I makes its closest approach to Saturn, when it flies within 77,000 miles of the planet’s cloud-tops and sends the first high resolution images of the world back to scientists on Earth. Former Beatle John Lennon dies in the hospital after being shot outside his New York City apartment by Mark David Chapman, a deranged fan who had received his signature earlier in the day. Call Me – Blondie Another Brick In The Wall – Pink Floyd Magic – Olivia Newton-John Rock With You – Michael Jackson Do That To Me One More Time – Captain & Tennille Fame – Irene Cara Working My Way Back to You/Forgive Me, Girl – The Spinners Funkytown – Lipps, Inc., Lipps, Inc. Little Jeannie – Elton John Upside Down – Diana Ross He’s So Shy – The Pointer Sisters Please Don’t Go – KC & the Sunshine Band Turning Japanese – The Vapors Rapper’s Delight – Sugar Hill Gang Whip It – Devo 1980 MoviesThe Empire Strikes Back Starring: Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Billy Dee Williams While Luke takes advanced Jedi training from Yoda, his friends are relentlessly pursued by Darth Vader as part of his plan to capture Luke. 9 to 5 Starring: Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, Dolly Parton, & Dabney Coleman Three female employees of a “sexist, egotistical, lying, hypocritical bigot” find a way to turn the tables on him. Stir Crazy Starring: Richard Pryor & Gene Wilder Skip and Harry are framed for a bank robbery and end up in a western prison. The two eastern boys are having difficulty adjusting to the new life until the warden finds that Skip has a natural talent for riding broncos with the inter-prison rodeo coming up. Airplane! Starring: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Lloyd Bridges, Peter Graves, Julie Hagerty, Robert Hays, Leslie Nielsen Ex-Navy pilot Ted Striker has been nervous about flying ever since THAT incident during the war. He’s on a flight which would cause anyone concern: he seems to be the only sane person aboard. Of course, everything that could possibly go wrong on this flight will go wrong… what do you expect with a co-pilot who doesn’t realize he’s a basketball star, and an air traffic controller with a substance abuse. Any Which Way You Can Starring: Clint Eastwood Philo takes part in a bare knuckle fight to make some more money than he can earn from his car repair business. He decides to retire from fighting, but when the Mafia come along and arrange another fight, he is pushed into it. A motorcycle gang and an orangutan called Clyde all add to the ‘fun’. Private Benjamin Starring: Goldie Hawn A sheltered young high society woman joins the army on a whim and finds herself in a more difficult situation than she ever expected. Coal Miner’s Daughter Starring: Sissy Spacek Biography of Loretta Lynn, a country & western singer that came from poverty to fame. Blue Lagoon Starring: Brook Shields & Christopher Atkins Richard and Em are children when shipwrecked and marooned alone on a lush tropical island. By the time they are rescued, they have learned a great deal about life and are raising a child of their own. The Blues Brothers Starring: Jonh Belushi & Dan Aykroyd Jake Blues, just out from prison, puts together his old band to save the Catholic home where he and brother Elwood were raised. Urban Cowboy Starring: John Travolta Bud is a young man from the country who learns about life and love in a Houston bar. The Shining Starring: Jack Nicholson A family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter where an evil and spiritual presence influences the father into violence, while his psychic son sees horrific forebodings from the past and of the future. Caddyshack Starring: Chevy Chase, Rodney Dangerfield, Bill Murray, Ted Knight An exclusive golf course has to deal with a brash new member and a destructive dancing gopher. Friday the 13th Many years after two summer camp councilors are killed at Camp Crystal Lake, the owner decides to reopen, which sparks a series of grisly murders. Flash Gordon A football player and his friends travel to the planet Mongo and find themselves fighting the tyrant, Ming the Merciless, to save Earth. Raging Bull Starring: Robert De Niro Biography for middleweight champ Jake LaMotta. Xanadu Starring: Olivia Newton-John, Gene Kelly, Michael Beck Kira an incarnate of a Greek muse inspires Sonny Malone to build a huge disco roller rink. American Gigolo Starring: Richard Gere, Lauren Hutton, Hector Elizondo Julian is the highest paid lover in Beverly Hills. He leaves women feeling more alive than they’ve ever felt before. Except one.

2nd election of Barack Obama damn it

Freddie Mercury died (;-; )

Well the beautiful, majestic prodigy known as me was born.

Anyone got anything for 1995?!

Year 2000 (Y2K) January: [spoiler]January 1 – The piece Longplayer begins. It lasts 1,000 years, finishing on December 31, 2999. January 3–10 – Israel and Syria hold inconclusive peace talks. January 5–8 – The 2000 al-Qaeda Summit of several high-level al-Qaeda members (including 2 9/11 American Airlines hijackers) is held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. January 6 – The last natural Pyrenean ibex is found dead, apparently killed by a falling tree. January 10 – America Online announces an agreement to purchase Time Warner for $162 billion (the largest-ever corporate merger). January 11 – The armed wing of the Islamic Salvation Front concludes its negotiations with the government for an amnesty and disbands in Algeria (see Algerian Civil War#GIA destroyed, GSPC discontinues). January 14 A United Nations tribunal sentences 5 Bosnian Croats to up to 25 years in prison for the 1993 killing of over 100 Bosnian Muslims in a Bosnian village.[5] The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes at 11,722.98 (at the peak of the Dot-com bubble). January 18 – The Tagish Lake meteorite impacts the Earth. January 24 – God's Army, a Karen militia group led by twins Johnny and Luther Htoo, takes 700 hostages at a Thai hospital near the Burmese border. January 30 – Kenya Airways Flight 431 crashes off the coast of Ivory Coast into the Atlantic Ocean, killing 169. January 31 Alaska Airlines Flight 261 crashes off the California coast into the Pacific Ocean, killing 88. Dr. Harold Shipman is found guilty of murdering 15 patients between 1998 at Hyde, Greater Manchester, and sentenced to life imprisonment.[/spoiler] February: [spoiler]February 4 – German extortionist Klaus-Peter Sabotta is jailed for life for attempted murder and extortion, in connection with the sabotage of German railway lines. February 6 – Tarja Halonen is elected the first female president of Finland. February 7 – Stipe Mesić is elected president of Croatia. February 8 – Radio broadcaster Bob Collins' plane collides with that of a student pilot over Zion, Illinois. February 9 – Torrential rains in Africa lead to the worst flooding in Mozambique in 50 years, which lasts until March and kills 800 people. February 13 – The final original Peanuts comic strip is published, following the death of its creator, Charles M. Schulz. February 21 – UNESCO holds the inaugural celebration of International Mother Language Day. February 29 – a rare century leap year date occurs. Usually, 00 years are not leap years due to not being exactly divisible by 400. 2000 is the first such year to have a February 29 since the year 1600, making it only the second such occasion since leap years were introduced in the late 16th century. The next such leap year will not occur until 2400. [/spoiler] March: [spoiler] The Constitution of Finland is rewritten. Jorge Batlle, a son, grandnephew and great-grandson of former presidents, is sworn in as President of Uruguay. March 4 – The PlayStation 2 is released in Japan. Several months later, it becomes the best-selling game console of all time. March 8 – Tokyo train disaster: A sideswipe collision of 2 Tokyo Metro trains kills 5 people. March 10 – The NASDAQ Composite Index reaches an all-time high of 5,048.[6] Two weeks later, the NASDAQ-100, S&P 500, and Wilshire 5000 reach their peaks prior to the Dot-com bubble, ending a bull market run that lasted over 17 years. March 12 Pope John Paul II apologizes for the wrongdoings by members of the Roman Catholic Church throughout the ages. A Zenit-3SL launch fails due to a software bug.[7] March 13 – The United States dollar becomes the official currency of Ecuador, replacing the Ecuadorian sucre. March 21 Pope John Paul II begins the first official visit by a Roman Catholic pontiff to Israel Just Like a 1994. The U.S. Supreme Court rules the FDA lacks authority to regulate tobacco as an addictive drug, throwing out the Clinton Administration's main anti-smoking initiative. March 26 Vladimir Putin is elected President of Russia. The Seattle Kingdome is demolished by implosion. March 27 – The Phillips explosion of 2000 kills 1 and injures 71 in Pasadena, Texas. March 28 – A tornado hits Fort Worth, Texas, damaging the downtown area.[/spoiler] April: [spoiler] April 1 – The 2000 United States Census begins. 281,421,906 residents are living in the United States. April 3 – United States v. Microsoft Corp.: Microsoft is ruled to have violated United States antitrust laws by keeping "an oppressive thumb" on its competitors. April 16 – An American anti-globalization protest is held in Washington, D.C. April 17 – Tuanku Syed Sirajuddin becomes Raja of Perlis. April 22 – In a predawn raid, federal agents seize 6-year-old Elián González from his relatives' home in Miami and fly him to his Cuban father in Washington, D.C., ending one of the most publicized custody battles in U.S. history. April 30 – Canonization of Faustina Kowalska in the presence of 200,000 people and the first Divine Mercy Sunday celebrated worldwide.[/spoiler] May: [spoiler] May – Sierra Leone Civil War: The British Armed Forces launch Operation Palliser to support the Sierra Leone government to counter the Revolutionary United Front. May 1 – A new class of composite material is fabricated, which has a combination of physical properties never before seen in a natural or man-made material.[8][9] May 3 – In San Antonio, Texas, computer pioneer Datapoint files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. May 4 After originating in the Philippines, the ILOVEYOU computer virus spreads quickly throughout the world. An earthquake hits Banggai, Indonesia, leaving 54 dead. May 5 – A rare conjunction of 7 celestial bodies (Sun, Moon, planets Mercury–Saturn) occurs during the new moon.[10] May 11 The billionth living person in India is born.[11][12] Effective date of Canada's first modern-day treaty – The Nisga'a Final Agreement. May 12 – The Tate Modern Gallery opens in London. May 13 A fireworks factory disaster in Enschede, Netherlands, kills 23. Millennium Force opens at Cedar Point amusement park in Sandusky, Ohio as the world's tallest and fastest roller coaster. May 16 – The Grand National Assembly of Turkey elects Ahmet Necdet Sezer as the tenth President of Turkey. May 17 – A bomb in Glorietta Mall in Makati City, Philippines injures 13. May 20 – Taiwanese (ROC) president Chen Shui-bian makes the Four Noes and One Without pledge to Taiwan. May 25 – Israel withdraws IDF forces from southern Lebanon after 22 years.[/spoiler] June: [spoiler] June 4 – The 7.9 Mw Enggano earthquake shakes southwestern Sumatra with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VI (Strong). One-hundred and three people were killed and 2,174–2,585 were injured. June 5 – 405 The Movie, the first short film widely distributed on the Internet, is released. June 13 – South Korean President Kim Dae-jung visits North Korea to participate in the first North-South presidential summit. June 17 – A centennial earthquake (6.5 on the Richter scale) hits Iceland on its national day. June 21 – Section 28, a law preventing the promotion of homosexuality, is repealed by the Scottish Parliament. June 26 – A preliminary draft of genomes, as part of the Human Genome Project, is finished. It is announced at the White House by President Clinton.[13] June 28 – Elián González returns to Cuba with his father, Juan Miguel González, ending a protracted custody battle. June 30 – At the Roskilde Festival near Copenhagen, Denmark, 9 die and 26 are injured on a set while the rock group Pearl Jam performs. [/spoiler] July: [spoiler] July 1 – Øresund Bridge between Denmark and Sweden opens. July 2 France defeats Italy 2-1 after extra time in the final of the European Championships, becoming the first team to win the World Cup and European Championships consecutively. Vicente Fox is elected President of Mexico, as candidate of the rightist PAN (National Action Party), ending 71 years of PRI (Institutional Revolutionary Party) rule. July 10 In southern Nigeria, a leaking petroleum pipeline explodes, killing about 250 villagers who were scavenging gasoline. Bashar al-Assad is confirmed as Syria's leader in a national referendum following the death of his father, Hafez al-Assad. July 13–25 – Israel's prime minister Ehud Barak and PLO leader Yasser Arafat meet at Camp David, but fail to reach an agreement. July 14 – A powerful solar flare, later named the Bastille Day event, causes a geomagnetic storm on Earth. July 18 – Alex Salmond resigns as the leader of the Scottish National Party. July 21–23 – G-8 Nations hold their 26th Annual Summit; issues include AIDS, the 'digital divide', and halving world poverty by 2015. July 25 – Air France Flight 4590, a Concorde aircraft, crashes into a hotel in Gonesse just after takeoff from Paris, killing all 109 aboard and 4 in the hotel. July 30 – Venezuela's president Hugo Chávez is reelected with 59% of the vote. July 31 – August 3 – The Republican National Convention in Philadelphia nominates Governor of Texas George W. Bush for President of the United States and Dick Cheney for Vice President.[/spoiler] [b][u]To be continued in reply below[/u][/b]

19 months after I'm born, 9/11 happens.

1990 too, you missed some stuff, like: the start of the Human Genome Project, the launch of the Hubble Telescope, the creation of the 1st web server and the founding blocks of the World Wide Web, ARPANET was put out of commission, the 1st search engine was made, the 1st web page was written, the Tower of Pisa was closed to the public, homosexuality was removed from the WHO's list of illnesses, J.K.Rowling started writing Harry Potter, the Super Famicom came out and the creator of Pokemon started working on Red & Blue