Explore 4219 historical events from 1980–1989.
The Civil Liberties Act of 1988 is a United States federal law that granted reparations to Japanese Americans who had been wrongly interned by the United States government during W…
The Civil Liberties Act of 1988 became law, authorizing reparations to surviving Japanese Americans interned during…
The Troubles were an ethno-nationalist conflict in Northern Ireland that lasted for about 30 years from the late 1960s to 1998. Also known internationally as the Northern Ireland c…
The Troubles: The Provisional Irish Republican Army bombed a bus carrying British Army soldiers in Northern Ireland,…
Yellowstone National Park is a national park of the United States located in the northwest corner of the state of Wyoming, with small portions of it extending into Montana and Idah…
Fires in the United States' Yellowstone National Park ravaged more than 150,000 acres (610 km2) on the single worst…
Niklaus Barbie was a German officer of the Schutzstaffel and Sicherheitsdienst who worked in Vichy France during World War II. He became known as the "Butcher of Lyon" for having p…
Klaus Barbie goes on trial in Lyon for war crimes committed during World War II
Timoci Uluivuda Bavadra was a Fijian medical doctor who founded the Fiji Labour Party and served as the Prime Minister of Fiji for one month in 1987.
Fijian Prime Minister Timoci Bavadra is ousted from power in a coup d'état led by Lieutenant colonel Sitiveni Rabuka
Aeroflot Flight N-528 was a regular commercial flight from Odesa to Berdyansk that crashed at 11:22 local time while attempting to land in poor weather conditions.
Aeroflot Flight N-528 crashes at Berdiansk Airport in present-day Ukraine, killing eight people
The Edmonton tornado, also known as Black Friday to Edmontonians, was a powerful and devastating tornado that ripped through the eastern parts of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada and part…
A tornado occurs in Edmonton, Alberta, killing 27 people.
The Simpsons is an American animated sitcom created by Matt Groening and developed by Groening, James L. Brooks and Sam Simon for the Fox Broadcasting Company. It is a satirical de…
The Simpsons first appear as a series of shorts on The Tracey Ullman Show, first starting with "Good Night"
The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam was a Tamil militant organization, that was based in northern and eastern Sri Lanka. The LTTE fought to create an independent Tamil state calle…
The Tamil Tigers are blamed for a car bomb that detonates in the Sri Lankan capital city of Colombo, killing 106 people
The United States Department of Justice (DOJ) is an executive department of the United States federal government that oversees the domestic enforcement of federal laws and the admi…
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Robert Arthur Allison was an American professional stock car racing driver and owner. Allison was the founder of the Alabama Gang, a group of drivers based in Hueytown, Alabama, wh…
A crash by Bobby Allison at the Talladega Superspeedway, Alabama fencing at the start-finish line would lead NASCAR to d
Cenk Akyol is a Turkish professional basketball coach and former player who played at the shooting guard position. He is assistant coach for Bahçeşehir Koleji of the Turkish Basket…
Cenk Akyol, Turkish basketball player
Aaron Justin Lennon is an English former professional footballer who played as a right winger.
Aaron Lennon, English international footballer
Charles Joseph John Hart is an English football pundit, coach and former player who played as a goalkeeper. He was most recently the goalkeeper coach of EFL League Two club Shrewsb…
Joe Hart, English footballer
Maria Yuryevna Sharapova is a Russian former professional tennis player. She was ranked as the world No. 1 in women's singles by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) for 21 weeks. …
Maria Sharapova, Russian tennis player
The Iran–Contra affair, also referred to as the Iran–Contra scandal, the Contragate, Iran Initiative, or simply Iran–Contra, was a political scandal in the United States that cente…
Iran–Contra affair: Start of Congressional televised hearings in the United States
The Special Air Service (SAS) is a special forces unit of the British Army. It was founded as a regiment in 1941 by David Stirling, and in 1950 it was reconstituted as a corps. The…
The SAS kills eight Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteers and a civilian during an ambush in Loughgall, Northern
LOT Polish Airlines Flight 5055 was a scheduled international passenger flight from Warsaw to New York City. In the late-morning hours of 9 May 1987, the Ilyushin Il-62 operating t…
LOT Flight 5055 Tadeusz Kościuszko crashes after takeoff in Warsaw, Poland, killing all 183 people on board
The Iran–Iraq War began with the Iraqi invasion of Iran in September 1980. After eight years of conflict, both countries accepted a ceasefire deal brokered by the United Nations, w…
Iran–Iraq War: An Iraqi Dassault Mirage F1 fighter jet fires two missiles into the U
The Hashimpura massacre was the killing of 42 Indian Muslim men by police on or around 22 May 1987 near Meerut in Uttar Pradesh state, India, during the 1987 Meerut communal riot…
Hashimpura massacre occurs in Meerut, India
Eduardo Jorge Costa Pinto is a Portuguese environmental engineer, politician and member of the Assembly of the Republic, the national legislature of Portugal. A member of the LIVRE…
Jorge Pinto, Portuguese politician
David Luiz Moreira Marinho is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a defender for Cypriot First Division club Pafos. He is primarily a centre-back, but has also been de…
David Luiz, Brazilian footballer
Michael Antonio Arroyo Mina is an Ecuadorian professional footballer, who plays for Espartanos as a winger or attacking midfielder.
Michael Arroyo, Ecuadorian footballer
John Boye is a Ghanaian former professional footballer who played as a defender.
John Boye, Ghanaian footballer