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1980s

1 ________ was destroyed on June 23, 1985 by Sikh-Canadian militants.

2 President ________ (Zaire)

3 But in the second half of the decade, it would be revived by ________, whose Famicom console had been enjoying considerable success in Japan since 1983.

4 In 1984 the ________ resulted from a toxic MIC gas leak at the Union Carbide plant in Bhopal, India, killing 3,000 immediately and ultimately claiming 15,000–20,000 lives.

5 President ________ (United States)

6 ________

7 Enactment of the ________ in 1989 to further establish a strong economic bond between the two prosperous neighbor countries of North America.

8 Pop artists such as Michael Jackson, ________, Prince, Madonna, and Queen mastered the format and helped turned this new product into a profitable business.

9 Prime Minister Indira Gandhi (________)

10 Canadian hockey player Wayne Gretzky rises to fame as a dominant player in the North American ________ (NHL) during the 1980s.

💡 Interesting Facts

  • more than 50 members of the Japanese Diet were involved in the Recruit Scandal of the 1980s?
  • The Happy Mutant Handbook might be the only book to chronicle a large number of underground subcultures of the 1980s and 1990s?
  • the 1980s CBS sitcom Frank's Place was set in New Orleans, Louisiana?
  • two widely-used maps of China's historical placenames independently published in Taiwan and China during the 1980s are both called Historical Atlas of China?
  • until the late 1980s, the most accurate tropical cyclone prediction model was purely statistical?
  • South African rebel tours was the name given to a series of cricket tours to South Africa during its isolation from international cricket in the 1980s due to apartheid?
  • Sergio Blass was the only singer to be a member of both Los Chicos and Menudo, Puerto Rican rival boy bands during the early 1980s?
  • Anne Gregg, best known as former presenter of the BBC's travel programme Holiday through the 1980s, was one of the first people from Northern Ireland to become a national British television personality?
  • 1980s video game publisher BudgeCo was formed to distribute just two games?
  • BASICODE programs were broadcast by radio for recording onto compact audio cassettes, and could run on nearly all 8-bit home computers of the 1980s?
  • Nova Studios developed the "West Coast Look", a stylized and highly planned filmmaking style of gay pornography which dominated the genre through the 1980s?
  • Russian humor thrived even during the Soviet stagnation period of the 1970s and 1980s?
  • 1980s horror movie actress Ellie Cornell nearly broke out of her typecasting by appearing in the 1992 film A League of Their Own, but had to drop out because she became pregnant?