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1970 – Singer Janis Joplin dies of a drug overdose at the age of 27. 1970 – The Environmental Protection Agency is created. 1970 – The Occupational Safety and Health Act, or OSHA, is signed into law. 1971 – Singer Jim Morrison dies of a drug overdose at the age of 27. 1971 – President Richard Nixon ends the United States Gold standard ...
The 1980 United States Census begins. There are 226,545,805 United States residents on this day. New York City's Transport Works Union Local 100 goes on strike, which continues for 11 days. April 7 – The United States severs diplomatic relations with Iran and imposes economic sanctions, following the taking of American hostages on November 4 ...
The history of the United States from 1980 until 1991 includes the last year of the Jimmy Carter presidency, eight years of the Ronald Reagan administration, and the first three years of the George H. W. Bush presidency, up to the collapse of the Soviet Union. Plagued by the Iran hostage crisis, runaway inflation, and mounting domestic ...
0–9. 1980 in the United States. 1981 in the United States. 1982 in the United States. 1983 in the United States. 1984 in the United States. 1985 in the United States. 1986 in the United States. 1987 in the United States.
The 1980s (pronounced "nineteen-eighties", shortened to "the '80s" or "the Eighties") was the decade that began on January 1, 1980, and ended on December 31, 1989.. The decade saw a dominance of conservatism and free market economics, and a socioeconomic change due to advances in technology and a worldwide move away from planned economies and towards laissez-faire capitalism compared to the 1970s.
The United States drops an atomic bomb on Nagasaki, August 9, 1945. Japanese Instrument of Surrender signed September 2, 1945. Harry S. Truman becomes the 33rd president of the United States upon the death of President Franklin Roosevelt on April 12, 1945.
Timeline of strikes in 1984. Timeline of strikes in 1985. Timeline of strikes in 1986. Timeline of strikes in 1987. Timeline of strikes in 1988. Timeline of strikes in 1989. Categories: 20th-century timelines. 1980s.
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