America - 1980AD

In 1980AD:

• The FBI's ABSCAM investigation convicted seven members of the U.S. Congress.
• Love Canal, a chemically contaminated area in N.Y., was declared a disaster area.
• The Voyager 1 spacecraft made a rendezvous with the planet Saturn.
• Ex-Beatle John Lennon was fatally shot outside his Manhattan apartment.
• Mount St. Helens erupted in Washington state killing eight people.
• Boxer Sugar Ray Leonard regained the world welterweight title from Roberto Duran.
• The American television soap opera Dallas was first broadcast.
• Ted Turner began the Cable News Network, offering round-the-clock news.
• Meryl Streep and Dustin Hoffman starred in the film Kramer vs. Kramer.
• Robert Redford directed the Academy Award winning film Ordinary People.

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