Meanwhile…

boycott games of Moscow

1980-07-19

Los Angeles 1984: the counter-boycott response

1984-07-28

Seoul 1988 unites a divided world

1988-09-17

Deng Xiaoping launches the Reform and Opening Up

december 1978

the great video game crash of 1983

1983

Nintendo saves and redefines the industry

1985

Diverse reef fauna colonizes coral ecosystems

from around 485 million years ago to the present

rise of computer algebra

jaren 1970

First flight of the space shuttle Columbia

1981-04-12

Fibonacci heap revolutionises computer science

1984

Pac-Man conquers the world

1980

De Kubuswoningen van Piet Blom

circa 1984

Tetris causes a worldwide puzzle fever

1986-1989

The survival of the birds

vanaf ca. 66 miljoen jaar geleden

The Anthropocene and climate change

20e-21e eeuw

worldwide eradication of smallpox

1980

Bossche Broek becomes a protected nature reserve

eind 20ste eeuw