Meanwhile…

The Cultural Revolution

1966-1976

boycott games of Moscow

1980-07-19

Los Angeles 1984: the counter-boycott response

1984-07-28

Nicaraguan Revolution

1979

Globalization of shoe manufacturing to East Asia

1970s-1990s

Diverse reef fauna colonizes coral ecosystems

from around 485 million years ago to the present

Launch of the Voyager probes

1977-08-20 / 1977-09-05

First flight of the space shuttle Columbia

1981-04-12

Fibonacci heap revolutionises computer science

1984

First inscriptions on the World Heritage List

1978-09-08

Power Dressing and the Rise of the Designer Label

1980s

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