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1 day ago · The 1980s (pronounced "nineteen-eighties", shortened to " the '80s " or " the Eighties ") was a decade that began January 1, 1980, and ended 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 ...
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6 days ago · December 5 – Duran Duran signs with EMI after finalizing its lineup and touring as a support act for Hazel O'Connor. [5] December 7 – Darby Crash, leader of L.A. punk band the Germs, dies of a heroin overdose in a suicide pact. December 8 – John Lennon is shot to death outside his apartment building in New York City.
1 day ago · The 1980 United States presidential election was the 49th quadrennial presidential election, held on November 4, 1980. The Republican nominee, former California governor Ronald Reagan, defeated incumbent Democratic President Jimmy Carter in a landslide victory.
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1 day ago · Satanic panic. The Satanic panic is a moral panic consisting of over 12,000 unsubstantiated cases of Satanic ritual abuse ( SRA, sometimes known as ritual abuse, ritualistic abuse, organized abuse, or sadistic ritual abuse) starting in the United States in the 1980s, spreading throughout many parts of the world by the late 1990s, and persisting ...
4 days ago · In 1980, an expert system called XCON was completed at CMU for the Digital Equipment Corporation. It was an enormous success: it was saving the company 40 million dollars annually by 1986. [161] Corporations around the world began to develop and deploy expert systems and by 1985 they were spending over a billion dollars on AI, most of it to in ...
8 hours ago · Incumbent President Jimmy Carter was again selected as the nominee through a series of primary elections and caucuses, culminating in the 1980 Democratic National Convention, held from August 11 to 14, 1980, in New York City . Carter faced a major primary challenger in Senator Ted Kennedy of Massachusetts, who won 12 contests and received more ...
6 days ago · 1976–1980: Early standup career When Murphy was fifteen, he listened to Richard Pryor 's comedy album That Nigger's Crazy , which inspired his decision to become a comedian. [21] As a child, Murphy developed playing multiple characters in imitation of his acting hero, Peter Sellers . [22]
