1980's

 

• Jeanne met and married John Coleman

• Clothes Tree sold and The Coleman's moved to Florida

• John Coleman died, and Jeanne moved back to Wheeling

* Jeanne died in September 1988

 

1980's were a time for her family, her friends, and when she met her end.

What was happening in Jeanne's World

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The 1980's - The Reagan Revolution

 

January 4, 1980 - President Jimmy Carter announces the embargo on sale of grain and high technology to the Soviet Union due to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.

 

February 13, 1980 - The opening ceremonies of the 1980 Winter Olympics Games are held in Lake Placid, New York.  One of the most thrilling moments include the "Miracle on Ice" when a team of U.S. amateur ice hockey players defeated the vaunted Soviet Union professional all-star team in the semi-final game, then won the gold medal over Finland.   U.S. speedskater Eric Heiden also concluded one of the most amazing feats in sports history when he won all five speedskating medals from the sprint at 500 meters to the marathon 10,000 meter event.

 

April 12, 1980 - The United States Olympic Committee, responding to the request of President Jimmy Carter on March 21, votes to withdraw its athletes from participation in the Moscow Summer Olympic Games, due to the continued involvement of the Soviet Union in Afghanistan.

 

April 24-25, 1980 - The attempt to rescue the American hostages held captive in the U.S. Embassy in Iran fails with eight Americans killed and five wounded in Operation Eagle Claw when a mid-air collision occurs.

 

May 18, 1980 - The Mt. St. Helens volcano, in Washington State, erupts, killing fifty-seven people and economic devastation to the area with losses near $3 billion.  The blast was estimated to have the power five hundred times greater than the Hiroshima atomic bomb.

 

November 4, 1980 - Ronald Reagan, the former Republican governor of California, beats President Jimmy Carter and independent candidate John B. Anderson, also a Republican, in a landslide victory, ousting the incumbent from office.

 

The 1980 census indicated a population in the United States of 226,542,203, an 11.4% increase since 1970.  For the first time, one state had over 20 million people living within its borders, the state of California with 23.7 million. Due to a trend of western migration, Missouri now contained the geographic population center of the United States.

 

January 20, 1981 - The inauguration of Ronald Reagan as the 40th president of the United States occurs in Washington, D.C.  It was followed by the release of the fifty-two Americans still held hostage in Tehran.  The Iranian hostage crisis, which lasted four hundred and forty-four days, was negotiated for the return of $8 billion in frozen Iranian assets.

 

March 30, 1981 - President Ronald Reagan withstands an assassination attempt, shot in the chest while walking to his limousine in Washington, D.C..  John Hamm was at his place of business, Balmar Printing, not mire than a mile from the site of this shooting and remembers that day well.

 

April 12, 1981 - The first launch of the Space Shuttle from Cape Canaveral and the Kennedy Space Center occurs as Columbia begins its STS-1 mission.  The Space Shuttle is the first reusable spacecraft to be flown into orbit, and it returned to earth for a traditional touch down landing two days later.

 

July 29, 1981 - Tax cut legislation proposed by President Ronald Reagan, the largest in history, is passed by both houses of the U.S. Congress.  It would reduce taxes by $750 billion over the next five years.

 

August 12, 1981 - IBM introduced the IBM-PC personal computer, the IBM 5150.  It was designed by twelve engineers and designers under Don Estridge of the IBM Entry Systems Division.  It sold for $1,565 in 1981.

 

September 21, 1981 - Sandra Day O'Connor is approved unanimously, 99-0, by the United States Senate to become the first female Supreme Court associate justice in history.

1982

January 8, 1982 - The AT&T lawsuit was settled with the U.S. Justice Department.  The agreement forced the independence of the twenty-two regional Bell System companies in return for expansion into the prohibited areas of data processing and equipment sales.

 

March 2, 1980 - The Senate passed a bill that virtually eliminated the practice of busing to achieve racial integration.

 

November 5, 1982 - The highest unemployment rate since 1940 was recorded at 10.4%.  By the end of November, over eleven million people would be unemployed.

 

November 13, 1982 - The Vietnam Veterans Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C., holding the names of the more than 58,000 killed or missing in action during the conflict.

 

March 23, 1983 - The initial proposal to develop technology to intercept incoming missiles, the Strategic Defense Initiative Program, or Star Wars, is made by President Ronald Reagan.

 

April 20, 1983 - President Reagan signs legislation meant to rescue the Social Security System from bankruptcy.

 

June 18, 1983 - Astronaut Sally Ride becomes the first American woman to travel into space.

 

October 23, 1983 - A terrorist truck bomb kills two hundred and forty-one United States peacekeeping troops in Lebanon at Beirut International Airport.  A second bomb destroyed a French barracks two miles away, killing forty there.

 

October 25, 1983 - The United States invasion of Grenada occurs at the request of the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States to depose the Marxist regime.

 

February 7, 1984 - Navy Captain Bruce McCandless and Army Lt. Colonel Robert Stewart become the first astronauts to fly free of a spacecraft in orbit during a space shuttle flight that began four days earlier.

 

July 12, 1984 - Democratic candidate for President, Walter Mondale, selects Geraldine Ferraro as his Vice Presidential running mate, the first woman chosen for that position.

 

July 28, 1984 - The opening ceremony of the Los Angeles Olympic Games is held.  The games run by Peter Ueberroth, prove a financial and U.S. success, despite a retaliatory boycott by most allies of the Soviet Union due to the U.S. boycott of the 1980 Moscow games.

 

November 1984 - President Ronald Reagan wins reelection over Democratic challenger Walter F. Mondale.

 

July 13, 1985 - A famine relief concert organized by British artist Bob Geldof and held simultaneously in London and Philadelphia is seen in one hundred and fifty-two countries.  The seventeen hour concert raised $70 million for relief efforts in Ethiopia and other African nations.

 

September 11, 1985 - Pete Rose breaks Ty Cobb's record for most career hits in Major League Baseball history.  He would be banned from baseball in 1989 for gambling, thus making him ineligible for election into the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York.

 

November 19, 1985 - The first meeting in six years between the leaders of the Soviet Union and the United States occurs when Mikhail Gorbachev and Ronald Reagan engage in a five hour summit conference in Geneva, Switzerland.

 

Martin Luther King

January 20, 1986 - Martin Luther King Day is officially observed for the first time as a federal holiday in the United States.

 

January 28, 1986 - The Challenger Space Shuttle explodes after lift off at Cape Canaveral, Florida, killing seven people, including Christa McAuliffe, a New Hampshire school teacher.  John Hamm, Lynn Hamm, and Scott Bergmann were on a chartered sailboat in the US Virgin Islands, when they heard of this tragedy.

 

September 18, 1986 - A tentative agreement on a world-wide ban on medium-range missiles is reached between the Soviet Union and the United States.  This agreement would not be expanded to include long-range missiles when President Reagan refused capitulation to the demand from Mikhail Gorbachev to limit development of the "Star Wars" missile defense shield.

 

November 3, 1986 - The first reporting of the Iran-Contra affair, diverting money from arm sales to Iran to fund Nicaraguan contra rebels, begins the largest crisis in the Reagan tenure.

 

Washington Civil Rights March

Crowds of the Civil Rights March in Washington, D.C. surround the Washington Monument.  August 28, 1963.

 

August 12, 1987 - Near the end of hearings into the Iran-contra affair, President Reagan admitted to a policy that went astray, but denied knowledge of the diversion of funds to the contras.

 

October 19, 1987 - The stock market crash known as Black Monday occurred on the New York Stock Exchange, recording a record 22.6% drop in one day.  Stock markets around the world would mirror the crash with drops of their own.

 

October 23, 1987 - The President's nominee to the Supreme Court, Robert Bork, is rejected by the U.S. Senate, 58-42, in the largest margin of rejection for the role in history.

 

December 8, 1987 - The United States and the Soviet Union sign an agreement, the Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, to dismantle all 1,752 U.S. and 859 Soviet missiles in the 300-3,400 mile range.

 

December 31, 1987 - El Malpais National Monument in New Mexico is established by legislation.  It preserved a natural volcanic area, a seventeen mile lava tube system, and remains from the Pueblo Indian culture.

1988

February 3, 1988 - The United States House of Representatives rejects the request of President Reagan for $36.25 million to fund the Nicaraguan Contras.

 

May 4, 1988 - The deadline for amnesty application by illegal aliens is met by 1.4 million, who apply.  It is estimated that 71% of those who applied had entered the United States from Mexico.

 

 

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