Count to 1,000,000

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1981 dead bodies found.

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1982GB of VRAM in the new NVIDIA TURBO-TITAN MEGAZORD

[BTGBullseye]

1981 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1981

 

The first DeLorean DMC-12 automobile, a stainless steel sports car with gull-wing doors, rolls off the production line in Dunmurry, Northern Ireland.

U.S. President Ronald Reagan is shot in the chest outside a Washington, D.C. hotel by John Hinckley, Jr.; 2 police officers and Press Secretary James Brady are also wounded.

Daylight saving time is introduced in the Soviet Union.

The Space Shuttle program: Space Shuttle Columbia with NASA astronauts John Young and Robert Crippen launches on the STS-1 mission, returning to Earth on April 14. It is the first time a manned reusable spacecraft has returned from orbit.

Donna Payant is murdered by serial killer Lemuel Smith, the first time a female prison officer has been killed on-duty in the United States.

Peter Sutcliffe is found guilty of being the Yorkshire Ripper. He is sentenced to life imprisonment on 13 counts of murder and 7 of attempted murder.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report that 5 homosexual men in Los Angeles, California have a rare form of pneumonia seen only in patients with weakened immune systems (the first recognized cases of AIDS).

The Israeli Air Force destroys Iraq's Osirak nuclear reactor.

The Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk Stealth Fighter makes its first flight at Groom Lake (Area 51), NV.

The first game of paintball is played in Henniker, New Hampshire.

President Ronald Reagan nominates the first woman, Sandra Day O'Connor, to the Supreme Court of the United States. (Republicans, that's "Conservatives" now, did that, not the Democratic "Progressives")

Donkey Kong is released, marking the first Donkey Kong title and Mario title arcade smash hit game developed by Nintendo.

The first 24-hour video music channel MTV (Music Television) is launched.

The original Model 5150 IBM PC (with a 4.77 MHz Intel 8088 processor) is released in the United States at a base price of $1,565.

Gulf of Sidra incident (1981): Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi sends two Sukhoi Su-22 fighter jets to intercept two U.S. fighters over the Gulf of Sidra. The American jets destroy the Libyan fighters.

The John Bull becomes the oldest operable steam locomotive in the world, at 150 years old, when it operates under its own power outside Washington, DC.

Simon & Garfunkel perform The Concert in Central Park, a free concert in New York in front of approximately half a million people.

The first American test-tube baby, Elizabeth Jordan Carr, is born in Norfolk, Virginia.

Polybius, an urban legend game, is said to have been released in 1981.

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this is my broken game

i'll have to fix it again

 

 

1984

[Psychotic Ninja]

1985

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Wow... It didn't give me any warnings about there being other posts before I posted, and there weren't any others before I started my response...

 

1986 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1986

 

The year before I was born.

After losing a patent battle with Polaroid, Kodak leaves the instant camera business.

The first PC virus, Brain, starts to spread.

The Voyager 2 space probe makes its first encounter with Uranus. (and even it cracked a joke)

STS-51-L: Space Shuttle Challenger disintegrates 73 seconds after launch, killing the crew of 7 astronauts, including schoolteacher Christa McAuliffe.

Pixar Animation Studios is opened.

The Beechcraft Starship makes its maiden flight.

The Soviet Union launches the Mir space station.

The United States Senate approves a treaty outlawing genocide.

The United States Senate allows its debates to be televised on a trial basis.

The first paper is published describing the atomic force microscope invented the previous year by Gerd Binnig, Calvin Quate and Christopher Berger.

The Today national tabloid newspaper is launched in the United Kingdom, pioneering the use of computer photosetting and full-colour offset printing, at a time when British national newspapers still use Linotype machines and letterpress.

The Japanese Suisei probe flies by Halley's Comet, studying its UV hydrogen corona and solar wind.

United States Navy divers find the largely intact but heavily damaged crew compartment of the Space Shuttle Challenger; the bodies of all seven astronauts are still inside.

Microsoft Corporation holds its initial public offering of stock shares.

Pope John Paul II officially visits the Synagogue of Rome, the first time a modern Pope has visited a synagogue.

Chernobyl disaster: A mishandled safety test at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Pripyat, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union "killed at least 4056 people and damaged almost $7 billion of property". Radioactive fallout from the accident is concentrated near Belarus, Ukraine and Russia and at least 350,000 people are forcibly resettled away from these areas. After the accident, "traces of radioactive deposits unique to Chernobyl were found in nearly every country in the northern hemisphere".

"Captain Midnight" interrupts the HBO satellite feed.

NBC debuts the current well-known peacock as seen in the NBC 60th Anniversary Celebration.

The Firearm Owners Protection Act is enacted.

Hands Across America: At least 5,000,000 people form a human chain from New York City to Long Beach, California, to raise money to fight hunger and homelessness.

The game credited as setting the template for role-playing video games, Dragon Quest, is released in Japan.

Eric Thomas develops LISTSERV, the first email list management software.

The Statue of Liberty is reopened to the public after an extensive refurbishment.

Informal stock trading is done in Shenyang, China; the first of its kind in Red China.

Two weeks after it was stolen, the Picasso painting Weeping Woman is found in a locker at the Spencer Street Station in Melbourne, Australia.

In Edmond, Oklahoma, United States Postal Service employee Patrick Sherrill guns down 14 of his co-workers before committing suicide. (this is where we get the term "going postal" from)

The Big Mac Index is introduced in The Economist newspaper as a semi-humorous international measure of purchasing power parity.

U.S. President Ronald Reagan signs the Goldwater–Nichols Act into law, making official the largest reorganization of the United States Department of Defense since the Air Force was made a separate branch of service in 1947.

TASCC, a superconducting cyclotron, officially opens at Chalk River Laboratories.

The Phantom of the Opera, the longest running Broadway show in history, opens at Her Majesty's Theatre in London.

The International World Day of Prayer is held in Assisi, Italy. (October 27)

The Big Bang in the London Stock Exchange abolishes fixed commission charges, paving the way for electronic trading.

British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher officially opens the M25 Motorway, which encircles Greater London, in a ceremony on the carriageway near Potters Bar. It became Europe's second longest Orbital Road upon completion, and provides the first and only full bypass of London.

Democrats regain control of the United States Senate for the first time in 6 years. In California, Chief Justice Rose Bird and two colleagues are removed by voters from the Supreme Court of California for opposing capital punishment.

Iran-Contra Affair: U.S. President Ronald Reagan announces that on December 1 former Senator John Tower, former Secretary of State Edmund Muskie, and former National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft will serve as members of the Special Review Board looking into the scandal (they became known as the Tower Commission). Reagan denies involvement in the scandal.

Rutan Voyager, an experimental aircraft designed by Burt Rutan and piloted by Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager, begins its flight around the world.

After 35 years on the airwaves and holding the title of longest-running non-news program on network television, NBC airs the final episode of daytime drama Search for Tomorrow.

Average per capita income in Japan exceeds that in the United States.

Matt Groening creates The Simpsons family.

[BTGBullseye]

1987 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1987

 

The year I was born.

Aretha Franklin becomes the first woman inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

U.S. President Ronald Reagan undergoes prostate surgery, causing speculation about his physical fitness to continue in office.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes for the first time above 2,000, gaining 8.30 to close at 2,002.25.

Pennsylvania Treasurer Budd Dwyer shoots and kills himself with a revolver during a televised press conference after being found guilty on charges of bribery, fraud, conspiracy, and racketeering.

Supernova 1987A, the first "naked-eye" supernova since 1604, is observed.

Iran-Contra affair: The Tower Commission rebukes U.S. President Ronald Reagan for not controlling his National Security Council staff.

American Motors is acquired by the Chrysler Corporation.

Woodstock of physics: The marathon session of the American Physical Society’s meeting features 51 presentations concerning the science of high-temperature superconductors.

The World Wrestling Federation (later WWE) produces Wrestlemania III from the Pontiac Silverdome in Pontiac, Michigan. The event is particularly notable for the record attendance of 93,173, the largest recorded attendance for a live indoor sporting event in North America until February 14, 2010, when the 2010 NBA All-Star Game has an attendance of 108,713 at AT&T Stadium.

The Simpsons cartoon first appears as a series of shorts on The Tracey Ullman Show.

The United States Department of Justice declares incumbent Austrian president Kurt Waldheim an "undesirable alien".

During a visit to Berlin, Germany, U.S. President Ronald Reagan challenges Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall.

Iraqi warplanes drop mustard gas bombs on the Iranian town of Sardasht in two separate bombing rounds, on four residential areas. This is the first time a civilian town was targeted by chemical weapons.

Canada introduces a one dollar coin, nicknamed the "Loonie".

U.S. President Ronald Reagan nominates former Solicitor General Robert Bork to the Supreme Court. The nomination is later rejected by the Senate, the first and only nominee rejection to date.

World population is estimated to have reached five billion people, according to the United Nations.

Konami releases Metal Gear (video game) in Japan for the MSX2.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above the 2,500 mark for the first time, at 2,510.04.

The Federal Communications Commission rescinds the Fairness Doctrine, which had required radio and television stations to "fairly" present controversial issues.

Aéropostale – The first Aeropostale clothing store opens in New York City, New York. It is a mall-based, specialty retailer of casual apparel and accessories.

The followers of the Harmonic Convergence claim it was observed around the world.

September 7 – September 21 – The world's first conference on artificial life is held at Los Alamos National Laboratory.

Scavengers open an old radiation source abandoned in a hospital in Goiânia, causing the worst radiation accident ever in an urban area.

The second Star Trek TV series The Next Generation premieres in syndication.

Black Monday: Stock market levels fall sharply on Wall Street and around the world.

Iran-Contra affair: U.S. Senate and House panels release reports charging President Ronald Reagan with 'ultimate responsibility' for the affair.

Max Headroom broadcast signal intrusion incident – unknown perpetrators hijack the signal of WGN-TV for about 20 seconds, and WTTW for about 90 seconds, and displays a strange video of a man in a Max Headroom mask.

NASA announces the names of 4 companies awarded contracts to help build Space Station Freedom: Boeing Aerospace, General Electric's Astro-Space Division, McDonnell Douglas, and the Rocketdyne Division of Rockwell.

Hustler Magazine v. Falwell is argued before the U.S. Supreme Court.

The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty is signed in Washington, D.C. by U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev.

Microsoft releases Windows 2.0.

Mega Man is released in Japan.

Square Co., Ltd. releases Final Fantasy in Japan for the Famicom.

The Perl programming language is created by Larry Wall.

In history's worst peacetime sea disaster, the passenger ferry MV Doña Paz sinks after colliding with the oil tanker Vector 1 in the Tablas Strait in the Philippines, killing an estimated 4,000 people (1,749 official).

Tinker Hatfield designs the Nike Air Max.

Thomas Knoll and John Knoll develop the first version of Photoshop.

Maglite introduces the 2AAA Mini Maglite flashlight, targeted for medical and industrial applications.

Varroa destructor, an invasive parasite, is found in the U.S.

The first Starbucks Coffee stores outside of Seattle are opened in Vancouver, British Columbia and Chicago.

[Psychotic Ninja]

You really wanted "1987", didn't you?

 

 

Anywho... 1988

[ShouldBeNew]

1989 - Prince of Persia gets released

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1990 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1990

 

Rowan Atkinson's Mr. Bean debuts in a Thames Television special.

The Leaning Tower of Pisa is closed to the public because of safety concerns.

Martin Luther King Day Crash – Telephone service in Atlanta, St. Louis, and Detroit, including 9-1-1 service, goes down for nine hours, due to an AT&T software bug.

Robert Tappan Morris, Jr. is convicted of releasing the Morris worm.

Globalization – The first McDonald's in Moscow, Russia opens 8 months after construction began on 3 May 1989. 8 months later the first McDonalds in Mainland China is opened in Shenzhen.

Nelson Mandela is released from Victor Verster Prison, near Cape Town, South Africa, after 27 years behind bars.

The Pale Blue Dot photograph of Earth is sent back from the Voyager 1 probe after completing its primary mission, from around 3.5 billion miles away.

The Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic holds the first democratic election in the history of the Soviet Union.

Steve Jackson Games is raided by the U.S. Secret Service, prompting the later formation of the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

An SR-71 sets a U.S. transcontinental speed record of 1 hour 8 minutes 17 seconds, on what is publicized as its last official flight.

The Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union approves changes to the Constitution of the Soviet Union to create a strong U.S.-style presidency. Mikhail Gorbachev is elected to a five-year term as the first-ever President of the Soviet Union on March 15.

Twelve paintings, collectively worth $100 to $300 million, are stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, Massachusetts by 2 thieves posing as police officers. This is the largest art theft in US history, and the paintings (as of 2011) have not been recovered.

The Community Charge (poll tax) takes effect in England and Wales amid widespread protests.

The 1990 United States Census begins. There are 248,709,873 residents in the U.S.

Comet Austin, the brightest comet visible from Earth since 1975, makes its closest approach to the sun.

STS-31: The Hubble Space Telescope is launched aboard Space Shuttle Discovery.

In London, a man brandishing a knife robs a courier of bearer bonds worth £292 million (the second largest mugging to date).

Portrait of Dr. Gachet by Vincent van Gogh is sold for a record $82.5 million.

The World Health Organization removes homosexuality from its list of diseases.

The US and the USSR agree to end production of chemical weapons and to destroy most of their stockpiles of chemical weapons.

Microsoft releases Windows 3.0.

Mega Borg oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico near Galveston, Texas. (the Borg were trying to destroy us even back then)

Cold War: Checkpoint Charlie is dismantled.

U.S. President George H. W. Bush signs the Americans with Disabilities Act, designed to protect disabled Americans from discrimination.

First Walmart in California and on the West Coast opens in Lancaster.

Relcom is created in the Soviet Union by combining several computer networks. Later in August the Soviet Union got its first connection to the Internet.

Iraq invades Kuwait, eventually leading to the Gulf War.

The first ban of smoking in bars in the US (and possibly the world) is passed in San Luis Obispo, California.

"Sue", the best preserved Tyrannosaurus rex specimen ever found, is discovered near Faith, South Dakota.

First Pizza Hut opens in Soviet Union.

First Pizza Hut opens in People's Republic of China, nearly 3 years after the first KFC opened there in 1987.

Tim Berners-Lee begins his work on the World Wide Web, 19 months after his seminal 1989 outline of what would become the Web concept.

First Walmart in the Northeastern United States opens in York, Pennsylvania.

Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to lessen Cold War tensions and reform his nation.

The first known web page is written.

STS-38: Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched on a classified U.S. military mission.

Home Alone is released to theaters. It would become the highest grossing live-action comedy film of all time.

The second Nintendo video game console Super Famicom is released in Japan.

Gulf War: The United Nations Security Council passes UN Security Council Resolution 678, authorizing military intervention in Iraq if that nation does not withdraw its forces from Kuwait and free all foreign hostages by Tuesday, January 15, 1991.

Channel Tunnel workers from the United Kingdom and France meet 40 metres beneath the English Channel seabed, establishing the first land connection between Great Britain and the mainland of Europe for around 8,000 years.

Tim Berners-Lee completes the test for the first webpage at CERN.

The Polish government-in-exile is dissolved in London after being in exile since 1939.

J.K. Rowling begins writing Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone in summer 1990, which would be completed in 1995 and published in 1997.

Satoshi Tajiri begins creating the first Pokemon game.

World population: 5,263,593,000

[scott155]

1991 - Palindromes regain popularity.

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1992 - Wolfenstein 3D is released.

[Xalder]

1993 - my dad and biological mother have sex and conceive me. Gawd damn.

[Psychotic Ninja]

1994 - I turn two years old.

[scott155]

1995 - I am born, apocalypse predicted to occur within the next five years.

[Psychotic Ninja]

1996 - Sirius Black is killed by Bellatrix Lestrange.

[ShouldBeNew]

1997 - Half-Life 1 Alpha

[BTGBullseye]

1998 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998

 

The Lunar Prospector spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for frozen water, in soil in permanently shadowed craters near the Moon's poles.

Nineteen European nations agree to forbid human cloning.

The United States Senate passes Resolution 71, urging U.S. President Bill Clinton to "take all necessary and appropriate actions to respond to the threat posed by Iraq's refusal to end its weapons of mass destruction programs".

Iraq disarmament crisis: Iraqi President Saddam Hussein negotiates a deal with U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan, allowing weapons inspectors to return to Baghdad, preventing military action by the United States and Britain.

Data sent from the Galileo probe indicates that Jupiter's moon Europa has a liquid ocean under a thick crust of ice.

NASA announces that the Clementine probe orbiting the Moon has found enough water in polar craters to support a human colony and rocket fueling station.

The High-Z Supernova Search Team becomes the first team to publish evidence that the universe is expanding at an accelerating rate.

In Japan, the Akashi Kaikyō Bridge linking Shikoku with Honshū and costing about US$3.8 billion, opens to traffic, becoming the largest suspension bridge in the world.

The first euro coins are minted in Pessac, France. Because the final specifications for the coins were not finished in 1998, they will have to be melted and minted again in 1999.

The Galaxy IV communications satellite fails, leaving 80–90% of the world's pagers without service.

Bear Grylls, 23, becomes the youngest British climber to scale Mount Everest.

The CIH virus is discovered in Taiwan.

Peter Arnett publishes a false report of Operation Tailwind (initiated 1970), claiming that sarin nerve agents were used to eliminate a group of deserting U.S. soldiers.

Microsoft releases Windows 98.

Japan launches a probe to Mars, joining the United States and Russia as an outer space-exploring nation.

At a conference in Rome, 120 countries vote to create a permanent International Criminal Court to prosecute individuals for genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and the crime of aggression.

Biologists report in the journal Science how they sequenced the genome of the bacterium that causes syphilis, Treponema pallidum.

The Second Congo War begins; 3,900,000 people are killed before it ends in 2003, making it the bloodiest war, to date, since World War II.

The first RFID human implantation is tested in the United Kingdom.

A United Nations court finds Jean-Paul Akayesu, the former mayor of a small town in Rwanda, guilty of 9 counts of genocide, marking the first time that the 1948 law banning genocide is enforced.

Google, Inc. is founded in Menlo Park, California, by Stanford University PhD candidates Larry Page and Sergey Brin.

The Government of North Korea adopts a military dictatorship on its 50th anniversary.

Voyager 1 overtakes Pioneer 10 as the most distant man-made object from the solar system, at a distance of 69.419 AU (1.03849×1010 km).

A declassified report by Swiss IOC official Marc Hodler reveals that bribes had been used to bring the 2002 Winter Olympics to Salt Lake during bidding process in 1995. The International Olympic Committee, the Salt Lake Organizing Committee, the United States Olympic Committee and the United States Department of Justice immediately launch an investigation into the scandal.

A Russian Proton rocket is launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, carrying the first segment of the International Space Station, the 21 ton Zarya Module.

The Space Shuttle Endeavour launches the first American component to the International Space Station, the 25,600 lb Unity module on STS-88. It docks with Zarya two days later.

Iraq disarmament crisis: U.S. President Bill Clinton orders airstrikes on Iraq. UNSCOM withdraws all weapons inspectors from Iraq.

The U.S. House of Representatives forwards articles of impeachment against President Clinton to the Senate, making him the second president to be impeached in the nation.

Lloyd Bridges dies.

[Xalder]

1999 years since an arbitrary date that was deemed to be the start of "in the year of the lord."

[ShouldBeNew]

2000: Ricochet