1980s


 * For information dealing with this decade in the real world, see Early production history.

Events

 * Alexi Szudamenko and his family emigrate from Krakow, Poland to Jersey City in the early 80s.
 * The first portable predictive roulette computers are introduced in the mid-80s.
 * The Atlantic Avenue Tunnel under Brooklyn, New York is rediscovered, after being sealed since 1861.
 * Khan Ali Kahlil flees the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
 * A crack cocaine epidemic sweeps cities throughout the United States.
 * A children's campground in the Angeles National Forest is established by the Lions of God Church in South Central Los Angeles and the Baptist Church School of Compton.
 * Century City, Los Angeles is significantly developed in this decade.
 * Anh Hsu's village in the Jiangxi province of China gains electricity for the first time.
 * Said al Kabbibi earns the moniker "Biohazard Bob" among the intelligence community.
 * The First Gulf War takes place, a conflict between the Sunni Iraq under Saddam Hussein and the Shi'a Iran on a scale not seen since World War II.
 * Rafsanjani was elected President of Iran by the end of this decade.

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