Graduated fromCenterville High School in Centerville, Ohio just outside of Dayton in 1987.

Wearing parachute pants, Izod’s, swatch watches, and skateboard kind of style like Vans were pretty common.

Movies like Pretty in Pink, Sixteen Candles, Back to the Future, and many many more of those sweet classics were very popular during the 80's

“New Wave” is a style of rock music.

The Police, Toto, The Psychedelic Furs, When in Rome, Cyndi Lauper, Prince, Wham, and many many more artists were popular during the 80's.

The style of music during the 80’s was not only fast paced but the sound of electronic rock was used with the sounds of electro beats that were new to this generation.

Slang words like dope, cool, and rad were used during the 80’s to show how you felt about something.

 

1 out of 2 high school student going to college after finishing high school. Today about 70% of students go to high school while only 50% went to college in 1980.

 

Today’s President of the United States, Donald Trump, is compared to Ronald Reagan with many of the same ideas as Donald Trump is displaying to the United States.

On March 30th, 1981, President Reagan was attempted to be assassinated. This was only the first few months into his presidency.

 

The Chernobyl incident in 1986 was one of the worst nuclear disasters ever in history. Wiping out the huge city of Chernobyl.

President Reagan wished for the Berlin Wall to be taken down.

The United States pass a bill of $12 million that will research a cure for AIDS.

Towards the end of the 80’s, Reagan was now out of office then George Bush Sr. is elected for president.

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The 80's were something else, THE END