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English: Clockwise from top-left:

- The first Space Shuttle, Columbia, lifts off in 1981; - US president Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev ease tensions between the two superpowers, leading to the end of the Cold War; - The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989; - In 1981, the IBM Personal Computer is released; - In 1985, the Live Aid concert is held in order to fund relief efforts for the famine in Ethiopia; - Pollution and ecological problems persisted when the Soviet Union and much of the world is filled with radioactive debris from the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, and in 1984, when thousands of people perished in Bhopal during a gas leak from a pesticide plant;

- The Iran–Iraq War leads to over one million dead and $1 trillion spent, while another war between the Soviets and Afghans leaves over 2 million dead.