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Setting the scene for 1985:

• China Airlines Flight 006 plunges 30,000 ft after the crew fails to respond to an engine failure.
• Amadeus wins the oscar for best picture.
• Coca-Cola releases New Coke and takes it off the market again less than 3 months later.
• Bangladesh is hit by a tropical cyclone and storm surge, which kills approximately 10,000 people.
• TWA Flight 847, carrying 153 passengers from Athens to Rome, is hijacked by a Hezbollah fringe group.
  

Setting the scene for 1984:

• The first Apple Macintosh goes on sale.
• Space Shuttle Challenger makes the first shuttle landing at the Kennedy Space Center
• Virgin Atlantic Airways makes its inaugural flight.
• France beats Spain 2-0 to win the Euro 84.
• Salyut 7 cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya becomes the first woman to perform a space walk.
• The 1984 Summer Olympics are held in Los Angeles, California.
• The African republic Upper Volta changes its name to Burkina Faso.
• Hezbollah car bombs the U.S. embassy annex in Beirut, killing 22 people.
• Aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger, astronaut Kathryn D. Sullivan becomes the first American woman to perform a space walk.
• Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi is assassinated by her 2 Sikh security guards .