AIDS pandemic identified
1981 · Event
Clusters of unusual infections in young men announce a new global epidemic.
On these timelines: Master, Medicine & Public Health, Pandemics & Plagues
Around 1981
- Chernobyl disaster (1986)
- Dissolution of the Soviet Union (1991)
- Iranian Revolution (1978)
- Yugoslav Wars (1991)
- Yom Kippur War (1973)
- Watergate scandal (1972)
- Gulf War (1990)
- (Everything I Do) I Do It for You (Bryan Adams) (1991)
- Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody (1975)
- Night Fever (Bee Gees) (1978)