"Boat People" Refugees (Heritage Minute)
1980 · Resource
A Vietnamese family survives the sea passage; Canada takes in 60,000 boat people. Historica Canada Heritage Minute, released 2017.
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Around 1980
- Watergate scandal (1972)
- Yom Kippur War (1973)
- Iranian Revolution (1978)
- Chernobyl disaster (1986)
- Gulf War (1990)
- Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody (1975)
- Night Fever (Bee Gees) (1978)
- Invention of the World Wide Web (1989)
- Another Brick in the Wall (Part II) (Pink Floyd) (1979)
- Pop music: the 1990s (1990)