The Counting Game

[PRINCE WILLIAM]

1981 Prince William started school.

[BaronVonRichthofen]

1982: Argentina invades the Falkland Islands, starting the Falklands War between Argentina and Great Britain.

[gimix]

1982 Prince William (the other, less famous one ) was born

[BaronVonRichthofen]

1983: Sally Ride becomes the first American woman aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger.

[damo666]

1984 a book

1985 the only centred square number in the 1900s

[miminena]

1986: On January 28, the Space Shuttle Challenger disintegrated, killing it's entire crew including a schoolteacher.

[BaronVonRichthofen]

1987: United States President Reagan sent Congress the first-ever $1 trillion budget proposal.

[PRINCE WILLIAM]

1988 The Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast votes to secede from the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic and join the Armenian SSR, starting the First of many Nagorno-Karabakh Wars.

[DarthPorg36]

1989 - when looking this number up, you will not in fact have the year as the first result, you will have the Taylor Swift album instead. Interesting.

[dargorygel]

1989 - when looking this number up, you will not in fact have the year as the first result, you will have the Taylor Swift album instead. Interesting.

You LOOK THESE THINGS UP? Princie Williamie and I just have these facts, dates, and mathematical elements in our brains! On the tip of our tongues!

Speaking of which...

1990: The date and time 12:34:56 on July 8, 1990, can be written as 1234567890 in American format. The next time this will happen is on July 8, 2090.

[DarthPorg36]

1991: The Soviet Union dissolves the day after Christmas. The Cold War effectively ends.

[DreamTrawler]

1992: After the acquittal of four police officers charged with using excessive force in the beating of Rodney King, Los Angeles experiences 6 days of widespread rioting.

[Jamiet99uk]

1993 is an Italian drama series, broadcast in 2017, based on the turbulent political landscape of 1990s Italy.

[BaronVonRichthofen]

1994: The presidency of Nelson Mandela began on 10 May 1994, when Nelson Mandela, an anti-apartheid activist, leader of uMkhonto we Sizwe, lawyer, and former political prisoner, was inaugurated.

[DarthPorg36]

1995 - April 19 – Oklahoma City bombing: 168 people, including eight federal Marshals and 19 children, are killed at the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building and 680 are wounded by a bomb set off by Timothy McVeigh.

[PRINCE WILLIAM]

1996 Τurkish Forces invade Greek territorial waters, raising a Turkish flag on the small rocky island of Imia. For a moment, this incursion threatens to cause a war, but with the USA's intervention, it's avoided, though not before three Greek navy officers die. To this day, the Imia incident is a poisonous matter between the two countries.

[FlaviusAetius]

1997

The UK's lease over Hong Kong ends and hands it back to China

[BaronVonRichthofen]

1998: U.S. President Bill Clinton is impeached over the Clinton–Lewinsky scandal

[DarthPorg36]

1999: Will all the computers explode and crash next year?

[dargorygel]

2000
Nope... they did not. Many tech upgrades and the fact that much of the question/predictions were fear mongering won the day.