The authoritarian-led government claimed that the crackdown was necessary to prevent a civil war, but it was more likely used as a means to crush political opposition coming from the Solidarity movement.Ħ. The United States responded by placing economic sanctions on the country.ĥ. The move cut off the Polish people from the rest of the world and imposed curfews.Ĥ. The government arrested the leaders of the Solidarity trade union who had been making progress in what was described as a peaceful revolution up to that point.ģ. The military leaders of Poland declare a state of emergency and place the nation under martial law during December of 1981.Ģ. The craft stopped communicating results in March of 1983.ġ. The spacecraft also studied cosmic gamma-ray bursts. Once on the surface of Venus it took the first panoramic color photos of the landscape and drilled into the surface of the planet to take a sample. The Venera 13 spacecraft reached Venus on Maand successfully deposited its lander. One part was the lander that would be dropped to the surface of Venus to conduct experiments and the other was the bus that would carry the landers and relay data between the landers and Earth as well as conducting other experiments. Venera 13 was created, along with the identical Venera 14 spacecraft, as two-part spacecrafts. The Venera 13 Spacecraft is launched by the USSR on October 30th, 1981. Venera 13 Spacecraft More Information and Timeline for the Venera 13 Spacecraft The total length of the mission was two days, six hours, twenty minutes, fifty-three seconds. The purpose of the mission was to test the stability of the new spacecraft and to safely launch the vehicle into space and return it to Earth so that the craft was reusable. The Space Shuttle Columbia successfully carried two astronauts, Robert Crippen and John Young, into space to complete the inaugural flight of the Space Shuttle program. In April of 1981, NASA launched the very first Space Shuttle mission. Space Shuttle Columbia More Information for First Space Shuttle Mission. The Royal Wedding drew the public’s interest in such an extreme way partially due to Lady Diana Spencer’s attractiveness and charm as well as the perception that Diana and Charles’ relationship was a modern fairy tale. 3,500 guests, many of them royalty or celebrities, attended the ceremony and an estimated 750 million people, worldwide, watched it on television. Paul’s Cathedral in London, attracted crowds of more than 600,000 people to witness the historic event. The Royal Wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer took place during July of 1981. Lady Diana Spencer marries Charles, Prince of Wales More Information for the Charles and Diana Royal Wedding In Politics a little known group before Solidarity inspire popular protests and a general strike in Poland and the government in the UK starts the process of privatization of Nationalized Industries which is later followed by many other countries around the world. On the world stage the events that captured the imagination included Lady Diana Spencer marrying Charles The Prince of Wales. This was also the first year that the Word Internet was mentioned and MS-DOS was released by Microsoft along with the first IBM PC.
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