The 80's Thread

[slacker2114]

1984: The Raiders stomped the Redskins in Super Bowl XVIII, 38-9

 

[milagros317]

1985: The Dodgers win the NL West , but then fail to reach the World Series. 🙁

 

[Tick L]

1986: Slayer releases Reign in Blood, their breakthrough album, and the one that set the stage for many extreme metal bands to come.

 

[slacker2114]

1987: Philadelphia celebrates 200th anniversary of Constitution

 

[Tick L]

1988: Nintendo releases the Nintendo Power magazine.

 

[milagros317]

1989: Even an earthquake postponing games 3 and 4 can not save the hated jints from losing the World Series in four straight games. 😀 😀

 

[paracarl44]

1980.

January 20th: The Pittsburgh Steelers win their 4th Super Bowl by beating the Los Angeles Rams 31-19 in Super Bowl XIV held at The Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California.

 

[Tick L]

1981: Nintendo releases Shigeru Miyamoto's Donkey Kong arcade game

 

[paracarl44]

1982.

January 13th: Bad day in Washington D. C. as an Air Florida airplane plunges into the Potomac River killing 78 people. A Washington Metro crash killed 3 people on the same day.

 

[makeUsquirm]

1983: Sally Ride becomes the first woman to go into space

 

[Tick L]

1984: Mötley Crüe member Vince Neil is involved in a serious car accident. He was drunk at the time, and Razzle (Nicholas Dingley) of Hanoi Rocks was killed in the accident.

 

[RealManOfGenius]

March 31, 1985 - Madison Sqaure Garden hosts the very first WrestleMania

 

[Tick L]

1986: The Legend of Zelda (designed by Shigeru Miyamoto for the Nintendo Famicom Disk System), the first in The Legend of Zelda series, a spiritual forerunner of console role-playing games is released.

 

[milagros317]

1987: July 27- Australian singer Kylie Minogue releases her first hit, a remake of Little Eva's The Locomotion.

 

[goddess_nemesis]

1988: (September 29 - STS-26) NASA resumes space shuttle flights, grounded after the Challenger disaster, with Space Shuttle Discovery.

 

[paracarl44]

1988.

August 9th: Chicago Cubs play their First Night Game Ever at Wrigley Field, and beat the New York Mets by 6 to 4.

 

[goddess_nemesis]

1989: (July 26) A federal grand jury indicts Cornell University student Robert Tappan Morris, Jr. for releasing a computer virus, making him the first person to be prosecuted under the 1986 Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.

 

[paracarl44]

1980.

July 24th: Peter Sellers Dies.

 

[goddess_nemesis]

1981: (January 20) Ronald Reagan succeeds Jimmy Carter, becoming the 40th President of the United States. Minutes later, Iran releases the 52 Americans held for 444 days, ending the Iran hostage crisis.

 

[milagros317]

1982: The United Kingdom beats Argentina in the Falkland War.

 

[Mistress Aura]

1983 - My husband was born! (That counts, it was important. 😀)

Mistress Aura

 

[milagros317]

1984: Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi is assassinated by two Sikh bodyguards; 1,000 killed in anti-Sikh riots which follow; her son Rajiv succeeds her.

 

[paracarl44]

1985.

March 11th: Mikhail Gorbachev becomes the General Secretary of the Communist Party, and defacto ruler of the USSR.

 

[goddess_nemesis]

1986: (January 28) STS-51-L: Space Shuttle Challenger disintegrates 73 seconds after launch, killing the crew of 7 astronauts including schoolteacher Christa McAuliffe. (And in November I was born. 😀)

 

[paracarl44]

1987.

January 4th: A Railroad Wreck in Chase, Maryland leaves 16 people dead as an Amtrak Train collides with Engines that ran a Stop Signal and were on the Mainline.