The 80's Thread

[tickmankyle1]

july 4 1989 the grateful dead played a concert in rich stadium orchard park, N.Y.

 

[goddess_nemesis]

1981: Led by rookie sensation Fernando Valenzuela, the Dodgers win the World Series over the NY Yankees, four games to two.

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1982: (November 30) Michael Jackson releases Thriller, the biggest selling album of all time.

 

[paracarl44]

1983.

June 13th: The Pioneer 10 spacecraft becomes the first man made object to leave our solar system.

 

[goddess_nemesis]

1984: (January 27) Pop star Michael Jackson's scalp is seriously burned by pyrotechnics during filming of a Pepsi television commercial.

 

[paracarl44]

1985.

March 4th: The Food and Drug Administration approves a blood test to detect AIDS in all blood doners.

 

[milagros317]

1986: The Red Sox lose the World Series to the NY Mets in spectacular, heartbreaking fashion, leaving their fans in despair (until 2004).

 

[paracarl44]

1987.

January 8th: The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above the 2,000 mark for the first time.

 

[milagros317]

1988: The DODGERS win the World Series (in five games over the Oakland A's)!!!!!

 

[slacker2114]

1989: I graduated high school. However, I was not allowed to attend the ceremony because of unfounded rumors that I was plotting something that would have potentially embarassed the school.

 

[paracarl44]

1980.

April 24: The Pennsylvania Lottery was rigged and the number 666 was pulled.
The TV Announcer had the ping pong balls weighted down with liquid latex, so that only certain balls would rise to the top.

 

[goddess_nemesis]

1981: (July 29) Lady Diana Spencer marries Charles, Prince of Wales.

 

[milagros317]

1982

April to June: The United Kingdom overcomes Argentina in the Falklands War.

 

[goddess_nemesis]

1983: (August 30) STS-8: Space Shuttle Challenger carries Guion S. Bluford, the first African-American astronaut, into space.

 

[milagros317]

1984

Ronald W. Reagan is re-elected in a landslide, carrying 49 states.

 

[paracarl44]

1985.

March 16th: Terry Anderson, a newsman for the Associated Press, is taken hostage in Beirut, Lebanon. He was finally released on December 4, 1991.

 

[milagros317]

1986

The Boston Red Sox, one strike away from winning the World Series, which would have been their first such victor since 1918, collapse and lose to the New York Mets.

 

[goddess_nemesis]

1987: (October 14-October 16) The United States is caught up in a drama that unfolds on television as a young child, Jessica McClure, falls down a well in Midland, Texas, and is later rescued.

 

[milagros317]

1988

The DODGERS win the World Series!!!

 

[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.

 

[milagros317]

1980

Ronald W. Reagan is elected President of the United States over incumbent Jimmy Carter. Carter's mishandling of the Iranian hostage crisis contributes to his landslide defeat.

 

[paracarl44]

1981.

January 20th: The Iranians release 52 hostages that they have held in captivity for 444 days.

 

[milagros317]

1982

June 21: John W. Hinckley is found not guilty by reason of insanity in the shooting of President Ronald W. Reagan

 

[goddess_nemesis]

1983: (August 30) STS-8: Space Shuttle Challenger carries Guion S. Bluford, the first African-American astronaut, into space.

 

[milagros317]

1984

Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi assassinated by two Sikh bodyguards; 1,000 killed in anti-Sikh riots; son Rajiv succeeds her

 

[goddess_nemesis]

1985: (January 28) In Hollywood, California, the charity single "We Are the World" is recorded by USA for Africa.