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The Simpsons is an animated American sitcom created by Matt Groening for the Fox Broadcasting Company. It is a soft-satirical parody of the "Middle American" lifestyle epitomized by its title famil...
The Malta Summit was a meeting between U.S. President George H. W. Bush and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, which took place between December 2-3 1989, just a few weeks after the fall of the Berli...
The Little Mermaid is a 1989 animated feature film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and first released on November 15, 1989 by Walt Disney Pictures. The twenty-eighth animated feature in t...
The Berline Wall was an iconic symbol of the Cold War, the wall divided East and West Berlin for 28 years, from the day construction began on August 13, 1961 until it was dismantled in 1989. During...
The Loma Prieta earthquake was a major earthquake that struck the San Francisco Bay Area of California on October 17, 1989 at 5:04 p.m. The earthquake lasted approximately 15 seconds and measured 6...
When Harry Met Sally... is a 1989 American film written by Nora Ephron, and directed by Rob Reiner. The romantic comedy stars Billy Crystal as Harry and Meg Ryan as Sally. The film follows the titl...
Music video by Don Henley performing The End Of The Innocence
Say Anything... is a romantic film written and directed by Cameron Crowe and released in 1989. In 2002, Entertainment Weekly ranked it as the greatest modern movie romance. The movie, which is set...
Field of Dreams (1989) is a movie about a farmer who becomes convinced by a mysterious voice that he is supposed to construct a baseball diamond in his corn field. It stars Kevin Costner, Amy Madig...
George Herbert Walker Bush GCB (born June 12, 1924), sometimes known as Bush the Elder, was the forty-first President of the United States, serving from 1989 to 1993. Before his presidency, Bush wa...
Pan Am Flight 103 was Pan American World Airways' third daily scheduled transatlantic flight from London's Heathrow International Airport to New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport. On Dec...
Sheena made a comeback with a new label in 1988 and some help from Babyface & L.A. Reid.
The 1988 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXIV Olympiad, were held in 1988 in Seoul, South Korea. The host was chosen in the September 1981 vote, ahead of the Japanese city of ...
Die Hard is a Hollywood action film released in 1988. It was written by Jeb Stuart and Steven E. de Souza, stars Bruce Willis, Bonnie Bedelia, Alan Rickman, Reginald VelJohnson, and William Atherto...
Rick Astley's debut single, "Never Gonna Give You Up" contrasted the singer's expressive, soulful baritone with synthesized dance-club backing, and while the highly processed quality of the latter ...
The Wonder Years, set in 1968-1973 (each season took place exactly twenty years before the then current year) tackles the social issues and historic events of that time through the eyes of main cha...
Wall Street is an American film released in 1987. It was directed by Oliver Stone, and features Michael Douglas in the role that won him an Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role. The film ...
Cloud Nine is the successful 1987 comeback album by George Harrison, recorded and released after a five year hiatus from his recording career. As home to the smash hit "Got My Mind Set on You", Clo...
Black Monday is the name given to Monday, October 19, 1987, when the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) dropped dramatically, and on which similar enormous drops occurred across the world. By the ...
Fatal Attraction is a 1987 thriller about a married man who has a weekend affair with a woman who refuses to allow it to end and who becomes obsessed with him. It stars Michael Douglas, Glenn Close...
Dirty Dancing is a 1987 romance film which is credited as being one of the most watched films of all time, particularly among women. Written by Eleanor Bergstein, the film features Patrick Swayze, ...
Music video by U2 performing I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For with David Evans, Adam Clayton, Larry Mullen, Paul Hewson (C) 1987 Island Records Ltd.
Lethal Weapon is the first of a series of American movies that were released in 1987, 1989, 1992, and 1998, all starring Mel Gibson and Danny Glover as a mismatched pair of Los Angeles police offic...
Iran-Contra Affair: National Security Council member Oliver North and his secretary, Fawn Hall, start shredding documents implicating them in selling weapons to Iran and channeling the proceeds to ...
Ferris Bueller's Day Off is a 1986 comedy film written and directed by John Hughes. It stars Matthew Broderick, Alan Ruck, Mia Sara, Jeffrey Jones and Jennifer Grey. The film follows high school s...
Top Gun is a 1986 American film directed by Tony Scott and produced by Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer in association with Paramount Pictures. The screenplay was written by Jim Cash and Jack Epps...
"Papa Don't Preach" is a song by Madonna and the second single from her third studio album True Blue (1986). It was released in summer 1986 and reached number one in the United States, Australia an...
Music video by Robert Palmer performing Addicted To Love with Robert Palmer (C) 1985 The Island Def Jam Music Group
The Chernobyl nuclear disaster was the worst accident in the history of nuclear power. On April 26, 1986 at 01:23 a.m. reactor number four at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant located near Pripyat ...
Crocodile Dundee is a 1986 Australian comedy film set in the Australian Outback in the area around "Walkabout Creek" and in New York City. It stars Paul Hogan as the weathered Mick Dundee and Linda...
Space Shuttle Challenger (NASA Orbiter Vehicle Designation: OV-099) was NASA's second Space Shuttle orbiter to be put into service, Columbia being the first. Its maiden flight was on April 4, 1983,...
The Nintendo Entertainment System (often referred to as the NES or simply Nintendo), was an 8-bit video game console released by Nintendo in North America, Brazil, Europe, and Australia in 1985. Th...
Growing Pains is an American television sitcom that ran on the ABC network from 1985 to 1992. The show's premise is based around the fictional Seaver family who reside in Long Island, New York. Dr...
The of finding the wreck of Titanic and even raising the ship from the ocean floor had been perpetuated since shortly after the ship sank. No attempts even to locate the ship were successful until ...
"Careless Whisper" is a song which was a worldwide number-one hit for George Michael in 1984. The song was released on Epic Records in the UK, Japan and other countries, and Columbia Records in Nor...
Back to the Future is a 1985 science fiction–comedy film directed by Robert Zemeckis and produced by Steven Spielberg. Zemeckis wrote the story, along with Bob Gale. It stars Michael J. Fox as teen...
Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev is a Russian politician. He was the last leader of the Soviet Union, serving from 1985 until its collapse in 1991. His attempts at reform helped end the Cold War, and ...
Take On Me (Video) by A-Ha (c) 1985 Warner Bros. Records Inc. for the US and WEA International Inc. for the world outside of the U.S
Reagan was sworn in as president for the second time on January 20, 1985, in a private ceremony at the White House. The public ceremony took place in the Capitol Rotunda the next day, because Janua...
The Terminator is a 1984 science fiction/action film directed and co-written by James Cameron. It features Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton and Michael Biehn. The film takes place in 1984, in...
Miami Vice was a popular and innovative television series starring Don Johnson (James "Sonny" Crockett) and Philip Michael Thomas (Ricardo "Rico" Tubbs) as two Miami police detectives working under...
The Cosby Show is a completed American television sitcom starring Bill Cosby, first airing on September 20, 1984 and running for eight seasons on the NBC television network, until April 30, 1992. A...
Amadeus is a 1984 film directed by Miloš Forman and based on the stage play Amadeus. It won eight Academy Awards in 1985. It compares the nature of genius versus mediocrity and examines the relatio...
The 1984 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXIII Olympiad, were held in 1984 in Los Angeles, California, United States. Los Angeles was selected on May 18, 1978 on the 80th IOC ...
The Karate Kid is a 1984 John G. Avildsen film starring Ralph Macchio and Pat Morita. It is a martial arts movie and an "underdog" story much in the model of a previous Avildsen smash, the 1976 box...
Rebel Yell is the second album by British rocker Billy Idol, released in 1984. It was very successful with four singles on the U.S. Hot 100 charts, while the album reached #2 on the UK album charts...
"Jump" is a song recorded by the rock group Van Halen. "Jump" is the only single the group released in their career to reach #1 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100.[1] "Jump" was released in 1984 as the ...
The Macintosh was the original Apple Macintosh personal computer. Introduced in January 1984 at the price of $2,495 US, it had a beige case and was fully self-contained. An indentation in the top o...
Michael Jackson's "Thriller" is a 14-minute music video for the song of the same name released on December 2, 1983 and directed by John Landis. It is often considered to be the best music video of ...
The 1983 Beirut barracks bombing was a major incident on October 23, 1983, during the Lebanese Civil War. Two truck bombs struck buildings in Beirut housing U.S. and French members of the Multinati...
Korean Air Lines Flight 007, also known as KAL 007 or KE007, was a Korean Air Lines civilian airliner shot down by Soviet jet interceptors on September 1, 1983 just west of Sakhalin island. 269 pas...
Risky Business is a 1983 film written and directed by Paul Brickman. Considered a breakout film for actor Tom Cruise (in the role of Joel), the movie is about a suburban Chicago teenage guy with as...
National Lampoon's Vacation (1983, Warner Bros.) is a comedy film directed by Harold Ramis and starring Chevy Chase, Beverly D'Angelo, Anthony Michael Hall, Dana Barron, Randy Quaid and Imogene Coc...
"Billie Jean" is a 1983 hit single from Michael Jackson's Thriller album. A number-one hit on the Billboard Hot 100, the song was also the number-one R&B single for nine weeks in the United States ...
Flashdance is a musical and romance film released in April 1983, and was one of the most successful films of the early 1980s. The film was the first collaboration of producers Don Simpson and Jerry...
M*A*S*H is an American television series developed by Larry Gelbart, inspired by the 1968 novel M*A*S*H: A Novel About Three Army Doctors by Richard Hooker. The series premiered on September 17, 1...
This stand up was infamous for its depiction of a homosexual Mr. T followed by a depiction of Ralph Kramden and Ed Norton as a gay couple. Though they brought on raucous applause from the audience ...
"Down Under" is the title of a New Wave song of the reggae flavour, recorded in 1982 by the Australian rock group Men at Work, and featured on their album Business as Usual. This song went all the ...
Tootsie is a 1982 comedy film, which tells the story of a talented, but volatile actor whose reputation for being difficult makes him unemployable. In desperation, he goes to extraordinary lengths ...
Family Ties was an American television sitcom which aired on NBC for seven seasons, from 1982 to 1989. At the height of its popularity, Family Ties was #2 in the yearly Nielsen ratings, as it aired...
"Jack and Diane" is a 1982 hit song written and performed by American singer-songwriter, John Mellencamp (known at the time as "John Cougar"). It appears on Mellencamp's album American Fool. It was...
Cheers is a popular American situation comedy produced by Charles-Burrows-Charles Productions in association with CBS Paramount Television for NBC. Cheers was created by the team of James Burrows, ...
Blade Runner is a 1982 neo-noir American film directed by Ridley Scott from a screenplay written by Hampton Fancher and David Peoples, based on the novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Phi...
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial is a 1982 science fiction film co-produced and directed by Steven Spielberg, written by Melissa Mathison and starring Henry Thomas, Robert MacNaughton, Drew Barrymore, De...
John Adam Belushi was an Emmy Award-winning American comedian, actor and musician, notable for his work on Saturday Night Live, National Lampoon's Animal House and The Blues Brothers. Belushi was ...
Late Night with David Letterman was a nightly hour-long comedy talk show on NBC hosted by David Letterman. It premiered in 1982 and went off the air in 1993 after Letterman left NBC when he moved t...
"Our Lips Are Sealed" is a song written by Go-Go guitarist Jane Wiedlin and Terry Hall. It was first recorded by The Go-Go's as the lead-off song on their 1981 album Beauty and the Beat (see 1981 i...
Tonight I'm Yours is a 1981 album by Rod Stewart. Features hints of Classic Rock, Pop and New Wave. The album had two hit singles with, title track "Tonight I'm Yours" (#11 on charts) and "Young Tu...
The IBM Personal Computer, commonly known as the IBM PC, was the original version and progenitor of the IBM PC compatible hardware platform. It was IBM model number 5150, and was introduced on Augu...
First Video played by MTV when the station launched in August, 1981. Music video by The Buggles performing Video Killed The Radio Star with Trevor Horn, Geoff Downes, Bruce Woolley (C) 1979 Island...
On 29 July 1981, The Prince of Wales and Lady Diana Spencer were married at St Paul's Cathedral before 3,500 invited guests and an estimated worldwide television audience of 750 million people. All...
Duran Duran are an English pop group notable for a long series of popular singles and vivid music videos. They were the most commercially successful of the New Romantic bands and a leading band in ...
Raiders of the Lost Ark, also known as Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark, is a 1981 adventure film directed by Steven Spielberg, produced by George Lucas and starring Harrison Ford. It ...
The Reagan assassination attempt occurred on March 30, 1981, just 70 days into the presidency of Ronald Reagan. While leaving a speaking engagement at the Washington Hilton Hotel in Washington, D.C...
Chariots of Fire is a British film released in 1981. Written by Colin Welland and directed by Hugh Hudson, it is based on the true story of British athletes preparing for and competing in the 1924 ...
The De Lorean DMC-12 is a sports car that was manufactured by the De Lorean Motor Company from 1981 to 1983 in Northern Ireland. It is most commonly known simply as the De Lorean, as it was the onl...
The election was held on November 4, 1980. Reagan beat Carter by almost ten percentage points in the popular vote. Republicans also gained control of the Senate for the first time in twenty-five ye...
John Winston Ono Lennon, MBE (9 October 1940 – 8 December 1980), was an English songwriter, singer, musician, graphic artist, author and peace activist who gained worldwide fame as one of the found...
Dallas is a highly popular, long-running American prime-time television soap opera that originally ran from 1978 to 1991. It is centered around the Ewing family, a wealthy Texas family in the oil a...
Pac-Man is an arcade game developed by Namco (now Bandai Namco) and licensed for distribution in the U.S. by Midway, first released in Japan on October 10, 1979.[1][2] Immensely popular in the Unit...
The 1980 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXII Olympiad, were held in Moscow in the Soviet Union. Another candidate in the bid to organize the Olympics was Los Angeles. The cho...
Airplane! is an American comedy film, first released on 27 June 1980, produced, directed, and written by David Zucker, Jim Abrahams, and Jerry Zucker. Airplane! starred Robert Hays, Julie Hagerty, ...
Cable News Network, commonly referred to by its acronym CNN, is a major cable television network founded in 1980 by Ted Turner. The network is now owned by Time Warner, the news network is a divisi...
Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back is a 1980 space opera film developed by George Lucas, written by Lawrence Kasdan and Leigh Brackett, and directed by Irvin Kershner. It is the second fi...
Mount St. Helens is most famous for its catastrophic eruption on May 18, 1980, which was the deadliest and most economically destructive volcanic event in the history of the United States. Fifty-se...
In 1968, Dr. Spencer Silver, a scientist at 3M in the United States, developed a "low-tack", reusable adhesive. For five years, Silver promoted his invention within 3M, both informally and through ...
The "Miracle on Ice" is the popular nickname for the men's ice hockey game in the 1980 Olympic Winter Games, in which a team of amateur and collegiate players from the United States beat the long-d...
Rubik's Cube (commonly misspelled rubix, rubick's or rubics cube) is a mechanical puzzle invented in 1974 by the Hungarian sculptor and professor of architecture Ernő Rubik. Originally called the ...
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