Events and trends

The 1980s marked an abrupt shift towards more conservative lifestyles after the momentous cultural revolutions which took place in the 1960s and 1970s and the definition of the AIDS virus in 1981. This decade has been somewhat derided since its closing for its perceived "greed" among Yuppies, certain clothes/music/hairstyles which seem outlandish by modern standards, overall high crime rates in many countries, and of course the onset of the AIDS virus in the early part of the decade. While true to some extent, events and trends of the 1980s contributed greatly towards toppling the Soviet Union and European communism in the last months of the decade, and the 1980s saw very rapid developments in numerous sectors of technology which have defined the 20th century as a whole. Yuppie, short for Young Urban Professional, describes a demographic of people generally between their late twenties and early thirties. ...

Technology

IBM PC

Mir

• Bulletin board system popularity.
• Popularization of personal computers, Walkmans, VHS videocassette recorders, and compact disc ("CD") players .
• Introduction of the IBM PC in 1981.
• Home video games become enormously popular, most notably Atari until the market crashes in 1983; the rise of Nintendo brings about full recovery.
• The first Space Shuttle mission, STS-1, launched in 1981.
• Space Shuttle Challenger disaster in 1986.
• The Soviet Union launches the space station Mir in 1986.
• Apple Macintosh, first commercially successful GUI, is released in 1984.
• Accident at Chernobyl nuclear reactor, April 1986.
• Framework (office suite) launched

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Science

• Discovery of the W and Z bosons at CERN.
• Development of the scanning tunneling microscope by Gerd Binnig and Heinrich Rohrer.

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War, peace and politics

Berlin Wall

• Cold War peaks; fall of the Iron Curtain.
• Jimmy Carter announces a U.S. boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow; Eastern Bloc countries boycott the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.
• Solidarity movement in Poland launched in 1981. It eventually topples the country's Communist regime.
• Ronald Reagan proposes the Strategic Defense Initiative, derided as "Star Wars." Deploys Pershing missiles in Western Europe to counter the Soviety SS-20, to some protests.
• Soviet fighters down Korean Air Flight 7 in 1983, leading to a high point in international tensions.
• Three Soviet Premiers die in rapid succession: Leonid Brezhnev, Yuri Andropov, and Konstantin Chernenko.
• Gorbachev introduces Glasnost and Perestroika in the Soviet Union.
• Fall of the Berlin Wall in East Germany in 1989, preparing the way to German reunification.
• Velvet revolution in Czechoslovakia.
• Revolution in Romania, execution of Ceauşescu.
• Margaret Thatcher and Thatcherism dominate British politics.
• The "Reagan Revolution", beginning with the election of 1980, introduces so-called neoconservatives to Washington.
• In 1981, François Mitterrand becomes France's President, the most politically successful Socialist in French history.
• Helmut Kohl is elected in West Germany in 1982, leading to the defeat of the anti-deployment movement; he becomes the longest serving Chancellor so far.
• Falklands War; Argentina invades the Falkland islands in 1982 but defeated by the United Kingdom.
• Israel invades Lebanon in 1982, . A suicide bomber kills 241 U.S. marines stationed there as peacekeepers.
• Iran-Iraq war from 1980 to 1988 causes the deaths of at least hundreds of thousands.
• Over 120,000 flee Cuba in 1980 during the Mariel Boatlift, during which Fidel Castro released many criminals into American harbors.
• P.W. Botha suppresses anti-apartheid activists; international boycotts of South Africa continue.
• King Juan Carlos of Spain prevents a military coup in 1980. Spain joined NATO in 1982; it joined the European Union with Portugal in 1986.
• In 1989 students protest on Tiananmen Square, Beijing, China and are eventually suppressed.
• Large protests in the Philippines topples the Ferdinand Marcos dictatorship; military rule ends after protests in Argentina and South Korea.
• Augusto Pinochet forms a new constitution, holds a referendum on rule and loses. Democracy is restored.
• The Soviet Union ends its disastrous military campaign in Afghanistan.
• Former United Nations Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim is exposed as a former Nazi
• Vietnam continues its military occupation of Cambodia.
• In Europe, rise of alleged neo-fascist parties (Le Pen in France, Schönhuber/Republikaner in Germany, Haider in Austria), parallel to a rise of Green parties.
• Political correctness becomes a concern in mainstream politics.
• Ronald Reagan decides to invade Grenada in 1984 and depose the nascent hardline communist government.
• The Reagan administration bombs Libya in 1986 in response to alleged Libyan support for attacks on U.S. servicemen in Europe.
• Under George H. W. Bush, the U.S. invades Panama in 1989 to overthrow Manuel Noriega.
• The Reagan Doctrine implements support for anti-communist or anti-Soviet insurgencies most notably in Nicaragua, Angola, Cambodia, and Afghanistan. This leads to continued civil war, the deposition of several regimes, some democratization, but also the Iran-Contra scandal.
• The United States launches a covert war against the Sandinista government of Nicaragua and is condemned by the World Court for mining Nicaragua's harbour, an authority and judgement the U.S. administration did not recognize.
• President Tito of Yugoslavia dies.
• Release of Americans held hostage in Iran.
• Iranian leader Ayatollah Khomeini issues a fatwa urging the killing of Salman Rushdie.
• Pan Am Flight 103 explodes over Lockerbie, Scotland.
• In 1985, A radical PLO offshoot called Palestine Liberation Front hijacks the Achille Lauro and shoots the wheelchair-bound Leon Klinghoffer, throwing him overboard.
• Terror groups Abu Nidal and Hezbollah rise to prominence in Western attention.
• Dark years for Malta and its politics. Violence is culminated by the murder of Raymond Caruana and blocking entry to Nationalist supporters into the southern village of Zejtun.

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Economics

Dow Jones (19 July 1987 through 19 January 1988)

• Reaganomics, Thatcherism and Rogernomics.
• In the United States the longest bull market in history begins in 1983; Dow Jones Industrial Average passes 2000 point milestone January 8, 1987.
• OPEC controls slip; petroleum prices collapse below $10 per barrel by mid-1986, devastating oil-producing nations such as Mexico.
• U.S. Midwest Farm Crisis 1981–1985.
• East Asian Tigers' share of world trade rises significantly.
• U.S. balance of trade falls into chronic deficit; populists criticize trade relations with Japan.
• Stockmarkets across the world crash on Black Monday, October 19, 1987. The New York Stock Exchange suffers its largest one-day stock market drop.
• Late 1980s recession

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Culture

• Television networks are challenged by cable television. In the U.S., Cheers and The Cosby Show top ratings and the Fox network is launched. CNN becomes the first 24-hour news channel.
• The video game console outstrips the arcade game.
• Steven Spielberg's E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial opens in 1982 and shatters records for box office gross receipts.
• Music videos (and MTV) begin to have an effect on record industry in the United States. Pop artists Michael Jackson and Madonna are pioneers; groups such as Duran Duran benefit.
• Massive sales for Ethiopian famine relief records by Band Aid ("Do They Know It's Christmas?") and USA for Africa ("We Are the World"), followed by Live Aid famine relief concert in London and Philadelphia. Other artists push for nuclear disarmament.
• In the United States, hair metal enjoys popularity.
• Andrew Lloyd Webber and Schönberg and Boublil's Les Misérables dominate musical theatre .
• He-Man, the first animated children's television program built exclusively around a toyline, starts a new trend of increasing the connection between children's programming and toy advertising, alarming many parents and watchdog organizations; an explosive number of toy tie-in cartoons follow.
• Hip hop began to achieve mainstream success in the United States, with artists like Kurtis Blow and N.W.A.; hip hop's spread outside of New York City, especially to Los Angeles, accelerates.
• "Gorbymania"
• The Rubik's cube, Cabbage Patch Kids, "Baby on Board" signs, and Trivial Pursuit fads capture the interest of the American public.
• Soap operas gain popularity among high-schoolers and college students in the United States, thanks in part to the supercoupling of Luke and Laura on the most popular soap of the day, General Hospital.
• Women's Lib movement increases women's role in the workplace, and establishes new precedents for US women including the ability to obtain department store credit cards. As a carry-over from the 1970s, more and more women take to calling themselves "Ms." versus "Mrs." or "Miss"
• No-Fault divorce laws pave the way for increased divorce rate, as depicted in the movie, Irreconcilable Differences. The increase in single parent homes leads to the phenomenon of Latch-key children, where children come home to an empty house and watch a lot of television.
• Animation in North America begins a dramatic comeback in production values and mainstream popular appeal both in feature films and on television.

A television network is a distribution network for television content whereby a central operation provides programming for many television stations. ... Cable television or Community Antenna Television (CATV) (and often shortened to cable) is a system of providing television, FM radio programming and other services to consumers via radio frequency signals transmitted directly to people’s televisions through fixed optical fibers or coaxial cables as opposed to the over-the-air... Cheers is the name of a long-running sitcom made by Charles-Burrows-Charles Productions in association with Paramount Television for NBC. The show premiered on September 30, 1982 and had its widely-watched series finale on May 20, 1993, followed by a long and ongoing run in syndication. ... The Cosby Show, starring Bill Cosby, is an American sitcom that was first broadcast in 1984. ... The Fox Broadcasting Company, usually referred to as just Fox, is a television network in the United States. ... CNN or Cable News Network is a cable television network that was founded in 1980 by Ted Turner & Reese Schonfeld [1] [2] (although he currently is not recognized in CNNs official history). ... The Nintendo GameCube is an example of a video game console. ... Centipede by Atari is a typical example of a 1980s era arcade game. ... Steven Spielberg Steven Allan Spielberg KBE (born on December 18, 1946 in Cincinnati, Ohio but raised in the suburbs of Haddonfield, New Jersey and Scottsdale, Arizona), is an American film director whose films range from science fiction to historical drama to horror. ... E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial is a 1982 science fiction film that tells the story of a young boy, Elliott, who befriends an alien being stranded on Earth and trying to find his way home. ... 1982 is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A music video (also video clip, promo) is a short film meant to present a visual representation of a popular music song. ... MTV (abbreviation for Music Television) is a cable television network which was originally devoted to music videos, especially popular rock music. ... Michael Jackson in 1987. ... Madonna Ciccone Madonna Louise Ciccone (born August 16, 1958 in Bay City, Michigan), simply known by the stage name Madonna, also occasionally referred to as Madonna Ciccone Ritchie, is an American singer frequently referred to as the Queen of Pop music. ... At the height of its fame, Duran Duran (The Fab Five) was featured on the cover of the February 1984 issue of Rolling Stone magazine. ... Origins Charity work to aid the starving has developed from religious alms in previous centuries to organised charities in the modern day. ... Cover art for the original Do They Know Its Christmas? release – artist Peter Blake Band Aid is a British and Irish charity supergroup founded in 1984 by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure in order to raise money for famine relief in Ethiopia by releasing a record Do They Know... Cover art for the original Do They Know Its Christmas? release – artist Peter Blake This article is about the song. ... USA for Africa (United Support of Artists for Africa), was the name under which forty-five US artists, led by Harry Belafonte, Kenny Rogers, Michael Jackson, and Lionel Richie, recorded the hit single We Are the World in 1985. ... We Are the World is a 1985 song written by Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie, produced by Quincy Jones and recorded by a supergroup of popular musicians billed as USA for Africa. ... U2 at Live Aid (Wembley Stadium, London) Live Aid was a multi-venue rock music concert held on July 13, 1985. ... St Stevens Tower - The Clock Tower of the Palace of Westminster which contains Big Ben Tower Bridge at night A red double-decker bus crosses Piccadilly Circus. ... Philadelphia is a village located in Jefferson County, New York. ... Nuclear disarmament is the proposed undeployment and dismantling of nuclear weapons particularly those the United States and the Soviet Union (later Russia) targeted on each other. ... Hair metal is a type of heavy metal music that arose in the late 1970s, in the United States, and was a strong force in popular music throughout the 1980s and early 1990s. ... Andrew Lloyd Webber, Baron Lloyd-Webber (born March 22, 1948) is a highly successful British composer of musical theatre. ... Claude-Michel Schönberg is a French record producer, actor, singer, popular songwriter, and musical theatre composer, best known for his collaborations with the librettist Alain Boublil. ... Alain Boublil is a librettist, best known for his collaborations with the composer Claude-Michel Schönberg. ... Les Misérables programme from Palace Theatre purchased for £3 in July 2003. ... Musical theater (or theatre) is a form of theater combining music, songs, dance, and spoken dialogue. ... He-Man as seen in a DC comic from December, 1982, one of his earliest appearances and preceding to the debut of his animated series. ... Green Razor Scooter This article is about things that people play with. ... Generally speaking, advertising is the paid promotion of goods, services, companies and ideas by an identified sponsor. ... A watchdog originally referred to a dogs job, but now has been used in additional contexts with the same implication of watching or safeguarding: For the dogs job, see guard dog. ... Animation refers to the process in which each frame of a film or movie is produced individually, whether generated as a computer graphic, or by photographing a drawn image, or by repeatedly making small changes to a model (see claymation and stop motion), and then photographing the result. ... Hip hop is a cultural movement that began amongst urban African American youth in New York and has since spread around the world. ... Kurtis Blow, (born Curtis Walker on August 9, 1959), is one of the most influential early rappers and hip hops first mainstream star. ... N.W.A (the abbreviation stands for Niggaz with Attitude) was a hip hop group that popularized gangsta rap with the groundbreaking Straight Outta Compton (1989) album, a vicious hardcore record that became an underground hit notorious for its hardcore lyrics, especially those of Fuck Tha Police, which resulted in... Midtown Manhattan, looking north from the Empire State Building, 2005 New York City (officially named the City of New York) is the most populous city in the United States, and is at the center of international finance, politics, communications, music, fashion, and culture. ... The Downtown Los Angeles skyline as seen from Hollywood. ... Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachyov (Gorbachev)  listen? (Russian: ; pronunciation: ) (born March 2, 1931), was leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 until 1991. ... Rubiks Cube about to be solved Rubiks Cube is a mechanical puzzle invented by the Hungarian sculptor and professor of architecture ErnÅ‘ Rubik in 1974. ... USPS stamp depicting the Cabbage Patch Kids craze of the 1980s. ... Trivial Pursuit is a popular party game. ... A fad, also known as a craze, refers to a fashion that becomes popular in a culture (or subcultures) relatively quickly, remains popular, often for a rather brief period, then loses popularity dramatically. ... The first TIME cover devoted to soap operas: Dated January 12, 1976, Bill Hayes and Susan Seaforth Hayes of Days of Our Lives are featured with the headline Soap Operas: Sex and suffering in the afternoon. A soap opera is an ongoing, episodic work of fiction, usually broadcast on television... The first TIME cover devoted to soap operas: Dated January 12, 1976, Bill Hayes and Susan Seaforth Hayes of Days of Our Lives are featured with the headline Soap Operas: Sex and suffering in the afternoon. A supercouple, in soap opera terms, is a couple on a program that becomes... Categories: Supercouples ... General Hospital is the longest-running daytime soap opera on the American ABC television network, and is also the longest-running soap opera produced in Hollywood (having been taped at the Prospect Avenue ABC Television Center West since its inception). ... Feminism is a body of social theory and political movement primarily based on and motivated by the experiences of women. ... For alternative uses, see Ms Ms. ... No-fault divorce is the dissolution of a marriage, upon petition to the court by either party, without the requirement that the petitioner show fault on the part of the other party. ... This article does not cite its references or sources. ... Animation is the technique in which each frame of a film or movie is produced individually, whether generated as a computer graphic, or by photographing a drawn image, or by repeatedly making small changes to a model unit (see claymation and stop motion), and then photographing the result with a... World map showing location of North America A satellite composite image of North America North America is the third largest continent in area and fourth in population after Asia and Africa in area and population and Europe in population. ...

Others

• The AIDS epidemic is identified and named.
• Assassination of John Lennon and Olof Palme, attempts on Ronald Reagan and Pope John Paul II.
• Violent crime and drug trafficking soar to record levels in most large American cities.

The Red Ribbon symbol is used internationally to represent the fight against AIDS. AIDS (Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome or Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, rarely written Aids) is a disease characterized by the destruction of the human immune system. ... Jack Ruby murdered the alleged assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, in a very public manner. ... John Lennon John Winston Lennon, later John Ono Lennon, (October 9, 1940–December 8, 1980), was best known as a singer, songwriter, and guitarist for The Beatles. ... Sven Olof Joachim Palme (January 30, 1927 - February 28, 1986) was a Swedish politician. ... Order: 40th President Vice President: George H.W. Bush Term of office: 20 January 1981 – 20 January 1989 Preceded by: Jimmy Carter Succeeded by: George H.W. Bush Date of birth: 6 February 1911 Place of birth: Tampico, Illinois Date of death: 5 June 2004 Place of death: Bel-Air... The Pope is the Catholic Bishop and patriarch of Rome, and head of the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Catholic Churches. ... The Servant of God Pope John Paul II (Latin: ), born Karol Józef WojtyÅ‚a [1] (May 18, 1920 – April 2, 2005), reigned as pope of the Roman Catholic Church and sovereign of Vatican City and of the Holy See for almost 27 years, from 16 October 1978 until his... A violent crime or crime of violence is a crime in which the offender uses or threatens violent force upon the victim. ... Retail selling Street selling is the bottom of the chain and can be accomplished through purchasing from prostitutes, through cloaked retail stores or refuse houses for users in the act located in red-light districts which often also deal in paraphernalia, dealers marketing merriment at night clubs and other events...

People

World Leaders

• Chancellor Bruno Kreisky (Austria)
• Chancellor Fred Sinowatz (Austria)
• Chancellor Franz Vranitzky (Austria)
• Prime Minister Bob Hawke (Australia)
• Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau (Canada)
• Prime Minister Brian Mulroney (Canada)
• General Augusto Pinochet (Chile)
• Deng Xiaoping (People's Republic of China)
• President Chiang Ching-kuo (Republic of China on Taiwan)
• Prime Minister Poul Schlüter (Denmark)
• Erich Honecker (East Germany)
• President Anwar Sadat (Egypt)
• President Hosni Mubarak (Egypt)
• President Daniel Ortega (Nicaragua)
• President Mengistu Haile Mariam (Ethiopia)
• President Urho Kekkonen (Finland)
• President Mauno Koivisto (Finland)
• President François Mitterrand (France)
• Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou (Greece)
• Prime Minister Indira Gandhi (India)
• Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi (India)
• Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini (Iran)
• President Saddam Hussein (Iraq)
• President Patrick Hillery (Ireland)
• Taoiseach Charles Haughey (Ireland)
• Taoiseach Garret FitzGerald (Ireland)
• Prime Minister Menachem Begin (Israel)
• Prime Minister Shimon Peres (Israel)
• Emperor Hirohito (Japan)
• Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone (Japan)
• Emir Jabir al-Ahmad al-Jabir al-Sabah (Kuwait)
• President Muammar al-Qaddafi (Libya)
• Pope John Paul II
• Prime Minister Dom Mintoff (Malta)
• Prime Minister Karmenu Mifsud Bonnici Malta)
• Prime Minister Eddie Fenech Adami (Malta
• President Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado (Mexico)
• President Samora Machel (Mozambique)
• Prime Minister Robert Muldoon (New Zealand)
• Prime Minister David Lange (New Zealand)
• Prime Minister Geoffrey Palmer (New Zealand)
• Queen Juliana (Netherlands)
• General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq (Pakistan)
• President Ferdinand Marcos (Philippines)
• President Corazon Aquino (Philippines)
• President Wojciech Jaruzelski (Poland)
• Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew (Singapore)
• President and Prime Minister P.W. Botha (South Africa)
• President Chun Doo-hwan (South Korea)
• Premier Leonid Brezhnev (Soviet Union)
• General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev (Soviet Union)
• King Juan Carlos (Spain)
• Prime Minister Ranasinghe Premadasa of Sri Lanka
• Prime Minister Olof Palme (Sweden)
• Queen Elizabeth II (United Kingdom and the Commonwealth Realms)
• Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher (United Kingdom)
• President George H.W. Bush (United States)
• President Jimmy Carter (United States)
• President Ronald Reagan (United States)
• Chancellor Helmut Schmidt (West Germany)
• Chancellor Helmut Kohl (West Germany)
• President Josip Broz Tito (Yugoslavia)
• President Mobutu Sese Seko (Zaire)
• President Robert Mugabe (Zimbabwe)

Bruno Kreisky Bruno Kreisky (January 22, 1911—July 29, 1990) was an Austrian politician. ... Fred Sinowatz (born February 5, 1929 in Neufeld an der Leitha, Burgenland) is a former Austrian politician of the SPÖ. He was Chancellor of Austria from 1983 untill 1986. ... Franz Vranitzky (born October 4, 1937) is an Austrian politician of the SPÖ party (social democrates). ... Hon Bob Hawke Robert James Lee Hawke (born December 9, 1929), Australian trade union leader and politician, was the 23rd Prime Minister of Australia. ... The Right Honourable Joseph Philippe Pierre Yves Elliott Trudeau PC, CC, CH, QC, MA, LL.L, LL.D, FRSC (October 18, 1919 – September 28, 2000) was the fifteenth Prime Minister of Canada from April 20, 1968 to June 3, 1979, and from March 3, 1980 to June 30, 1984. ... The Right Honourable Martin Brian Mulroney, PC , CC , GOQ , LL.D. (born March 20, 1939), was the eighteenth Prime Minister of Canada from September 17, 1984, to June 25, 1993. ... General Augusto José Ramón Pinochet Ugarte[1] (born November 25, 1915) was head of the military government that ruled Chile from 1973 to 1990. ... Deng Xiaoping Deng Xiaoping   ? (Simplified Chinese: 邓小平; Traditional Chinese: 鄧小平; pinyin: ; Wade-Giles: Teng Hsiao-ping; pronounced Dung Shyao-ping; August 22, 1904—February 19, 1997) was a revolutionary elder in the Communist Party of China (CPC) who served as the de facto ruler of the Peoples Republic of China... Chiang Ching-kuo (蔣經國 in pinyin: Jiǎng Jīngguó) (April 271, 1910 - January 13, 1988), Kuomintang politician and leader, was the son of Chiang Kai-shek and held numerous posts in the government of the Republic of China (from 1949 on Taiwan). ... The Republic of China (Traditional Chinese: 中華民國; Simplified Chinese: 中华民国; Wade-Giles: Chung-hua Min-kuo, Tongyong Pinyin: JhongHuá MínGuó, Hanyu Pinyin: Zhōnghuá Mínguó, Taiwanese POJ: Tiong-hoâ Bîn-kok) is a multiparty democratic state that is effectively composed of the island groups of Taiwan, the Pescadores, Quemoy... Poul Schlüter is a Danish politician, born in Tønder, in southern Jutland, Denmark in 1929. ... Erich Honecker – official GDR portrait Erich Honecker (25 August 1912–29 May 1994) was a German Communist politician who led East Germany from 1971 until 1989. ... East Germany, officially the German Democratic Republic (GDR), German Deutsche Demokratische Republik (DDR), was a Communist state that existed from 1949 to 1990 in the former Soviet occupation zone of Germany. ... Anwar Sadat Mohamed Anwar el-Sadat – محمد أنورالسادات Arabic - (December 25, 1918 – October 6, 1981) Egyptian politician and President from 1970 to 1981. ... Hosni Mubarak, President of Egypt Muhammad Hosni Said Mubarak (Arabic : محمد حسنى سيد مبارك ) commonly known as Hosni Mubarak has been the President of the Arab Republic of Egypt since 14 October 1981. ... Ortega addresses the UN General Assembly Daniel Ortega Saavedra (born 11 November 1945) was President of Nicaragua from 1985 to 1990, during the Sandinista government, and is currently the leader of the Sandinista party. ... Mengistu Haile Mariam (born 1937) was the head of state of Ethiopia from 1977 to 1991. ... Urho Kekkonen Urho Kaleva Kekkonen (September 3, 1900–August 31, 1986) was a Finnish politician who served as Prime Minister of Finland (1950–1956) and later as President of Finland (1956–1981). ... Mauno Henrik Koivisto (born November 25, 1923) was the president of Finland from 1982 to 1994. ... François Maurice Adrien Marie Mitterrand (October 26, 1916 – January 8, 1996;   pronunciation?) was a French politician and President of France from May 1981, re-elected in 1988, until 1995. ... Andreas Papandreou Andreas Georgios Papandreou, Ανδρέας Γ. Παπανδρέου (15 February 1919 - 23 June 1996) was a Greek economist and politician. ... Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi (इन्दिरा प्रियदर्शिनी गान्धी) (November 19, 1917 – October 31, 1984) was Prime Minister of India from January 19, 1966 to March 24, 1977, and from January 14, 1980 until her assassination in 1984. ... Rajiv Gandhi (राजीव गान्धी) (August 20, 1944 – May 21, 1991), the first son of Indira and Feroze Gandhi, was the Prime Minister of India from his mothers death on October 31, 1984 until his resignation on December 2, 1989 following the general election defeat. ... Ayatollah Khomeini founded the first modern Islamic republic Ayatollah Seyyed Ruhollah Khomeini (آیت‌الله روح‌الله خمینی in Persian) (May 17, 1900 – June 3, 1989) was an Iranian Shia cleric and the political and spiritual leader of the 1979 revolution that overthrew Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the then Shah of Iran. ... Saddam Hussein Saddām Hussein Ê»Abd al-MajÄ«d al-TikrÄ«t, spelled Husayn or Hussain; Arabic صدام حسين عبد المجيد التكريتي; born April 28, 1937 1) was President of Iraq from 1979 until 2003. ... Dr. Patrick John Hillery (born May 2, 1923) was an Irish Fianna Fáil politician and the sixth President of Ireland from 1976 until 1990. ... Charles (Charlie) James Haughey (Irish name Cathal Ó hEochaidh) (born September 16, 1925), was the sixth Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland, serving three terms in office; 1979 to 1981, 1982 and 1987 to 1992. ... Dr. Garret FitzGerald (Irish: Gearóid MacGearailt) (born February 9, 1926) was the seventh Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland, serving two terms in office; July 1981 to February 1982, and December 1982 to March 1987. ... Menachem Begin on the front cover of TIME 1982. ... Shimon Peres Shimon Peres (Hebrew שִׁמְעוֹן פֶּרֶס) (born August 21, 1923), an Israeli politician, is the head of the Israeli Labour Party and served as 8th Prime Minister of Israel from 1984-1986 and 1995-1996 and Foreign Affairs Minister of Israel from 2001-2002, and became Vice Premier in a coalition... Hirohito (裕仁), the Shōwa Emperor (昭和天皇, Shōwa tennō), (April 29, 1901 – January 7, 1989) reigned over Japan from 1926 to 1989. ... Yasuhiro Nakasone Yasuhiro Nakasone (中曽根 康弘 Nakasone Yasuhiro, b. ... Jabir al-Ahmad al-Jabir Al Sabah (born June 29, 1926) is the emir of Kuwait, of the Al-Sabah dynasty in power there since the mid-18th century. ... Colonel Muammar al-Qaddafi Muammar Abu Minyar al-Qaddafi 1 (Arabic: معمر القذافي Mu`ammar al-Qadhdhāfī) (born 1942), has been the leader of Libya since 1969. ... The Servant of God Pope John Paul II (Latin: ), born Karol Józef WojtyÅ‚a [1] (May 18, 1920 – April 2, 2005), reigned as pope of the Roman Catholic Church and sovereign of Vatican City and of the Holy See for almost 27 years, from 16 October 1978 until his... Dominic Mintoff (born August 6, 1916) was Prime Minister of Malta under British colonial rule, between 1955 and 1958, and then after independence, serving between 1971 and 1984. ... Introduction Dr Edward Fenech-Adami, also known as Eddie, (born February 7, 1934) was the Prime Minister of Malta from 1987 until 1996 and from 1998 until 2004. ... Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado (born December 12, 1934) was President of Mexico, for the PRI, from December 1, 1982 to December 1, 1988. ... Samora Moisés Machel (September 29, 1933 - October 19, 1986) was a prominent leader of FRELIMO and president of Mozambique. ... Sir Robert David (Rob) Muldoon KCMG CH (25 September 1921–5 August 1992) served as Prime Minister of New Zealand from 1975 to 1984. ... The Right Honourable David Russell Lange (pron. ... For the British actor, see Geoffrey Palmer (actor) For the English lawyer, see Geoffrey Palmer (attorney) The Right Honourable Sir Geoffrey Winston Russell Palmer, AC, KCMG (born 21 April 1942), served as Prime Minister of New Zealand from August 1989 until September 1990, leading the Labour Party. ... Queen Juliana Juliana Louise Emma Marie Wilhelmina (April 30, 1909 - March 20, 2004), Princess of Orange-Nassau, Duchess of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, was Queen of the Netherlands from her mothers abdication in 1948 to her own abdication in 1980 and Queen Mother (with the title of Princess) from 1980 to... |} General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq (August 12, 1924–August 17, 1988) ruled Pakistan from 1977 to 1988. ... Ferdinand Marcos Ferdinand Edralin Marcos (September 11, 1917 – September 28, 1989) was the tenth President of the Philippines. ... PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES Corazón Aquino Corazón Cojuangco Aquino (born January 25, 1933), widely known as Cory Aquino, was President of the Philippines from 1986 to 1992. ... Term of Office from July 19, 1989 until December 22, 1990 Profession Officer Political Party PZPR First Lady Barbara Jaruzelska Date of Birth July 6, 1923 Place of Birth Kurów near Puławy, Poland Date of Death Place of Death Wojciech Witold Jaruzelski (pronounce: [vɔjtɕεx jaruzεlski]) (born July 6, 1923... This article needs copyediting (checking for proper English spelling, grammar, usage, etc. ... P.W. Botha Pieter Willem Botha, (born January 12, 1916) commonly known as P.W. and as die groot krokodil (the big crocodile) or die ou krokodil (the old crocodile) was Prime Minister of South Africa from 1978 to 1984 and State President of South Africa from 1984 to 1989. ... Chun Doo-hwan (born 18 January 1931) was a Korean military officer and the President of South Korea from 1980 to 1988. ... Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev   listen? (Russian: Леони́д Ильи́ч Бре́жнев) (December 19, 1906 – November 10, 1982) was effective ruler of the Soviet Union from 1964 to 1982, though at first in partnership with others. ... Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachyov (Gorbachev)  listen? (Russian: ; pronunciation: ) (born March 2, 1931), was leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 until 1991. ... King Juan Carlos I His Majesty King Juan Carlos I (Juan Carlos Alfonso Víctor María de Borbón y Borbón), styled HM The King (born January 5, 1938), is the reigning King of Spain. ... This article needs cleanup. ... Sven Olof Joachim Palme (January 30, 1927 - February 28, 1986) was a Swedish politician. ... Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor), styled HM The Queen (born 21 April 1926) is the Queen regnant and head of state of Antigua and Barbuda, Australia, the Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Canada, Grenada, Jamaica, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent... A Commonwealth Realm is any one of the 16 sovereign states of the Commonwealth that recognize Queen Elizabeth II as their Queen and head of state. ... The Right Honourable Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, KG, OM, PC, FRS (born 13 October 1925), born Margaret Hilda Roberts, is a British stateswoman and was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990, the only woman as of 2005 to serve in that position. ... Order: 41st President Vice President: Dan Quayle Term of office: January 20, 1989 – January 20, 1993 Preceded by: Ronald Reagan Succeeded by: Bill Clinton Date of birth: June 12, 1924 Place of birth: Milton, Massachusetts First Lady: Barbara Pierce Bush Political party: Republican George Herbert Walker Bush, KBE (born June... Order: 39th President Vice President: Walter Mondale Term of office: January 20, 1977 – January 20, 1981 Preceded by: Gerald Ford Succeeded by: Ronald Reagan Date of birth: October 1, 1924 Place of birth: Plains, Georgia First Lady: Rosalynn Carter Political party: Democratic James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr. ... Order: 40th President Vice President: George H.W. Bush Term of office: 20 January 1981 – 20 January 1989 Preceded by: Jimmy Carter Succeeded by: George H.W. Bush Date of birth: 6 February 1911 Place of birth: Tampico, Illinois Date of death: 5 June 2004 Place of death: Bel-Air... Helmut Heinrich Waldemar Schmidt (born December 23, 1918) is a German SPD politician. ... Dr. Helmut Kohl (full name Helmut Josef Michael Kohl) (born April 3, 1930) is a German conservative politician and statesman. ... Josip Broz Tito  listen? (May 7, 1892 – May 4, 1980) was the president of Yugoslavia between the end of World War II and his death in 1980. ... The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was a Balkan state that existed from 1945 to 1992. ... Mobutu Sese Seko Nkuku wa za Banga (or Mobutu Sese Seko Koko Ngbendu Wa Za Banga; October 14, 1930 - September 7, 1997) was the President of Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo) from 1965 to 1997. ... Robert Gabriel Mugabe (born February 21, 1924) has been the head of government in Zimbabwe, first as Prime Minister and later as first executive President, since 1980. ...

Entertainers

• Matthew Broderick (Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Glory)
• Phoebe Cates (Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Gremlins)
• Tom Cruise (Top Gun, Rain Man, Risky Business, The Color of Money)
• Emilio Estevez (The Breakfast Club, The Outsiders, Young Guns)
• Harrison Ford (Indiana Jones series, Star Wars series, Blade Runner, Witness)
• Michael J. Fox (Back to the Future series, Teen Wolf
• Mel Gibson (Lethal Weapon series, Mad Max series)
• Paul Hogan (Crocodile Dundee)
• Michael Keaton (Batman, Mr. Mom, Night Shift)
• George Lucas (Indiana Jones series, Star Wars series, Captain Eo)
• Eddie Murphy (Saturday Night Live, Beverly Hills Cop, Trading Places)
• Jack Nicholson (Terms of Endearment, The Shining, Batman, Prizzi's Honor, Ironweed, Reds)
• Michelle Pfeiffer (Scarface, Dangerous Liaisons)
• Arnold Schwarzenegger (The Terminator, Predator, Conan the Barbarian)
• Michael Jackson (Thriller)
• Madonna (Material Girl)
• U2 (War, The Joshua Tree, Rattle and Hum)

Matthew Broderick (born March 21, 1962) is an American film and stage actor who is perhaps most widely known for his role as the protagonist in Ferris Buellers Day Off although the most successful film where he has a starring role is The Lion King. ... Ferris Bueller (Matthew Broderick) shakes things up on a parade float Ferris Buellers Day Off is a 1986 film written and directed by John Hughes. ... Glory is a 1989 film which depicts the Unionists attack on Fort Wagner during the American Civil War, which was spearheaded by Robert Gould Shaws 54th Massachusetts Regiment. ... Phoebe Cates (born July 16, 1963) is an American film actress who, by her description, has retired from acting to become a full-time mother. ... Fast Times at Ridgemont High is a 1982 American teen film directed by Amy Heckerling and written by Cameron Crowe (who wrote both the screenplay and a book of the same name which inspired the movie). ... Gremlins (movie) - Wikipedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... Tom Cruise as seen on the poster for the 2001 film Vanilla Sky Tom Cruise (born Thomas Cruise Mapother IV July 3, 1962 in Syracuse, New York, USA) is an American film actor and producer who has starred in a number of top-grossing movies. ... Top Gun is a 1986 American movie starring Tom Cruise as Lt. ... Rain Man is a 1988 film which tells the story of a selfish yuppie who discovers that his father has left all of his estate to the autistic brother he never knew he had. ... Risky Business is a 1983 film written and directed by Paul Brickman. ... The Color of Money was a 1984 novel by American writer Walter Tevis, continuing the story of Fast Eddie Felson from The Hustler (1959). ... Emilio Estevez early in his career. ... - The Breakfast Club (1985) is a quintessential 1980s film written and directed by John Hughes in which a group of teenagers representing different cliques in high school spend a Saturday morning in detention together and come to realize that they are all deeper than their respective stereotypes. ... The Outsiders is a novel by S. E. Hinton; see The Outsiders (novel). ... Young Guns is a 1988 film featuring Emilio Estevez, Kiefer Sutherland, Lou Diamond Phillips, Charlie Sheen, Dermot Mulroney and Casey Siemaszko. ... Harrison Ford Harrison Ford (born July 13, 1942,) is an American actor who, between 1977 and 1983, appeared in what were then four of the top ten highest-grossing movies ever. ... Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones Indiana Jones is a fictional bullwhip-toting archaeologist with an overdeveloped fear of snakes, played by Harrison Ford in a series of films by George Lucas and Steven Spielberg; a younger version of the character was also played by River Phoenix in the third film... For the missile defense program, see Strategic Defense Initiative. ... Blade Runner is a science fiction film directed by Ridley Scott and released in 1982, depicting a dark, dystopic vision of Los Angeles in November 2019. ... Witness is a 1985 movie released by Paramount Pictures starring Harrison Ford and Kelly McGillis. ... Michael J. Fox in his earlier days. ... Back to the Future is a 1985 film by Robert Zemeckis, written by Robert Zemeckis and Robert Gale, and starring Michael J. Fox. ... Teen Wolf is a 1985 movie starring Michael J. Fox as Scott Howard, a high school student who discovers that his family has an unusual heritage when he finds himself transforming into a wolfman. ... Mel Gibson (born January 3, 1956) is an American-born Australian-reared actor, director and producer best known for acting in the Mad Max movie series, the Lethal Weapon series, Braveheart and directing the 2004 blockbuster The Passion of the Christ. ... Lethal Weapon is 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 officers. ... Mad Max is an Australian science fiction film starring Mel Gibson as Max Rockatansky. ... Paul Hogan (born October 8, 1939 in Lightning Ridge, Australia) is an Australian actor and comedian. ... Crocodile Dundee is a 1986 Australian comedy film set in the Australian Outback in the area around Walkabout Creek and in New York City. ... Michael Keaton in Batman Returns (1992) Michael Keaton, (born September 9 or September 5, 1951 in Coraopolis, Pennsylvania) is an American actor. ... Batman DVD cover, 1997 release version Batman was released in U.S. theaters on June 23, 1989 by Warner Bros. ... Mr. ... Night shift refers either to a group of workers who work during the night, or the period in which they work. ... George Lucas George Walton Lucas, Jr. ... Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones Indiana Jones is a fictional bullwhip-toting archaeologist with an overdeveloped fear of snakes, played by Harrison Ford in a series of films by George Lucas and Steven Spielberg; a younger version of the character was also played by River Phoenix in the third film... For the missile defense program, see Strategic Defense Initiative. ... Captain EO poster A drawing of the Supreme Leader Captain EO (alternately, Captain Eo) was a 3-D film shown in Disney theme parks. ... Eddie Murphy Edward Regan Eddie Murphy (born April 3, 1961, Brooklyn, New York) is an African-American comedian and actor. ... Saturday Night Live (SNL) is a weekly late-night 90-minute comedy-variety show from NBC which has been broadcast virtually every Saturday night since its debut on October 11, 1975. ... Beverly Hills Cop (1984) is an American action comedy film directed by Martin Brest and starring Eddie Murphy. ... Trading Places (1983) is the title of a successful comedy film starring Eddie Murphy, Dan Aykroyd and Jamie Lee Curtis. ... Jack Nicholson John Joseph Nicholson (born April 22, 1937) is a highly successful, iconic American method actor. ... Terms of Endearment is a 1983 film which tells the story of a mother and daughter whose relationship is tense at best. ... The Shining can refer to: the Stephen King book: see The Shining (book) the Stanley Kubrick film based on the book: see The Shining (film) the ABC mini-series scripted by Stephen King: The Shining (mini-series) This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that... Batman DVD cover, 1997 release version Batman was released in U.S. theaters on June 23, 1989 by Warner Bros. ... Prizzis Honor is a 1985 comedy film which tells the story of a mob hit man and hit woman who fall in love with each other, even though they have been hired to kill each other. ... Ironweed is a 1983 novel by William Kennedy. ... Reds is a 1981 movie starring Warren Beatty and Diane Keaton. ... Michelle Pfeiffer on the cover of Newsweek Michelle Pfeiffer (born April 29, 1958) is an American actress and singer. ... Scarface has several meanings: Scarface is a nickname for Al Capone. ... Dangerous Liaisons is a 1988 film directed by Stephen Frears. ... Arnold Schwarzenegger 38th Governor of California Shown here as Governor of California, with the gubernatorial seal in the background. ... The Terminator is a 1984 sci-fi action film which became the break-through role for former body-builder Arnold Schwarzenegger. ... Predator is a 1987 science fiction movie that was directed by John McTiernan and released on Friday, June 12. ... Conan the Barbarian (also known as Conan the Cimmerian, from the name of his homeland, Cimmeria) is a literary character created by Robert E. Howard in a series of fantasy pulp stories published in Weird Tales in the 1930s. ... Michael Jackson in 1987. ... The thriller is a genre of fiction in which tough, resourceful, but essentially ordinary heroes are pitted against villains determined to destroy them, their country, or the stability of the free world. ... Madonna Ciccone Madonna Louise Ciccone (born August 16, 1958 in Bay City, Michigan), simply known by the stage name Madonna, also occasionally referred to as Madonna Ciccone Ritchie, is an American singer frequently referred to as the Queen of Pop music. ... Material Girl is a hit single recorded by Madonna. ... U2 (L to R): The Edge, Bono, Adam Clayton, Larry Mullen U2 is an Irish rock band featuring Bono (Paul David Hewson) on vocals and guitar, The Edge (David Howell Evans) on guitar and pianos, vocals, and bass, Adam Clayton on bass and guitar, and Larry Mullen on drums. ... War is a 1983 album from U2 (see 1983 in music), produced by Steve Lillywhite. ... The Joshua Tree is an album by U2, released on March 9, 1987 on Island Records (see 1987 in music). ... Rattle and Hum refers to both a motion picture about the band U2 and its companion album, documenting the bands 1987 tour of the United States and its exploration into American music. ...

Sports figures

• Alexis Arguello (Nicaraguan boxer)
• Wilfred Benitez (Puerto Rican boxer)
• Larry Bird (U.S. basketball player)
• George Brett (U.S. baseball player)
• Julio Cesar Chavez (Mexican boxer)
• Roberto Duran (Panamanian boxer)
• Ric Flair (U.S. wrestler)
• Wilfredo Gómez (Puerto Rican boxer)
• Wayne Gretzky (Canadian ice hockey player)
• Florence Griffith Joyner (U.S. track and field athlete)
• Marvin Hagler (U.S. boxer)
• Ellery Hanley (English Rugby League player)
• Thomas Hearns (U.S. boxer)
• Hulk Hogan (U.S. wrestler)
• Larry Holmes (U.S. boxer)
• Bo Jackson (U.S. American football and baseball player)
• Jahangir Khan (Pakistani squash player)
• Earvin "Magic" Johnson (U.S. basketball player)
• Michael Jordan (U.S. basketball player)
• Jarmila Kratochvílová (Czech track and field athlete)
• Greg LeMond (U.S. cyclist)
• Sugar Ray Leonard (U.S. boxer)
• Carl Lewis (U.S. track and field athlete)
• Wally Lewis (Australian Rugby League player}
• Ronnie Lott (U.S. American football player)
• Diego Maradona (Argentinian soccer player)
• John McEnroe (U.S. tennis player)
• Mal Meninga (Australian Rugby League player}
• Mark Messier (Canadian ice hockey player)
• 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team ("Miracle On Ice")
• Joe Montana (U.S. American football player)
• Martina Navratilova (Czech/U.S. tennis player)
• Jack Nicklaus (U.S. golfer)
• Michel Platini (French soccer player)
• Alain Prost (French racing driver)
• Nolan Ryan (U.S. baseball player)
• Ozzie Smith (U.S. baseball player)
• Michael Spinks (U.S. boxer)
• Lawrence Taylor (U.S. American football player)
• Isiah Thomas (U.S. basketball player)
• Daley Thompson (English track and field athlete)
• Mike Tyson (U.S. boxer)
• Gary Lineker (English footballer)

Alexis Argüello (born April 19, 1952), is a former world champion Nicaragua. ... 2004 Armed Forces Amateur Boxing Championships, held in 2003. ... Wilfred Benitez (born September 12, 1958), also known popularly as Wilfredo Benitez, is a Puerto Rican boxer. ... 2004 Armed Forces Amateur Boxing Championships, held in 2003. ... Larry Joe Bird (born December 7, 1956) is a former NBA basketball player. ... Basketball Basketball is a ball sport in which two teams of five players each try to score points by throwing a ball through a hoop. ... George Howard Brett (born May 15, 1953 in Glen Dale, West Virginia) is a former American baseball player. ... Baseball is a team sport, in which a fist-sized ball is thrown by a defensive player called a pitcher and hit by an offensive player called a batter with a round, smooth stick called a bat. ... Julio César Chávez (born July 12, 1962 in Culiacán, Sinaloa) is a Mexican world champion boxer who won world titles in 3 different divisions, went undefeated for 89 bouts before originally retiring with a record of 104-5-2, with 80 knockouts. ... 2004 Armed Forces Amateur Boxing Championships, held in 2003. ... Roberto Duran (b. ... 2004 Armed Forces Amateur Boxing Championships, held in 2003. ... Ric Flair on WWE Raw. ... Professional wrestling is a form of performance entertainment where the participants engage in simulated sporting matches. ... Wilfredo Gómez (born October 29, 1956) is a former boxer and three time world champion. ... 2004 Armed Forces Amateur Boxing Championships, held in 2003. ... Wayne Gretzky playing for the New York Rangers in 1997 Wayne Douglas Gretzky, OC (born January 26, 1961) is a former professional ice hockey player. ... Ice hockey, known simply as hockey in areas where it is more common than field hockey, is a team sport played on ice. ... Delorez Florence Griffith-Joyner a. ... Athletics, also known as track and field or track and field athletics, is a collection of sport events. ... Marvin Hagler Marvelous Marvin Hagler (born May 23, 1954), a native of Brockton, Massachusetts, was a very tough looking character, and a number one ranked Middleweight boxer for many years before he could fight for the title. ... 2004 Armed Forces Amateur Boxing Championships, held in 2003. ... Ellery Hanley is a Rugby League player and coach. ... Rugby league is a team sport, played by teams of 13 players per side (usually plus 4 substitutes). ... Thomas Hearns (born October 18, 1958), aka the Hit Man and the Motor City Cobra, is a professional boxer. ... 2004 Armed Forces Amateur Boxing Championships, held in 2003. ... Terrence Gene Bollea, best known as Hulk Hogan and Hollywood Hogan (born August 11, 1953 in Augusta, Georgia), is an American professional wrestler and actor. ... Professional wrestling is a form of performance entertainment where the participants engage in simulated sporting matches. ... Larry Holmes is a former world heavyweight boxing champion considered one of the fiercest fighters in the history of heavyweight boxing. ... 2004 Armed Forces Amateur Boxing Championships, held in 2003. ... Vincent Edward Bo Jackson (born November 30, 1962) is an American former multi-sport athlete who played professional football and Major League Baseball simultaneously, and was the first athlete named an All-Star in both sports. ... United States simply as football, is a competitive team sport that is both fast-paced and strategic. ... Baseball is a team sport, in which a fist-sized ball is thrown by a defensive player called a pitcher and hit by an offensive player called a batter with a round, smooth stick called a bat. ... Jahangir Khan (born December 10, 1963) is seen by some as the greatest squash player in history. ... Squash racquet and ball Squash is an indoor racquet sport which was, until recently, called Squash Rackets, a reference to the squashable soft ball used in the game (compared with the harder ball used in its parent game Racquets or Rackets--see below). ... Magic Johnson Earvin Magic Johnson, Jr. ... Basketball Basketball is a ball sport in which two teams of five players each try to score points by throwing a ball through a hoop. ... Michael Jordan Michael Jeffrey Jordan (born February 17, 1963, in Brooklyn, New York) is a former National Basketball Association player, considered by many to be the greatest basketball player of all time. ... Basketball Basketball is a ball sport in which two teams of five players each try to score points by throwing a ball through a hoop. ... Jarmila Kratochvílová was a late-developing Czech 400m runner whose career was dogged by injury and illness. ... Athletics, also known as track and field or track and field athletics, is a collection of sport events. ... Greg LeMond (born June 26, 1961 in Lakewood, California) is a former professional road bicycle racer from the United States. ... Cycling is a recreation, a sport, and a means of transport across land. ... Sugar Ray Leonard (born 1956) is an American who is a former boxer. ... 2004 Armed Forces Amateur Boxing Championships, held in 2003. ... Frederick Carlton Carl Lewis (born July 1, 1961) is an American athlete. ... Athletics, also known as track and field or track and field athletics, is a collection of sport events. ... Wally Lewis (born 1 December, 1959 in Brisbane, Australia) is generally considered the greatest Rugby League player of all time. ... Rugby league is a team sport, played by teams of 13 players per side (usually plus 4 substitutes). ... Ronald Mandel Ronnie Lott (born May 8, 1959 in Albuquerque, New Mexico) is a former American football player who starred as a cornerback, free safety and strong safety in college football and the NFL. Lott graduated from the University of Southern California in 1981 with a degree in public administration. ... United States simply as football, is a competitive team sport that is both fast-paced and strategic. ... Maradona and the World Cup trophy Diego Armando Maradona (nicknamed El Diego, Pelusa, and El Pibe) (born October 30, 1960) is a former Argentine football player. ... The striker (wearing red jersey) has run past the defender (in white jersey) and is about to take a shot at the goal, while the goalkeeper positions himself to stop the ball. ... John Patrick McEnroe, Jr. ... Tennis balls This article is about the sport, tennis. ... Mal Meninga was a legendary Australian Rugby League player. ... Rugby league is a team sport, played by teams of 13 players per side (usually plus 4 substitutes). ... Mark Douglas John Messier (born January 18, 1961, in Edmonton, Alberta) is an Ice Hockey center in the National Hockey League, who has spent a quarter of a century in the professional ranks to date (1979-2004) with the Edmonton Oilers, New York Rangers, and Vancouver Canucks. ... Ice hockey, known simply as hockey in areas where it is more common than field hockey, is a team sport played on ice. ... The 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team celebrates the goal that led them to victory over the USSR. The Miracle on Ice is the popular nickname for the ice hockey game in the 1980 Olympic Winter Games, in which a team of amateur and collegiate players from the United States... Joe Montana (born Joseph Clifford Montana on June 11, 1956 in Monongahela, Pennsylvania) is widely considered one of the best quarterbacks in the history of the NFL. He led the San Francisco 49ers to four Super Bowls (1982, 1985, 1989, 1990) and became the only player to win three Super... United States simply as football, is a competitive team sport that is both fast-paced and strategic. ... Navratilova at the 2000 US Open Martina Navrátilová  listen (b. ... Tennis balls This article is about the sport, tennis. ... Jack William Nicklaus (born January 21, 1940 in Columbus, Ohio), also known as The Golden Bear, was a major force in professional golf from the 1960s to the late 1990s, and is regarded by many as the greatest golfer of all time. ... Golfer teeing off at the start of a hole Golf is an outdoor game where individual players or teams play a small ball into a hole using various clubs. ... Michel Platini (born June 21, 1955 in Joeuf (Département Meurthe-et-Moselle) is a former French football player, widely regarded as one of the most elegant midfielders of his generation. ... The striker (wearing red jersey) has run past the defender (in white jersey) and is about to take a shot at the goal, while the goalkeeper positions himself to stop the ball. ... Alain Marie Pascal Prost, (born February 24, 1955 in Saint-Chamond, Loire, France) is one of the most successful Formula One drivers of all time. ... Auto racing (also known as automobile racing or autosport) is a sport involving racing automobiles. ... Nolan Ryan Lynn Nolan Ryan, Jr. ... Baseball is a team sport, in which a fist-sized ball is thrown by a defensive player called a pitcher and hit by an offensive player called a batter with a round, smooth stick called a bat. ... Ozzie Smith was well-known for his defensive plays at shortstop. ... Baseball is a team sport, in which a fist-sized ball is thrown by a defensive player called a pitcher and hit by an offensive player called a batter with a round, smooth stick called a bat. ... Michael Spinks (born July 13, 1956), a native of St. ... 2004 Armed Forces Amateur Boxing Championships, held in 2003. ... Lawrence Julius Taylor (born February 4, 1959, in Williamsburg, Virginia) is a retired Hall of Fame American Football linebacker, and defensive end for the NFL New York Giants. ... United States simply as football, is a competitive team sport that is both fast-paced and strategic. ... Isiah Lord Thomas III (born April 30, 1961 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American former professional basketball player and coach, and is currently the president of basketball operations for the NBAs New York Knicks. ... Basketball Basketball is a ball sport in which two teams of five players each try to score points by throwing a ball through a hoop. ... Francis Morgan Daley Thompson, born July 30th, 1958 in London, England, is a former British decathlete. ... Athletics, also known as track and field or track and field athletics, is a collection of sport events. ... Michael Gerard Tyson (born June 30, 1966, New York City, USA) is a former professional boxer and World Heavyweight Champion and is considered by some to be one of greatest heavyweight boxers of all time. ... 2004 Armed Forces Amateur Boxing Championships, held in 2003. ... Gary Winston Lineker OBE, (born 30 November 1960), was a notable English international footballer. ... Football is a ball game played between two teams of eleven players, each attempting to win by scoring more goals than their opponent. ...

Film

• Ghostbusters
• Meg Ryan
• Charlie Sheen
• Bo Derek
• Matt Dillon
• Jodie Foster
• Sixteen Candles
• Batman (Michael Keaton and Jack Nicholson)
• Ferris Bueller's Day Off
• Brat Pack
• John Hughes
• The Breakfast Club
• Pretty in Pink
• Hairspray
• Top Gun
• Sean Penn
• Sylvester Stallone (Rambo: First Blood)
• Patrick Swayze (Dirty Dancing)
• Sigourney Weaver
• The Lost Boys
• Back to the Future
• Beverly Hills Cop
• Short Circuit
• Empire Strikes Back
• Return of the Jedi

Ghostbusters (sometimes written Ghost Busters) is a 1984 sci-fi comedy film about three parapsychologists who are fired from a New York City University, and start up their own business investigating and eliminating ghosts. ... Meg Ryan Meg Ryan (nee Margaret Mary Emily Anne Hyra, November 19, 1961 in Fairfield, Connecticut) is an American actress who specializes in romantic comedies, but has worked in other film genres as well. ... Charlie Sheen Carlos Irwin Estevez, whose stage name is Charlie Sheen, (born September 3, 1965) is an American actor. ... Bo Derek circa 2000. ... Matt Dillon (February 18, 1964) is an actor born in New Rochelle, New York, USA His first notable roles were in a series of teen themed movies, but he won critical acclaim for his performance as Bob in Gus Van Sants Drugstore Cowboy. ... Jodie Foster Alicia Christian Jodie Foster (born November 19, 1962) is an American actress and director. ... Sixteen Candles is a 1984 Brat Pack film starring Molly Ringwald, Anthony Michael Hall, and Michael Schoeffling. ... Batman DVD cover, 1997 release version Batman was released in U.S. theaters on June 23, 1989 by Warner Bros. ... Michael Keaton in Batman Returns (1992) Michael Keaton, (born September 9 or September 5, 1951 in Coraopolis, Pennsylvania) is an American actor. ... Jack Nicholson John Joseph Nicholson (born April 22, 1937) is a highly successful, iconic American method actor. ... Ferris Bueller (Matthew Broderick) shakes things up on a parade float Ferris Buellers Day Off is a 1986 film written and directed by John Hughes. ... The Brat Pack was a group of young actors and actresses that became famous in the 1980s and frequently appeared in films together. ... John Hughes (born February 18, 1950 in Lansing, Michigan) is a noted film director, producer and writer, responsible for some of the most successful comedy films of the 1980s and 1990s. ... - The Breakfast Club (1985) is a quintessential 1980s film written and directed by John Hughes in which a group of teenagers representing different cliques in high school spend a Saturday morning in detention together and come to realize that they are all deeper than their respective stereotypes. ... Pretty in Pink is a 1986 film about teenage love and the struggle of growing up in poverty. ... This article is about Hairspray, the musical that started performances on Broadway in 2002. ... Top Gun is a 1986 American movie starring Tom Cruise as Lt. ... Sean Penn winning the 2003 Oscar for the Best Actor Sean Penn (born August 17, 1960 in Santa Monica, California) is an American film actor. ... Sylvester Stallone Sylvester Gardenzio Stallone (born July 6, 1946 in New York City), usually known as Sylvester Stallone, is an American film actor, director, producer, and screenwriter. ... Rambo is a trilogy of popular action films based on the characters created by David Morrell in his novel First Blood. ... Patrick Wayne Swayze, (born 18 August 1952), is a dancer, actor and singer, memorable for his roles in the films Dirty Dancing (1987), Ghost (1990) and Donnie Darko (2001). ... Dirty Dancing is a 1987 musical/romance film starring Patrick Swayze, Jennifer Grey and the late Jerry Orbach. ... Sigourney Weaver Susan Alexandra Sigourney Weaver (born October 8, 1949 in New York, New York) is an American actress perhaps best known for her portrayal of Ripley in Alien (1979) and its sequels. ... The Lost Boys is a 1987 American comedy/horror film about young Californians who must fight a gang of teenage vampires. ... Back to the Future is a 1985 film by Robert Zemeckis, written by Robert Zemeckis and Robert Gale, and starring Michael J. Fox. ... Beverly Hills Cop (1984) is an American action comedy film directed by Martin Brest and starring Eddie Murphy. ... For alternate meanings see Short circuit (disambiguation) A short circuit (sometimes known as simply a short) is a fault whereby electricity moves through a circuit in an unintended path, usually due to a connection forming where none was expected. ... Movie poster Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back is the sequel to the first released Star Wars movie, and the second film released in the original trilogy. ... Movie poster Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi, is a science fiction film that debuted in 1983, and re-released with changes in 1997 and 2004. ...

Television

See Also: 1980s in television This page indexes the individual year in television pages. ...

• The A-Team (including Mr. T)
• Alf
• Cagney & Lacey
• Cheers
• The Cosby Show
• Diff'rent Strokes
• Dukes of Hazzard
• Dynasty
• EastEnders
• Facts of Life
• Falcon Crest
• Family Ties
• Full House
• Growing Pains
• General Hospital
• Hill Street Blues
• The Jewel in the Crown
• Knight Rider
• L.A. Law
• Late Night with David Letterman
• Miami Vice
• Moonlighting
• MTV
• Neighbours
• Only Fools and Horses
• Perfect Strangers
• Punky Brewster
• Roseanne
• Saturday Night Live
• Smurfs
• St. Elsewhere
• The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson
• Yes, Minister

The A-Team is an action/adventure television show about a fictional group of ex-US Army commandos who are on the run from the military while working as mercenaries and helping the oppressed. ... Mr. ... ALF or Alf can have several meanings: ALF is an acronym standing for Animal Liberation Front, an animal rights group ALF is an acronym standing for Alien Life Form ALF was the name of an American television sitcom ALF is also a programming language Alf refers to both a river... Cagney and Lacey was an American television series, which aired on CBS for six seasons from 1982 to 1988. ... Cheers is the name of a long-running sitcom made by Charles-Burrows-Charles Productions in association with Paramount Television for NBC. The show premiered on September 30, 1982 and had its widely-watched series finale on May 20, 1993, followed by a long and ongoing run in syndication. ... The Cosby Show, starring Bill Cosby, is an American sitcom that was first broadcast in 1984. ... Diffrent Strokes was an American sitcom that aired from 1978 to 1985 on NBC and from 1985 to 1986 on ABC. The sitcom starred Gary Coleman as Arnold Jackson and Todd Bridges as his older brother Willis—two African-American children from a poor Harlem background who were adopted... The Dukes of Hazzard is a American television series that originally aired on the CBS television network from 1979 to 1985. ... Dynasty was an American primetime television soap opera that aired on ABC from January 1981 to May 1989. ... // Introduction EastEnders is a popular BBC television soap opera which was first broadcast on February 19, 1985. ... The Facts of Life opening titles. ... Falcon Crest was an American primetime television soap opera created by producer Earl Hamner Jr. ... Family Ties was an American television sitcom which aired on NBC for seven seasons, from 1982 to 1989. ... The Full House title sequence, featuring the Golden Gate Bridge. ... Growing Pains was a television sitcom that ran on the American ABC network from 1985 until 1992. ... General Hospital is the longest-running daytime soap opera on the American ABC television network, and is also the longest-running soap opera produced in Hollywood (having been taped at the Prospect Avenue ABC Television Center West since its inception). ... Hill Street Blues was a serial police drama that first aired on NBC in 1981 and ran on primetime into 1987. ... The Jewel in the Crown is a British television drama series produced by Granada Television for ITV and based on the Raj Quartet novels by Paul Scott. ... Knight Rider was a popular US 1980s television show. ... L.A. Law (1986 - 1994) was one of the most popular television shows of the 1980s and 1990s. ... Late Night with David Letterman was the name of NBCs nightly hour long comedy talk show, which premiered in 1982 and went off the air in 1993. ... Miami Vice was a popular, innovative television series (five seasons on NBC from 1984-1989) starring Don Johnson (James Sonny Crockett) and Philip Michael Thomas (Ricardo Rico Tubbs) as two Miami police detectives working undercover. ... The term Moonlighting has two possible meanings: Moonlighting (employment) is doing a second job outside of normal working hours. ... MTV (abbreviation for Music Television) is a cable television network which was originally devoted to music videos, especially popular rock music. ... Neighbours is a long-running Australian television soap opera, running daily episodes of 25 minutes, time excluding commercials. ... The original lineup of Only Fools and Horses, featuring Rodney, Del Boy and Grandad, lasted from 1981 to 1985. ... Perfect Strangers was a televised sitcom on ABC which ran from 1986 through 1993. ... Soleil Moon Frye stars as Punky Brewster in the hit 1980s television sitcom. ... Roseanne was an American sitcom which aired on ABC from 1988 to 1997, starring the stand-up comedian Roseanne Barr. ... Saturday Night Live (SNL) is a weekly late-night 90-minute comedy-variety show from NBC which has been broadcast virtually every Saturday night since its debut on October 11, 1975. ... The Smurfs (Les Schtroumpfs in French) are a fictional race of small blue creatures who live in a forest somewhere in Europe. ... St. ... The Tonight Show is NBCs dramatically long-running late-night talk and variety show. ... Johnny Carson John William Johnny Carson (October 23, 1925 – January 23, 2005) was an American actor, comedian and writer best known for his iconic status as the host of The Tonight Show from 1962 until 1992. ... Yes, (Prime) Minister: Sir Humphrey Appleby, James Jim Hacker, Bernard Woolley Yes, Minister and its sequel Yes, Prime Minister were British sitcoms transmitted by the BBC between 1980 and 1988. ...

Music

Musical genres popular during the 1980s include hip hop, old school rap, heavy metal music, twee pop, hair metal, New Wave music, New Romantic, shoegazing, jangle pop, hardcore punk, alternative rock, dream pop, techno, house, acid house, and two-tone. Country Music also remained popular with hit's from the likes of Kenny Rogers, Ricky Skaggs, George Strait and Randy Travis. 1989 saw one Garth Brooks break onto the scene. Hip hop is a cultural movement that began amongst urban African American youth in New York and has since spread around the world. ... The very first hip hop to come out of the block parties of New York City in the 1970s and early 1980s is called old school hip hop. ... Heavy metal is a form of music characterised by aggressive, driving rhythms and highly amplified distorted guitars, generally with grandiose lyrics and virtuosic instrumentation. ... Twee (or Twee pop) is a type of indie rock that is known for simple, sweet melodies and lyrics, often with jangling guitars. ... Hair metal is a type of heavy metal music that arose in the late 1970s, in the United States, and was a strong force in popular music throughout the 1980s and early 1990s. ... New Wave is a term that has been used to describe many developments in music, but is most commonly associated with a movement in American, Australian and British popular music, in the late 1970s and early 1980s, growing out of the New York City punk rock scene, itself centered around... New Romantic was a New Wave music subgenre and fashion movement that occurred primarily in the United Kingdom during the early 1980s. ... Shoegazing is a style of music that emerged in the British Isles in the late 1980s. ... Jangle pop was an American musical genre that arose in the middle of the 1960s, combining angular, chiming guitars and power pop structures. ... Hardcore punk (or hardcore) is an intensified version of punk rock usually characterized by short, loud, and often angry songs with exceptionally fast tempos and chord changes. ... The terms alternative rock and alternative music1 were coined in the early 1980s to describe punk rock-inspired music genres which didnt fit into the mainstream genres of the time. ... Dream pop is a type of alternative rock that originated in the early 1980s when bands like the Cocteau Twins began twisting New Wave melodies into sonic, echoing textures and mumbled vocals. ... Techno is a form of electronic music that emerged in the mid-1980s and primarily refers to a particular style developed in and around Detroit and subsequently adopted by European producers. ... House music refers to a collection of styles of electronic dance music, the earliest forms beginning in the early- to mid- 1980s. ... Acid house is a variant of house music characterized by the use of simple tone generators with tempo-controlled resonant filters. ... Two Tone (or 2 Tone) is a style of music created by fusing elements of punk rock and ska. ... Country music, once known as country and western music, is a popular musical form developed in the southern United States, with roots in traditional folk music, spirituals, and the blues. ... Kenneth Donald Rogers (born August 21, 1938, in Houston, Texas) is a prolific American country music singer, photographer, producer and actor. ... Ricky Skaggs (born July 18, 1954 in Lawrence County, Kentucky) is a country music musician, singer and composer. ... George Harvey Strait (born May 18, 1952) is an American country singer. ... Randy Bruce Traywick (born May 4, 1959) is a North Carolina-born country singer. ... 1989 is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Garth Brooks Garth Brooks (born Troyal Garth Brooks on February 7, 1962 in Tulsa, Oklahoma) is an American singer/songwriter who performs country music. ...

See also: 1980s music groups, List of rock and roll albums in the 1980s Music groups in the 1980s came from many countries and with many different types of rock/pop music. ... This is a list of albums that are particularly notable or influential. ...

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