Political Events
Entertainment
Sports
Misc.
1. 1980 Presidential
Election
2. 1984 Presidential
Election
3. Return of Hostages
from Iran
4. Tiananmen Square
5. Fall of Berlin Wall
6. Persian Gulf Crisis
7. S. Day O’Connor
(1st Female Supreme
Court Justice)
8. Gorbachev
becomes president of
Russia
9. Iran-Contra
Scandal
10. End of the USSR
11. Assassination
attempt of Reagan
12. Anwar Sadat
Assassination
13. Stock Market
crash of 1987
14. Nelson Mandela
released from Prison
15. Beirut Marine
attacks
16. Pan Am Flight
103
17. Raid on Libya
18. Indira Gandhi
Assassinated
19. Pope John II
Assassination attempt
20. Iran/Iraq War
1. 1980’s Movies
2. Royal Wedding
3. Thriller Album
4. John Lennon’s
assassination
5. MASH final
6. Hair Metal
7. Ethiopian Famine
(We are the World)
8. Launch of M-TV
9. Rubik’s Cube
10. The Brat Pack
11. Cosby Show
12. Birth of Hip-Hop
13. Birth of ESPN
14. Magic Johnson
Announcement
1. 1980 Olympic
boycott
2. 1984 Olympics
4. 1988 Olympics
5. Game 6 1986
World Series
6. Stanford/Cal play
(college football)
7. Kirk Gibson’s HR
1988 World Series
8. Miracle on Ice
9. 1982 NCAA
Basketball Title
10. Pete Rose’s hit
record
11. Pete Rose’s Ban
from baseball
12. Roberto Duran
loses to Sugar Ray
Leonard
13. Doug Flutie’s Hail
Mary (college
football)
14. Michael Jordan’s
shot to win title for
UNC (college
basketball)
15. Wayne Gretzky’s
Trade
16. Mike Tyson
17. 1987 Fiesta Bowl
18. Len Bias
Overdoes death
19. Mohammed Ali’s
retirement
20. 1985 NCAA
College Basketball
Title
1. Americans with
Disabilities Act
2. Mt. St. Helens
3. Challenger
4. Chernobyl disaster
5. AIDS
6. Vietnam War
Memorial
7. Sally Ride in Space
8. Wreck of Titanic
9. Exxon Valdez spill
10. Crack epidemic
11. Personal Comp.
12. Mobile Phone
13. Bernhard Goetz
14. Tylenol murders
15. Baby Jessica
16. 1988 Heat wave