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Subject: Billboard Time Capsule 1983
TOP NATIONAL HEADLINE:
More than 6,000 American troops are sent to the Caribbean island of Grenada to evacuate U.S medical students and aid in the installation of a pro-Western government.
TOP INTERNATIONAL HEADLINE:
President Reagan sends U.S Marines into war-torn Lebanon; more than 250 Marines are killed in two bomb attacks.
TOP SPORTS HEADLINE:
North Carolina State stuns favored Houston in the NCAA basketball title game.
TOP MOTION PICTURES:
Return of the Jedi, the conclusion of the Star Wars trilogy, follows it's predecessors as the top box office winner. It is trailed by Trading Places, War Games, and Superman lll.
TOP TELEVISION SHOWS:
The most watched series are Dallas, 60 Minutes, Dynasty, The A-Team, and Simon & Simon.
TOP DEBUT:
Sally Ride becomes America's first female astronaut, aboard the space shuttle Challenger
TOP FAD:
A shortage of blockbuster-selling Cabbage Patch Kids dolls causes pandemonium in tot stores.
Subject: Re: Billboard Time Capsule 1983
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TOP SPORTS HEADLINE:
North Carolina State stuns favored Houston in the NCAA basketball title game.
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I remember this, I think. It was huge because it was the last year of Phi Slamma Jamma and Jimmy V was still the coach and it was an upset that was only matched by Villanova-over-Georgetown in '85...
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TOP MOTION PICTURES:
Return of the Jedi, the conclusion of the Star Wars trilogy, follows it's predecessors as the top box office winner. It is trailed by Trading Places, War Games, and Superman lll.End Quote
I remember seeing this in the theaters. I loved the Ewoks, but then again I was only 4 :)
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TOP TELEVISION SHOWS:
The most watched series are Dallas, 60 Minutes, Dynasty, The A-Team, and Simon & Simon.End Quote
And thus began my hero worship of Mr. T...
Subject: Re: Billboard Time Capsule 1983
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TOP FAD:
A shortage of blockbuster-selling Cabbage Patch Kids dolls causes pandemonium in tot stores.
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The first Hills store in Charleston, WV, opened in 1983, and the only thing most of the people who came to the grand opening cared for were those Cabbage Patch Kids…
Subject: Re: Billboard Time Capsule  1983
I was too young to remember any of the news.
Subject: Re: Billboard Time Capsule 1983
Very nice to know what was happening in the year i was born...
Subject: Re: Billboard Time Capsule 1983
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TOP MOTION PICTURES:
Return of the Jedi, the conclusion of the Star Wars trilogy, follows it's predecessors as the top box office winner. It is trailed by Trading Places, War Games, and Superman lll.
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Return of the Jedi-the last great Star Wars movie
War Games-spawned computer geeks everywhere
Subject: Re: Billboard Time Capsule 1983
I was also born in 1983!
Subject: Re: Billboard Time Capsule 1983
How about artists and groups that came out in 1983?
You had Toto
KC and The Sunshine Band
Eddie Grant
Men At Work
Huey Lewis and The News
Howard
Subject: Re: Billboard Time Capsule 1983
Another newsworthy event from 1983:
On September 1, 1983, Korean Air Lines flight 007, bound for Seoul, Korea, shot down by Soviet fighter killing 269 passengers and crew.
Subject: Re: Billboard Time Capsule 1983
The series finale of "MASH". The most watched episode (of any show) to date. :) In 1983.
I wasn't born yet,but I saw parts of it during a rerun on FX.
FX actually aired the entire 2 hours of the episode.
(I Think?)
At least it's better than the finale' of "Sienfeld".
(no offense to hard core "Sienfeld" fans)
Subject: Re: Billboard Time Capsule 1983
Here is some weather news from 1983.
The winter of 1983-84 was one of the coldest on record for much of the United States. Unseasonably cold air arrived in December and lingered through January as a tremendous area of high pressure dominated the United States weather pattern. A few notable numbers from that winter...the enormous high pressure raised pressure readings to 1064 milliards at Miles City, Montana on December 24th. That is the highest pressure reading ever recorded in the United States. On Christmas Eve, Arctic air covered almost 90 percent of the country with temperatures well below freezing and, in many areas of the North, well below zero. On Christmas Day 125 record lows were set in 24 different states. On December 24th, 1983 the Northern Plains was in the grip of a ferocious ground blizzard. Over the stretch beginning on December 18th, 1983 through the 25th temperatures were rarely above zero across the area and strong winds made conditions especially dangerous. The worst conditions occurred from the 23rd through the 25th as light snow and loose surface snow combined with strong northwesterly winds to produce whiteout conditions for extended periods of time. The ground blizzard paralyzed most areas, completely blocking most roads with drifts 4 to 5 feet high. One drift in southwest Minnesota climbed to 15 feet deep and took five hours to clear with a large snowplow. With subzero temperatures and winds gusting up to 60 miles an hour, at times, wind chills were in the 60 to 100 degrees below zero range. The intense and long-lived cold spell burst gas lines, caused propane gas to solidify, and froze water pipes and tanks.
Subject: Re: Billboard Time Capsule 1983
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TOP MOTION PICTURES:
Return of the Jedi, the conclusion of the Star Wars trilogy, follows it's predecessors as the top box office winner. It is trailed by Trading Places, War Games, and Superman lll.
Wargames was a cool movie. I was just amazing for the time.
The computer sounded weirder than my Talkany® program I have.
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