1980 is now 40 years ago! :o :o

Here are some things that occurred on January 1st 1980:

Premier Adbou Diouf becomes president of Senegal
Sweden changes order of succession to throne
Victoria is crowned princess of Sweden.
Australian Open Women's Tennis: In an all-American final Barbara Jordan wins her first and only Grand Slam singles title; beats Sharon Walsh 6-3, 6-3

January 2nd 1980:
In Australian Open Men's Tennis, Guillermo Vilas retains title for 4th and last Grand Slam win; beats American John Sadri 7-6, 6-3, 6-2.
British Steel workers go on a national strike.

January 7th 1980: U.S. President Jimmy Carter authorizes legislation giving $1.5 billion in loans to bail out the Chrysler Corporation.

Who decides how old something is around here?  In what alternate universe is 1980 40 years ago??

January 10th 1980 - Jim Stewart, Boston Bruins' rookie goalie allows three goals in his first four minutes and a total of five in first period; he never again plays in the NHL.

January 11th 1980 - Nigel Short, age 14, from Bolton in Britain, became the youngest International Master in the history of chess.

January 14th 1980 – Indira Gandhi became prime minister of India for second time.

January 16th 1980, Paul McCartney was jailed for nine days in Tokyo for marijuana possession after being found with 219g on his arrival at Narita Airport in Japan. McCartney said in 2004. “This stuff was too good to flush down the toilet, so I thought I’d take it with me.”

From record & tape clubs to Joanne Worley plugging Kleenex to TVs that still had wood to even an early attempt at H.W. Bush from becoming U.S. President, these blocks of classic commercials can almost feel like a class reunion in terms of the products people used or considered back then. This came from a late night recording off CBS from a Betamax tape I found last fall. It may not be as historically significant as most posts on these "years ago" threads, but posts like these can offer a fun ephemeral escape in terms of what was being promoted back then.

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I still think of 40 years ago as being in the 1960s since that's what it was when I was in high school/college/just out of college, so it does shock me to realize that were now talking the decade where the 24-hour news cycle and the widespread adoption of computers is now at this point in history. But the memories will live on through these "escapes in time", which happened to be the episode of The Avengers that was being rerun during this compilation of classic ads here.

^ Oh yes, George Bush Sr. first sought the Republican presidential nomination in '80... but eventually lost out to Ronald Reagan, who subsequently selected him as his running mate.

Also...a lot of my "peers" were born around that time as well. In fact I think I have known a number of people who have already turned 40 this month (with more to come). (I'll be turning 40 in July.)

January 21st 1980 - Gold was valued at $850 an ounce.

January 26th 1980: Israel and Egypt establish diplomatic relations.

January 28th 1980 - The original Ants split up with Adam.

January 28th 1980 - The original Ants split up with Adam.

Also in pop music history that day, Nick Carter was born; he is the youngest member of the American boyband Backstreet Boys.

January 28th 1980 - Six Americans who had fled the U.S. embassy in theran, Iran, on November 4, 1979, left Iran using false Canadian diplomatic passports. The Americans had been hidden at the Canadian embassy in theran.

January 28th 1980 - Six Americans who had fled the U.S. embassy in Tehran, Iran, on November 4, 1979, left Iran using false Canadian diplomatic passports. The Americans had been hidden at the Canadian embassy in Tehran.


Too bad for them. :o

I wish t-e-h could get taken out of the cuss filter.

February 8, 1980 - John Carpenter's The Fog is released in theaters. It's his first theatrical film since making a name for himself with 1978's Halloween. Carpenter once again directed, wrote, and scored the film. Starring Adrienne Barbeau, Jamie Lee Curtis, Hal Holbrook, Charles Cyphers, and Janet Leigh. Shot by famed cinematographer Dean Cundey. Produced by Debra Hill.

February 8, 1980 - John Carpenter's The Fog is released in theaters. It's his first theatrical film since making a name for himself with 1978's Halloween. Carpenter once again directed, wrote, and scored the film. Starring Adrienne Barbeau, Jamie Lee Curtis, Hal Holbrook, Charles Cyphers, and Janet Leigh. Shot by famed cinematographer Dean Cundey. Produced by Debra Hill.
I had to wait years to see that film!

February 13th 1980 - Apollo Computers is incorporated.

February 13th 1980, Police raided the home of former Sex Pistols John Lydon who greeted them waving a ceremonial sword, the only illegal item they found was a canister of tear gas, claimed to be for defence against intruders.

February 13th 1980 - (to February 24) The XIII Olympic Winter Games are held in Lake Placid, New York, USA.

February 19, 1980 - Bon Scott died. AC/DC almost broke up, but was convinced to continue, as it was what Bon would've wanted. They carried on with Brian Johnson. Back in Black remains one of the most popular albums of all time.

February 19, 1980 - Bon Scott died. AC/DC almost broke up, but was convinced to continue, as it was what Bon would've wanted. They carried on with Brian Johnson. Back in Black remains one of the most popular albums of all time.

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I think the band proceeded to record Back In Black with Brian Johnson on lead vocals. It was later that year when it was released.

February 22nd 1980, the "Miracle on Ice" happened in the Lake Placid, New York, Winter Olympic Games: The United States hockey team defeats the Soviet Union hockey team 4–3.

February 22nd 1980, the "Miracle on Ice" happened in the Lake Placid, New York, Winter Olympic Games: The United States hockey team defeats the Soviet Union hockey team 4–3.
Something tells me, I seem to remember watching this.

February 24th 1980 - NBC premiered the TV movie "Harper Valley P.T.A."

February 24th 1980 – The United States Olympic hockey team completes its Miracle on Ice by defeating Finland 4–2 to win the gold medal.

February 24th 1980 - New York Rangers score five power-play goals against New York Islanders.

February 25th 1980 – The government of Suriname is overthrown by a military coup led by Dési Bouterse.

February 26th 1980 – Egypt and Israel established full diplomatic relations.

February 26th 1980, After seeing U2 play at Dublin's National Boxing Stadium in front of 2,400 people; Rob Partridge and Bill Stewart from Island Records in the UK offered the band a recording contract.

February 27th 1980, Winners at the Grammy Awards included: song of the year, 'What A Fool Believes', The Doobie Brothers, album of the year, Billy Joel's '52nd St', best new artist, Rickie Lee Jones, best disco record, 'I Will Survive' Gloria Gaynor.

February 29th 1980:
- La Bougie du Sapeur, a humorous French newspaper that is published only on leap day, printed its first issue.
- Gordie Howe of the Hartford Whalers makes NHL history as he scores his 800th goal.

March 10th 1980 - Iran's leader, Ayatollah Khomeini, lent his support to the militants holding American hostages in theran.

March 12th 1980 - Jury finds John Wayne Gacy guilty of murdering 33 in Chicago, Illinois.

March 14th 1980 - US President Jimmy Carter signs law abolishing the coin Assay Commission.

March 15th 1980 - The 100th episode of "Saturday Night Live" aired on NBC.

March 18th 1980 - The first closed captioned television series were broadcast. The shows were The ABC Sunday Night Movie (ABC), The Wonderful World of Disney (NBC) and Masterpiece Theatre (PBS).

March 18th 1980 – A Vostok-2M rocket at Plesetsk Cosmodrome Site 43 explodes during a fueling operation, killing 48 people.

March 23rd 1980 - The deposed shah of Iran, Muhammad Riza Pahlavi, left Panama for Egypt.

March 23rd 1980 – Archbishop Óscar Romero of El Salvador gives his famous speech appealing to men of the El Salvadoran armed forces to stop killing the Salvadorans.

March 23rd 1980 - Allan Border completes 150 in each inning of Test Cricket versus Pakistan.

March 24th 1980 - "Nightline" with Ted Koppel premiered.

March 24th 1980 - In San Salvador, Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero was shot to death by gunmen as he celebrated Mass.

March 26th 1980, The Police became the first Western pop group to play in Bombay, India for over ten years when they played a one off gig in the city.

March 27th 1980 - Mount Saint Helens in Washington state becomes active after 123 years.

March 27th 1980 – The Norwegian oil platform Alexander L. Kielland collapses in the North Sea, killing 123 of its crew of 212.

March 27th 1980 – Silver Thursday: A steep fall in silver prices, resulting from the Hunt Brothers attempting to corner the market in silver, leads to panic on commodity and futures exchanges.

March 29th 1980, Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of The Moon album spent its 303rd week on the US album chart, beating the record set by Carole King's 1971 No.1 album Tapestry. The album remained in the US Billboard charts for 741 discontinuous weeks from 1973 to 1988, longer than any other album in chart history. After moving to the Billboard Top Pop Catalog Chart, the album notched up a further 759 weeks, and had reached a total of over 1,500 weeks on the combined charts by May 2006.

March 31st 1980 - US President Jimmy Carter the deregulates banking industry.

March 31st 1980 – The Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad operates its final train after being ordered to liquidate its assets because of bankruptcy and debts owed to creditors.

March 31st 1980 - Larry Holmes TKOs Leroy Jones in 8 rounds for WBC heavyweight boxing title.

April 1st 1980 - New York City's Transport Works Union Local 100 goes on strike, which continues for 11 days.

April 1st 1980 - The first nudist beach opens in Brighton , England.

April 1st 1980 - The Mariel boatlift from Cuba to Florida begins.

April 1st 1980 - A failed assassination attempt against Iraqi vice-premier Tariq Aziz occurred.

April 2nd 1980 - Wayne Gretzky becomes first teenager to score 50 goals in an NHL season.

April 2nd 1980 – United States President Jimmy Carter signs the Crude Oil Windfall Profits Tax Act.

April 3rd 1980 - The final episode of "Barnaby Jones" aired.

April 5th 1980 - The final episode of "Hawaii Five-O" aired.

April 5th 1980, R.E.M. played their first ever gig when they appeared at St Mary's Episcopal Church, Athens, Georgia.

April 9th 1980 – The Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein kills philosopher Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr and his sister Bint al-Huda after three days of torture.

April 10th 1980 - Spain and Britain agreed to reopen the border between Gibraltar and Spain. It had been closed since 1969.

April 12th 1980 - US Olympic Committee endorses a boycott of the Moscow Summer Olympic games.

April 13th 1980 - “Grease” closes at Broadhurst Theater in New York City after 3,388 performances.

April 14th 1980 - 52nd Academy Awards: Best Picture: Kramer versus Kramer, Best Actor: Dustin Hoffman, Best Actress: Sally Field, Best Foreign Film: Die Blechtrommel (The Tin Drum) (first Oscar award for a German film).

April 16th 1980 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site.

April 16th 1980 - Arthur Ashe retires from professional tennis.

April 18th 1980 – The Republic of Zimbabwe (formerly Rhodesia) comes into being, with Canaan Banana as the country's first President. The Zimbabwean dollar replaces the Rhodesian dollar as the official currency.

April 20th 1980 - The Castro regime announces that all Cubans wishing to emigrate to the U.S. are free to board boats at the port of Mariel west of Havana. 125,000 Cubans flee by the end of the exodus in October.

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April 20th 1980, 84 year old George Burns, who starred in the movie Oh God with John Denver, became the oldest person to have a hit on the Billboard Hot 100 when 'I Wish I Was 18 Again' peaked at No.49. When asked if he wished he were 18 again, Burns replied "I wish I was 80 again." Before this, his most recent charting record had been a spoken word comedy routine with his wife and partner Gracie Allen in the summer of 1933.

April 24th 1980 - Operation Eagle Claw, a US commando mission in Iran to rescue American embassy hostages, is aborted after mechanical problems ground the rescue helicopters. Eight United States troops are killed in a mid-air collision during the failed operation.

April 25th 1980 - Oakland Athletics' manager Billy Martin restrained by umpires from attacking a fan.

April 25th 1980 - In Iran, a commando mission to rescue hostages was aborted after mechanical problems disabled three of the eight helicopters involved. During the evacuation, a helicopter and a transport plan collided and exploded. Eight U.S. servicemen were killed. The mission was aimed at freeing American hostages that had been taken at the U.S. embassy in theran on November 4, 1979. The event took place April 24th Washington, DC, time.

April 26th 1980 - Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site.

April 26th 1980, Blondie were at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'Call Me', the group's fourth UK No.1, featured in the Richard Gere movie 'American Gigolo', the track was also a No.1 in the US where it became the band's biggest selling single. Producer Giorgio Moroder originally asked Stevie Nicks from Fleetwood Mac to help compose and perform a song for the soundtrack, but she declined.

April 28th 1980 - Cyrus Vance, US President Jimmy Carter's Secretary of State, resigns.

April 30th 1980, The film 'McVicar' with Roger Daltrey from The Who in the title role premiered in London, England. John McVicar was a 1960s armed robber turned writer who Scotland Yard publicly announced to be Public Enemy Number One and "wanted dead or alive".

May 5th 1980 – Operation Nimrod: The British Special Air Service storms the Iranian embassy in London after a six-day siege.

May 7th 1980 - Paul Geidel, convicted of second-degree murder in 1911, is released from prison in Beacon, New York, after 68 years and 245 days (the longest-ever time served by an inmate).

May 8th 1980 – The World Health Organization confirms the eradication of smallpox.

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May 9, 1980 - Sean Cunningham's iconic slasher Friday the 13th was released in theaters. Looking to ape the success of John Carpenter's Halloween, Friday the 13th was a surprise hit against The Shining, spawning a long-running (and lucrative) franchise. Mrs. Voorhees as the original film's killer, but Jason took over on the second film.

The "Jason sound effect," commonly misheard as some form of "Ch ch ch... ha ha ha..." is actually "K ki ki ki... Ma ma ma ma," combining the words "kill" and "Mommy."

May 14th 1980 - U.S. President Carter inaugurated the Department of Health and Human Services.

May 18th 1980 - Mount Saint Helens erupts in Washington, killing 57 and causing US$3 billion in damage. 396 metres of the top of the mountain explodes in a gigantic dust cloud.

May 19th 1980 - Apple Computer introduces the Apple III computer. It features twice the processor speed (2 MHz 6502 processor) as the Apple II, twice the memory (128 kB), built-in 5.25-inch floppy drive, Apple SOS operating system. With a small case and no cooling fan, reliability problems limit lifetime sales over four years to 65,000 units.

May 19th 1980, Ringo Starr and his future wife were involved in a car crash less than half a mile from where Marc Bolan was killed, the car was a write-off but Starr and Bach were not seriously injured.

May 20th 1980 – In a referendum in Quebec, the population rejects, by 60% of the vote, a government proposal to move towards independence from Canada.

May 21, 1980 - The Empire Strikes Back is released in theaters. Often considered superior to its 1977 predecessor, Star Wars (retitled A New Hope in 1981), the film introduced Yoda (voiced by Muppet legend Frank Oz), the ice planet Hoth, AT-ATs, Boba Fett (who had debuted in the non-canon Holiday Special), and Lando Calrissian (Billy Dee Williams) (who infamously betrayed Han Solo). It also famously revealed that Darth Vader was Luke Skywalker's father.

May 23, 1980 - The Shining was released in theaters in the United States. Based on the Stephen King novel, King still takes issue with the liberties Stanley Kubrick took with the story. While the film is a beloved classic today, critics in 1980 hated it. It won a Saturn Award for Scatman Crothers; it was also nominated for Best Horror Film, Best Director (Kubrick), and Best Music (Béla Bartók). However, it was nominated for two Razzie Awards: Worst Actress (Shelley Duvall) and Worst Director. Jack Nicholson's ad-libbed line "Heeeere's Johnny!" (taken from Ed McMahon's nightly introduction of Johnny Carson on The Tonight Show) has become iconic in its own right. Other iconic elements of the film include: Redrum, the Grady Twins, Lloyd the bartender, "all work and no play make Jack a dull boy," Room 237 (217 in the novel), the scene in the show, and the river of blood pouring out of the elevator.

A sequel, Doctor Sleep, was released in 2019.

King later did his own TV miniseries adaptation in 1997.

May 23, 1980 - The Shining was released in theaters in the United States. Based on the Stephen King novel, King still takes issue with the liberties Stanley Kubrick took with the story. While the film is a beloved classic today, critics in 1980 hated it. It won a Saturn Award for Scatman Crothers; it was also nominated for Best Horror Film, Best Director (Kubrick), and Best Music (Béla Bartók). However, it was nominated for two Razzie Awards: Worst Actress (Shelley Duvall) and Worst Director. Jack Nicholson's ad-libbed line "Heeeere's Johnny!" (taken from Ed McMahon's nightly introduction of Johnny Carson on The Tonight Show) has become iconic in its own right. Other iconic elements of the film include: Redrum, the Grady Twins, Lloyd the bartender, "all work and no play make Jack a dull boy," Room 237 (217 in the novel), the scene in the show, and the river of blood pouring out of the elevator.

A sequel, Doctor Sleep, was released in 2019.

King later did his own TV miniseries adaptation in 1997.
Thanks for reminding me, I must put "Doctor Sleep" on my list of film to watch list.

May 25th 1980 - Indianapolis 500: Johnny Rutherford wins for a third time in car owner Jim Hall's revolutionary ground effect Chaparral car; the victory is Hall's second as an owner.

May 28th 1980 - Joe Darby does a standing long jump of 12 feet 5 inches.

May 29th 1980 - Attempted assassination of Vernon Jordan Junior, National Urban League president.

May 29th 1980 - Larry Bird beats out Magic Johnson for NBA rookie of year.

June 1st 1980 - Cable News Network (CNN) made its debut as the first all-news station.

June 3rd 1980 - ESPN began televising college world series games.

June 3rd 1980 – An explosive device was detonated in the base of the Statue of Liberty after business hours killing no one but repairs cost 18,000 dollars

June 6th 1980: The U.S. Senate voted, 68 to 10, to override President Jimmy Carter's veto of a bill banning a 10 cent per gallon tax on gasoline announced by Carter in March, and poised to take effect on July 1. The day before, the U.S. House of Representatives had voted, 335 to 34, to override the veto, and the Senate's action banned the fee and marked the first time since 1952 that a Democrat-controlled Congress had overridden a Democrat U.S. president. On June 4, both houses of Congress had voted overwhelmingly (367 to 30 and 73 to 16) to pass the measure that Carter vetoed.

June 9th 1980 - In the California - Mexico border region, a magnitude 6.4 earthquake occurs.

June 10th 1980 - A Unabomber bomb injures United Airlines president Percy Wood in Lake Forest, Illinois.

June 22nd 1980 - The Soviet Union announced a partial withdrawal of its forces from Afghanistan.

June 22nd 1980, Don McLean had his second UK No.1 single with the Roy Orbison song 'Crying'. The song had been a No.2 US hit for Orbison in July 1961. In 1987, Orbison re-recorded the song as a duet with k.d. lang as part of the soundtrack for the motion picture, Hiding Out. Their collaboration won the Grammy Award.

June 23rd 1980 - "The David Letterman Show" debuts on NBC-TV daytime

June 27th 1980, Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Jerry Reuss threw a no-hitter against the San Francisco Giants. It would have been a perfect game if not for a throwing error in the first inning by shortstop Bill Russell. Reuss's no-hitter is just one of ten in baseball history in which a pitcher did not walk or hit a batter, but whose perfect game bid was foiled by a fielding error. (Clayton Kershaw, another Dodgers pitcher, had one such game 34 years later.)

July 1st 1980 – "O Canada" officially becomes the national anthem of Canada.

July 2nd 1980 - U.S. President Jimmy Carter reinstated draft registration for males 18 years of age.

July 8th 1980, Dodger Stadium hosted its only MLB All-Star game, to date. National League won the game, 4-2, with Ken Griffey Sr. of the Cincinnati Reds being named MVP of the game.

Said venue was scheduled to host it this year, but it was cancelled due to the COVID Pandemic. :\'( However, the 2022 All Star Game will be held at the venue, barring any setbacks.

July 16th 1980 - Former California Governor and actor Ronald Reagan is nominated for U.S. President, at the Republican National Convention in Detroit, Michigan.

July 16th 1980 - Former California Governor and actor Ronald Reagan is nominated for U.S. President, at the Republican National Convention in Detroit, Michigan.

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And I was only five days old!

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And I was only five days old!

I know this is going to be eight days late, but let's see what events took place on the day I was born:

Australia's first commercial FM radio station, 3EON, began full-time broadcasting at 6:30 in the morning on 92.3 MHz in Melbourne. It had done some sporadic test broadcasting two days earlier of "its music format of 'rock and roll and heart and soul'." It is now called 3MMM as Triple M Melbourne.

Richard Queen, one of the 53 remaining U.S. Embassy personnel held captive during the Iran hostage crisis, was released on humanitarian grounds after being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis.

Two notable people born on that day: Justin Willman (American actor and comedian, in St. Louis); and Tyson Kidd (Canadian pro wrestler, in Calgary).

What happened on Saturday July 19th 1980? Let's see...

The 1980 Summer Olympics began in Moscow, Soviet Union and ran until August 3. Soviet basketball star Sergei Belov lit the Olympic torch to signal the start of the Olympics. Although 81 nations sent teams to Moscow, 82 of them boycotted the Games in response to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Athletes from 16 Olympic committees participated under a neutral flag, including three American citizens representing Puerto Rico, which had been sending a separate Olympic team since 1948.

Nick Bockwinkel's reign as champion of the American Wrestling Association ended after more than four and half years after he lost to Vern Gagne in a match at Chicago's Comiskey Park.

July 22nd 1980: By a vote of 197 to 82, the House of Delegates of the American Medical Association (AMA) approved a new code of ethics that cleared the way for physicians to advertise, eliminating a stipulation that said that doctors "should not solicit patients." The new AMA code, the first since 1957, also removed the prohibition that had prohibited physicians from working with chiropractors.

July 24th 1980 - The Quietly Confident Quartet of Australia wins the men's 4 x 100 metre medley relay at the Moscow Olympics, the only time the United States has not won the event at Olympic level.

July 25, 1980 - Back in Black was released. One of the most famous and best-selling albums of all time, it marked a new era for AC/DC. Bon Scott had died in February (leaving the album without lyrics), and Angus and Malcolm Young recruited Geordie lead singer Brian Johnson. Inspired by Bon, Brian helped Angus and Malcolm write such classics as "Hell's Bells," "Back in Black," "Shoot to Thrill," "You Shook Me All Night Long," "Have a Drink on Me," "What Do You Do for Money Honey," and "Rock and Roll Ain't Noise Pollution."

"Let Me Put My Love Into You" made Tipper Gore's Filthy Fifteen.

August 25th 1980, Zimbabwe joined the United Nations.

September 1st 1980, Fleetwood Mac ended a nine-month world tour with a performance at the Hollywood Bowl. Lindsay Buckingham announced on stage, "This is our last show for a long time."

September 7th 1980 - Earnest Gray becomes second New York Giants' player to score four touchdowns (vs Saint Louis Cardinals).

September 14th 1980: Weird Al Yankovic recorded "Another One Rides The Bus", a parody of the Queen song "Another One Bites The Dust", live on the Dr. Demento Show.

September 27th 1980: By a single vote, the economic proposals of Italy's Prime Minister Francesco Cossiga failed to win approval in Camara dei deputati, failing 297 to 298. At least 30 members of the governing Democrazia Cristiana (DC) party had previously stated that they would go against the economic proposals. Two DC members who had expressed support for Cossiga, and presumabley would have potentially made the vote 299 to 298 in his favor, arrived several minutes too late to participate, including Mariapia Garavaglia.

Over the summer, I uncovered this classic piece of footage from ABC's World News Tonight, back when it featured multiple anchors from different locations. The first story discusses the burgeoning conflict between Iran and Iraq, and other highlights include a report on the automotive industry's struggles with Japan, a report over recent neo-Nazi attacks in Western Europe, as well as the original broadcast commercials. And best of all, this aired 40 years ago to the day of this posting.
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Over the summer, I uncovered this classic piece of footage from ABC's World News Tonight, back when it featured multiple anchors from different locations. The first story discusses the burgeoning conflict between Iran and Iraq, and other highlights include a report on the automotive industry's struggles with Japan, a report over recent neo-Nazi attacks in Western Europe, as well as the original broadcast commercials. And best of all, this aired 40 years ago to the day of this posting.



Notice that there are no endless commercials for bogus pharmaceuticals the way there are now. It was not legal then for pharmaceutical companies to hawk their wares.

September 30th 1980 - Ethernet specifications are published by Xerox working with Intel and Digital Equipment Corporation.

October 17th 1980, U.S. President Jimmy Carter signed an agreement on behalf of the United States, committing the U.S. to selling sufficient crude oil for Israel to meet its needs for 14 years (going through the end of 1994).

Also, the Kansas City Royals won a World Series game for the first time, namely game #3 of that year's World Series, 4-3 over the Philadelphia Phillies.

October 18th 1980: Kansas City Royals evened up the World Series at two games apiece.

October 19th 1980, Phillies won Game Five of the World Series, taking a three-games-to-two lead. (In that game, the Royals took a 3-2 lead in the 6th inning, but the Phillies regained the lead in the 9th inning and won the game 4-3.)

October 21st 1980, the Philadelphia Phillies captured their first-ever World Series title in franchise history, defeating the Kansas City Royals 4 games to 2.

October 25th 1980 - Proceedings on the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction conclude.

November 4th 1980, Ronald Reagan was elected as the 40th President of the United States, in a landslide victory over incumbent Jimmy Carter. (This was the most recent time that a Democratic president was defeated for reelection.)

November 9th 1980 - The first of two rounds of parliamentary elections for the Ivory Coast was carried out throughout the western African nation. Although there was only one political party in the Ivory Coast, there were 649 candidates vying for the 147 parliamentary districts.

November 21st 1980 - A deadly fire breaks out at the MGM Grand Hotel in Paradise, Nevada (now Bally's Las Vegas), killing 87 and injuring 650; this makes it the worst disaster in the history of Nevada.

November 23rd 1980 – The 6.9 Mw  Irpinia earthquake shakes southern Italy with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme), killing 2,483–4,900, and injuring 7,700–8,934.

It was 40 years ago today that former Beatle John Lennon is murdered in front of The Dakota Building in New York City.

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It was 40 years ago today that former Beatle John Lennon is murdered in front of The Dakota Building in New York City.

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The situation would've been different if he hadn't been shot.  :(

It was 40 years ago today that former Beatle John Lennon is murdered in front of The Dakota Building in New York City.

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The situation would've been different if he hadn't been shot.  :(

Yep, he would have definitely lived longer. (If he were still alive today, he'd be 80, twice the age that he was when shot.)

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Yep, he would have definitely lived longer. (If he were still alive today, he'd be 80, twice the age that he was when shot.)


I think he would still be living in New York with Yoko.

And it's possible we could have gotten a Beatles reunion of some sort. Stranger things have happened: Even Pink Floyd managed to reunite, for Live 8. I'm sure John and Paul could have made peace with each other.

And it's possible we could have gotten a Beatles reunion of some sort. Stranger things have happened: Even Pink Floyd managed to reunite, for Live 8. I'm sure John and Paul could have made peace with each other.

Well, since George died of an illness in 2001 (from cancer), John could've reunited with Paul and Ringo sometime after then.

As it was, George/Paul/Ringo did sort of reunite in 1995 with the "Anthology" album. They took a demo recorded by John in the late seventies, and added their own parts to create a new recording entitled "Free As A Bird". They followed it up with another single, "Real Love", also taken from another demo from John.

December 10th 1980 - The first parliamentary elections since 1962 in Uganda concluded after two days of voting (on Tuesday and Wednesday) for the 126 seats of the Bunge la Uganda, the unicameral legislature.

December 20th 1980 - NBC aired the American football match between the New York Jets and the Miami Dolphins without announcers. This was hence known as the "Announcerless game". As an experiment, the NBC television network broadcast it without assigning any commentators to cover it. The two teams were playing the last game of that season for them as neither had qualified for the playoffs, and since the game was being broadcast nationally NBC executive Don Ohlmeyer decided on the idea to boost what would otherwise have been weak ratings. The Jets won a 24–17 upset victory.

December 24th 1980 - Witnesses report the first of several sightings of unexplained lights near RAF Woodbridge, in Rendlesham Forest, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom, an incident called "Britain's Roswell".

December 27th 1980 - The U.S. Postal Service issued the first of its Great Americans series of stamps, starting with its 19¢ stamp to honor the Cherokee educator Sequoyah, who had devised an 86-character system of writing for the Cherokee language. The first-day issue of the series of the stamps went on sale at Tahlequah, Oklahoma, capital of the Cherokee Nation, primarily to be used for the new 19¢ rate for international post cards. Over the next 18 years, the USPS honored women and men, concluding on July 27, 1999 with a 55¢ stamp for U.S. Congressman and Senator Justin Morrill.

January 1st 1981: Greece is admitted into the European Community (a regional organisation that aimed to bring about economic integration among its member states).

January 10th 1981 - Salvadoran Civil War: The FMLN launches its first major offensive, gaining control of most of Morazán and Chalatenango departments.

January 14th 1981, The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the sale of the first extended wear contact lenses, which could be left in the eyes for up to two weeks. The Hydrocurve II lenses were manufactured by a subsidiary of Revlon.

January 15th 1981 - Pope John Paul II receives a delegation from Solidarity (Polish trade union) at the Vatican led by Lech Wałęsa.

January 17th 1981 - Ferdinand Marcos, President of the Philippines, lifts martial law eight years and five months after declaring it.

January 18th 1981 , Phil Smith and Phil Mayfield parachute off a Houston skyscraper, becoming the first two people to BASE jump from objects in all four categories: buildings, antennae, spans (bridges), and earth (cliffs).

January 19th 1981 – Iran hostage crisis: United States and Iranian officials sign an agreement to release 52 American hostages after 14 months of captivity.

January 20th 1981 – Twenty minutes after Ronald Reagan is inaugurated as the 40th President of the United States of America, Iran releases 52 American hostages.

January 20th 1981 – Twenty minutes after Ronald Reagan is inaugurated as the 40th President of the United States of America, Iran releases 52 American hostages.

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Even though I was only half a year old at the time, I still know about it from reading about it, such as in the World Almanac or other reference books.

January 21st 1981 – Production of the iconic DeLorean sports car begins in Dunmurry, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom.

January 25th 1981:

Super Bowl XV was played at the Superdome in New Orleans, LA; the AFC champion Oakland Raiders defeated the NFC champion Philadelphia Eagles by a score of 27-10.
American musician Alicia Keys was born.

January 28th 1981 – Ronald Reagan lifts remaining domestic petroleum price and allocation controls in the United States helping to end the 1979 energy crisis and begin the 1980s oil glut.

February 2nd 1981: For the first time in PGA Tour history, there was a five-way tie at the end of the scheduled rounds of golf, with Hale Irwin, Ben Crenshaw, Bobby Clampett, John Cook, and Barney Thompson all taking 209 strokes on 54 holes at the Bing Crosby National Pro-Am. Cook beat Irwin on the third extra hole and won the $40,500 prize, more than his entire earnings the year before

February 20th 1981: A collision between Aerolíneas Argentinas Flight 342 and the antenna on Tower One of the World Trade Center was averted when an alert air traffic controller, Donald Zimmerman, ordered the pilot to turn right and to climb. With 58 persons on board, the Boeing 707 had descended to 1,500 feet (460 m) in a heavy fog. At 10:05 pm, the plane had been 75 seconds away from impact when Zimmerman was able to contact the pilot.

February 23rd 1981 – In Spain, Antonio Tejero attempts a coup d'état by capturing the Spanish Congress of Deputies.

March 9th 1981: The first successful human heart-lung transplant was performed. A team at the Stanford University Medical Center, led by Dr. Bruce Reitz, used a new technique that retained a portion of the recipient's right atrium. The recipient was Mary Gohlke, a 45-year-old woman from Mesa, Arizona, with end-stage primary pulmonary hypertension. The donor was a 15-year-old boy who had died from severe head trauma two days earlier.

March 11th 1981 - Hundreds of students protest in the University of Pristina in Kosovo, then part of Yugoslavia, to give their province more political rights. The protests then became a nationwide movement.

March 13th 1981 - Friday the 13th! What happened on that day?

The first world speedcubing championship tournament, requiring participants to properly align the squares of a Rubik's Cube in the shortest amount of time, took place in Munich. Jury Fröschl won the first competition with a time of 38 seconds.

March 14th 1981 - DePaul University's basketball team, unbeaten and ranked No. 1 during most of the season, was upset by St. Joseph's University, 49-48, in the second round of the NCAA tournament.

March 27th 1981 - The Solidarity movement in Poland staged a warning strike, the largest in the history of the Eastern Bloc, in which at least 12 million Poles walked off their jobs for four hours.

March 29th 1981: Dick Beardsley and Inge Simonsen jointly won the Men's Elite Race and Joyce Smith won the Women's Elite Race in the inaugural London Marathon.

And it was on this day in 1981 when John Hinckley Jr. shot and wounded President Ronald Reagan. The president survived the attempt on his life.

April 3rd 1981 – The Osborne 1, the first successful portable computer, is unveiled at the West Coast Computer Faire in San Francisco.

April 4th 1981 – Iran–Iraq War: The Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force mounts an attack on H-3 Airbase and destroys about 50 Iraqi aircraft.

April 12th 1981 – The first launch of a Space Shuttle (Columbia) takes place: The STS-1 mission.

April 12th 1981 – The first launch of a Space Shuttle (Columbia) takes place: The STS-1 mission.


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That day was Palm Sunday of that year, too.

April 14th 1981 – STS-1: The first operational Space Shuttle, Columbia completes its first test flight.

April 18th 1981: The Rochester Red Wings and the Pawtucket Red Sox began playing a minor league baseball game. After nine innings, the score was tied, and at the end of the 32nd inning, 4:09 the next morning, the game was halted with the score still tied at 2-2. The game would not be finished until June 23. Rochester and Pawtucket did play another game on the same Sunday (April 19th), but, as one author noted, "they did not attempt to resolve their 32-inning tie then because officials of both clubs were worried that the eligible players were exhausted."

April 25th 1981 - More than 100 workers are exposed to radiation during repairs of at the Tsuruga Nuclear Power Plant in Japan. :o

April 26th 1981 – Dr. Michael R. Harrison of the University of California, San Francisco Medical Center performs the world's first human open fetal surgery.

April 27th 1981 – Xerox PARC introduces the computer mouse.

May 12th 1981 - Meat Loaf filed for bankruptcy with debts of over $1 million.

May 13th 1981 – Mehmet Ali Ağca attempts to assassinate Pope John Paul II in St. Peter's Square in Rome. The Pope is rushed to the Agostino Gemelli University Polyclinic to undergo emergency surgery and survives.

May 24th 1981 – Ecuadorian president Jaime Roldós Aguilera, his wife, and his presidential committee die in an aircraft accident while travelling from Quito to Zapotillo minutes after the president gave a famous speech regarding the 24 de mayo anniversary of the Battle of Pichincha.

May 24th 1981 - Bobby Unser wins, loses, and wins a controversial Indianapolis 500 race.

May 26th 1981 – Italian Prime Minister Arnaldo Forlani and his coalition cabinet resign following a scandal over membership of the pseudo-masonic lodge P2 (Propaganda Due).

May 26th 1981 – Italian Prime Minister Arnaldo Forlani and his coalition cabinet resign following a scandal over membership of the pseudo-masonic lodge P2 (Propaganda Due).

Also on that day, pro baseball player Ben Zobrist was born. He was MVP of the 2016 World Series with the Chicago Cubs.

June 2nd 1981, Prince made his live British debut at The Lyceum Ballroom, London, (he would not play the UK again for five years).

June 5th 1981 - The first clinical cases of AIDS were published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. :o

June 10th 1981 - Andy Gibb opened in the role of Frederic in a Los Angeles production of Gilbert and Sullivan's "The Pirates of Penzance."

June 10th 1981 - Pete Rose got his 3,630th career hit. The feat tied Stan Musial's National League record.

June 16th 1981 – US President Ronald Reagan awarded the Congressional Gold Medal to Ken Taylor, Canada's former ambassador to Iran, for helping six Americans escape from Iran during the hostage crisis of 1979–81; he is the first foreign citizen bestowed the honor.

June 18th 1981 – The Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk, the first operational aircraft initially designed around stealth technology, makes its first flight.

June 21st 1981 - In the deadliest accident to ever happen at Washington State's Mount Rainier National Park, 10 mountain climbers and their guide were killed when tons of ice fell without warning, sweeping them into a 100 foot deep crevasse, and burying them under 70 feet of ice. That afternoon, in the worst accident to ever happen at Oregon's Mount Hood, five mountain climbers were killed when a group of 16, linked by ropes for safety during their descent, fell 2,500 feet down the side of the mountain. :o :\'(

June 24th 1981 - The final episode of "Charlie's Angels" was aired on ABC-TV.

June 24th 1981 - The final episode of "Charlie's Angels" was aired on ABC-TV.

Also on that date:

The Humber Bridge opens to traffic, connecting Yorkshire and Lincolnshire. It remained the world's longest bridge span, at 2.22 km (2,430 yd; 7,300 ft; 1.38 mi), for 17 years. (In 1998, the Akashi Kaikyō Bridge, in Japan, was completed with a total length of 3,911 metres (12,831 ft; 2.430 mi).)

Also on that date:

The Humber Bridge opens to traffic, connecting Yorkshire and Lincolnshire. It remained the world's longest bridge span, at 2.22 km (2,430 yd; 7,300 ft; 1.38 mi), for 17 years. (In 1998, the Akashi Kaikyō Bridge, in Japan, was completed with a total length of 3,911 metres (12,831 ft; 2.430 mi).)
I still yet to travel over that bridge, I have done many other suspension bridges.

June 25th 1981 – Microsoft is restructured to become an incorporated business in its home state of Washington.

July 7th 1981 – US President Ronald Reagan appointed Sandra Day O'Connor to become the first female member of the Supreme Court of the United States.

July 15th 1981 - Steven Ford, son of former President Gerald R. Ford, appeared in a seduction scene of "The Young and the Restless" on CBS-TV. Ford played the part of Andy.

July 17th 1981, A structural failure leads to the collapse of a walkway at the Hyatt Regency in Kansas City, Missouri, killing 114 people and injuring more than 200. :\'(

July 19th 1981 - In a private meeting with U.S. President Ronald Reagan, French President François Mitterrand reveals the existence of the Farewell Dossier, a collection of documents showing the Soviet Union had been stealing American technological research and development.

July 29th 1981 - A worldwide television audience of over 700 million people watch the wedding of Charles, Prince of Wales, and Lady Diana Spencer at St Paul's Cathedral in London.

August 1st 1981 – MTV begins broadcasting in the United States and airs its first video, "Video Killed the Radio Star" by The Buggles.

August 5th 1981 - President Ronald Reagan fires 11,359 striking air-traffic controllers who ignored his order for them to return to work.

August 7th 1981: The Washington Star, a daily afternoon newspaper, ceases all operations after 128 years of publication.

September 19th 1981, The Solidarity Day march took place in Washington D.C..

September 25th 1981, Sandra Day O'Connor officially became the first female justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.

Two months late... the Los Angeles Dodgers defeated the New York Yankees to win the 1981 World Series in the sixth game on October 28th.

December 27th 1981: Jazz composer Hoagy Carmichael died at 82 years of age. :\'(

January 1st 1982 - Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, a native of Peru, becomes the first Latin American to hold the title of Secretary-General of the United Nations.

January 28th 1982, US Army general James L. Dozier is rescued by Italian anti-terrorism forces from captivity by the Red Brigades.

February 13th 1982 - Pink Floyd's Dark Side Of The Moon album spent its 402nd week in the U.S. album charts.

March 3rd 1982 - Elizabeth II opens the Barbican Centre in London. Also, American actress Jessica Biel (a.k.a. Mrs. Justin Timberlake) was born.

March 5th 1982 - Soviet probe Venera 14 lands on Venus.

Also, actor John Belushi died at the age of 33. :\'(

One day late... on March 10th 1982:
The United States places an embargo on Libyan oil imports, alleging Libyan state-sponsored terrorism.
Syzygy: All 9 planets recognized at this time align on the same side of the Sun.

March 11th 1982: The Chicago Bulls and Detroit Pistons combined for 296 points in one NBA game, with Detroit winning 152 to 144. The Pistons blocked 20 shots along the way.

March 13th 1982: The crime drama T.J. Hooker premiered on ABC. It would run for three years on said network before moving to CBS in 1985, after which it ended its run in 1986.

March 14th 1982 – The South African government bombs the headquarters of the African National Congress in London.

March 25th 1982:

Wayne Gretzky becomes 1st NHL player to score 200 points in a season.
American racecar driver Danica Patrick was born.

March 29th 1982 – The Canada Act 1982 receives the Royal Assent from Queen Elizabeth II, setting the stage for the Queen of Canada to proclaim the Constitution Act, 1982.

This week in music, 1982.  Chart dated March 27:

British rock group 10cc enter the Canadian Top 40 at #39 with the song Don't Turn Me Away.  Canada was the only country where this song made the Top 40, and I don't know what we loved about this song that other countries did not, but to this day, it still ranks as one of my all-time favourite songs. I will forever love this song!

MedhoLYB5RU

April 7th 1982 – Iranian Foreign Affairs Minister Sadegh Ghotbzadeh is arrested.

On April 17, 1982, Queen Elizabeth II and Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, as well as the Minister of Justice, Jean Chrétien, and André Ouellet, the Registrar General, signed the Proclamation which brought the Constitution Act, 1982 into force. The proclamation confirmed that Canada had formally assumed authority over its constitution, the final step to full sovereignty.

April 20th 1982 – The Soviet Union launched the Salyut 7 space station.

April 24th 1982:

German singer Nicole wins the Eurovision Song Contest 1982 (held in Britain) with the song Ein Bisschen Frieden.
American singer Kelly Clarkson was born.

April 24th 1982:

German singer Nicole wins the Eurovision Song Contest 1982 (held in Britain) with the song Ein Bisschen Frieden.
American singer Kelly Clarkson was born.

I can remember well watching Nicole singing "A Little Peace", thinking back then what a charming song.

I can remember well watching Nicole singing "A Little Peace", thinking back then what a charming song.

I realise that both of these facts can also be posted in the “Rock/Pop Music History” thread. :)

April 25th 1982 – Israel completes its withdrawal from the Sinai Peninsula per the Camp David Accords.

April 26th 1982 - Out on a day's shopping, Rod Stewart was robbed by a gunman of his $50,000 Porsche on Hollywood Boulevard in Los Angeles.

April 26th 1982 - Joe Strummer disappears for about a month causing the Clash to cancel their U.K. tour.

April 30th 1982:

Lester Bangs, American journalist and author, passed away from a drug overdose at 33 years of age.
American actress Kirsten Dunst was born.

May 1st 1982 - Operation Black Buck: The Royal Air Force attacks the Argentine Air Force during Falklands War.

May 12th 1982:

Machine operator Andy Shaw and foreman Chris Wade discovered the Coppergate Helmet during excavations for the construction of the Jorvik Viking Centre in York, North Yorkshire, England.
The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction was awarded to American author John Updike for his novel, Rabbit Is Rich.

May 21st 1982 - During the Falklands War: A British amphibious assault during Operation Sutton leads to the Battle of San Carlos.

May 29th 1982: Pope John Paul II becomes the first pontiff to visit Canterbury Cathedral.

May 30th 1982:

During the Cold War: Spain became the 16th member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and the first nation to enter the alliance since West Germany's admission in 1955.

Also, Pope John Paul II continued with his visit to the UK. He visited Liverpool, where he told crowds at Speke Airport that unemployment, a major problem in the city, "tends to sow seeds of bitterness, division and even violence... This tragedy affects every aspect of life." The Pope then attended a prayer service at the Anglican Liverpool Cathedral and celebrated Mass at the Roman Catholic Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral.

One other notable event occurred on this day in 1982: Cal Ripken Jr. played the first of what would eventually become his record-breaking streak of 2,632 consecutive Major League Baseball games.

June 3rd 1982 -  The Israeli ambassador to the United Kingdom, Shlomo Argov, is shot on a London street; he survives but is left paralysed.

June 6th 1982 – The Lebanon War begins. Forces under Israeli Defense Minister Ariel Sharon invade southern Lebanon during Operation Peace for the Galilee, eventually reaching as far north as the capital Beirut.

June 7th 1982 – Priscilla Presley opens Graceland to the public; the bathroom where Elvis Presley died five years earlier is kept off-limits.

June 8th 1982 – Bluff Cove Air Attacks during the Falklands War: Fifty-six British servicemen are killed by an Argentine air attack on two landing ships, RFA Sir Galahad and RFA Sir Tristram.

June 10th 1982: During the Lebanon War, The Syrian Arab Army defeats the Israeli Defense Forces in the Battle of Sultan Yacoub.

June 11th 1982 – Steven Spielberg's E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, considered one of the greatest films ever made, was released in theatres.

June 18th 1982 – Italian banker Roberto Calvi's body is discovered hanging beneath Blackfriars Bridge in London, England.

June 21st 1982 – John Hinckley is found not guilty by reason of insanity for the attempted assassination of U.S. President Ronald Reagan.

July 1st 1982 - Cal Ripken Jr. makes the first of his record 2,216 consecutive MLB starts at shortstop for the Baltimore Orioles.

Now I know some of you are probably saying, Didn't he play 2,632 consecutive games, starting on May 30th of 1982? Well, yes he did, but some of those starts were at 3rd base. On July 1st he was made the everyday shortstop. Then sometime near the end of the streak, he shifted back to third base.

July 3rd 1982 - After a record breaking jump from No.33 on the UK singles charts, The Damned's guitarist Captain Sensible started a two week run at No.1 with his version of the Rodgers and Hammerstein song 'Happy Talk' from the 1949 musical South Pacific.

July 8th 1982:

A failed assassination attempt against Iraqi president Sadaam Hussein results in the Dujail Massacre over the next several months.
American actress Sophia Bush (no relation to the political family) was born.

July 11th 1982 – The Italy National Football Team defeats West Germany at Santiago Bernabéu Stadium to capture the 1982 FIFA World Cup.

July 20th 1982 – Hyde Park and Regent's Park bombings: The Provisional IRA detonates two bombs in Hyde Park and Regent's Park in central London, killing eight soldiers, wounding forty-seven people, and leading to the deaths of seven horses.

:\'( :\'( :\'(

July 23rd 1982 – A helicopter crashed during the filming of Twilight Zone: The Movie in Valencia, California, killing three people and leading to new safety standards. :\'( :o

August 1st 1982, there was an attempted coup against government of Daniel Arap Moi in Kenya.

August 2nd 1982 – The Helsinki Metro, the first rapid transit system of Finland, is opened to the general public.

August 17th 1982 - The first compact discs (CDs) are produced in Germany.

August 28th 1982: American country-pop singer LeAnn Rimes was born.

August 29th 1982 – The synthetic chemical element Meitnerium, atomic number 109, is first synthesized at the Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung in Darmstadt, Germany.

September 1st 1982 – The United States Air Force Space Command was founded.

September 3rd 1982 - The three day US Festival in San Bernardino, California took place featuring, Tom Petty, Fleetwood Mac, The Police, The Cars, Talking Heads, The Kinks, Ramones, B52's, The English Beat, Gang Of Four, The Grateful Dead, Pat Benatar, Jackson Browne. Apple Computers founder Steven Wozniak bankrolled the festival.

September 18th 1982 – The Sabra and Shatila massacre in Lebanon comes to an end.

September 20th 1982 – NFL season: American football players in the National Football League begin a 57-day strike.

September 25th 1982 - In Israel, 400,000 marchers demand the resignation of Prime Minister Menachem Begin.

October 1st 1982 - EPCOT (Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow) opens at Walt Disney World in Florida.

This coincided with the 11th anniversary of the opening of Walt Disney World itself.

October 1st 1982 - EPCOT (Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow) opens at Walt Disney World in Florida.

This coincided with the 11th anniversary of the opening of Walt Disney World itself.

Something else noteworthy occurred on 1 October 1982: Sony launched the first consumer compact disc (CD) player (model CDP-101).

October 8th 1982 – After its London premiere, Cats opens on Broadway and runs for nearly 18 years before eventually closing on September 10, 2000.

October 11th 1982 - The Mary Rose, flagship of Henry VIII of England that sank in 1545, is raised from the Solent (a strait between the Isle of Wight and Great Britain).

October 11th 1982 - The Mary Rose, flagship of Henry VIII of England that sank in 1545, is raised from the Solent (a strait between the Isle of Wight and Great Britain).
I remember this day well, and remember when it opened for public viewing, but still have not yet to see it.

October 14th 1982 – U.S. President Ronald Reagan proclaims a War on Drugs.

October 20th 1982 - During the UEFA Cup match between FC Spartak Moscow and HFC Haarlem, 66 people are crushed to death in the Luzhniki disaster. :o :\'(

October 21st 1982, a private funeral service was held for former First Lady Bess Truman, who passed away three days earlier.

October 28th 1982 – The Spanish general election begins fourteen years of rule by the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party.

Forty years ago today, I made one of the biggest mistakes of my life. I will let you guess what that was.


Cat

November 5th 1982 - The British television network Channel 4 (which went on the air three days earlier), debuted its TV series The Tube. It was a music-based show that ran for five seasons, ultimately ending in 1987.

November 13th 1982 – The Vietnam Veterans Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C. after a march to its site by thousands of Vietnam War veterans.

November 14th 1982 – Lech Wałęsa, the leader of Poland's outlawed Solidarity movement, is released after eleven months of internment near the Soviet border.

November 30th 1982: Michael Jackson's sixth solo studio album, Thriller, is released worldwide, ultimately becoming the best-selling record album in history.

December 3rd 1982 – A soil sample is taken from Times Beach, Missouri, that will eventually be found to contain 300 times the safe level of dioxin. :o :o

December 4th 1982 – The People's Republic of China adopts its current constitution.

One day late:

December 11, 1982: Swedish pop group ABBA made their final public performance on the British TV programme The Late, Late Breakfast Show.

December 13th 1982 – The 6.0 Ms  North Yemen earthquake shakes southwestern Yemen with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe), killing 2,800, and injuring 1,500. :o :\'(

December 26th 1982 – Time magazine's Man of the Year award is given, for the first time to a non-human, the computer.

January 1st 1983 - The ARPANET officially changes to using TCP/IP, the Internet Protocol, effectively creating the Internet.

January 2nd 1983 - The musical "Annie" closes at the Alvin Theater in NYC after 2,377 performances.

January 15th 1983 - Phil Collins had his first UK No.1 single with his version of 'You Can't Hurry Love,' a hit for The Supremes in 1966. Collins' version was the first track on the very first Now That's What I Call Music CD.

January 15th 1983 - Phil Collins had his first UK No.1 single with his version of 'You Can't Hurry Love,' a hit for The Supremes in 1966. Collins' version was the first track on the very first Now That's What I Call Music CD.


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I knew he had covered that Supremes single, and I've heard both renditions of it many times on radio. I had not realised, however, that the "Now That's What I Call Music" compilations were around back then.

January 18th 1983 – The International Olympic Committee restores Jim Thorpe's Olympic medals to his family.

January 19th 1983 – The Apple Lisa, the first commercial personal computer from Apple Computer to have a graphical user interface and a computer mouse, is announced

24 January 1983: 25 members of the Red Brigades are sentenced to life imprisonment for the 1978 murder of Italian politician Aldo Moro.

January 27th 1983 – The pilot shaft of the Seikan Tunnel, the world's longest sub-aqueous tunnel (53.85 km) between the Japanese islands of Honshū and Hokkaidō, breaks through.

January 29th 1983 – Singapore cable car crash: Panamanian-registered oil rig, Eniwetok, strikes the cables of the Singapore Cable Car system linking the mainland and Sentosa Island, causing two cabins to fall into the water and killing seven people and leaving thirteen others trapped for hours. :-[ :\'(

January 30th 1983: Super Bowl XVII was played at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California. The NFC champion Washington team defeated the AFC champion Miami Dolphins 27–17.

January 30th 1983: Super Bowl XVII was played at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California. The NFC champion Washington team defeated the AFC champion Miami Dolphins 27–17.


Half time entertainment was provided by the Los Angeles Super Drill Team. Those were different times.

February 4th 1983, singer Karen Carpenter passed away a month shy of her 33rd birthday. :\'( Her cause of death was heart failure due to complications from anorexia nervosa, which was little-known outside celebrity circles at the time, and her death led to increased visibility and awareness of eating disorders.

February 8th 1983 – Irish racehorse Shergar is stolen by gunmen.

February 8th 1983 – The Melbourne dust storm hits Australia's second largest city. The result of the worst drought on record and a day of severe weather conditions, a 320 metres (1,050 ft) deep dust cloud envelops the city, turning day to night.

February 12th 1983 - 100 women protest in Lahore, Pakistan, against military dictator Zia-ul-Haq's proposed Law of Evidence. They would be tear-gassed, baton-charged and thrown into lock-up, but ultimately were successful in repealing the law.

February 14th 1983 – United American Bank of Knoxville, Tennessee collapses. Its president, Jake Butcher, is later convicted of fraud. :o

February 22nd 1983 – The notorious Broadway flop Moose Murders opens and closes on the same night at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre.

February 24th 1983 – A special commission of the United States Congress condemns the Japanese American internment during World War II.

February 28th 1983 – The final episode of M*A*S*H was aired, with almost 106 million viewers. It still holds the record for the highest viewership of a season finale.

February 28th 1983 – The final episode of M*A*S*H was aired, with almost 106 million viewers. It still holds the record for the highest viewership of a season finale.


I was one of those 106 million people.

I was one of those 106 million people.
O0

I never saw M*A*S*H in it's full glory, only seeing a couple of episodes during the late 1970s, and only really remember Corporal Klinger.

February 28th 1983 – The final episode of M*A*S*H was aired, with almost 106 million viewers. It still holds the record for the highest viewership of a season finale.

I was one of those 106 million people.

O0

I never saw M*A*S*H in it's full glory, only seeing a couple of episodes during the late 1970s, and only really remember Corporal Klinger.

I have seen the programme in reruns from time to time. But I don't think I ever watched the series finale.

March 2nd 1983 – Compact discs and players are released for the first time in the United States and other markets. They had previously been available only in Japan.

March 8th 1983 – Cold War: While addressing a convention of Evangelicals, U.S. President Ronald Reagan labels the Soviet Union an "evil empire".

21 March 1983: The first cases of the 1983 West Bank fainting epidemic begin; Israelis and Palestinians accuse each other of poison gas, but the cause is later determined mostly to be psychosomatic.

March 23rd 1983 – As part of the Strategic Defense Initiative, President Ronald Reagan makes his initial proposal to develop technology to intercept enemy missiles.

April 3rd 1983 was Easter Sunday that year.

On that day, Danny Rapp - leader of the 1950s boy band Danny & The Juniors - took his own life via a gunshot wound at a motel in Arizona; he was 41 years plus 328 days old. :\'(

One day late... on April 4th 1983, the Space Shuttle Challenger is launched on its maiden voyage: STS-6.

April 7th 1983 – During STS-6, astronauts Story Musgrave and Don Peterson perform the first Space Shuttle spacewalk.

April 12th 1983 – Harold Washington is elected as the first black mayor of Chicago.

April 14th 1983 – The first cordless telephones went on sale in the UK.

April 25th 1983 – Pioneer 10 travels beyond Pluto's orbit.

April 30th 1983, American blues musician Muddy Waters passed away at the age of 70. He was an important figure in the post-war blues scene, and is often cited as the "father of modern Chicago blues". His style of playing has been described as "raining down Delta beatitude".

In 1987, four years after his death, Mr. Waters was inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame.

May 1st 1983 - The Sydney Entertainment Centre (located in Sydney, Australia) opened.

It would terminate business in late 2015, right before Christmas, and get dismantled a month later.

May 6th 1983 – The Hitler Diaries are revealed as a hoax after being examined by new experts.

May 20th 1983 – First publications of the discovery of the HIV virus that causes AIDS in the journal Science by a team of French scientists including Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, Jean-Claude Chermann, and Luc Montagnier.

May 26th 1983 – The 7.8 Mw  Sea of Japan earthquake shakes northern Honshu with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe). A destructive tsunami is generated that leaves about 100 people dead. :o

May 27th 1983 – An explosion at an illegal fireworks factory near Benton, Tennessee, killed eleven people. :o :\'(