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The USA Hockey Team defeated the favored Russian Hockey Team to win the Gold in the 1980 Lake Placid Winter Olympics. |
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The 1980's brought new life to the movie and music industries with artists like Michael Jackson from the Jackson 5, and the marketing-savvy Madonna. During this time, records begin be replaced by compact disks. The Music Television Network MTV is born which eventually becomes the most popular music program on air. |
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IIn 1982, Steven Spielberg produced one of the most recogized alien movies of the 80's; E.T. The movie starred Drew Barrymore. |
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Tom Cruise reinforced his clean-cut appeal in the 1986 air force film "Top Gun." |
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IBM released its first personal computer, the IBM PC, on August 12, 1981. |
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U.S. Surgeon Everett Koop denounced cigarette smoking in 1982 and labels with surgeon general warnings begin to appear on cigarette labels. |
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The 1986 space shuttle Challenger explosion immediately after lift-off shocked the world and plunged the nation in to mourning. |
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The US Mint resumed its production of commemorative coins in 1982, after nearly a thirty-year hiatus. |
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The 1980s began with the sale of the first philatelic item, the "Blue Alexandria" cover, to sell for $1 million. Stampless covers are similar philatelic items from the era just before stamps became required. |
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This big, purple dinosaur has been adored by millions of children for more than 10 years, leading to the creation of many collectible Barney toys. |
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Super Mario Brothers and other Nintendo video games took the world by storm in the early to mid-1980s; the 1989 release of the hand-held Game Boy has since enabled kids and commuters alike to enjoy their favorite games wherever and whenever they want. |
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Toni Morrison's ghostly reflection of American slavery, Beloved, was published in 1987. |
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Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird invented a merchandising and pizza-loving franchise with the publication of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles comic books in 1984. |
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William Gibson envisioned a world in which everything is conducted in "cyberspace" in his ground-breaking 1984 science fiction adventure novel Neuromancer. |
