Heart Of The 80s

• George H.W. Bush becomes president of the US
• The largest oil spill in US history occurs after the Exxon Valdez strikes Blight Reef in Alaska's Prince William sound
• In Liverpool, England a soccer stadium barrier collapses killing 94 people
• Hurricane Hugo causes 71 deaths and $4.2 billion in damage
• A massive earthquake hits the San Francisco Bay area minutes before the World Series between the Giants and A's
• The Berlin Wall comes down, symbolically ending the Cold War
• Serial killer Ted Bundy is executed in Florida's electric chair
• Ayatollah Khomeini places a three-million-US dollar bounty for the death of author Salman Rushdie
• Actress Zsa Zsa Gabor is arrested in Beverly Hills, California after slapping a motorcycle police officer
• Nintendo released its popular handheld video game player, Game Boy
• Oakland Athletics win the World Series
• San Francisco 49ers win Superbowl XXIII
• Calgary Flames win the Stanley Cup
• Batman is the top grossing film
• "Look Away" by Chicago spends the most time at the top of the US charts
• Talk show host, Geraldo Rivera's nose is broken during a taping of his show, when a fight erupts on the set between guests
• The Arsenio Hall Show and The Simpsons premiere
• Dragonball Z premieres on Japanese television  

• Ronald Reagan is president of the US
• Federal grand juries return indictments against Gen. Manuel Noriega, ruler of Panama, charging him of running drug cartels
• A missile, fired from the US Navy warship Vincennes destroys a commercial Iranian airliner killing all 290 on board
• A Pan-am Boeing 747 explodes over Lockerbie, Scotland from a terrorist bomb
• Controversial Arizona Governor Evan Mecham is removed from office for financial misdeed
• Jimmy Swaggart is defrocked when his sexual liaisons with women other than his wife are revealed
• The Netherlands becomes the second country to get connected to the Internet
• Al-Qaida is established by Osama bin Laden
• Los Angeles Dodgers win the World Series
• Washington Redskins win Superbowl XXII
• Edmonton Oilers win the Stanley Cup
• Rain Man is the top grossing film
• A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking is published
• "Faith" by George Michael spends the most time at the top of the US charts  

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• Ronald Reagan was president of the US
• Wall Street crashed sending the Dow Jones Industrial average down 22.6%
• President Reagan and Soviet Leader Gorbachev signed an unprecedented missile reduction agreement
• Televangelist Jim Bakker resigned amid accusations of sexual infidelity and financial impropriety
• Wall Street financier Ivan Boesky was sentenced to three years in prison in an insider trading scandal
• Gary Hart withdrew from the 1988 presidential campaign under accusations of infidelity
• The Food and Drug Administration approved anti-AIDS drug AZT
• Prozac made its debut in the US
• Bow Wow, Joss Stone, and Hilary Duff were born
• Minnesota Twins won the World Series
• New York Giants won Superbowl XXI
• Edmonton Oilers won the Stanley Cup
• Three Men and a Baby was the top grossing film
• "Walk Like An Egyptian" by The Bangles spent the most time at the top of the US charts
• Full House, Married with Children, and Star Trek: The Next Generation premiered  

• Ronald Reagan is president of the US
• The US officially observes Martin Luther King Day as a national holiday for the first time
• The space shuttle Challenger explodes moments after lift off, killing 6 astronauts and a teacher
• A major nuclear disaster occurs at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the Soviet Union
• Japanese video game maker Nintendo introduces its games to America
• US warplanes bomb Libyan headquarters in retaliation for terrorist attacks
• The Soviet Union launches the Mir space station
• IBM unveils the PC Convertible, the first laptop computer
• Charlotte Church, The Olsen twins, and Lindsay Lohan are born
• New York Mets win the World Series
• Chicago Bears win Superbowl XX
• Montreal Canadiens win the Stanley Cup
• Top Gun is the top grossing film
• "That's What Friends Are For" by Dionne & Friends spends the most time at the top of the US charts
• ALF, the Oprah Winfrey Show, and Pee-wee's Playhouse premiere  

• Ronald Reagan was president of the US
• Live Aid, a 17 hour rock concert broadcast worldwide from London and Philadelphia, raising $70 million for starving Africans
• An 8.1 magnitude earthquake hit Mexico City and results in about 25,000 deaths
• Volcano "Nevada del Ruiz" erupted near Bogota, Columbia causing mud slides that bury two towns
• American Jew Jonathan Pollard was arrested for giving military secrets to Israel
• Mikhail Gorbachev became Soviet leader
• New Coke was released on the 99th anniversary of Coca-Cola
• The GNU Manifesto was first written by Richard Stallman
• Kansas City Royals won the World series
• San Francisco 49ers won Superbowl XIX
• Edmonton Oilers win the Stanley Cup
• Back to the Future was the top grossing film
• Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis was published
• David Lee Roth left Van Halen to begin a solo career
• "Careless Whisper" by Wham! spent the most time at the top of the US charts
• Elmo was introduced on Sesame Street
• The Golden Girls and Growing Pains premiered  

• Ronald Reagan was president of the US
• On a Challenger mission, two astronauts became the first humans to fly free of a spacecraft
• An Union Carbide insecticide plant in Bhopal, India seeped toxic gas killing over 2,000
• The Soviet Union boycotted the Los Angeles Summer Olympics
• "Where's the Beef?" commercial campaign for Wendy's aired for the first time
• The Apple Macintosh, the first consumer computer to use a computer mouse and GUI interface, was introduced by Apple
• Ethiopian famine begun
• Mandy Moore and Avril Lavigne were born
• Detroit Tigers won the World Series
• Los Angeles Raiders won Superbowl XVIII
• Edmonton Oilers won the Stanley Cup
• Ghost Busters, Beverly Hills Cop, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Gremlins, and The Karate Kid were top grossing films
• "When Doves Cry" by Prince and the Revolution spent the most time at the top of US charts
• Michael Jackson's hair catched fire during the filming of a Pepsi commercial
• The Cosby Show, Punky Brewster, and Who's the Boss? premiered 

• Ronald Reagan was president of the US
• Sally Ride became the first American woman to travel in space
• Marines were killed when a TNT laden suicide terrorists blows up Marine headquarters at Beirut International Airport
• US Marines and Rangers invaded the island of Grenada and evacuate hundreds of US citizens
• The Soviets shot down Korean Airlines flight 007
• The Internet Domain Name System was invented by Paul Mockapetris
• Ronald Wilson Reagan signed a bill creating Martin Luther King Day
• Baltimore Orioles won the World Series
• Washington Redskins won Superbowl XVII
• New York Islanders won the Stanley Cup
• Return of the Jedi was the top grossing film
• "Every Breath You Take" by The Police spent the most time at the top of US charts
• The A-Team and Webster premiered 

• Ronald Reagan was president of the US
• The space shuttle Columbia completed its first operational flight
• Actor John Belushi was found dead of a drug overdose in a West Hollywood hotel
• Automobile manufacturer John Delorean was arrested and charged with possession of 59 pounds of cocaine
• The first artificial heart was implanted in American Barney Clark
• The Cable News Network, or CNN, was launched
• 750,000 people rallied against nuclear weapons in New York City's Central Park
• Time Magazine's Man of the Year was for the first time given to a non-human, a computer
• The first computer virus, written by Rich Skrenta, escaped into the wild
• Kirsten Dunst and Elisha Cuthbert were born
• St. Louis Cardinals won the World Series
• San Francisco 49ers won Superbowl XVI
• New York Islanders won the Stanley Cup
• E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial was the top grossing film
• Ozzy Osbourne bit the head off of a live bat thrown at him during a performance, later hospitalized with rabies
• "I Love Rock 'N Roll" by Joan Jett & The Blackhearts spent the most time at the top of the US charts
• Cheers, Family Ties, Silver Spoons, and Fame premiered

• Ronald Reagan became president of the US
• Minutes after Ronald Reagan becomes president, Iran released 52 American hostages that had been held captive for 444 days
• President Reagan was shot in the chest by would be assassin John Hinkley
• Space shuttle Columbia, the world's first reusable spacecraft, was sent into space
• A suspended walkway in the Kansas City Hyatt Regency Hotel collapsed, killing 113
• A female former lover filed a "palimony" suit against tennis star Billie Jean King
• President Reagan appointed Sandra Day O'Connor to be the first woman on the Supreme Court
• The Pac-Man video game was introduced in the US
• Alicia Keys, Elijah Wood, Kelly Rowland, Anna Kournikova, and Britney Spears were born
• Los Angeles Dodgers won the World Series
• Oakland Raiders won Superbowl XV
• New York Islanders won the Stanley Cup
• Raiders of the Lost Ark was the top grossing film
• "Bette Davis Eyes" by Kim Carnes spent the most time at the top of the US charts
• MTV debut on cable television, playing music videos 24 hours a day
• Gimme a Break premiered this year

• Jimmy Carter became president of the US
• President Carter announced punitive measures and embargoes against the USSR in retaliation for the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
• Mount St. Helens in Washington state erupted in a violent blast estimated to be 500 times as powerful as the Hiroshima atomic bomb
• Ronald Reagan was elected the 40th US president in a sweeping victory
• US Representative Michael O. Myers was expelled from the House for his role in the Abscam scandal
• Hewlett-Packard announcee release of its first personal computer
• Microsoft announced their version of UNIX, Xenix
• Christina Ricci, Chelsea Clinton, Venus Williams, Jessica Simpson, Macaulay Culkin, and Jake Gyllenhaal were born
• Philadelphia Phillies won the World Series
• Pittsburgh Steelers won Superbowl XIV
• New York Islanders won the Stanley Cup
• The Empire Strikes Back was the top grossing film
• "Lady" by Kenny Rogers spent the most time at the top of the US charts
• U.S. viewers got caught up in the "Who Shot J.R.?" cliff hanger on the soap opera series, Dallas, which is solved on a November 21 episode, drawing a record numbers of viewers 

Here goes my warm welcome to all 80s fans like me!

Welcome to "Heart Of The 80s". My wish for many years now since I began blogging.
You can find a few entries from my previous blogs and I also remember I began a retro blog before but
deleted it because I believed that past is past. I still believe it, of course, but this time I'm just moving on as I'll looking back to the 80s
with my heart-shaped glasses :)

Lately I've been watching 80's movies, 80's reruns and I realize how much I really missed being a
teen in the 80's. Watching those movies led me to open my nifty treasure chest, one
I marked "Hidden Wealth" in 1986, where all my diaries are kept dating back to November 14,1985- December 1989.
I will be sharing a few diary entries, will share the actual photos from a few pages, will write them again just as I have written them when I was a 14-year-old
in a sleepy town in the province of the Philippines. Allow me though to keep the anonymity of my friends' names (unless I have their permission).
I hope you can sit back and enjoy the trip back to my 80's. May it bring you joy and laughter as you
relate your own 80's memories!