Heart Of The 80s

• 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!