Growing up in the 80's - Relive events, songs and T.V. memories right here

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POLITICS and HISTORY

• Ronald Reagan becomes the 40th President of the United States of America, following a landslide victory over Jimmy Carter...
• Zimbabwe achieves Black African majority rule. Robert Mugabe becomes the first Prime Minister.
• Mount St Helens erupts (Washington state, USA), 36 die
• Bjorn Borg defeats John McEnroe to win his fifth successive Wimbledon title
• The 22nd Olympic Games are held in Moscow, and are boycotted by over 50 nations
• War begins between Iraq and Iran when Iraq invades Iran in an attempt to gain control over Abadan and the Shatt al Arab waterway

MUSIC

• The Rose by Bette Middler... from the movie
• Don't Stand So Close To Me by The Police
• Fade to Grey by Visage Going
• Underground by The Jam
• I Don't Like Mondays by the Boomtown Rats
• Love Will Tear Us Apart by Joy Division
• Rapture by Blondie
• Turning Japanese by The Vapors
• Video Killed The Radio Star by The Buggles

TV and at the MOVIES

• The Dukes Of Hazard (Those Good Ole Boys and the General Lee)
• Different Strokes (What you looking at Willis?)
• Soap, the bubbliest spin off of all the soaps
• The Love Boat sailed through another season
• Dallas asked us 'who shot JR?'
• Battlestar Gallactica
• Kramer vs Kramer won Best Movie at the Oscars
• Dustin Hoffman (Kramer vs Kramer) was Best Actor
• Sally Field (Norma Rae) was Best Actress
• The Empire Strikes Back told us who Luke's father really was
• Airplane! had us all laughing in the aisles

People that Died in 1980

• Alfred Hitchcock (b.1899, film director)
• John Lennon (b.1940 musician, assassinated in New York)
• Peter Sellers (b.1925, British comedian)
• Mae West (b.1890, film actress)
• Steve McQueen (b.1930, actor)
• Jimmy Durante (b.1893, American comedian)