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

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POLITICS and HISTORY

• Bishop Desmond Tutu is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
• Los Angeles host the Olympic Games
• Indian Prime Minister, Indira Ghandi is assassinated
• The UK and China agree that Hong Kong will revert to China in 1997
• Brunei becomes an Independent Sultanate and the 159th U.N. member

MUSIC

• Careless Whisper by Wham
• Relax by Frankie Goes to Hollywood
• Like a Virgin by Madonna
• Original Sin by INXS

TV and at the MOVIES

• Amadeus became a foolhardy, farting, genius
• We all rang the Ghostbusters
• Gremlins got into everything
• The Killing Fields shook the world to the atrocities suffered in Cambodia
• Police Academy started it's epic movie serial
• Night Court had us watching Bull
• Miami Vice got those groovy pastel suits emptying off the shelves

People that Died in 1984

• Richard Burton (b.1925) British actor
• Yuri Andropov (b.1914) General Secretary of the U.S.S.R
• Marvin Gaye (b.1939) American Soul Singer
• Johnny Weismuller (b.1904) actor, famous for his portrayal of 'Tarzan'
• Count Basie (b.1904) American Jazz pianist and bandleader
• Sam Peckinpah (b.1925) American film director
• James Mason (b.1909) English actor
• Irwin Shaw (b.1913) American screenwriter and novelist
• Jackie Coogan (b.1914) American actor
• Ethel Merman (b.1909)