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

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POLITICS and HISTORY

• Bill Gates, 32 year-old founder of Microsoft becomes micro-comupting's first billionaire
• W.H.O reports that 8% of all pregnant Zairean women and 17% of Zairean blood donors are AIDS infected
• Margaret Thatcher becomes the first British PM this century to be elected three times
• Black Monday World Stock Market share prices crash
• A Yugoslavian baby boy is declared the world's five billionth inhabitant

MUSIC

• I Think We're Alone Now by Tiffany
• Livin' on a Prayer by Bon Jovi
• The Way it Is by Bruce Hornsby and the Range
• Walk Like an Egyptian by the Bangles
• With or Without You by U2
• I Want Your Sex by George Michael

TV and at the MOVIES

• Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey were Dirty Dancing
• Glenn Close proved to be a Fatal Attraction for Michael Douglas
• Wall Street taught us that 'Greed is Good'
• South Africa's apartheid policy was shown to the world in 'Cry Freedom' J
• Jack Nicholson battled the Witches of Eastwick
• Mel Gibson was a definitely a Lethal Weapon
• Biology was proven wrong in My Two Dads

People that Died in 1987

• Rita Hayworth (b.1918) American film actress
• Fred Astaire (b.1899) American actor
• Danny Kaye (b.1913) American actor
• John Huston (b.1906 ) American film director
• Liberace (b.1919) American pianist
• Jackie Gleason (b.1916) American actor
• Andy Warhol (b.1928) American film-maker
• Lee Marvin (b.1924)
• American actor Baroness Maria Von Trapp (b.1905) author of 'The Sound of Music'