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1 A billion people tuned in to see Prince Charles and Lady Diana get married. While royal and celebrity weddings are still a big ratings hit to this day, they pale in comparison to Diana and Charles ' wedding in 1981. In fact, over a billion people around the globe tuned in for the July 29th wedding.
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Here are some sports facts from 1980: The Pittsburgh Steelers became the first NFL franchise to win four Super Bowls, and the Philadelphia Phillies won their first World Series. Al Kaline, Duke Snider, Chuck Klein, and Tom Yawkey were all inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
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1 1980: The Mariel Boatlift from Cuba makes headlines. Miami Herald/INACTIVE // Getty Images In what was an already a tense moment between Cuba and the United States, Fidel Castro agreed to allow.
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Getty Images Sony named the Walkman after the Pressman audio recorder featured popularly in Superman. They originally called it the Sound-About in the United States and the Stowaway in the United.
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Ah, the '80s. Ree Drummond will be the first to tell you that this was "the greatest decade ever," which might have something to do with the fact that she was an angsty teenager whose biggest problem was the fact that Billy Idol wasn't her boyfriend. π. Still, there's no denying that the '80s produced some of pop culture's greatest successes. Those formative years of entertainment gave us.
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The Top Science Discoveries and Innovations of the 80s; Interesting Facts About the 80s. The '80s ushered the birth of many things commonplace in our lives: personal computers, music videos, cell phones, and more. It's made quite a mark in history as it brought us big hair, neon colors, shoulder pads, Air Jordans, Pac-Man, Cold War - the.
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20th Television. Never before had the '80s seen a TV event quite like the M*A*S*H finale.When the two-and-a-half-hour "Goodbye, Farewell and Amen" episode aired on February 28, 1983, more than 100 million viewers tuned in, making it the most-watched program in television history at the time. (It was only beaten in 2010 by the Super Bowl.)
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23 Random Classic '80s Movies Facts That I Find Unbelievably Interesting Ghostbusters set in the future?! And in space?! Yup, could've been. by Brian Galindo BuzzFeed Staff View 28 comments 1.
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Jake Rossen Parental Advisory: When Tipper Gore Took on '80s Rock Music Suggestive lyrics from bands like Twisted Sister led to the 1985 Parents Music Resource Center Senate hearing on whether.
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Movies, TV Shows, and Music The '80s was a great time to be a movie star because some of the most memorable and iconic movies were made during these times, and some of our favorite stars came to light as well. Movies, TV shows, and music in the '80s majorly paved a path for the media and entertainment industry.
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Of the 1,700 boats that made the journey from Cuba that year, many were overcrowded, and 27 migrants died before reaching the United States. Fernando Yovera/AP. The eruption of Mount St. Helens.
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1980 Americans flocked to video arcades when Pac-Mac debuted in October 1980. It would become one of the most popular arcade games of the decade. Yvonne Hemsey/Getty Images The first year of the decade was memorable for political drama, cable TV, and games we couldn't keep our hands off of.
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Sixteen Candles. 11. John Hughes was inspired to write Sixteen Candles after he received a headshot of Molly Ringwald. 12. Viggo Mortensen was almost cast as Jake Ryan. 13. The cake in the iconic.
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In the 1980s, a new conservatism arose in social, economic and political life, characterized by the policies of U.S. President Ronald Reagan and U.K. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. For some.
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1. At the start of the decade, we lost a legend. On the evening of the 8th of December 1980, John Lennon was shot outside his New York apartment. 2. The 1980 Olympics weren't too popular. The USA along with 65 other countries boycotted the 1980 Olympic Summer Games in Moscow to protest the late 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
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1. The Movies Was the '80s the golden age of movies? It might be hard to argue that. It gave us some of the biggest movies and trilogies of all time and gave rise to the blockbuster.