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Les Misérables Debuts
The musical Les Misérables in Paris at Palais Des Sports and would become one of the most iconic musicals of all time and winning several Tony's including Best Musical in 1987. -
Ronald Reagan's Assassination Attempt
While Returning to his limo after speaking at a Hotel in Washington DC, President Ronald Reagan was shot and wounded who has serious injuries but had survived the attack. The shorter who was John Hinckley Jr attacked the president as was to impress the actress Jodie Foster as he was obsessed with her. -
AIDS Outbreak
This beginning of the Aids Crisis begins in 1981 with the first reports from 5 me that had unusual sickness at that time, The Cases of Aids Kept growing through the decade. -
Video Killed The Radio Star
MTV Music Television started broadcasting on cable television and would help many artists' careers through the videos that were able to be shown because of the network. -
Cause This Is Thriller Night
King of pop Micheal Jackson releases his sixth studio album "Thriller" which would sell 100+million copies worldwide and is the best selling album of all time. -
The First Apple Mac
Apple released its first personal computer named the Macintosh otherwise known as the MAC. -
The Nintendo NES Debuts in North america
The Nintendo NES debut's in America and thanks to games such as Super Mario Bros. the console becomes a huge success and helps revive the video game industry after the video game crash of the 70s. -
Lockerbie Disaster
PAN-AM Flight 103 was destroyed by a terrorist bombing killing all 243 passengers and 16 crew member as well as an additional 11 people that were killed on the ground. -
Space Shuttle Challenger Accident
73 seconds after the Challenger Space Shuttle was inflight, an incident had occurred where the shuttled had exploded and had killed all 7 members that were onboard the shuttle. -
The Fall Of The Berlin Wall
The Communist Party of East Berlin had started to fall apart and would later allow people to cross to West Berlin and make Germany whole again thus eradicating the Communist Party. On the night of November, 9 Germans from both sides flooded the checkpoints of the wall to enter both sides of Germany. -
The Bodyguard Premieres
The Bodyguard starring Whitney Houston and Kevin Costner was released and was a commercial success making $411 million dollars at the box office and the Soundtrack of the album became one of the best selling albums of all time Selling 45 Million Copies. -
WTC Bombing
At the parking garage of the World Trade Center Building, a bomb had exploded that was planted by a truck near the garage. The bomb had killed six and injured over 1000 people. -
Japan Sarin Gas Attack
In The Morning of March 30th, a doomsday cult had coordinated an attack to release sarin gas on three subway lines of the Tokyo Metro. This attack killed 12, injured 50, and gave vision problems to over a thousand becoming the most deal terrorist attack in Japanese History. -
Shining Star Gone Too Soon..
Selena Quintanilla was shot and killed in Corpus Christi, Texas by Yolanda Saldivar at a Days Inn Hotel over a dispute about forged checks and Selena firing her. Selena was 23. -
The OJ Simpson Trial Verdict
O.J. Simpson had been acquitted of all on both counts of murder for the deaths of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman. Over 100 million watched the verdict on live television. -
Selena "The Movie" Premieres
Two years after her death, the movie about Selena's life is released in theater and stars Jennifer Lopez in her first Starring Role. The FIlm is a commercial and critical success and makes $35.5 Million Dollars at the box office. -
5 become 4
Geri Halliwell otherwise known as Ginger Spice had announced that she left the Pop Group due to differences with the group despite the group not knowing of her departure. The group would continue their tour without Geri in North America. -
Bill Clinton's Public Apology
In September of 1998 after months of denying the rumors, President Bil Clinton had publicly apologized about the affair that he had with Monica Lewinsky. -
The Beginning of A J-Legend
Japanese singer Hikaru Utada releases her debut album, "First Love" that would go on to see 7 million copies in Japan making it the best selling album in Japanese history. -
Mamma Mia! (Here We Go Again)
The Musical Mama Mia which features songs by the Sweedish group ABBA debuted at London's West End becoming an Instant hit with the show still becoming the seventh longest-running show at The West End. -
Napster Launch
The online site which allowed people to share and download songs would launch becoming an easy way for people to listen to songs but the site would later be in a lawsuit by The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) due to copyrighted material. -
End of The 20th Century
The final New Years of the 20th century brought in a new era and would bring the year 2000 and the 21st century.
