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Sports and music: Zulu Nation
Zulu Nation was started by Afrika Babaataa tis was a hip-hop dance compition. Afrka belived it wou;ld keep gang members off the streets. This helped spread hip-hop. -
Fashion and Entertainment: Video games became popular
The first video game console was the Magnavox Odyssey. Pong, realeased in 1972, was the first successful arcade video game. In the 1980s, Sega and Nintendo became a multibillion dollar consumer in America and by 1989 Nintendo shipped more than nine million units. -
World Event: Pacman released
The game of the 1980's was Pac Man. There was a japanese designer that came up with the idea while eating pizza. The game was called Puck Puck. -
Fashion and Entertainment: Womens hair styles
In the 80s womens hair styles emphasized volume and size. Most people had bangs and used a lot of hairspray, mousse, and gel. The styles mimicked tv shows such as "Dynasty," "Dallas," and "Knots Landing". -
Fashion and Entertainment; Leg warmers became popular
Leg warmers were originally worn by dancers to keep their legs warm, but people started wearing them with everything after "Fame" and "Flashdance" came out. They were footless socks that were checkered, sparkley, polka dotted, and flourescent. -
Fashion and Entertainment: Men started wearing earrings
Men across America and Europe started wearing earrings after Johny Depp wore them in a tv series. Ordinary men also started wearing them casually or for business. -
Fashion and Entertainment: Pants worn with sneakers
People began to wear tennis shoes with business suits during the transit strike. People had long walks to work and often changed into dress shoes when they got there. After the transit strike ended, people continued to wear their tennis shoes. -
Fashion and Entertainment: The return of shoulder pads
Shoulder pads were also worn in the 1930s and 1940s, but returned after they were seen on the show Dynasty. People wore shoulder pads in everything from business suits to evening wear. They were also detachable so you could choose to wear them, jewels, lace, and other details could also be added. -
World Event: Freeing of the american hostages
After being abused for 15 months by iranians the american hostages were finally freed. They were taken because the iranians did not like their new policies. They then celebreated when they came back to the states -
World Event:Mount St Helens Erupts
The dormant volcano of Mount St. Helens erupts on May 18, 1981. The ash from the volcano circled the earth about 3 times depending of the jet stream.It killed thousands of people and turning day into night and delayed flights to america. -
World Event: Aids/Hiv
Aids is a deadly disease that is caused many deaths. There is no cure for the diease but may have one in the future. It was orginally discovered in the 1950's. -
Sports and music: Baseball Players go on Strike
A conflict between the pro baseball players of 1981 and their coaches which led the players to go on strike. The strike began on June 12 and lasted for 713 games. On July 31 a compromise was reached and baseball resumed. -
World Event: First woman Of Supreme Court
The first woman that was in the supreme court was Sandra Day O' Connor. She served for more than 20 years. She retired on January 31, 2006 -
Fashion and Entertainment: MTV went on air
Mtv was the first tv channel to be devoted to music. It helped create bands like Dire Straits. Also, by having Michael Jackson's Thriller video on MTV it helped the video get best seller of all time. -
Fashion and Entertainment: Trivial Pursuit was trade mark registered
Trivial Pursuit was originally made on December 15, 1979 but wasn't released until 1981. At first the game was losing money, it was manufactured for seventy-five dollars and sold for only fifteen dollars. After the game started being manufactured for less, it became a common household game. -
Sports and music: Women's Basketbal NCAA
Founded in 1982 with 32 teams . The NCAA basketball tourni pushed women forward. The first winners were Lousiana Tech with 76 points. -
World Event: Vietnam War Memorial
The Vietnam Memorial was deticated to the soliders that died in the war. The was a total of more than 56,000 soliders that died or missing in the war. They would be remembered forever. -
Fashion and Entertainment: E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial came out
E.T. is a movie about a lonely boy who finds a stranded alien and tries to help him return to his home planet. It has won four academy awards for score, sound, and visual effects. E.T. was also one of the most successful and highest-grossing movies ever. -
World Event: E.T released
The movie et was a very popular movie in the early 80's. It pulled in about $12 million on opening weekend. It was one of the most popular movies of the 80's -
Sports and music: Cats Opening on Broadway
The first Cats show on Boradway was a huge hit and fan favorite. Cats became one of the most award winning musicals put on by Andrew Lloyd Webber. -
Sports and music: Micheal Jackson's Thriller
Thriller was instantly a 80's favorite.It won a record breaking 9 grammys. Thriller started the moonwalk dance and the famous one glove style. -
Sports and music: Prince's "Purple Rain"
This album was ranked as one of the greatest of the decade. The two best songs were "When Doves Cry" and "Lets Go Crazy". -
World Event: PC computer released
The personal compuer was the easy way out of work. It made searching for things easier. It was a popular toy of the 1980's -
Sports and music: Madonna's album "Madonna"
The albums' dance pop singles put it at the top of the charts. Some of the songs included in the album were the songs "Everybody" and "Holiday". -
Fashion and Entertainment: The cosby show goes on air
The cosby show was about the Hextables, an African-American family that lived in Brooklyn, New York. The show had eight seasons and ended in 1992. It was the highest ranking tv show from 1985-1990 that showed the everyday problems of growing up. -
Sports and music: San Fransisco 49ers win the SuperBowl XIX
The 49ers head coach Bill Walsh was named "The Coach of the 80's". Also the 49ers became the first team to win 15 regular season games. The 49ers beat the Miami dolphins 38-16. -
Sports and music: Lakers vs Celtics
One of the hottest rivals Larry Bird and Magic Johnson. The lakers won five other times in the 80's. This game was the 9th time the teams collided and the first time the lakers won the championship against them. -
Sports and music: Super Bowl Shuffle
Award winning rap recored by the players of the Chicago Bears 1985-86 football season. the bears became the first and only pro team to have a hit single. -
World Event: Space Shuttle Program
The famous spaceship Challenger expoldes shortly after take off. They didn't send any space shuttles into space for nearly 3 years. Then they started to send spaceships back into space. -
World Event: Fall of the Berlin Wall
The berlin was one of the most hated walls in Germany. The gurds of the wall killed thousands of people when they spotted people trying to get over the wall. The government then let them smash the wall on November 9, 1989.
