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  Super Bowl XIV was a close game during the first three quarters but, Pittsburgh controlled the fourth quarter, scoring 14 unanswered points and winning the game
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  The eruption was preceded by a two-month series of earthquakes when a blast column rose 80,000 feet into the air and spread ash in 11 U.S. states. At the same time, snow, ice and several entire glaciers on the volcano melted, forming a series of mudslides that reached as far as the Columbia River nearly fifty miles away
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  Generated more than $2.5 billion in quarters by the 1990s
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  The doll brand became one of the most popular toy fads of the 1980s and one of the longest-running doll franchises in America
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  Lennon was shot by Mark David Chapman at the entrance of the building where he lived and was pronounced dead on arrival at the hospital
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  Thriller was one of the best-selling albums in many countries during 1983 to 1984
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  TV's biggest hit in the 80's and turned NBC's ratings into fortunes
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  Broke apart 73 seconds into its flight, leading to the deaths of its seven crew members
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  The disaster began during a systems test on at reactor number four of the Chernobyl plant.. There was a sudden power output surge, a which led to a reactor vessel rupture and a series of explosions
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  Over aew weeks,the public and souvenir hunters chipped away parts of the wall. Later, the governments used industrial equipment to remove the rest.