After spending several hours researching the year 1984, I've come to a conclusion.... Very little of historical value happened that year. Here's some of what I was able to come up with. If you have anything you'd like to add to this page, email me at the address below and I'll try to get it added.
- Madonna gets her first hit with "Like a Virgin", and Prince releases "Purple Rain".
- Reagan was re-elected to the Presidency by a landslide vote.
- Apple Computer, founded by Stephen Wozniak and Steven Jobs, releases the Macintosh personal computer.
- Chris Evert became the first player to win 1000 singles matches.
- The movie Amadeus won the Academy Award for best picture. (did anyone really see this movie?) Sally Field won best actress for Places In The Heart, and F. Murray Abraham won best actor for Amadeus.
- Famine in Ethiopia kills hundreds of thousands.
- The Olympic Games take place in Los Angeles and are boycotted by fourteen countries of the Soviet bloc.
- Bruce Springsteen released Born In The USA.
- The San Diego Padres won the World Series, and the LA Raiders won the Superbowl.
- Indira Gandhi was shot repeatedly and assassinated by her own security staff.
Here's proof that we were lost between "Baby Boomers" and "Generation X-ers"...
1. You remember when Jordache jeans with a flat-handle comb in the back pocket was cool.
2. Any photograph of you shows you wearing an Izod shirt with the collar turned up.
3. You remember the premier of MTV - or worse yet, you remember its predecessor, "Friday Night Videos".
4. You took family trips BEFORE the invention of the minivan. And you rode facing the cars behind you.
5. Schoolhouse Rock played a HUGE part in how you learned things like grammar, math and history.
6. You remember trying to guess which episode of "The Brady Bunch" it was by the first scene. (I still do this)
7. This rings a bell: "My name is Charlie, and they work for me".
8. Your parents paid $2,000 for a top loading VCR that was almost the size of your coffee table.
9. You sat with your friends on any Friday night and dialed 867-5309 to see if Jenny was actually there.
10. You actually believed that Mikey, famed kid on the Life cereal commercials, died after eating Pop Rocks and drinking a Coke.
11. You remember when your cable TV box had a sliding selector switch, and your cable remote was connected to the
TV by a CORD.
12. You had a crush on Ted the photographer on "Love Boat", Gage from "Emergency", or Ponch from "CHIPS".
13. You skipped school to watch Luke and Laura's wedding on "General Hospital".
14. You were once bowled over by the technological excellence of such products as Atari, IntelliVision, Telstar, and Coleco.
