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U.S. STATISTICS
President: Ronald W. Reagan
Vice President: George Bush
Population: 237,923,795
Life expectancy:
74.7 years
Violent Crime Rate (per 100,000): 556.6
Property
Crime Rate (per 100,000): 4650.5
ECONOMICS
US GDP (1998 dollars):
$4,180.70 billion
Federal spending:
$946.39 billion
Federal debt: $1817.5 billion
Median Household Income
(current dollars): $23,618
Consumer
Price Index: 107.6
Unemployment: 7.2%
Cost of a first-class stamp:
$0.20
POLITICS AND HISTORY
- January 20: President Reagan is inaugurated for a second term.
- March 11: Mikhail Gorbachev suceeds Konstantin Cherichenko as General Secretary of the USSR
- May 20: Retired Naval officer John Walker and his son Michael are charged by the FBI with
espionage.
- September 2: Hurricane Elena leaves four dead.
- October 7 - The passenger ship Achille Lauro is hijacked by Palestinians.
- October 10 - United States Navy F-14 fighter jets intercept an Egyptian plane carrying the
Achille Lauro cruise ship hijackers and force it to land at a NATO base in Sigonella, Sicily were they are arrested.
- November 19 - Cold War: In Geneva, US President Ronald Reagan
and Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev meet for the first time.
- Severe winter in Europe kills more than 100 people
- The UK starts screening blood donations for the AIDS virus
- The Live Aid Rock Concert in London and Philadelphia raises over $600M for African famine
relief
- French sink the Greenpeace flagship 'Rainbow Warrior' in Auckland, New Zealand
MUSIC
The Power Of Love - Huey Lewis & theNews
We
Are The World - USA for Africa
Heaven
- Bryan Adams
Crazy For You - Madonna
Into The Groove - Madonna
Money For
Nothing - Dire Straites
Born In The U.S.A. - Bruce
Springsteen
I Would Die 4 U - Prince
TV AND MOVIES
Michael
J Fox took us Back to the Future
Madonna was Desperately Seeking Susan
Prince was coming out
of the Purple Rain
Harrison Ford was Witness protecting
Alan Thicke &
Kirk Cameron were going through Growing Pains 1985-1992
Bruce Willis and Cybil
Shephard were Moonlighting, 1985-1989
The
Golden Girls made the Florida lifestyle sound bearable, 1985-1992
MacGyver sold millions of Swiss Army knives, 1985-1992
The war between the
North and South (miniseries) raged on 1985
TV SHOWS ENDED THIS YEAR
The Jeffersons (1975 - 1985)
Alice ( 1976 - 1985)
Battle of the Planets (1978 - 1985)
The Dukes of Hazzard ( 1979 - 1985)
Cover Up (1984 - 1985)
PEOPLE WHO DIED
February 8 - Sir William Lyons, founder of Jaguar
Motors
February 11 - Heinz Eric Roemheld, composer.
February 11 - Henry Hathaway actor/director.
February 11 - Ulysses Simpson Kay,
composer.
February 20 - Clarence Nash, Disney voice actor
February 27 - Henry Cabot Lodge,
politician, candidate for Vice President of the United States
March 10 - Konstantin Chernenko,
General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
April 11 - Enver Hoxha, dictator of Albania
May 8 - Dolph Sweet, actor on Gimme a Break
May 8 - Theodore Sturgeon, science fiction writer
May 9 - Edmond O'Brien, actor
May 10 - Chester Gould, cartoonist
May 12 - Jean Dubuffet, painter
May 16 - Margaret Hamilton, actress,
Wizard of Oz
May 17 - Abe Burrows, songwriter,
composer, writer
August 12 - Manfred Winkelhock,
auto racing driver
August 25 - Samantha Smith, U.S. activist
September 6 - Isabel Cox-Meighen,
First Lady of Canada
September 6 - Little Brother Montgomery,
musician
October 2 - Rock Hudson, actor, died of AIDS
October 6 - Murder of PC Keith
Blakelock in the Broadwater Farm Riot, London
October 10 - Yul Bryner,
American actor
October 11 - Tex Williams, US country singer
October 11 - Orson Welles, movie director
October 12 - Johnny Olson, game show announcer
October 22 - Thomas Townsend Brown, scientist
November 1 - Phil Silvers, actor, comdien
December 12 - Anne Baxter, actress
December 14 - Roger Maris, MLB player
December 31 - Ricky Nelson, American singer and actor
PEOPLE WHO WERE BORN
February 18
- Lee Boyd Malvo, convicted Beltway sniper
February 20
- Yulia Volkova, member of t.A.T.u
March 2 - Robert
Iler, actor, The Sopranos
March 26 -
Keira Knightley, actress, Bend it Like Beckham, Pirates of the Caribbean
March 30 - Dan Williams, founder of MIT Investment Club
May 2 - Sarah Hughes, figure skater
June 30 - Michael Phelps, American
swimmer
October 11 - Michelle Trachtenberg, actress (Harriet the Spy, Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
October 24 - Wayne Rooney, English
Football (Soccer) star
October 22 - Zachary Hanson, musician
November 10 - Giovonnie Samuels, television actress
SCIENCE
British scientists report the opening
of an enormous hole in the earth's ozone layer over Antarctica. Background: Environment & Nature
Researchers at IBM develop the scanning
tunneling microscope, which can visualize images on an atomic scale.
Coca-Cola attempts to change its 99-year-old formula
in an effort to attract younger drinkers. "New" Coke is poorly received, and the company soon reintroduces the original, "Classic"
beverage.
SPORTS
Super Bowl
San Francisco d. Miami (38-16)
World Series
Kansas City d. St. Louis Cardinals (4-3)
NASCAR
Daytona 500 - Bill Elliott
Championship - Darrell Waltrip
NBA Championship
LA Lakers d. Boston (4-2)
Stanley Cup
Edmonton d. Philadelphia (4-1)
Wimbledon
Women: Martina Navratilova d. C.
Evert Lloyd (4-6 6-3 6-2)
Men: Boris Becker d. K. Curren (6-3 6-7 7-6 6-4)
Kentucky Derby Champion
Spend A Buck
NCAA Basketball Championship
Villanova d. Georgetown
(66-64)
NCAA Football Champions
Oklahoma (11-1-0)
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