• President: Ronald Reagan 
• Vice President: George Bush 
• Comic John Belushi, died of drug overdose 
• Argentina invades the Falklands (UK); Argentina has to withdraw its troops after two months 
• Princess Diana gave birth to her first son (he's now in his first year of college)
• Princess Grace of Monaco died when her car plunged off mountain road 
• Tylenol Scare, October 5th. Tylenol taken off market after eight killed in deliberate contamination 
• Dentist, Barney B. Clark, was first recipient of artificial heart, lives 112 days. 
• Michael Jackson's "Thriller" sells 20 million albums to become the largest selling record ever. 
• Ozzy bites the head off a live bat thrown at him at a January 20 performance. 
• Helmut Kohl becomes chancellor in Germany (and STILL is chancellor) 
• Leonid Breznjev dies, Yuri Andropov takes over 
• The Reverend Sun Myung Moon marries 4,150 of his "Moonie" followers at Madison Square Garden. 
• Nancy Reagan appears at a benefit dressed as a bag lady to protest criticism of her expensive outfits. 
• Mexico's economy collapses. 
• Liposuction is introduced. 
• Telephone company breaks up into 22 distinct regional phone companies. 
• The Equal Rights Amendment dies, three states short of ratification. 
• The Vietnam Memorial is erected in Washington D.C. 
• Delorean Motor Company goes bankrupt 
• Larry Walters on July 2nd ties 42 weather balloons to a lawn chair and flies as high as 16 thousand feet before shooting the balloons with a pellet gun and landing about 90 minutes later. The FAA fined him $1,500. 

• Postage stamp: $.20 
• Milk (half gallon): $1.13 
• Gas (gallon): $1.22 
• Car: $9,890 
• Minimum wage: $3.35 

• THE TARHEELS WON THE NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP IN BASKETBALL! Actual date: March 29, 1982 They defeated the Georgetown Hoyas 63-62. 
• Washington shut out Iowa 28-0 in Rose Bowl 
• E. Delahoussaye rode Gato del Sol to victory in Kentucky Derby 
• American Ashby Harper, age of 65, became oldest to swim the English Channel 
• Two Olympic gold medals revoked from Jim Thorpe in 1912 were restored posthumously 
• Cardinals beat Brewers to win World Series 
• Italy wins the Soccer World Cup in Spain 
• NBA: Los Angeles Lakers vs. Philadelphia 76ers Series: 4-2 
• NCAA Football: Penn State Record: 11-1-0 
• Heisman Trophy: Herschel Walker, Georgia, RB Points: 1,926 
• Stanley Cup: New York Islanders vs. Vancouver Canucks Series: 4-0 
• Super Bowl XVI: San Francisco 49ers vs. Cincinnati Bengals Score: 26-21 
• US Open Golf: Tom Watson Score: 282 Course: Pebble Beach GL Location: Pebble Beach, CA 
• World Cup Soccer: Italy vs. West Germany Score: 3-1 
  World Series: St. Louis Cardinals vs. Milwaukee Brewers series: 4-3 

• 60 Minutes 
• Dallas 
• M*A*S*H 
• Dynasty 
• Three's Company

• Rocky III 
• Conan the Barbarian 
• Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid 
• Visiting Hours 
• Victor Victoria

10. MTV actually played videos in the 80's.

9. There was only one kind of Nike tennis shoes. (White with a red swoosh), and they didn't cost $125. 

8. A comb in your back pocket is more practical and less painful than a ring through your nose. 

7. In the 80's playing video games actually meant going out to DO something (remember Hyper Space?)

6. In the 80's, when you were out partying, you didn't have to worry about your Mom calling you on your cell phone. 

5. In the 80s we didn't have to worry about guns at school. 

4. Debbie Gibson vs. Britney Spears. New Kids on the Block vs. N'Sync. New Edition vs. Hanson. Ok, that one's a draw. 

3. In the early 80's there were kids in your high school who could BUY ALCOHOL LEGALLY. 

2. Feathered hair was easier to care for than dreadlocks. 

And the number one reason why it was better to grow up in the 80s than the 90s...

1. In the 80's you didn't have to worry about your pants falling down all the time. They were so tight we couldn't get them off! 

• You remember when Jordache jeans with a flat-handle comb in the back pocket were cool.
• A photograph shows you wearing an Izod shirt with the collar turned up.
• You know any Weird Al Yankovic song by heart.
• You’ve ever rung someone’s doorbell and shouted, “Landshark!”
• You once were bowled over by the technological excellence of Atari, Coleco, TelStar and Intellivision.
• You remember the premiere of MTV. Worse yet, you remember its predecessor, Friday Night Videos.
• A predominant color in your childhood colors is plaid.
• You took family trips BEFORE the invention of the minivan.
• You rode in the back of the station wagon, facing the cars behind you.
• You’ve recently horrified yourself by using any one of the following phrases:
• “You know, back when…,” When I was our age…” or “When I was younger…”
• Schoolhouse Rock played a huge part in how you learned grammar, math and history. You also learned to recite the preamble to the Constitution by singing it.
• The question, “Where’s the beef?” still makes you laugh.
• You remember when movie critics raved that no movie could ever surpass the special effects in Tron.
• You had a crush on Ted the photographer in Love Boat, Gage from Emergency or Ponch from C.H.I.P.S.
• You remember trying to guess which episode of The Brady Bunch it was by the first scene.
• You know who shot J.R.
• You remember when Love’s Baby Soft was in every girl’s Christmas stocking.
• You recognize this line: “My name is Charlie and they work for me.”
• You’ve ever had a Dorothy Hamill haircut.
• You owned a pair of rainbow suspenders like the ones Mork wore.
• You remember when your cable TV box had a sliding selector switch and was attached to your TV by a wire.
• You actually believed that Mikey, the Life cereal kid, died after eating Pop Rocks and drinking a Coke.