History & Misc. Stuff:

1/4: US planes shoot down two Libyan fighters over international waters in the Mediterranean. 1/7: Emperor Hirohito of Japan dies at age 87. 1/20: George H.W. Bush is inaugurated as the 41st President. 2/14: Iran's Ayatolla Khomeini declares author Salman Rushdie's book The Satanic Verses offensive and sentences him to death. 3/24: Ruptured Tanker Valdez sends 11 million gallons of crude oil into Alaska's Prince William Sound. 4/19: Tens of thousands of Chinese students take over Beijing's Tiananmen Square in a rally for Democracy. 5/4: US jury convicts Oliver North in Iran-Contra Affair. 5/25: Mikhail S. Gorbachev named Soviet President. 6/4: Thousands killed in Tiananmen Square as Chinese leaders take hard line toward demonstrators. 6/14: 362  deserving seniors graduate from Havelock High School. 11/11: After 28 years the Berlin Wall opens to the West. 12/24: Dalai Lama wins the Nobel Peace Prize.      

Super Bowl XXIV: San Francisco 49ers vs. Cincinnati Bengals 20-16

NBA: Detroit Pistons vs. LA Lakers; series 4-0

NCAA Football: Miami,Fl  Record 11-1-0

Heisman Trophy Winner: Andre Ware (Houston); QB pts: 1073

Stanley Cup: Calgary Flames vs. Montreal Canadiens; series 4-2

10. Monday Night Foot Ball.  9. Empty Nest    8. The Wonder Years.

7. 60 Minutes    6. The Golden Girls     5. America's FHV

4. A Different World   3. Cheers    2. Rosanne..........

1. The Cosby Show

Bestsellers:

Fiction: The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan

NonFiction: A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking

10. Beetlejuice  9. Monstruck    8. Cocktail     7. Die Hard

6. Three Men and a Baby   5. Big    4. Crocodile Dundee II

3. Good Morning Vietnam   2. Coming to America..........

1. Who framed Roger Rabbit

Top 10 Songs of 1989

10.I'll be there for you-Bon Jovi    9.Like A Prayer-Madonna

8.She Drive Me Crazy-Fine Young Cannibals   7.The Look-Roxette

6.Eternal Flame-Bangles   5. The Living Years -Mike & the Mechanics

4. Lost In Your Eyes-Debbie Gibson   3. When I'm With You-Sheriff

2. Two Hearts-Phil Collins........  1. My Prerogative-Bobby Brown

Awards for 1989:

Academy Award for Best Picture: Driving Miss. Daisy

Tony Award for Best Play: M. Butterfly

Tony Award for Best Musical: The Phantom of the Opera

Grammy Award for Record of the Year: Wind Beneath My Wings

Grammy Award for Song of the Year: Wind Beneath My Wings

Grammy for Best Album: Nick of Time-Bonnie Raitt  

Grammy Female Vocal: Bonnie Raitt

Grammy Male Vocal: Michael Bolten

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.