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Comedian Richard Pryor (sets himself on fire)
Pryor's body of work includes the concert movies and recordings: Richard Pryor: Live & Smokin' (1971), That Nigger's Crazy (1974), ...Is It Something I Said? -
US attempt at rescue of Hostages in Tehran aka (Operation Eagle Claw)
The United States Armed Forces operation ordered by U.S. President Jimmy Carter to attempt to end the Iran hostage crisis -
CNN
CNN was founded in 1980 by American media proprietor Ted Turner as a 24-hour cable news channel. -
Pac-Man
Pac-Man is an arcade game designed by Toru Iwatani and published by Namco and Midway Games -
Death of John Lennon
John Lennon, formerly of the Beatles, was shot and killed in the archway of the Dakota, his residence in New York City. -
MS-DOS released
he Microsoft Disk Operating System (MS-DOS) is an operating system developed for PCs with x86 microprocessors. -
Assassination Attempt on Reagan
President Ronald Reagan and three others were shot and wounded by John Hinckley Jr -
first U.S. IVF baby
the United States' first baby born from the in-vitro fertilization procedure -
Michael Jackson “Thriller”
Thriller is the sixth studio album by American singer Michael Jackson, -
NIKE releases Air Jordan 1
The Air Jordan 1 was first produced for Michael Jordan -
“We Are the World”
The song was the only one released from the We Are the World album and became a chart success around the world -
Gorbachev calls for “Glasnost” and “Perestroika”
political movement for reformation within the Communist Party of the Soviet Union -
Chernobyl
catastrophic nuclear accident that occurred -
Hands Across America
approximately 6.5 million people held hands for fifteen minutes in an attempt to form a continuous human chain across the contiguous United States. -
Simpsons Debut
The Simpsons began as a series of "bumpers" or animated shorts -
Soviet Troops withdraw from Afghanistan
complete withdrawal of Soviet combatant forces from Afghanistan -
The Central Park Five
Latino teenagers from Harlem who were wrongly convicted of raping a white woman in New York City's Central Park in 1989 -
Ryan White
American teenager from Kokomo, Indiana, who became a national poster child for HIV/AIDS in the United States
