15.Bon Jovi's "Livin' on a Prayer," Whitney Houston's "I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me)," and Heart's "Alone" were among the biggest songs of the year.
16.The Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin, became the very first woman inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.
22.Baby Jessica was rescued after being trapped in a well for two and a half days.
23.Cell phones looked like bricks and cost about 50 cents a minute to use — not including the $100–150 monthly service fee.
24.President Ronald Reagan gave his famous "Tear down this wall!" speech in West Berlin.
25.Popular televangelist Jim Bakker was forced to step down after it was revealed that he had used $265,000 in church funds to pay off Jessica Hahn following a sexual encounter.
26.Stephen King's The Tommy-Knockers, Tom Wolfe's The Bonfire of the Vanities, and Tom Clancy's Patriot Gamestopped the New York Times best-seller list.
27.Dirty Dancing was released and became an unexpected hit.
28.Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles made its TV debut...
29....along with DuckTales — forever cementing the ’80s with great cartoon theme songs.