Still Preoccupied With 1985...

• The year started on a Tuesday
  
• A Gallon of Milk Cost $1.98
• Ronald Reagan is president of the US
• Live Aid, a 17 hour rock concert broadcasts worldwide from London and Philadelphia, raising $70 million for starving Africans
• An 8.1 magnitude earthquake hits Mexico City and results in about 25,000 deaths
• Vocano "Nevada del Ruiz" erupts near Bogota, Columbia causing mud slides that bury two towns
• Mikhail Gorbachev becomes Soviet leader
• New Coke is released on the 99th anniversary of Coca-Cola
• Kansas City Royals win the World Series
• San Francisco 49ers win Superbowl XIX
• Edmonton Oilers win the Stanley Cup
• The computer game Tetris is released
• Madonna released "Material Girl" in March
  
• The Tommy Hilfiger brand is established
  
• Back to the Future is the top grossing film
• DNA is first used in a criminal case
  
• "Less Than Zero" by Bret Easton Ellis is published
• David Lee Roth leaves Van Halen to begin a solo career
• "Careless Whisper" by Wham! spends the most time at the top of the US charts
• Elmo is introduced on Sesame Street
• The Golden Girls and Growing Pains premiere
• Martina Navratilova won Wimbledon
• Madonna launches her first road show, the Virgin Tour

On my actual birthday the Food and Drug Administration approved a blood test for AIDS, which has since been used to screen all blood donations in the United States.

Cracked Topics: The 1980's