1980s
1988: U.S. Supreme Court Defends Right To Satirize Publ...
February 24, 2021
In 1988, the king of filth went head-to-head with the leader of the moral majority in the Supreme Court, battling over what could and couldn't be said about...
Challenger Disaster: What Happened To The Space Shuttle...
January 28, 2021
Space Shuttle Challenger explodes shortly after take-off. (NASA/Wikimedia Commons) On a clear, blue January morning in 1986, NASA's space shuttle Challenger b...
Budd Dwyer: His TV Suicide And Everything That Led Up T...
January 22, 2021
On January 22, 1987, Robert Budd Dwyer, the acting Pennsylvania state treasurer, pulled out a .357 Magnum during a press conference, put it in his mouth, and...
Black Monday: 1987's Stock Market Crash When The World ...
October 19, 2020
A young man reads a copy of the Evening Standard outside the Royal Exchange in London, with a headline referring to that day's stock market crash, known as Blac...
North And South Korea Open Their Borders For 1985 Famil...
September 20, 2020
Relations between North and South Korea have been fraught since the end of World War II, when the countries were separated by the Demilitarized Zone. Althoug...
Super Mario Bros.: Stories, Facts, And Trivia You Didn'...
September 12, 2020
Released in 1985, Super Mario Bros. began as the last gasp of the cartridge era for Nintendo and became the game by which everything that followed was measur...
The Menendez Brothers: What Did They Do And Who Killed ...
August 20, 2020
On August 20th, 1989, Lyle Menendez placed a frantic call to 911. He cried that “someone” had killed his parents as his brother Erik screamed in the background. T...
Harmonic Convergence: Planets Aligning In Real-Life Sta...
August 16, 2020
Everyone sit down, close your eyes, and say "Ommmmmmmmm." In 1987, the call for the world's first synchronized global peace meditation went out, bringing peo...
This Is Why 675,000 AT&T Employees Went On Strike In 19...
August 7, 2020
(Kenneth Han/Wikimedia Commons) On August 7, 1983, phone service across the country was interrupted when 675,000 workers at AT&T went on strike following a br...
The Grim Sleeper: A Serial Killer Who Was Caught By A S...
June 23, 2020
Beginning in the 1980s, a serial killer stalked the women of South-Central Los Angeles for nearly two decades. The Grim Sleeper, known as Lonnie Franklin to ...
Action Park: America's First Deadly, Infamous Theme Par...
January 6, 2020
Children romp around at the water park on a hot summer's day. (Photo by Richard Koll/picture alliance via Getty Images) You expect a fun day at your local amu...
Baby Fae, A Baboon Heart, And Bioethics
November 11, 2019
On October 14, 1984, a tiny, premature, and the very sick baby was born in California. Although her birth certificate listed her name as Stephanie Fae Beauclair, she became kno...
David Bowie Shared His Invisible Mask
October 12, 2019
You may remember David Bowie as the innovative and influential English singer, songwriter, and actor who elevated rock concerts to a theatrical level and tragically died in 2016 ...
Judy Blume: The Young Adult Author That Got You Through...
May 16, 2019
If you were an adolescent or teen in the 1970s, 1980s or 1990s, you probably owe thanks to American author, Judy Blume, for helping you navigate the treacher...
Things You Didn’t Know About "Lifestyles of the Rich an...
September 26, 2018
Television Personality Robin Leach sighted on February 28, 1989 at Sfuzzi Restaurant in New York City. (Photo by Ron Galella/WireImage) From 1984 to 1995, w...
Samantha Smith, the Short Life of a Child Peace Activis...
July 9, 2018
Flowers adorn the statue of Samantha Smith by the Statehouse complex in Augusta. Staff Photo by Fred J. Field, Friday, July 11, 2003: Flowers adorn the statue o...
A Bar, a Bull and a Movie
June 7, 2018
Actor John Travolta and Debra Winger smile on set of the Paramount Pictures movie 'Urban Cowboy' circa 1980. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images) Movies and sometimes songs can start a craze...
Welcome to the Saddest Mall in America
December 17, 2017
It's supposed to be one of the busiest shopping weekend of the year, but the Century III Mall in West Mifflin, Pennsylvania - the 4th largest in the Pittsburgh area - isn't exactly ...
The Eruption of Mount St. Helens in Photos, 1980
December 12, 2017
Mount St. Helens, located in southwestern Washington, erupted on May 18, 1980. The volcano, used to be a beautiful symmetrical cone about 9,600 feet above sea level. But th...
Stanislav Petrov, 'The Man Who Saved the World,' Dies a...
September 23, 2017
In the early morning of September 26, 1983, Lt. Stanislav Petrov of the Soviet Union's Air Defense Forces was in charge of monitoring the country's satellite syst...
The Tallest Unfinished Building in The World Can Be Fou...
September 13, 2017
With its 105 floors, Ryugyong Hotel, was to be the tallest hotel in the world. But the skyscraper was never completed and opened. Construction began in the Cold W...
Mullet: The Badass Hairstyle of the 1970s to Early 1990...
August 9, 2017
Mullet, a hairstyle characterized by short cuts in the front and sides and long in the back, started to gain popularity in the 1970s. Rod Stewart, David Bowie, An...
60+ Inventions from the 1950s - Present That Have Impro...
July 29, 2017
This is just a handful of inventions from recent history that have helped to change how we live – in some cases beyond all recognition. H/T Stormclad
Oxana Malaya: The Story of the Girl Raised by Dogs
May 25, 2017
Oxana Malaya's story is a pretty clear indicator that nurture plays a bigger role than nature. At merely 3 years old, her alcoholic parents neglected her and left her out...
Phineas Gage: The Man Who Survived An Iron Rod Which We...
May 14, 2017
Throughout medical history, there have been countless stories of amazing accounts of survival defying logical explanation. One such event, dubbed as the “American...
The Hillsborough Incident: People Being Crushed Against...
April 28, 2017
The 1989 Hillsborough incident occurred on 15 April 1989 during the FA Cup semi-final match between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest at the Hillsborough Stadium in...
In 1986, A Lake Suffocated Over 1,746 People in a Singl...
April 17, 2017
"I could not speak. I became unconscious. I could not open my mouth because then I smelled something terrible ... I heard my daughter snoring in a terrible way, v...
The Titanic Wasn't the Deadliest Disaster of Its Kind
March 16, 2017
Almost everyone knows the story about the ill-fated RMS Titanic, but are you aware that the Titanic is only the third-worst non-military loss of life to be ever record...
The Eruption of Mount St. Helens 36 Years Ago
February 22, 2017
The ground shook underneath Mount St. Helens in Washington state. It was May 18th, 1980, at 8:32 a.m., when a magnitude 5.1 earthquake struck and brought about one of the larg...
Moving a 7,600 Ton Apartment Building to Create a Boule...
February 19, 2017
In Romania during the Communist Era, grand soviet-style apartment structures were built all over. When they were constructing a majestic boulevard in the city of ...
Photos of the Titanic Wreck When It Was First Discovere...
January 9, 2017
The Titanic disappeared in 1912, yet decades had passed before the discovery of its wreckage. After many years of searching, it wasn't until Sept. 1, 1985 that sc...
23 Photos From The Past That Require A Second Look...
December 12, 2016
Below are photos from the turbulent 1860s, a period marked by revolution and the fight against slavery, through the 1980s, a decade in which technology and globalizati...
Vintage Class Pictures of Pupils During the Victorian E...
December 6, 2016
Here's a small collection of vintage photos of school children in England before the 1900s. School in Swaton, Lincolnshire, ca. 1887 School in Swaton, Lincolnshi...
A Canadian Ghost Town That Stood Frozen in Time
September 21, 2016
In Canada the small town of Kitsault lies frozen in time, completely abandoned by it's once 1,200 strong community. Kitsault has been left a ghost town for 30 years now and ...
A Mouthwatering Look At What In-Flight Meals Used To Be...
August 1, 2016
Today, meals served up during a long-haul flight are admittedly not the same as they were before. You can now travel back in time to the golden age of flying whe...
25 Timeless Fashion Lessons from Audrey Hepburn Every W...
July 4, 2016
Audrey Hepburn is one of the 20th Century’s most heralded style icons, and for good reason! She had consistent, classic style throughout her life, sticking to sim...
1980s: The Boom of the Women Rock Hairstyle
June 24, 2016
The 1980s era produced a lot of hairstyles which were very funk and odd in some stylish ways. You can say that it is considered the perfect example of how fashion and hairstyles...
The Story Behind The One Powerful Photo That Changed th...
June 14, 2016
In November 1990 LIFE magazine published a photograph of David Kirby — his young body wasted by AIDS, his gaze focusing on something beyond this world — surrounde...
Funny Haircuts from the Past as Seen in Old Yearbook Ph...
March 23, 2016
Here, we gathered the worst kinds haircuts of all time, most of them were from the 80s and early 90s, cool years for a lot of things but definitely not for hairst...
Photographer Took Haunting Photos of The Hell of Serra ...
February 27, 2016
Serra Pelada was a large gold mine 270 miles (430km) south of the mouth of the Amazon River in Brazil. In 1979, a local child swimming on the banks of a local riv...
50 Beautiful Celebrity Portraits Taken by Deborah Feing...
November 24, 2015
American photographer Deborah Feingold took pictures of celebrities from the late 70s while collaborating with Rolling Stone, Time Magazine, Newsweek and The New ...
