IMPORTANT EVENTS
OF 1984
One Cent Auto Repair and Competition Auto Body Starts Its First Year In Business
Popular Culture
- Michael Jackson’s Thriller sales over 37 million copies
- PG-13 movie rating was announced
- The MTV Video Music Awards Started
Popular Films
- Ghostbusters
- Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
- Gremlins
- Beverly Hills Cop
- The Karate Kid
- The Terminator
Popular Musicians
- Phil Collins
- Billy Joel
- Tina Turner with " What's Love got to do with it "
- David Bowie
- Wham! with " Wake Me up Before You Go "
- Billy Ocean
- Stevie Wonder with " I Just Called to say I love You "
- Bruce Springsteen
- Kenny Rogers
- Duran Duran with " The Reflex
- Cars
Popular TV Programs
- Magnum, P.I.
- Dynasty
- Entertainment Tonight
- Falcon Crest
- Hill Street Blues
- Cagney and Lacey
- Cheers
- Fame
- Knight Rider
- The A-Team
- Jeopardy
Prices
postage stamp .20
bread .71
milk 1.94
gas 1.27
car $6,294.00
income $12,497.00
house $110,610.00
movie ticket $2.50
Technology
- AT&T Broken Up
- The first Apple Macintosh goes on sale
- Sony and Philips introduce the first commercial CD Players
- Sony makes the first 3 1/2" computer disk
- The Space Shuttle Discovery has its maiden voyage
- The Supreme Court approved video taping of TV shows for home viewing at a later time
- New York instituted nations first mandatory seat belt law