Today during the 80s in the month of August

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August 21st
  1. 1980 Black Rose’s Black Rose album was released. The Games People Play premiered on NBC.
  2. 1981 The Comsat Angels‘ Sleep No More album was released. The movies An American Werewolf in London, First Monday in October and Prince of the City were released.
  3. 1984 Warrior’s Scandal album was released.
  4. 1985 The movie Agnes of God was released.
  5. 1987 The movies Dirty Dancing, Born in East L.A., The Big Easy and The Garbage Pail Kids Movie were released.
  6. 1989 Jethro Tull‘s Rock Island and King Diamond‘s Conspiracy albums were released. The final episode of the tv show Werewolf aired.
 
August 22nd
  1. 1983 Depeche Mode’s Construction Time Again album was released.
  2. 1985 The television show Hometown premiered on CBS.
  3. 1986 The movies The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 and Extremities were released. The final episode of Riptide aired.
  4. 1987 Madonna‘s song Who’s That Girl became the number one song in America.
  5. 1989 Phil Collin’s single Groovy Kind of Love and Janet Jackson‘s single Miss You Much were released. Enuff Z'nuff‘s Enuff Z'nuff, Jefferson Airplane‘s Jefferson Airplane, L.A. Guns’ Cocked & Loaded and The Mighty Mighty Bosstones Devil’s Night Out albums were released.
 
August 23rd
  1. 1980 Tygers of Pan Tang‘s Wild Cat album was released. The Heatwave Festival near Toronto Began, featuring The B-52's, Talking Heads, The Pretenders, Elvis Costello and many others.
  2. 1981 The Violent Femmes were discovered by The Pretenders outside a Milwaukee venue, then they were invited topPlay a set in their next show.
  3. 1983 Ratt’s Ratt album was released.
  4. 1984 Frank Zappa’s Boulez Conducts Zappa: The Perfect Stranger was released.
  5. 1985 The movies Teen Wolf, Better Off Dead and Godzilla 1985 were released.
  6. 1988 Bad Company‘s Dangerous Age, Jane's Addiction Nothing is Shocking and Rapeman’s Two Nuns and a Pack Mule albums were released.
 
August 24th
  1. 1981 John Lennon's killer, Mark David Chapman was sentenced to 20 years to life. The Rolling Stones‘ Tattoo You album was released.
  2. 1983 Rainbow’s Bent Out of Shape album was released.
  3. 1984 The movie Oxford Blues was released.
  4. 1986 The final episode of Code of Vengeance aired on tv.
  5. 1987 John Cougar Mellencamp‘s The Lonesome Jubilee album was released.
  6. 1988 The movie Crossing Delancey was released.
  7. 1989 Barry White’s The Man Is Back! album was released. The final episode of The Equalizer aired on tv.
 
August 25th
  1. 1981 The Voyager 2 spacecraft made its closest approach to Saturn
  2. 1982 The Time’s What Time Is It? and Alice Cooper’s Zipper Catches Skin albums were released.
  3. 1983 The movie Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence was released.
  4. 1984 Menudo’s Evolución album was released. Opera Singer, Kathleen Battle, made her solo recital debut at the Salzburg festival.
  5. 1985 School girl, Samantha Smith and 7 other activists died in a plane crash near Auburn, Maine.
  6. 1986 Paul Simon‘s Graceland, Paul McCartney‘s Press to Play and Toto’s Fahrenheit albums were released.
  7. 1987 Aerosmith’s Permanent Vacation and the Cars Door to Door albums were released.
  8. 1989 The movies Adventures of Milo and Otis and the Package were released. The Voyager 2 spacecraft made its closest approach to Neptune.
 
August 26th
  1. 1980 Pete Comita Replaced Tom Peterson as the Bassist For Cheap Trick. The FBI Detonated a bomb at Harvey's Hotel in South Lake Tahoe, after several men dressed like delivery workers planted a booby trapped bomb in the casino.
  2. 1981 Devo’s New Traditionalist and the Grateful Dead‘s Dead Set albums were released.
  3. 1983 The movies Strange Brew, Fire and Ice, Hercules and Young Warriors were released.
  4. 1985 Sheila E.’s Romance 1600 and The Cure’s The Head on the Door albums were released.
  5. 1988 The movies Betrayed, Hero and Terror, Hot to Trot and Stealing Home were released.
 
August 27th
  1. 1980 The B-52's Wild Planet album was released.
  2. 1984 Soda Stereo‘s Soda Stereo album was released.
  3. 1987 Whodini‘s Open Sesame album was released.
  4. 1988 The song Monkey by George Michael Became the #1 song in America. Mica Paris‘ So Good album was released.
 
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August 28th
  1. 1981 The movies Body Heat, Chu Chu and the Philly Flash and Private Lessons were released.
  2. 1982 The movie The Junkman was released.
  3. 1983 Moody Blues‘ The Present album was released
  4. 1984 The Woman in Red soundtrack was released.
  5. 1986 Cyndi Lauper‘s single True Colors was released.
  6. 1987 The movies Hamburger Hill, House 2: The Second Story, The Fourth Protocol and Matewan were released.
  7. 1988 The Ramstein Air Disaster in West Germany occurred when 3 aircrafts from the Frecce Tricolori Demonstration team collided with each other.
  8. 1989 Adeva’s Adeva! and The Beach Boys Still Cruisin’ albums were released.
 
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August 29th
  1. 1980 Jethro Tull’s A and UB40’s Signing Off albums were released. The movie He Knows You're Alone was released.
  2. 1982 Actress, Ingrid Bergman passed away at Age 67 from breast cancer.
  3. 1984 The movie Choose Me was released. The Jacksons Victory Tour set a concert record with over 1.1 million tickets sold.
  4. 1986 Status Quo’s In the Army Now album was released. The movie Shanghai Surprise was released.
  5. 1987 Warren Zevon‘s Sentimental Hygiene album was released. The song La Bamba by Los Lobos became number one in the U.S.
  6. 1988 Helloween’s Keeper of the Seven Keys, Pt. 2 album was released. The first WWF SummerSlam was held at Madison Square Garden. Kylie Minogue broke the UK record for most albums sold by a female artist.
  7. 1989 The Rolling Stones’ Steel Wheel, Elton John’s Sleeping with the Past, Giant’s Last of the Runaways, Steve Lukather‘s Lukather and Mellow Man’s Escape from Havana albums were released.
 
August 30th
  1. 1980 The song Sailing by Cristopher Cross became the number one song in the U.S.
  2. 1982 Hughes/Thrall‘s Hughes/Thrall album was released.
  3. 1983 Mummer‘s XTC album was released.
  4. 1984 The Space Shuttle Discovery made it’s maiden voyage.
  5. 1985 The movie American Ninja and Compromising Positions were released.
  6. 1986 The song Higher Love by Steve Winwood became number one in America.
  7. 1987 The television show Crossbow premiered on The Family Channel.
  8. 1988 Yianni’s Chameleon Days, Danzig‘s Danzig, Boz Scaggs‘ Other Roads and John Hiatt‘s Slow Turning albums were released.
  9. 1989 Kix Brooks‘ Kix Brooks album was released.
 
August 31
  1. 1980 The Gun Club’s Fire of Love album was released.
  2. 1982 Ronnie James singer of Dio played his final show with Black Sabbath.
  3. 1983 Lionel Richie’s song All Night Long became the number one song in the U.S. Carly Simon‘s Hello Big Man album was released. The movie Microwave Massacre was released.
  4. 1984 The movies Bolero, C.H.U.D. and Flashpoint were released.
  5. 1987 Michael Jackson‘s Bad, R.E.M.’s Document, Life Black‘s Wonderful and The Jesus and Mary Chain‘s Darkland albums were released.
  6. 1988 Delta Air Lines Flight 1141 crashed during takeoff from Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport.
  7. 1989 The Rolling Stones opened their Steel Wheels north American tour in Philadelphia.
 
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