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December 1st

Movies
  1. 1989 National Lampoon's: Christmas Vacation and A Change of Season were released.
Television
  1. 1981 Bret Maverick premiered.
  2. 1986 The Cavanaughs premiered.
  3. 1989 The final episode of The Legend of Zelda.
Music
  1. 1981 The Isley Brothers' 20th album Inside You.
  2. 1986 Salt-N-Pepa's debut album Hot, Cool & Vicious, Queen's live album Live Magic and The Damned's 7th album Anything were released.
  3. 1987 Sodom's 2nd album Persecution Mania was released.
  4. 1989 Savatage's 5th album Gutter Ballet was released.
Highlights

None to mention
 
December 2nd

Movies
  1. 1988 The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!, Tequila Sunrise and The Watchers were released.
Television
  1. 1989 The final episode of the cartoon The Smurfs aired.
Music

No 80s albums were released on this day.

Highlights
  1. 1980 Four American Missionaries were raped and murdered by a death squad in El Salvador.
  2. 1982 Barney Clark became the first person to receive a permanent artificial heart.
 
December 3rd

Movies
  1. 1980 The Competition was released.
Television

No television shows premiered on this day.

Music
  1. 1983 Slade's 11th albumThe Amazing Kamikaze Syndrome and Slayer's debut album Show No Mercy were released.
  2. 1984 The Killing Fields soundtrack were released. Band Aid's single Do They Know It's Christmas Time was released.
Highlights
  1. 1982 A soil sample from Times Beach, Missouri, was found to contain 300 times the safe level of dioxin.
  2. 1985 Courteney Cox used the word period for the first time on national television.
 
December 4th

Movies
  1. 1981 On Golden Pond and Reds were released.
  2. 1985 Young Sherlock Holmes was released.
  3. 1987 Walker was released l
Television
  1. 1981 Falcon Crest and You Can't Do That on Television premiered.
Music
  1. 1989 808 State's 2nd album Ninety was released.
Highlights
  1. 1980 Led Zeppelin broke up after the death of drummer John Bonham. Duran Duran signed a contract with EMI after touring as the opening act for Hazel O'Connor.
  2. 1988 Singer Roy Orbison performed his last concert before dying of a heart attack on December 6, 1988.
 
December 5th

Movies
  1. 1980 Flash Gordon was released.
  2. 1984 Beverly Hills Cop was released.
  3. 1986 Heartbreak Ridge was released.
Television
  1. 1986 Dads and Gung Ho premiered. The final episodes of the cartoons Ghostbusters and SilverHawks aired.
Music
  1. 1980 Parliament's 9th album Trombipulation was released.
  2. 1981 Black Flag's debut album Damaged was released.
  3. 1983 Accept's 5th album Balls to the Walls was released.
Highlights
  1. 1987 The song Heaven is a Place on Earth by Belinda Carlisle became number one in America.
 
December 6th

Movies
  1. 1980 Popeye was released.
  2. 1983 The Dresser was released.
  3. 1985 Spies Like Us and Fool for Love were released.
Television
  1. 1980 Freebie and the Bean and Secrets of Midland Heights premiered.
Music
  1. 1983 The Cure's compilation album Japanese Whispers was released.
  2. 1988 Jerry Garcia Acoustic Band's live album Almost Acoustic was released.
Highlights
  1. The song The Next Time I Fall by Peter Cetera and Amy Grant became number one in America.
 
December 7th

Movies
  1. 1984 2010: The Year We Make Contact and City Heat were released.
Television
  1. 1984 Off the Rack premiered.
  2. 1987 The game show Remote Control premiered.
Music
  1. 1981 The Beach Boys compilation album Ten Years of Harmony was released.
  2. 1984 Foreigner's 5th album Agent Provocateur and Roger Hodgson's debut album In the Eyes of the Storm were released.
  3. 1985 Artists United Against Apartheid's compilation album Sun City was released.
Highlights
  1. 1982 Charles Brooks Jr. (Texas) became the first person executed in the U.S. by lethal injection.
  2. 1985 The song Broken Wings by Mister Mister became number one in America.
  3. 1987 A disgruntled employee shot and killed his ex boss on an airplane and the 2 pilots flying the plane before driving the plane into the ground.
 
December 8th

Movies
  1. 1982 48 Hrs, Sophie’s Choice and The Verdict were released.
  2. 1988 The Adventures of Baron Munchausen was released.
  3. 1989 War of the Roses was released.
Television
  1. 1984 The final episode of Captain Kangaroo aired.
Music
  1. 1980 Queen's 9th album Flash Gordon, Fleetwood Mac's live album Live and Crosby, Stills & Nash's 6th album Replay were released.
  2. 1986 Tesla's debut album Mechanical Resonance was released.
  3. 1987 Foreigner's 6th album Inside Information and Anthrax's EP I'm the Man were released.
Highlights
  1. 1980 John Lennon was murdered by Mark David Chapman in New York City in front of the The Dakota Apartment Building because Chapman resented him.
  2. 1984 The song Out of Touch by Daryl Hall and John Oates became number one in America.
  3. 1988 A United States aircraft crashed into an apartment complex in Remscheid, Germany killing 5 and injuring 50 people.
 
December 9th

Movies
  1. 1983 Terms of Endearment, Sudden Impact Christine and Scarface were released.
  2. 1988 Mississippi Burning, Twins and My Stepmother is an Alien were released.
Television
  1. 1985 The mini series Alice in Wonderland premiered.
  2. 1989 The final episode of Something is Out There premiered.
Music
  1. 1986 Joan Jett and the Blackhearts 5th album Good Music was released.
  2. 1988 Anna Vissi's 10th album Empnefs was released.
  3. 1989 Tetsuyo Komuro's album Digitalian is Eating Breakfast was released.
Highlights
  1. 1989 The song We Didn’t Start the Fire by Billy Joel became number one in the U.S.
 
December 10th

Movies
  1. 1982 Airplane II: The Sequel and the Toy were released.
Television
No television shows were released

Music
  1. 1980 Journey's Yume soundtrack Dream, After Dream was released.
  2. 1982 The Jam's live album Dig the New Breed was released.
  3. 1989 Blue Oyster Cult's 10th album Club Ninja was released. Milli Vanilli's single Baby Don’t Forget My Number was released.
Highlights
  1. 1983 The song Say Say Say by Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson made it to number one the U.S. billboard charts.
  2. 1988 The song Look Away by Chicago made it to number one on the U.S. billboard charts.
 
December 11th

Movies
  1. 1981 Pennies From Heaven, Buddy Buddy, Dawn of the Mummy, Four Friends and Rollover were released.
  2. 1982 Timerider: The Adventure of Lyle Swann was released.
  3. 1985 The Jewel of the Nile was released.
  4. 1987 Wall Street, Throw Momma From the Train and Nuts were released.
Televisiom
  1. 1980 Magnum, P.I. premiered.
  2. 1985 Foley Square and Mary premiered.
  3. 1987 The Wilton North Report premiered. The final episode of the cartoon Dinosaucers aired.
Music
  1. 1982 Slade's live album Slade on Stage was released.
  2. 1989 Monty Python's compilation album Monty Python Sings was released.
Highlights
  1. 1981 Muhammed Ali Lost to Trevor Berbick in his final professional fight.
  2. 1982 The song Mickey by Toni Basil became number one in the U.S.
  3. 1984 Bucks Fizz's tour bus crashed.
 
December 12th

Movies
  1. 1980 Stir Crazy was released.
  2. 1986 The Golden Child, Three Amigos and Crimes of the Heart were released.
Television
  1. 1982 Powerhouse premiered.
  2. 1987 The final episode of the cartoon Popeye and Son aired.
Music
  1. 1980 The Clash's 4th album Sandinista! was released.
  2. 1983 The Fall's 6th album Perverted by Language was released.
  3. 1984 Ray Lynch's 3rd album Deep Breakfast was released.
Highlights
  1. 1985 Arrow Air Flight 1285 crashed after takeoff in Gander, Newfoundland.
  2. 1987 The song Faith by George Michael became number one in the U.S.
 
December 13th

Movies
  1. 1985 A Chorus Line, Clue and Legend (UK) were released.
  2. 1989 Blaze, Enemies, A Love Story and New Year’s Day were released.
Television
  1. 1986 The final episodes of the cartoons Ewoks and Wildfire aired.
Music

No albums released on this day.

Highlights
  1. 1982 Vanna White officially replaced Susan Stafford on the show Wheel of Fortune.
  2. 1986 The song The Way It Is” by Bruce Hornsby & the Range became number one in the U.S.
 
December 14th

Movies
  1. 1983 Silkwood was released.
  2. 1984 The Cotton Club, A Passage to India, Starman, Dune and Runaway were released.
  3. 1988 Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and Torch Song Trilogy were released.
Television
  1. 1987 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles premiered.
Music
  1. 1981 Daryl Hall and John Oates' single I Can't Go For That was released.
  2. 1983 Yellow Magic Orchestra's 7th album Service was released.
  3. 1987 Dinosaur Jr.'s 2nd album You're Living All Over Me was released.
Highlights
  1. 1980 Over 100,000 people attended a public vigil for John Lennon at Central Park.
  2. 1985 Roger Maris passed away at age 51 from Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma.
 
December 15th

Movies
  1. 1982 Honkytonk Man was released.
  2. 1989 Driving Miss Daisy, Glory, We’re No Angels and The Wizard were released.
Television
  1. 1983 Automan and Masquerade premiered.
Music

No 80s albums released today.

Highlights
  1. 1980 Dave Winfield signed a record breaking 10-Year $15 million dollar contract with the New York Yankees.
  2. 1985 Sylvester Stallone and Brigitte Nielson got married. They divorced in 1987.
 
December 16th

Movies
  1. 1981 Quest For Fire was released.
  2. 1983 D.C. Cab, Uncommon Valor and Two of a Kind were released.
  3. 1987 Broadcast News was released.
  4. 1988 Rain Man, Dangerous Liaisons and Purple People Eater were released.
Television
  1. 1982 Christmas Comes to Pac-Land aired on tv.
  2. 1987 A Muppet Family Christmas aired.
  3. 1989 The final episodes of the cartoons The Karate Kid and Rude Dog aired on tv.
Music
  1. 1986 Kraftwerk's 9th album Electric Cafe was released. Guns N' Roses' EP Live?!*@Like a Suicide was released.
Highlights
  1. 1983 The Iron Sheik defeated Bob Backlund for the WWF Heavyweight Championship.
  2. 1989 Appeals Court Judge Robert Smith Vance was assassinated by a mail bomb sent by Walter Leroy Moody, Jr.
 
December 17th

Movies
  1. 1980 Any Which Way You Can was released.
  2. 1982 Six Weeks, Tootsie, Best Friends, Trail of the Pink Panther, The Year of Living Dangerously and The Dark Crystal.
Television
  1. 1989 The Simpsons premiered.
Music

No 80s albums released today.

Highlights
  1. American brigadier, General James L. Dozier was abducted by an Italian terrorist group, The Red Brigades in Verona, Italy.
 
December 18th

Movies
  1. 1981 Absence of Malice, Taps, Ghost Story, Neighbors and Sharky's Machine were released.
  2. 1985 The Color Purple and Out of Africa were released.
  3. 1987 Eddie Murphy Raw, Overboard, Moonstruck, Batteries Not Included, Ironweed, The Dead, Leonard Part 6 and September were released.
Television
  1. 1982 The final episode of the cartoon Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo aired.
  2. 1986 The final episode of the cartoons Beverly Hills Teens and Spiral Zone aired.
  3. 1988 A Very Brady Christmas aired.
  4. 1989 A Rare Christmas episode of I Love Lucy aired.
Music

No 80s albums were released.

Highlights
  1. 1982 The song Maneater by Daryl Hall and John Oates made it to number one on the US Billboard Charts.
 
December 19th

Movies
  1. 1980 Raging Bull (Worldwide Release), Seems Like Old Times, The Jazz Singer, 9 to 5, The Formula and Inside Moves were released.
  2. 1984 The River was released.
  3. 1986 Platoon, Little Shop of Horrors, King Kong Lives and No Mercy were released.
Television
  1. 1987 The final episodes of the cartoons Pound Puppies and My Pet Monsters were released.
Music
  1. 1989 Peter Murphy's 3rd album Deep was released.
Highlights
  1. 1983 The FIFA World Cup trophy ( The Jules Rimet Trophy) was stolen from the Brazilian Football Confederation headquarters in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
 
December 20th

Movies
  1. 1989 Born on the 4th of July and Roger & Me were released.
Television

No 80s television debuts or finales.

Music

No 80s albums released today

Highlights
  1. 1984 Jonelle Matthews, a 12-Year old girl from Greeley, Colorado disappeared. A freight train carrying over 1 million liters of gasoline derailed in Todmorden, England.
  2. 1986 The song Walk Like an Egyptian by The Bangles made ito number one on the U.S. billboard charts.
 
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