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January 21

Movies
  1. 1983 The House on Sorority Row and Treasure of the Four Crowns were released.
Television
  1. 1987 The American Civil Rights Documentary Eyes on the Prize premiered.
  2. 1989 Dolphin Cove and Nightingales premiered.
Music
  1. 1983 The Eurythmics' Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) single was released. Loudness' 3rd album The Law of Devil's Land was released.
  2. 1984 Bon Jovi's self titled debut album Bon Jovi was released. Cory Hart's Sunglasses At Night single was released.
  3. 1985 Dolly Parton's 27th album Real Love was released.
Highlights
  1. 1982 B. B. King Donated his personal record collection to the University of Mississippi's Center for the Study of Southern Culture.
  2. 1984 The song Owner of a Lonely Heart by Yes became number one in the US in America. Singer Jackie Wilson passed away at age 49 from pneumonia. Production of the DeLorean began in Northern Ireland.
  3. 1989 The song Two Hearts by Phil Collins became number one in the US.
 
January 22

Movies
  1. 1982 Shoot the Moon, Vice Squad and The Seduction were released.
  2. 1988 Braddock: Missing in Action III was released.
Television
  1. 1980 Goodtime Girls premiered.
  2. 1983 Mama's Family premiered.
  3. 1984 Airwolf premiered.
  4. 1986 The mini series documentary Planet Earth premiered.
  5. 1987 The Tortellis premiered.
Music
  1. 1986 Black Sabbath's 12th album Seventh Star and Billy Ocean's single There’ll Be Sad Songs were released.
Highlights
  1. 1983 MTV made its debut on the west coast.
  2. 1987 Pennsylvania State Treasurer R. Budd Dwyer shot and killed himself at a televised press conference.
  3. 1988 Mike Tyson knocked out Larry Holmes in the 4th round to retain the WBA, WBF and IBF Heavyweight Championship belts.
 
January 23rd

Movies
  1. 1981 Blood Beach was released.
  2. 1987 Jocks and The Stepfather were released.
Television
  1. 1982 One of the Boys premiered.
  2. 1983 The A-Team premiered.
  3. 1985 Sara premiered.
  4. 1989 The game show Couch Potatoes premiered.
Music
  1. 1981Generation X's 3rd album Kiss Me Deadly and Elvis Costello and the Attraction's 5th album Trust were released.
  2. 1984 Dolly Parton 26th album The Great Pretender was released.
  3. 1989 David Crosby 2nd album Oh Yes I Can and Tone Loc's debut album Loc-ed After Dark were released.
Highlights
  1. 1982 Tommy Tucker died of carbon tetrachloride poisoning from cleaning floors in his home
  2. 1984 Hulk Hogan Beat The Iron Sheik to win the WWF Heavyweight Championship.
  3. 1986 The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inducted Its First Members Elvis Presley, Little Richard, Chuck Berr, James Brown, Ray Charles, Sam Cooke, Fats Domino, The Everly Brothers, Buddy Holly and Jerry Lee Lewis.
  4. 1988 The song The Way You Make Me Feel by Michael Jackson became number on in the US.
 
January 24th

Movies
  1. 1986 My Chauffeur was released.
Television
  1. 1989 Studio 5-B premiered.
Music
  1. 1981 Daryl Hall & John Oates' single Kiss on My List was released.
  2. 1989 Debbie Gibson's 2nd album Electric Youth and Skid Row's debut album Skid Row were released.
Highlights
  1. 1981 Steven Tyler from the band Aerosmith was injured in a motorcycle.
  2. 1984 The Apple Macintosh Personal Computers went on sale in the US.
  3. 1987 The song Jack Your Body by Steve "Silk" Hurley's became the First House song to hit #1 in the UK. The song At This Moment by Billy Vera and the Beaters became number on in the US.
  4. 1989 Serial killer Ted Bundy was executed by the electric chair at Florida State Prison.
 
January 25th

Movies
  1. 1985 The Falcon and the Snowman Fandango were released.
Television
  1. The final episode of Lady Blue aired.
Music
  1. 1985 Phil Collins' 3rd album No Jacket Required and George Thorogood and the Destroyers ' 6th album Maverick were released.
  2. 1989 Gary Moore's 9th album After the War was released.
Highlights
  1. 1980 Black Entertainment Television (BET) made Its debut. Paul McCartney was released from a Japanese jail and kicked out of the country.
  2. 1988 President Reagan made his final State of the Union Address.
  3. 1989 Madonna filed for divorce from Sean Penn after 3 1/2 years.
 
January 26th

Movies

No 80s movies were released on this day.

Television
  1. 1985 Otherworld premiered.
  2. 1986 The Last Precinct premiered.
  3. 1987 Square One TV (Mathematics Show) premiered.
Music

1987 Janet Jackson's remix album Control: The Remixes was released.

Highlights

No 80s highlights for this day.
 
January 27th

Movies
  1. 1984 The Lonely Guy and Broadway Danny Rose were released.
  2. 1989 Three Fugitives, Physical Evidence and Cohen and Tate were released.
Television
  1. 1980 Galactica premiered.
  2. 1985 Code Name: Foxfire premiered.
Music
  1. 1982 The B-52's EP Mesopotamia was released.
  2. 1984 John Lennon & Yoko Ono's 6th album Milk and Honey and Christine McVie's 2nd album Christine McVie were released. Cyndi Lauper's single Time After Time was released.
  3. 1986 Public Image Ltd 's 5th album Album and Frank Zappa's live album Does Humor Belong in Music? were released.
  4. 1988 L.L. Cool J's single Going Back to Cali was released.
Highlights
  1. 1980 Six American diplomats secretly escaped the hostilities in Iran.
  2. 1984 Michael Jackson suffered 2nd degree burns after his hair caught on fire while filming a Pepsi commercial with his brothers.
 
January 28th

Movies
  1. 1983 Sacred Ground was released.
Television
  1. 1984 Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer was released.
  2. 1986 Melba premiered.
  3. 1989 A Man Called Hawk and Long Ago and Far Away premiered.
Music
  1. 1980 J. Geils' Band 9th album Love Stinks premiered.
  2. 1981 Todd Rundgren's 9th album Healing and Grace Slick's 2nd album Welcome to the Wrecking Ball album were released.
  3. 1983 Triumph's 6th album Never Surrender was released.
  4. 1984 Kenny Loggins' single Footloose was released.
  5. 1985 David Lee Roth's solo EP Crazy From the Heart was released.
Highlights
  1. 1982 U.S. Army General James L. Dozier was rescued by an Italian anti-terrorism force after being held in captivity by the Red Brigades.
  2. 1985 The song We Are the World was recorded to help raise money for the famine in Ethiopia.
  3. 1986 Space Shuttle Challenger exploded after takeoff killing all 7 astronauts.
 
January 29th

Movies

No 80s movies were released today.

Television
  1. 1982 The final episode of Tomorrow aired.
  2. 1989 Shining Time Station British spinoff of Thomas the Train was released.
Music
  1. 1982 Huey Lewis and the News' 2nd album Picture This and Shalamar's 6th album Friends were released.
  2. 1985 Yello's 4th album Stella was released.
Highlights
  1. 1980 The Rubik's Cube made it's international debut at the Ideal Toy Corporation in London.
  2. 1982 CBS Evening News aired a piece on the new American addiction of arcade games.
  3. 1984 President Ronald Reagan announced his candidacy for re-election.
 
January 30th

Movies
  1. 1980 To All a Goodnight was released.
  2. 1981 The Incredible Shrinking Woman and Earthbound were released.
Television

No 80s tv shows released on this day.

Music
  1. 1980 Roger Powell's 2nd album Air Pocket was released.
  2. 1981 Journey's live album Captured was released.
  3. 1984 Rockwell's debut album Somebody's Watching Me and Grace Slick's 4th album Software were released.
  4. 1987 Starship's single Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now was released.
  5. 1989 Exodus' 3rd album Fabulous Disaster and New Order's 5th album Technique were released.
Highlights
  1. 1982 The song I Can't Go For That by Hall & Oates became number one in America. The first computer virus was written by 15 year old Richard Skrenta from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
  2. 1988 The song Need You Tonight by INXS became number one in America.
 
January 31st

Movies
  1. 1982 The Border was released.
  2. 1986 The Best of Times, Down and Out in Beverly Hills, Power and Youngblood were released.
Television
  1. 1988 The Wonder Years premiered.
Music
  1. 1983 Christopher Cross' 2nd album Another Page was released.
  2. 1984 Footloose Soundtrack was released.
  3. 1985 Husker Du's 3rd album New Day Rising was released.
  4. 1989 Too Short's 5th album Life Is... Too Short, Warrant's debut album Dirty Rotten Filthy Shrinking Woman, Roy Orbison 's 22nd album and Mystery Girl were released. Bobby Brown's single Every Little Step was released.
Highlights
  1. 1981 The song The Tide is High by Blondie Became the #1 in America.
 
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