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Has 1986 really been that long ago? Can you remember what was hot and what was NOT 20 years ago? Take a look below to read some of the things happening during our graduation year!
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STATS
President: Ronald W. Reagan
Vice President: George Bush
Population: 240,132,887 (just rolled over to 300,000,000 in Oct 2006)
Life expectancy: 74.7 years
Federal debt: $2120.6 billion
Median Household Income: $24,897
NEWS
*Space shuttle Challenger explodes after launch at Cape Canaveral, Fla., killing all seven aboard (Jan. 28).
*Senate Judiciary Committee approves William H. Rehnquist as Chief Justice of US Supreme Court(Aug. 14). Chief Justice Rehnquist dies in 2005.
*Barry Diller, head of News Corp., creates Fox, the fourth television network. Fox offers 10 hours of prime-time programming a week.
*The Oprah Winfrey Show hits national television.
*The Academic American Encyclopedia is available on CD-ROM. It is the first reference work published in this medium.
*Nintendo video games introduced in U.S.
SPORTS
Superbowl - Chicago d. New England (46-10)
World Series - NY Mets d. Boston Red Sox (4-3)
NBA Championship - Boston d. Houston (4-2)
Stanley Cup - Montreal d. Calgary (4-1)
Wimbledon - Women: Martina Navratilova d. H. Mandlikova (7-6 6-3)
Men: Boris Becker d. I. Lendl (6-4 6-3 7-5)
MOVIES
Platoon, Hannah and Her Sisters, The Color of Money, The Mission
ENTERTAINMENT AWARDS
Academy Award, Best Picture: Out of Africa, Sydney Pollack, producer (Universal)
Nobel Prize for Literature: Wole Soyinka (Nigeria)
Record of the Year: "We Are the World," USA for Africa
Album of the Year: No Jacket Required, Phil Collins (Atlantic)
Song of the Year: "We Are the World," Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie, songwriters
Miss America: Susan Akin (MS)
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