The AIDS virus is identified.
Following on from the PC, Apple releases the Macintosh computer.
Following the widespread famine in Ethiopia many of the top British and Irish USSR pop musicians join together under the name Band Aid and record the song “Do They Know It’s Christmas”.
Following the boycott by the US of the Moscow Olympics the Soviet bloc boycotts the Los Angeles Olympic Games.
Recession continues to be a problem in the US and 70 US banks fail in just one year.
Indria Ghandi assassinated
DNA profiling developed
Virgin Atlantic starts operations
Union Carbide Pesticide plant in Bhopal India leaks lethal gas
McDonalds restaurant shooting leaves 20 dead
Population:
- Wake County: 342,267
- NC: 6,164,000
- USA: 235,800,000
National Debt:
- $1,572,266,000,000 (1984)
- $18,152,809,942,589 (2015)
Value of a Dollar: $1 in 1984 is $2.31 in 2015
Cost Of Living 1984:
- Yearly Inflation Rate USA: 4.3%
- Interest Rates Year End Federal Reserve: 10.75%
- Year End Close Dow Jones Industrial Average: 1211
- Average Cost of New House: $86,730
- Median Price of an Existing Home: $72,400
- Average Monthly Rent: $350
- Average Yearly Wages: $21,600
- Dodge RAM 50 truck $8,995.00
- Chrysler New Yorker $13,045
- Chevrolet Corvette $23,392
- Apples Lb. .43 cents
- Bacon Lb. $1.69
- McDonald’s Hamburger: $.50
- Ticket to Disneyland: Adult One Day Ticket $17-$18; 3 Day World Passport $40-$42; 4 Day World Passport $50-$52
Ounce of Gold Price:
- The cost of a Ounce of Gold was $360.48
- The inflation-adjusted price of a Ounce of Gold was $832.52
Cost of a movie ticket: $3.36
Inflation-adjusted price of a movie ticket: $7.76
The cost of a movie ticket in 2015: $7.92
Top 5 Movies:
- Ghostbusters
- Beverly Hills Cop
- Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
- Gremlins
- The Karate Kid
- Best Picture: Amadeus
- Best Actor: F. Murray Abraham – Amadeus
- Best Actress: Sally Field – Places in the Heart
- Best Supporting Actor: Haing S. Ngor – The Killing Fields
- Best Supporting Actress: Peggy Ashcroft – A Passage to India
- Dynasty – ABC – 21,225,000
- Dallas – CBS – 20,970,300
- The Cosby Show – NBC – 20,545,800
- 60 Minutes – CBS – 18,847,800
- Family Ties – NBC – 18,847,800
- The A-Team – NBC – 18,593,100
- Simon & Simon – CBS – 18,508,200
- Murder, She Wrote – CBS – 17,064,900
- Knots Landing – CBS – 16,980,000
- Cagney & Lacey – CBS – 17,514,200
- Prince – When Doves Cry
- Tina Turner – What’s Love Got To Do With It
- Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson – Say Say Say
- Kenny Loggins – Footloose
- Phil Collins – Against All Odds (Take A Look At Me Now)
- Van Halen – Jump
- Lionel Richie – Hello
- Yes – Owner Of A Lonely Heart
- Ray Parker Jr. – Ghostbusters
- Culture Club – Karma Chameleon
- John Waite – Missing You
- Lionel Richie – All Night Long (All Night)
- Deniece Williams – Let’s Hear It For The Boy
- Bruce Springsteen – Dancing In The Dark
- Cyndi Lauper – Girls Just Want To Have Fun
- Duran Duran – The Reflex
- Cyndi Lauper – Time After Time
- Pointer Sisters – Jump (For My Love)
- Romantics – Talking In Your Sleep
- Laura Branigan – Self Control
- You Look So Good In Love – George Strait
- Slow Burn – T. G. Sheppard
- In My Eyes – John Conlee
- The Sound Of Goodbye – Crystal Gayle
- Show Her – Ronnie Milsap
- That’s The Way Love Goes – Merle Haggard
- Don’t Cheat In Our Hometown – Ricky Skaggs
- Stay Young – Don Williams
- Woke Up In Love – Exile
- Going, Going, Gone – Lee Greenwood
- Elizabeth – The Statler Brothers
- Roll On – Alabama
- Let’s Stop Talking About It – Janie Fricke
- Don’t make It Easy For Me – Earl Thomas Conley
- Thank God For The Radio – The Kendalls
- The Yellow Rose – Johnny Lee with Lane Brody
- Right Or Wrong – George Strait
- I Guess It Never Hurts To Hurt Sometimes – The Oak Ridge Boys
- To All The Girls I’ve Loved Before – Julio Iglesias & Willie Nelson\
- As Long AS I’m Rockin’ With You – John Conlee
ACC Football Champ: Maryland
ACC Basketball Champs: Maryland (Maryland 74 – Duke 62)
World Series Winner: Detroit Tigers over the San Diego Padres, 4 games to 1
Heavyweight Boxing Champ: Larry Holmes (IBF); Tim Witherspoon (WBC), Pinklon Thomas (WBC), Greg Page (WBA)
NFL Championship Game: LA Raiders (LA Raiders 38 – Washington Redskins 9)
NASCAR Season Winner: Terry Labonte
Masters Winner: Ben Crenshaw – 277 (-11) – Winner’s share $108,000
Wimbledon Winners:
- Men’s Singles: United States John McEnroe defeated United States Jimmy Connors 6–1, 6–1, 6–2. It was McEnroe’s 7th career Grand Slam title and his 3rd Wimbledon title.
- Women’s Singles: United States Martina Navratilova defeated United States Chris Evert-Lloyd 7–6(7–5), 6–2. It was Navratilova’s 26th career Grand Slam title and her 5th Wimbledon singles title.
- Men’s Doubles: United States Peter Fleming / United States John McEnroe defeated Australia Pat Cash / Australia Paul McNamee 6–2, 5–7, 6–2, 3–6, 6–3
It was Fleming’s 7th career Grand Slam title and his 4th and last Wimbledon title. It was McEnroe’s 14th career Grand Slam title and his 7th Wimbledon title. - Women’s Doubles: United States Martina Navratilova / United States Pam Shriver defeated United States Kathy Jordan / United States Anne Smith 6–3, 6–4
It was Navratilova’s 27th career Grand Slam title and her 11th Wimbledon title. It was Shriver’s 8th career Grand Slam title and her 4th Wimbledon title. - Mixed Doubles: Australia Wendy Turnbull / United Kingdom John Lloyd defeated United States Kathy Jordan / United States Steve Denton 6–3, 6–3
It was Turnbull’s 9th and last career Grand Slam title and her 3rd Wimbledon title. It was Lloyd’s 3rd and last career Grand Slam title and his 2nd Wimbledon title.
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