1. Owner Of A Lonely Heart - Yes
2. Ghostbusters - Ray Parker Jr.
3. Talking In Your Sleep - Romantics
4. Jump (For My Love) - Pointer Sisters
5. Caribbean Queen (No More Love On The Run) - Billy Ocean
6. Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go - Wham!
7. Let's Hear It For The Boy - Deniece Williams
8. Karma Chameleon - Culture Club
9. Hold Me Now - Thompson Twins
10. What's Love Got To Do With It - Tina Turner
Top Albums
1984 - Van Halen
An Innocent Man - Billy Joel
Colour by Numbers - Culture Club
Purple Rain - Prince and the Revolution
Seven and the Ragged Tiger - Duran Duran
She's So Unusual - Cindy Lauper
Sports - Huey Lewis and the News
Grammy Awards
Album of the Year: Can't Slow Down, Lionel Richie
Best New Artist: Cyndi Lauper
Best Pop Duo or Group: “Jump (For My Love),” Pointer Sisters
Best Pop Female Vocal: “What's Love Got to Do With It,”
Tina Turner
Best Pop Male Vocal: “Against All Odds
(Take a Look at Me Now),” Phil Collins
Best Rock Duo or Group: Purple Rain— the Motion Picture,
Prince and the Revolution
Best Rock Female Vocal: “Better Be Good to Me,” Tina Turner
Best Rock Male Vocal: “Dancing in the Dark,” Bruce Springsteen
Record of the Year: “What's Love Got to Do With It,” Tina Turner
Song of the Year: “What's Love Got to Do With It”
President: Ronald W. Reagan
Vice President: George Bush
Population: 235,824,902
Life expectancy: 74.7 years
Dow-Jones
High: 1,287
Low: 1,086
Federal spending: $851.85 billion
Federal debt: $1564.7 billion
Inflation:
Consumer Price Index: 103.9
Unemployment: 9.6%
Prices
Cost of a new home: $97,600.00
Median Household Income: $22,415.00
Cost of a first-class stamp: $0.20
Cost of a gallon of regular gas: $1.21
Cost of a dozen eggs: $1.01
Cost of a gallon of Milk: $2.26
Football
Superbowl XIX : SAN FRANCISCO 38
- Miami 16
Pro MVP: Dan Marino, Miami, QB
College Football: BYU
Heisman Trophy: Doug Flutie, Boston
College, QB
Rose Bowl: USC 20, Ohio St. 17
Orange Bowl: Washington 28, Oklahoma 17
Cotton Bowl: Boston College 45, Houston 28
Sugar Bowl: Nebraska 28, LSU 10
Basketball
NBA Championship
Winner: BOSTON 4-3 (LWLWWLW) -
Coach: K.C. Jones
Opposing Team: LA Lakers - Coach: Pat
Riley
NBA MVP: Larry Bird, Boston, F Ave
Score: 24.2
NCAA National Champions: Georgetown
34-3 - Coach: John Thompson
Baseball
World Series
Winner: Detroit 4-1 (WLWWW) - Coach:
Sparky Anderson
Opposing Team: SAN DIEGO - Coach:
Dick Williams
National League
MVP: Ryne Sandberg, Chi - 2B
Rookie of the Year: Dwight Gooden, NY -
OF
American League
MVP: Willie Hernandez, Det - P
Rookie of the Year: Alvin Davis, Sea - 1B
Beverly Hills Cop $234,760,478
Ghostbusters $220,855,490
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom $179,870,271
Gremlins $148,168,459
The Karate Kid $90,800,000
Best Actor: F. Murray Abraham: Amadeus
Best Actress: Sally Field: Places in the Heart
Best Director: Milos Forman: Amadeus
Best Picture: Saul Zaentz: Amadeus
Best Supporting Actor: Haing S. Ngor: The Killing Fields
Best Supporting Actress: Peggy Ashcroft: A Passage to India
1 ) Dynasty
2 ) Dallas
3 ) The Cosby Show
4 ) 60 Minutes
5 ) Family Ties
6 ) The A-Team
7 ) Simon & Simon
8 ) Knot's Landing
9 ) Murder She Wrote
10 ) Falcon Crest
11 ) Crazy Like a Fox
12 ) Hotel
13 ) Cheers
14 ) Riptide
15 ) Who's The Boss?
16 ) Magnum P.I.
17 ) Hail to the Chief
18 ) Newhart
19 ) Kate & Allie
20 ) The NBC Monday Night Movie
Jesse Jackson Gains Release Of Navy Pilot From Syria
$180 Billion Deficit Is Projected
US Diplomat William Buckley Is Kidnapped In Beirut
Gunman Kills 22 In San Ysidro CA McDonalds
FBI Agent Richard Miller Is Arrested For Spying
Indira Gandi, Indian PM , Is Assassinated By Sikh Bodyguards
NYC Subway "Vigilante" Bernhard Goetz Surrenders In Shooting Of 4 Youths
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Senate Resolution Opposes CIA Mining of Nicaraguan Harbors
Russia Announces Boycott of Los Angeles games
22 American prisoners freed when Jesse Jackson meets Castro
British agree to leave Hong Kong in 1997
Challanger astranaughts make two free-flying space walks
Gas leak kills 2,000 at Union Carbide Plant in Bhopal India
Hit songs, "Ghostbusters", "Uptown Girl
"Discovery" becomes the third space shuttle
Walter Payton breaks Jim Browns life time rushing record of 12,213 yards