| | MTV cassette sales soar with MTV on over 250 cable stations |
| | A fury arises when it is revealed that the administration wanted to count ketchup as a vegetable in subsidized school lunches. |
| | New games: Donkey Kong, Ms. Pac Man and Asteroids. |
| | Nike ad: We have liftoff. |
| | 288K memory chip is launched from IBM |
| | Quote: "Honey I forgot to duck." - Ronald Reagan to Nancy after being shot. |
| | Collectable cat books are big - Garfield, 101 Uses for a Dead Cat, Fat Cats |
| | Walter Cronkite retires as CBS anchor and is replaced by Dan Rather. |
| | Voyager 2 takes more than 1,800 photos of Saturn which temperature is -300 degrees farenhight and has 1,000 mph winds |
| | The combination of Nancy Reagan's elegance and Lady Di and Prince Charles's wedding makes a return of opulent and royal styles. |
| | First U.S. Test-tube baby and NutraSweet is new |