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For advertising information, call (858) 537-2280 • [email protected] December 15, 2013 THE MILITARY PRESS 7
remember when...
984BORN IN 1994: Above right: Scarlett Johans-
son. Above left: Theo James, Olivia Wilde, Luke Grimes, America Ferrara
December 15, 2013 THE MILITARY PRESS Page 7
• Income per year $21,600• Minimum wage $3.35• New house $86,730• New car $13,045• Gallon of gas $1.10• Lb. of bacon $1.69• Dozen eggs $1.01• Gallon of milk $2.26• First-class stamp 20¢• Movie ticket $2.50
1• Michael Jackson wins unprec-
edented acclaim for his album “Thriller” and racks up sales over 37 million copies
Popular films• Ghostbusters• Indiana Jones and
the Temple of Doom• Gremlins• Beverly Hills
Cops• Terms of En-
dearment• The Karate Kid• Star Trek III:
The Search for Spock
• Po-lice Acad-emy
• Romancing the Stone• Splash
• The Terminator• Amadeus• The Killing Fields• A Passage to India
Popular musicians• When Doves Cry,
Prince• What’s Love Got To Do
With It, Tina Turner• Say Say Say, Paul
McCartney and Michael Jakson
• Footloose, Kenny Loggins
• Against All Odds, Phil Collins
• Jump, Van Halen• Hello, Lionel Richie• Owner of a Lonely Heart, Yes• Ghostbusters, Ray Parker, Jr.• Karma Chameleon, Cul-
ture Club• Girls Just Want
to Have Fun, Cyndi Lauper
PopularTV shows
• The Cosby Show• Murder, She
Wrote• Miami Vice• Airwolf• Night Court• Who’s The Boss?• Charles in Charge• Punky Brewster• Highway to Heaven• Hunter
Born in 1984• Jena Malone• Scarlett Johansson• Jaimie Alexander• Olivia Wilde• Theo James• Mandy Moore
AVERAGE COSTOF LIVING
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George H.W. Bush (Born June 12, 1924)43rd Vice President of the United States
shoots four black youths on a Manhattan subway
Technology• AIDS virus identi-
fied• AT&T broken up• First Apple Macintosh
goes on sale• First CD player intro-
duced• Sony makes first 3-1/2” com-
puter disk• Space Shuttle
Discovery takes maiden voyage
• First flight in space using jet back packs
• Ginetic fin-gerprinting or
DNA developed and used by forensic scien-tists
Sports• Superbowl Los
Angeles over Washington XVIII
• NBA Champions Boston Celtics defeated
the L.A. Lakers• World Series Detroit Ti-
gers 4 games to 1 over the San Diego Padres
Pop culture• MTV Video Mu-
sic Awards started• Band Aid re-
corded and song “Do They Know It’s Christ-
mas” recorded to raise money for famine relief in Ethiopia
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Ronald Reagan(Feb. 6, 1911 - June 5, 2004))
40th President of the United States
World events• Indian Prime Minister
Indira Ghandi assassinated• Ethioptian famine
begins• The UK and China
agree Hong Kong will re-vert to China in 1997
• Giant gas works ex-plosion near Mexico City kills 500
• Truck containing 500kg of high explosives destroys the U.S. embassy in Beirut, Lebanon killing 12 people
• USSR and Soviet Bloc boycotts the Olympic games
• Union Carbide Pesticide Plant leak in India kills more than 3,500
• 12-month coal miners strike in UK begins
• English pound notes are taken out of circulation
• 700 year old wing of York Minster destroyed by fire
• IRA bomb goes off in Grand Hotel Brighton in UK
• Virgin Atlantic inau-gural flight
• Typhoon Ike strikes Philippines
U.S. news• Man shoots 20 dead and
wounds 16 in McDonalds in San Ysidro, California
• Olympic Games are held in Los Angeles
• By the end of the year, 70 U.S. banks fail
• Subway vigilante Ber-nhard Goetz
“We should measure welfare’s suc-cess by how many people leave wel-fare, not by how many are added.” — Ronald Reagan
1984Ferrari
1984Mercedes
