Today in 80s history! What happened on August 10th in the 80s? Find out what happened today in 80s Movies, 80s Music, 80s TV Shows, and 80s Sports! Also find out about celebrity birthdays for the legends, icons and characters we grew up with in the 80s!
TODAY'S 80S BIRTHDAYS
Rosanna Arquette (Desperately Seeking Susan) - 67
August 10, 1959
Ian Anderson (Jethro Tull) - 79
August 10, 1947
Michael Bivins (New Edition, Bell Biv DeVoe) - 58
August 10, 1968
Daniel Hugh Kelly (Mark McCormick on Hardcastle and McCormick) - 74
August 10, 1952
Patti Austin ("Baby, Come to Me") - 76
August 10, 1950
REMEMBERING
Isaac Hayes (Shaft, Escape from New York)
August 20, 1942 - August 10, 2008 (Age 65)
Bobby Hatfield (The Righteous Brothers)
August 10, 1940 - November 5, 2003 (Age 63)
TODAY IN 80S MUSIC
80s Music Released on August 10th
1984 - The Red Hot Chili Peppers
Artist: Red Hot Chili Peppers (Debut Album)
Note: Two of the four founding members had already quit for other bands before the album was recorded, so the debut features a lineup that never actually played the songs live first. It sold almost nothing. They kept going.
1988 - Winger
Artist: Winger (Debut Album)
Billboard Charts: #21
Note: Kip Winger had been Alice Cooper's bassist; Reb Beach could play anything. "Seventeen" went into heavy MTV rotation and the album went platinum twice over, right before the whole genre fell off a cliff.
1989 - Big Game
Artist: White Lion (3rd Album)
Billboard Charts: #19
Note: The follow-up to Pride, with "Little Fighter" written about the Rainbow Warrior — a hair metal single about Greenpeace, which is a very 1989 thing to get away with.
TODAY IN 80S MOVIES
80s Movies Released On August 10th
Red Dawn (1984)
Release Date: August 10, 1984
Director: John Milius
Starring: Patrick Swayze, C. Thomas Howell, Charlie Sheen, Lea Thompson and Jennifer Grey
Budget: $17 Million
Box Office: $38 Million
Note: The first film ever released with a PG-13 rating, a category invented that summer because Gremlins and Temple of Doom had made PG meaningless. Also the most violent film ever made at the time, according to the Guinness Book. WOLVERINES.
Cloak & Dagger (1984)
Release Date: August 10, 1984
Director: Richard Franklin
Starring: Henry Thomas, Dabney Coleman and Michael Murphy
Box Office: $9.7 Million
Note: Henry Thomas two years after E.T., as a kid whose imaginary Atari-game spy turns out to be tangled up in real espionage. It opened as a double feature with The Last Starfighter that July before going out on its own.
TODAY IN 80S TV
1985 - The Final Episode of Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids Aired
Event: Series Finale
Network: CBS
Seasons: 8
Episodes: 110
Note: Twelve years of Saturday mornings, junkyard band instruments made of bedsprings and radiators, and a moral at the end of every single one. Hey hey hey.
TODAY IN 80S SPORTS
1984 - The US Men's Basketball Team Won Olympic Gold
Event: Summer Olympics, Los Angeles
Details: A 96-65 win over Spain, with a college roster of Michael Jordan, Patrick Ewing and Chris Mullin coached by Bob Knight. Jordan would be a Chicago Bull by October.
1981 - Pete Rose Passed Stan Musial for the NL Hits Record
Event: MLB
Details: Hit number 3,631 moved Rose past Musial and left only Ty Cobb ahead of him. He'd pass Cobb four years later.
1980 - Jack Nicklaus Won the PGA Championship
Event: Golf
Details: At Oak Hill, Nicklaus won by seven strokes over Andy Bean for his fifth PGA title. He'd already won the US Open that June, at 40.
TODAY IN OTHER 80S NEWS
No other news today in the 80s!
