Today in 80s history! What happened on August 13th 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
Danny Bonaduce (The Partridge Family) - 67
August 13, 1959
Dawnn Lewis (Jaleesa on A Different World) - 65
August 13, 1961
REMEMBERING
Alfred Hitchcock (Psycho, The Birds)
August 13, 1899 - April 29, 1980 (Age 80)
Jim "The Anvil" Neidhart (The Hart Foundation)
February 8, 1955 - August 13, 2018 (Age 63)
Pat Harrington Jr. (Schneider on One Day at a Time)
August 13, 1929 - January 6, 2016 (Age 86)
TODAY IN 80S MUSIC
80s Music Released on August 13th
1985 - Primitive Love
Artist: Miami Sound Machine (with Gloria Estefan)
Billboard Charts: #23
Note: Their first all-English album, and the one with "Conga" on it — a song a record executive reportedly said was too Latin for Americans and too American for Latins. It went top ten and stayed at every wedding reception since.
1986 - Feel My Power
Artist: MC Hammer (Debut Album)
Note: Hammer was the Oakland A's batboy, then borrowed $20,000 from A's players Dwayne Murphy and Mike Davis to start his own label and press this himself. Capitol picked it up two years later and the rest happened very fast.
TODAY IN 80S MOVIES
80s Movies Released On August 13th
Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982)
Release Date: August 13, 1982
Director: Amy Heckerling
Starring: Sean Penn, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Judge Reinhold, Phoebe Cates and Forest Whitaker
Budget: $5 Million
Box Office: $27 Million
Note: Cameron Crowe went undercover at a real high school for a year to write it. Spicoli made checkerboard Vans a national uniform, and half the cast — Penn, Cage, Whitaker, Anthony Edwards — became the next decade.
Friday the 13th Part III (1982)
Release Date: August 13, 1982
Director: Steve Miner
Starring: Dana Kimmell, Paul Kratka and Richard Brooker
Budget: $2.3 Million
Box Office: $36.7 Million
Note: Shot in 3D, opened on a Friday the 13th, and the one where Jason finally puts on the hockey mask. Everything you picture when you picture Jason starts here.
TODAY IN 80S TV
1984 - Call to Glory Premiered
Event: Series Premiere
Network: ABC
Seasons: 1
Episodes: 22
Note: An Air Force family drama set during the Cuban Missile Crisis, starring Craig T. Nelson four years before Coach and a teenage Elisabeth Shue a year before her Karate Kid follow-ups.
TODAY IN 80S SPORTS
1988 - The Red Sox Won Their 24th Straight Home Game
Event: MLB
Details: A 16-4 win over Detroit, Dwight Evans 4-for-5 with two homers and seven RBI, and an American League record that still stands. The Tigers ended it the very next day, 18-6.
1989 - Payne Stewart Won the PGA Championship
Event: Golf
Details: Stewart shot 31 on the back nine at Kemper Lakes to come from six back, while Mike Reid gave away a three-shot lead over the last three holes. Stewart's first major, in plus fours.
TODAY IN OTHER 80S NEWS
No other news today in the 80s!
