Today in 80s history! What happened on July 28th 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
Jim Davis (Creator of Garfield) - 81
July 28, 1945
Sally Struthers (All in the Family, Gloria) - 79
July 28, 1947
Gerald Casale (Devo) - 78
July 28, 1948
Lori Loughlin (Aunt Becky on Full House) - 62
July 28, 1964
Elizabeth Berkley (Jessie on Saved by the Bell) - 54
July 28, 1972
REMEMBERING
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (Former First Lady)
July 28, 1929 - May 19, 1994 (Age 64)
Vida Blue (Six-Time MLB All-Star)
July 28, 1949 - May 6, 2023 (Age 73)
Dusty Hill (ZZ Top)
May 19, 1949 - July 28, 2021 (Age 72)
Eileen Brennan (Private Benjamin, Clue)
September 3, 1932 - July 28, 2013 (Age 80)
TODAY IN 80S MUSIC
80s Music Released on July 28th
Lifes Rich Pageant
R.E.M.
Fourth Studio Album
Release Date: July 28, 1986
Chart Info: Reached #21 on the Billboard 200 and became the band's first gold record
Featuring: "Fall on Me" and "Superman"
Note: The Athens boys turned up the volume and clarity, and college radio's best-kept secret started going mainstream.
Rhyme Pays
Ice-T
Debut Studio Album
Release Date: July 28, 1987
Chart Info: Reached #93 on the Billboard 200 and #26 on the R&B chart
Featuring: "6 'N the Mornin'" and the title track
Note: A West Coast landmark, and the first hip-hop album to carry a parental advisory sticker.
1986 - Janet Jackson Released "When I Think of You"
Event: Single Release
Details: The third single from Control became Janet's first #1 that October, making Janet and Michael the first siblings to each score a #1 hit as solo artists.
TODAY IN 80S MOVIES
80s Movies Released On July 28th
An Officer and a Gentleman (1982)
Release Date: July 28, 1982
Director: Taylor Hackford
Starring: Richard Gere, Debra Winger, David Keith and Louis Gossett Jr.
Budget: $6 Million
Box Office: $130 Million
Note: The third highest-grossing film of 1982, behind only E.T. and Tootsie. Louis Gossett Jr. won the Best Supporting Actor Oscar, and "Up Where We Belong" won Best Original Song. The factory-floor ending still gets people.
Turner & Hooch (1989)
Release Date: July 28, 1989
Director: Roger Spottiswoode
Starring: Tom Hanks, Mare Winningham, Craig T. Nelson and Reginald VelJohnson
Budget: $13 Million
Box Office: $71.1 Million
Note: Tom Hanks and a slobbering Dogue de Bordeaux solve a murder. This is not a good idea. It was, in fact, a very good idea.
Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan (1989)
Release Date: July 28, 1989
Director: Rob Hedden
Starring: Jensen Daggett, Scott Reeves and Kane Hodder as Jason
Budget: $5.3 Million
Box Office: $14.3 Million
Note: Jason boards a cruise ship to New York, though most of the movie famously never leaves the boat. Kane Hodder's second turn in the hockey mask.
TODAY IN 80S TV
1986 - A Current Affair Premiered
Event: Series Premiere
Network: Syndication (Fox)
Host: Maury Povich
Note: The show that wrote the tabloid TV playbook premiered from Fox's New York flagship, running 11 seasons and spawning a generation of imitators.
TODAY IN 80S SPORTS
1984 - The Summer Olympics Opened in Los Angeles
Event: Olympic Opening Ceremony
Details: The Games of the XXIII Olympiad opened at the LA Coliseum with Rafer Johnson lighting the torch and a jet-pack Rocket Man soaring over the crowd. Despite a Soviet boycott, the LA Games became the decade's defining sports spectacle and turned a profit, something no Olympics had done in decades.
TODAY IN OTHER 80S NEWS
No other news today in the 80s!
