• President: Ronald Wilson Reagan

• Vice President: George Bush

• U.S. Population 1984:  235,824,902

• U.S. Population 2000:  281,421,906

• Life Expectancy 1984: 74.7 Years

• Life Expectancy 2001: 77.2 Years

• Unemployment: 9.6%

• Unemployment 2003: 6.1%

• Average Income: $12,497

• Average Income 2001: $42,228

• Cost of a New Home:$97,600

• Cost of a New Home 2000: $227,000

• Cost of a New Car: $6,294

• Average Cost of a New Car 2003: $28000

• Cost of a Gallon of Regular Gasoline: $1.21

• Cost of a First Class Stamp: $0.20

• Cost of a dozen eggs: $1.01

• Cost of a Gallon of Milk: $1.94

• Cost of a Loaf of Bread: $0.71

Hits - 1984 Top 100

Top 20

• When Doves Cry by Prince

• What's Love Got To Do With It by Tina Turner

• Jump by Van Halen

• Footloose by Kenny Loggins

• Against All Odds by Phil Collins

• Say Say Say by Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson

• Lets Hear It For The Boy by Denise Williams

• Owner Of A Lonely Heart by Yes

• Ghostbusters by Ray Parker Jr.

• Karma Chameleon by Culture Club

• Missing You by John Waite

• All Night Long by Lionel Richie

• Dancing In The Dark by Bruce Springsteen

• Girls Just Want To Have Fun by Cyndi Lauper

• Self Control by Laura Branigan

• Time After Time by Cyndi Lauper

• Jump by the Pointer Sisters

• Talking In Your Sleep by the Romantics

• The Reflex by Duran Duran

Top Albums

• 1984 by Van Halen

• An Innocent Man by Billy Joel

• Colour By Numbers by Culture Club

• Purple Rain by Prince and the Revolution

• Seven and The Ragged Tiger by Duran Duran

• She's So Unusual by Cindy Lauper

• Sports by Huey Lewis and The News

• $180 Billion Deficit for the U.S. Is Projected.
• FBI Agent Richard Miller Is Arrested For Spying.
• Gunman Kills 22 In San Ysido CA McDonalds.
• US Diplomat William Buckley Is Kidnapped In Beirut.
• Russia Announces Boycott of Los Angeles games.
• Indira Gandi, Indian PM , Is Assassinated By Sikh Bodyguards.
• NYC Subway "Vigilante" Bernhard Goetz Surrenders In Shooting Of 4 Youths.
• Reagan orders Marines offshore in Lebanon.
• Senate Resolution Opposes CIA Mining of Nicaraguan Harbors.
• 22 American prisoners freed when Jesse Jackson meets Castro.
• British agree to leave Hong Kong in 1997.
• Challenger astronaughts make two free-flying space walks.
• Gas leak kills 2,000 at Union Carbide Plant in Bhopal India.

• The Apple Macintosh was introduced
• Walter Payton breaks Jim Brown's all time rushing record