Why 80s Nostalgia Still Hits So Hard for Gen X
From mixtapes to mall arcades to Saturday morning cartoons, 80s nostalgia keeps pulling Gen X back. Here’s why the decade still won’t let go.
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The Game Boy Launch: How Nintendo’s Grey Brick Changed Gaming Forever
On April 21, 1989, Nintendo launched the Game Boy in Japan and changed portable gaming forever. Here is why that gray brick still matters.
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The Tracey Ullman Show: The Simpsons Sketch That Started an Empire
Tracey Ullman Simpsons history starts on April 19, 1987, when the crude little Good Night short introduced TV’s most durable family.
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April 11, 1984: NASA Saved Solar Max in Orbit
On April 11, 1984, astronauts aboard Challenger completed the first successful satellite repair in orbit and made the shuttle era feel like the future.
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Secret of My Success: 7 Wild 80s Truths From April 10
On April 10, 1987, The Secret of My Success hit theaters and bottled peak yuppie-era ambition, Michael J. Fox charm, and pure 80s corporate fantasy.
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The Trade That Changed Baseball: Eckersley to Oakland, April 3, 1987
On April 3, 1987, the Chicago Cubs did what teams do with aging, struggling pitchers — they cut their losses. They packaged up 32-year-old Dennis Eckersley, fresh off a dismal 6-11 season with a 4.57 ERA and some very public off-field demons, and shipped him to the Oakland Athletics for three minor leaguers whose names…
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Falklands War 1982: 8 Defining Moments That Changed Everything
Forty-four years ago today, a column of Argentine amphibious vehicles rolled into the streets of Stanley — a quiet, wind-battered capital that most of the world had never heard of. By nightfall on April 2, 1982, the Falkland Islands were under Argentine military occupation, and the clock was ticking on one of the most unlikely,…
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Marvin Gaye Killed by Father: April 1, 1984
April 1, 1984. April Fool’s Day. The cruelest joke the calendar ever played on the music world came not from a prankster, but from a .38 Special revolver — fired by a man who should have loved the person he was shooting. One day before his 45th birthday, Marvin Gaye — the Prince of Soul,…
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Breakin’ 2 Electric Boogaloo: 5 Reasons the 1984 Films Still Rule
If you were alive in 1984 and went to the movies even once, you know exactly what happened that spring and summer. Cardboard got more important. Every linoleum floor became a stage. Somebody in your neighborhood was spinning on their head — or trying to — and getting away with it because the entire country…
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Reagan Assassination Attempt: The Day America Held Its Breath — March 30, 1981
Forty-five years ago today, on March 30, 1981, the United States came terrifyingly close to losing its 40th president. At 2:27 p.m. on a gray Washington afternoon, six shots rang out on a sidewalk outside the Washington Hilton Hotel — and within seconds, the most powerful man on earth was bleeding in the back of…
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Baltimore Colts History: The Midnight Move That Broke a City
On the night of March 28, 1984, a fleet of fifteen Mayflower moving trucks rolled into a snow-dusted office park in Owings Mills, Maryland, and quietly stole an NFL franchise. The Baltimore Colts move to Indianapolis wasn’t announced. It wasn’t voted on. It happened under cover of darkness while the city slept, and by the…
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Exxon Valdez Oil Spill: The 1989 Disaster That Changed Everything
Just after midnight on March 24, 1989, a 987-foot oil tanker with 53 million gallons of Prudhoe Bay crude in its belly tore open its hull on a reef everyone on board had a chart for. Within six hours, more than 10.8 million gallons of oil were on the move through one of the cleanest…
