Life In America 1992 – Average household income is $30,030. DNA “finger printing” is invented. Bill Clinton is elected President. Mafia boss, John Gotti is sentenced to life in prison. The first McDonald’s opens in Beijing. The world’s largest shopping mall, Mall of America opens in Minnesota. Whitney Houston croons Dolly Parton’s theme, I Will [...]
Life In America 1991 – Average household income is $29,430. The Balkan war begins. The Dow hits 3000 for the first time. Jeffery Dahmer is arrested. Rodney King’s beating shakes LA. The internet is made available for unrestricted commercial use. Microsoft issues MS Dos 5.0. Future governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger appears in Terminator 2: Judgment Day. [...]
Life In America 1990 – Average household income is $28,960. The US is entering a recession. Interest rates are at 10% and inflation is running at 5.39%. Troops are sent to Kuwait to drive the Iraqi’s out. The first in-car GPS system goes on sale. On TV we’re watching the comedy, In Living Color, and [...]
Life In America 1989 – Average household income is $27,450. George H.W. Bush is president. Serial killer Ted Bundy is executed in Florida. The Exxon Valdez runs aground in Alaska’s Prince William sound spilling 11-million gallons of oil. Every Rose Has Its Thorn, by Poison and Look Away, by Chicago are just a couple of [...]
Life In America 1988 – Average household income is up $100 over ’87. The Hubble Space Telescope is launched. Pan-Am flight 103 explodes over Lockerbie, Scotland killing 270. Russia begins retreat from Afghanistan. McDonald’s opens in Moscow. Rain Man, with Tom Cruise and Dustin Hoffman is bringing folks to the movies along with Bruce Willis [...]
Life In America 1986 – Average household income is $22,400. Unemployment is at 7%. The shuttle Challenger exploded on takeoff, killing all aboard. It’s NASA’s first major disaster. In Russia the world’s greatest nuclear disaster takes place in a place called Chernobyl. Mad Cow disease is diagnosed for the first time in England. Oprah, debuts [...]
Life In America 1985 – Household income is up $500 to $22,100, unemployment though is still high at 7.3%. Hezbollah hijacks TWA flight 847. Famine spreads in Ethiopia. Microsoft releases Windows V.1. The Coca-Cola Company launches something called, New Coke, six months later it’s pulled from shelves. Mel Gibson and Tina Turner team up to [...]
Life In America 1984 –Household income averages is up, $21,600. Aids has been identified and is not as wide spread as first believed, Apple introduces the Macintosh computer. 70 US banks fail. The Olympic Games are held in LA and for once traffic is bearable. Comedies are big at the box office with Beverly Hills [...]
Life In America 1983 –Household income averages $21,070. Unemployment is at 9.7 percent, the highest since 1941. Microsoft introduces Word. The first mobile phones are introduced by Motorola. On TV we’re being entertained by the men of the A-Team. Michael Jackson’s video, Thriller, is aired for the first time and goes on to become the [...]
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