In no particular order…
- The Princess Bride
- The Legend of Zelda (In the U.S.)
- U2’s The Joshua Tree
- Full House premiered
- The Simpsons (On The Tracey Ullman Show)
- President Reagan’s “Tear Down This Wall” Speech
- Black Monday – After the largest fall in the Dow Jones’s history, stock markets nosedive around the world.
- Dirty Dancing
- The Max Headroom Incident
- Prozac
- Married… With Children
- Michael Jordan’s 58-Point Game
- Larry Bird’s 59-Basket Free Throw Streak
- Robocop
- Macintosh SE – It would set you back $2899 with two floppy drives
- Congressional Ban on Inflight Smoking
- AZT
- “The Drive” (John Elway’s Big Win)
- Windows 2.0
- Stephen King’s Misery
- Final Fantasy
- Star Trek: The Next Generation
- Crazed German tourist Joseph Schwab, known as the “Kimberley killer”, is shot dead in a shootout with Western Australia Police at Fitzroy Crossing. Schwab had already killed three people that day, and two others a week previously in the Northern Territory.
- Australia finally notes the contribution of the Vietnam War veterans with a Welcome Home parade held in Sydney
- Queen Street Massacre: 22-year-old Frank Vitkovic kills 8 and injures another 5 in an Australia Post office building in Queen Street, Melbourne before committing suicide by jumping from the 11th floor.
- 19-year-old Neighbours star Kylie Minogue enters the charts with her first single “I Should Be So Lucky”.
- Glenda Adams’s novel Dancing on Coral wins the Miles Franklin Award
- News Ltd takes over the Herald and Weekly Times.
- Oldest person in Australia, Miss Carol Mockridge, 112, dies in Geelong.
- Federal government announces its intention of acknowledging, in the preamble to legislation, that Aborigines were the first owners of Australia.
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