Video: 'Accidente Michael Jackson comercial Pepsi 1984'
(Friday, January 27, 1984, 6:30 p.m. PST) — Singer Michael Jackson suffered serious burns to his scalp today when pyrotechnics set his hair on fire during the filming of a Pepsi-Cola TV commercial at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles. He was briefly hospitalized.
Video: 'State of the Union: President Reagan's State of the Union Speech - 1/25/84'
(Wednesday, January 25, 1984, 9:00 p.m. EST) — U.S. President Ronald Reagan declared in an election-year State of the Union address tonight that “America is back, standing tall,” and he sought constitutional power to trim spending and pare the federal deficit without raising taxes.
Video: 'The Lost 1984 Video: young Steve Jobs introduces the Macintosh'
(Tuesday, January 24, 1984) — Apple Computer today began selling its first Macintosh model, which boasted a built-in 9-inch monochrome display, a clock rate of 8 megahertz and 128k of RAM.
Video: 'The Beatles' Women - Biography [documentary film] PART3' (Jan. 24, 1984, at 4:36-4:42)
(Monday, January 23, 1984) — Linda McCartney, accompanied by her husband, ex-Beatle Paul McCartney, pleaded guilty today to illegally importing a small quantity of cannabis into Heathrow airport upon arrival from Barbados on Jan. 17, 1984. After a few moments deliberation, the magistrates fine her $105.
Video: 'John Lennon - Milk And Honey (Full Album)'
(Monday, January 23, 1984) — Milk and Honey by John Lennon and Yoko Ono, Lennon’s eighth and final studio album after The Beatles, and the first posthumous release of Lennon’s music, was released today both in the U.S. and UK.
Video: 'Apple 1984 Super Bowl Commercial Introducing Macintosh Computer (HD)'
(Sunday, January 22, 1984, 4:40 p.m. EST) — The CBS-TV broadcast of Super Bowl XVIII, between the Los Angeles Raiders and the Washington Redskins (the Raiders won 38-9) at Tampa Stadium in Florida, featured Apple Computer’s famous “1984” commercial introducing the Macintosh computer.
Video: 'Breaking Up Is Hard On You - Bell System Divestiture'
(Sunday, January 1, 1984) — The breakup of AT&T took place today as the telecommunications giant was divested of its 22 Bell System companies under terms of an antitrust agreement.
(Friday, December 30, 1983, 9:15 a.m. CET) — Four gunmen today walked to the shared ticket counter for Israel’s El Al Airlines and Trans World Airlines at Leonardo da Vinci-Fiumicino Airport outside Rome, Italy, fired assault rifles, and threw grenades. Continue reading 19 civilians killed in terrorist attacks on airports in Rome and Vienna 30 years ago this hour (12/30/1983)
Video: 'Dennis Wilson the Real Beach Boy' (presented in six videos)
(Wednesday, December 28, 1983) — Beach Boys drummer Dennis Wilson, 39, drowned today while swimming in the harbor at Marina Del Rey, California.
Video: 'So Bad ~ Paul McCartney (HD video)'
(Saturday, December 24, 1983) — So Bad, the second single released in the U.S. from the album Pipes of Peace by ex-Beatle Paul McCartney, debuted on today’s Billboard Hot 100 singles chart at #49.
