80s HISTORY

ONTHIS DAY

ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY

13, FEB

  • 1990 Larry Bird (Celtics) ends NBA free throw streak of 71 games
  • 1989 – This years Brit Awards was hosted by Sam Fox and Mick Fleetwood in which just about everything went wrong – lines were fluffed and bands mis-cued onto the stage. Winners included Phil Collins who won British Male Solo Artist, British Female Solo Artist was Annie Lennox, Erasure won Best British Group, Best British Album went to Fairground Attraction for ‘First Of A Million Kisses’, British Breakthrough Act was Bros, Michael Jackson won International Male, International Female went to Tracey Chapman and U2 won Best International Group. This was the last year the show was broadcast live.
  • 1988 Christine Wachtel runs world record 800m indoor (1:56:40)
  • 1984 6 year old Texan Stormie Jones gets 1st heart & liver transplant
  • 1983 Bernstein, Levinson & Link’s musical “Merlin” opens at Mark Hellinger Theater, NYC; runs for 199 performances
  • 1982 – The Jam became the first band since The Beatles to play two numbers on the same edition of Top Of The Pops when they performed ‘A Town Called Malice’, and ‘Precious’, their latest double A sided No.1.
  • 1982 – The marble slab was stolen from the grave of Lynyrd Skynyrd’s singer Ronnie Van Zant, police found it two weeks later in a dried up river bed.
  • 1982 Pink Floyd’s album “Dark Side of the Moon” marks 402 weeks in the album charts
  • 1981 31st Berlin International Film Festival: “Hurry, Hurry!” wins the Golden Bear
  • 1981 Longest sentence published by “The New York Times” – 1286 words
  • 1980 – Police raided the home of former Sex Pistols John Lydon who greeted them waving a ceremonial sword, the only illegal item they found was a canister of tear gas, claimed to be for defence against intruders.
  • 1980 Apollo Computer Inc incorporated