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80s | Life | Pop Culture
15 Things From 1987 That Will Make You Wonder How It All Happened In The Same Year
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It's hard to believe that 1987 was 30 years ago! Seriously, that's an entire lifetime to a lot of people who have come and gone. These days we think of a lot of things from that time as being around forever, but let's step back for a second and check out what was new at the time.
1) "The Simpsons" premiered as a series of shorts on "The Tracey Ullman Show"
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2) "Three Men and A Baby" was the biggest movie of the year
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3) Cher won an Oscar for her performance in "Moonstruck"
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4) "Married... With Children" premiered
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5) Guns N' Roses released one of the biggest rock albums of all time; "Appetite For Destruction"
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6) We finally got Michael Jackson's followup to "Thriller"
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7) Madonna starred in "Who's That Girl," the first of many box-office bombs she'd appear in
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The facts get even crazier from here!
8) Moviegoers were saying "As you wish" thanks to a brand new fantasy movie, "The Princess Bride"
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9) Aretha Franklin made history as the first woman to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
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10) You could fight Mike Tyson in a Nintendo game
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11) Saturday morning cartoons saw the premiere of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
12) President Reagan demanded that Gorbachev tear down the Berlin wall
13) The stock market crashed
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14) Red Bull was released for the first time
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15) Disney launched the first of MANY deals with McDonald's
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