Popular Films

• Ghostbusters
• Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom 
• Gremlins 
• Beverly Hills Cop 
• Terms of Endearment
• The Karate Kid 
• Star Trek III: The Search for Spock 
• Police Academy 
• Romancing the Stone 
• Splash 
• The Terminator 
• Amadeus 
• The Killing Fields 
• A Passage To India 

Popular Musicians

• Phil Collins
• Alison Moyet
• Billy Joel
• Tina Turner with "What's Love got to do with it"
• David Bowie 
• Wham! with "Wake Me up Before You Go"
• Billy Ocean
• UB40 
• Stevie Wonder with "I Just Called to say I love You"
• Bruce Springsteen 
• Kenny Rogers
• Bananarama 
• Duran Duran with "The Reflex"
• Ultravox 
• Cars

Popular TV Programs

• Magnum, P.I.  
• Dynasty  
• Entertainment Tonight 
• Falcon Crest
• Hill Street Blues 
• Cagney and Lacey 
• Cheers 
• Fame
• Knight Rider 
• The A-Team 
• Jeopardy!
   

Technology 1984

• Aids Virus identified by French Immunologist
• AT&T Broken Up
• The first Apple Macintosh goes on sale
• Sony and Philips introduce the first commercial CD Players
• Sony makes the first 3 1/2" computer disk
• The Space Shuttle Discovery has its maiden voyage
• First Ever flight in Space by Human untethered using jet back Packs
• Genetic fingerprinting or DNA profiling was developed and is now in wide by Forensic scientists when obtaining evidence in a crime
  
   

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