The Eighties Club
The Politics and Pop Culture of the 1980s
The Daily News
So many important things happened in the 1980s that it's difficult to remember them all. When completed, The Daily News will provide a summary of the key events for all 3,653 days in the decade, culled from the front pages and the evening news broadcasts.

Need to know what was in the news on a particular day? Just use the menu below and access the top stories of an entire month, broken down into concise but thorough daily entries