On This Date In 1984, Mary Lou Retton Wins Gold
Gifted with a low center of gravity — and powered by stocky legs that remind sportswriters of fullbacks and tree trunks — she is the sport’s first industrial-strength performer: gymnastics in a drum.
Newsweek August 13, 1984
Remembering Sally Ride, 1951-2012
Not everyone’s life resolves itself so neatly into yes-or-no decisions, taken in an instant and never looked back upon or regretted, but, if Sally Ride’s life proves anything, it is that the very smart are different from you and me.
Newsweek June 13, 1983
“Raiders of the Lost Ark” Opened On This Date In 1981
It’s the movie Hollywood was born to make, and was born making. It has buried treasures and Nazi villains, poison darts and mystical wraiths, damsels in distress and Arabian swordsmen, snake pits, submarines, booby-trapped jungle caverns, Himalayan taverns, Egyptian bazaars and an archaeologist hero with the grit of Bogart, the dash of Gable and the fearlessness of Superman. It’s called “Raiders of the Lost Ark,” and it’s about as pure an example of the Hollywood summer movie as anything since “Jaws” and “Star Wars.”
Newsweek June 15, 1981
6/4/1989- Chinese Army Troops Storm Tiananmen Square To Crush The Pro-Democracy Movement.
Almost to the end, the students thought they could win. As troops closed in on Tiananmen Square before dawn on Sunday, the unarmed protesters defiantly stood their ground. But two hours later, as gunfire echoed outside the square, the last holdouts gave in to despair. “We can’t let any more blood flow,” someone shouted over the loudspeaker. “We must leave.” The last 1,000 or so students wearily walked out of the square, many of them in tears. At that point the Army stormed down the streets toward Tiananmen — tanks, armored personnel carriers and trucks full of troops, spitting gunfire in all directions. They smashed through the protesters’ frail barricades and charged into the square, where they demolished the students’ provocative statue, “the Goddess of Democracy.” Angry civilians poured into the streets shouting “You beasts! You beasts!” The soldiers shot back, killing 500 to 1,000 people and leaving the democracy movement in ruins.
Newsweek June 12, 1989
Happy Birthday (1883) Brooklyn Bridge!
Presenting Our 1983 Centennial Coverage
Newsweek May 30/June 6, 1983
On This Date In 1980, Mount St. Helens Goes Boom
With a blast as powerful as the largest hydrogen bomb ever tested, Washington’s 9,677-foot Mount St. Helens blew its top last week — the first eruption of a volcano in the contiquous United States in more than 60 years and by far the most destructive. At least 18 people died and 88 more were missing in the devastated moonscape of the mountain itself.
Newsweek June 2, 1980
Before the iPod
Newsweek, 1981
On This Date In 1985, “New Coke” Was Introduced. If You Were Too Young To Remember, Read About The Resulting Brouhaha-
Newsweek June 24, 1985
30 Years Ago, Britain and Argentina Go To War In The Falklands
U2’s “The Joshua Tree” Album is 25!
