15.Other popular toys that year included the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Lil Miss Makeup.
16.Garfield and Friends made its debut (making Saturday mornings even better).
17.Tom Clancy had the best-selling book of the year with his sequel to The Hunt for Red October: Cardinal of the Kremlin.
18.Democratic vice-presidential candidate, Senator Lloyd Bentsen, delivered one of the greatest political insults of all time when he told his opponent, Dan Quayle, "...Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy," during the vice-presidential debate.
23.Cher won the Oscar for Best Actress for her role in Moonstruck.
24.Debbie Gibson (who was then 17 years old) became the youngest female artist to write, produce, and perform a Billboard Hot 100 No. 1, with her song "Foolish Beat."
25.George Michael's "Faith," INXS' "Need You Tonight," and George Harrison's "Got My Mind Set on You" were among the biggest songs of the year...
26....and so was Whitney Houston's "So Emotional."