This Week in 80’s History!

It’s time to take a look back at this week in 80’s history! It was on this week in:

1985 – Pete Rose Broke Ty Cobb’s All-Time hits record with 4,192. Rose would go on to finish his career with 4,256 hits and still not allowed into the baseball hall of fame.

1986 – The Oprah Winfrey Show Premiered, changing day time talk tv history and would run for 25 seasons and 4,561 episodes!

1988 – “Sweet Child o’ Mine” by Guns N’ Roses would become the #1 song in America, topping the Billboard charts and holding onto that spot for 3 weeks.

1989 – American Gladiators premiered giving average Joe’s the opportunity to live out their sports dreams if they could topple the muscle bound Gladiators that stood in their way.

Queen Elizabeth II has died at 96