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Events
| Date |
Event |
| January 9 |
Wendy's "Fluffy Bun" advertisement is first broadcast, which gains Clara Peller and her "Where's the beef?" catchphrase national fame. |
| Something About Amelia, a story concerning incest, is broadcast by ABC. Glenn Close, Ted Danson, and Roxana Zal are the main actors. |
| January 22 |
During CBS's broadcast of Super Bowl XVIII, Apple Computer Company heralds the introduction of its Apple Macintosh personal computer with the famous advertisement "1984", the only time it is broadcast on national television. |
| January 23 |
Professional wrestler Hulk Hogan defeats The Iron Sheik to win his first World Wrestling Federation championship at Madison Square Garden; the match is televised by the MSG Network. |
| January 27 |
Michael Jackson's hair catches fire during the filming of a Pepsi commercial. |
| February 1 |
Arts & Entertainment Network launches from the merger of ARTS and RCA's The Entertainment Channel. It was originally appeared after kids' channel Nickelodeon signed off. |
| Lifetime is launched from the merger of Hearst/ABC's Daytime and Viacom's Cable Health Network. |
| February 28 |
At the 26th Grammy Awards telecast by CBS, Michael Jackson wins a record-breaking eight Grammy Awards. |
| May 18 |
Character Bobby Ewing finds himself in the crossfire as a rival tries to gun down his brother J.R. on the season finale of the series Dallas. |
| May 19 |
CBS tapes the Michael Larson episodes of Press Your Luck in which Larson wins $110,237 cash and prizes. (The episodes, which are split into two parts, would air on June 8 and 11.) |
| July 14 |
In what became known as Black Saturday, Vince McMahon's World Wrestling Federation takes over Superstation WTBS' Saturday evening time period once occupied by Georgia Championship Wrestling. |
| September 10 |
The game show Jeopardy! returns to television by daily syndication with new host Alex Trebek. |
| September 14 |
Dan Aykroyd and Bette Midler host the first MTV Video Music Awards at New York City's Radio City Music Hall, an event which included Madonna's performance of the song "Like a Virgin". |
| September 24 |
The game show Super Password premieres on NBC at 12:00 noon EST. The new version of the classic game show is one of the few shows to survive at a time period that normally broadcasts news on any of the three major networks, running for 4 1/2 years. |
| October 1 |
Montana, the last state in the Union without its own Public Broadcasting Service station, gains one when Montana PBS launches. |
| American Movie Classics is initiated. |
| October 8 |
NBC broadcasts The Burning Bed, which features Farrah Fawcett as a woman who kills her abusive husband. The fact-based film is the highest-rated entertainment event of the 1984–1985 season. |
| October 27 |
Turner Broadcasting System initiates the Cable Music Channel in the U.S., only to end it one month later. |
| November 12 |
Theresa Saldana appears as herself in the NBC movie Victims for Victims: The Theresa Saldana Story, a retelling of her 1982 stabbing incident and its aftermath. |
| December 17 |
George C. Scott plays Ebenezer Scrooge in a new version of the Dickens classic A Christmas Carol, broadcast by CBS. |
| One Life to Live changes its opening sequence and theme song, which lasted until 1991. |
| ABC purchases a majority stake of ESPN from Getty Oil Corp. |
| December 28 |
The Edge of Night ends after twenty-eight years on ABC daytime. |
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Births
| Date |
Name |
Cinematic Notability |
| January 2 |
Kristen Hager |
Canadian actress (Valemont, Being Human) |
| January 6 |
Kate McKinnon |
Actress and singer (The Big Gay Sketch Show, Saturday Night Live) |
| January 17 |
Kristy Hill |
Welsh actress and model |
| January 24 |
Ashley C. Williams |
Actress |
| January 26 |
Layla Kayleigh |
English-American television host |
| February 1 |
Lee Thompson Young |
Actor (The Famous Jett Jackson) (d. 2013) |
| February 18 |
Chelsea Hobbs |
Canadian actress (Make It or Break It) |
| March 10 |
Olivia Wilde |
Actress (House, M.D.) |
| March 12 |
Jaimie Alexander |
Actress (Watch Over Me, Kyle XY) |
| March 14 |
Liesel Matthews |
Actress |
| March 20 |
Christy Carlson Romano |
Actress (Even Stevens, Kim Possible) and singer |
| March 25 |
Katharine McPhee |
Actress and singer (American Idol, Smash, Scorpion) |
| March 30 |
Helena Mattsson |
Swedish-American actress (666 Park Avenue) |
| April 2 |
Ashley Peldon |
Actress (The Mommies) and sister of Courtney Peldon |
| April 8 |
Taran Noah Smith |
Actor (Home Improvement) |
| Kirsten Storms |
Actress (Days of our Lives, General Hospital) |
| April 10 |
Mandy Moore |
Actress and singer (TRON: Uprising, Sheriff Callie's Wild West, High School USA!) |
| April 11 |
Kelli Garner |
Actress (Pan Am) |
| April 22 |
Michelle Ryan |
British actress (EastEnders) |
| April 26 |
Emily Wickersham |
Actress (NCIS) |
| April 29 |
Taylor Cole |
Actress (Summerland) |
| May 12 |
Clare Bowen |
Australian actress and singer (Nashville) |
| May 24 |
Sarah Hagan |
Actress (Freaks and Geeks) |
| May 29 |
Carmelo Anthony |
American basketball player |
| June 4 |
Jillian Murray |
Actress |
| June 13 |
Phillip Van Dyke |
Voice actor ("Arnold" from Hey Arnold! in 1997–1999) |
| June 19 |
Helen George |
English actress (Call the Midwife) |
| June 26 |
Aubrey Plaza |
Actress (Parks and Recreation) |
| June 30 |
Julie Engelbrecht |
French-American actress |
| July 8 |
Alexis Dziena |
Actress (Invasion, Entourage) |
| July 11 |
Rachael Taylor |
Australian actress (Headland, 666 Park Avenue, Crisis, Jessica Jones) |
| July 19 |
Kaitlin Doubleday |
Actress (Empire) |
| July 27 |
Taylor Schilling |
Actress (Mercy, Orange is the New Black) |
| August 3 |
Emily Baldoni |
Swedish-American actress |
| August 28 |
Sarah Roemer |
Actress (The Event, Chosen) |
| September 14 |
Adam Lamberg |
Actor (Lizzie McGuire) |
| September 18 |
Nina Arianda |
Actress |
| September 19 |
Lydia Hearst |
Actress and great-granddaughter of William Randolph Hearst |
| September 22 |
Laura Vandervoort |
Canadian actress (Instant Star, V, Smallville, Bitten) |
| September 23 |
Anneliese van der Pol |
Actress (That's So Raven) and singer |
| September 27 |
Avril Lavinge |
Canadian singer and actress |
| October 3 |
Ashlee Simpson |
Actress, singer (7th Heaven, The Ashlee Simpson Show) and sister of Jessica Simpson |
| October 11 |
Martha MacIsaac |
Canadian actress (Emily of New Moon, Di-Gata Defenders, 1600 Penn, The Pinkertons) |
| October 25 |
Katy Perry |
American singer, songwriter, and actress |
| October 27 |
Emilie Ullerup |
Danish-American actress (Sanctuary, Arctic Air) |
| October 28 |
Finn Wittrock |
Actor |
| November 16 |
Kimberly J. Brown |
Actress (Vampire Princess Miyu, Guiding Light) |
| November 20 |
Ira David Wood IV |
Actor (Once and Again) and older brother of Evan Rachel Wood |
| November 21 |
Lindsey Haun |
Actress and singer |
| Jena Malone |
Actress |
| November 22 |
Scarlett Johansson |
American actress |
| November 23 |
Lucas Grabeel |
American actor |
| November 28 |
Mary Elizabeth Winstead |
Actress (Wolf Lake, The Returned) |
| December 4 |
Lindsey Felton |
Actress (Thunder Alley, Caitlin's Way) |
| December 6 |
Kelly Frye |
Actress |
| December 15 |
Kirsty Lee Allan |
Australian actress (Sea Patrol) |
| December 17 |
Shannon Woodward |
Actress (The Riches, Raising Hope) |
| December 19 |
Erica O'Keith |
Actress (Romeo!) |
Deaths
