Class of 1982
1982
Price of a Gallon of Gas: $1.22
Average In-State CA College Tuition: $2,004.75
Price of a Big Mac: $ .95
What was new in innovation, culture and education?
Human growth hormone is genetically engineered, and the first CD player is sold in Japan.
Michael Jackson releases Thriller Album, and the war on drugs and the Just Say No campaign of first lady Reagan was in full swing to battle the crack epidemic, and AT&T is ordered to break up.
In the case of Board of Education v. Pico, the U.S. Supreme court rules that books cannot be removed from a school library because school administrators deemed their content to be offensive.