Here is the answer to the 80s timeline:

 

  1. Stephen Hawking publishes A Brief History Of Time which claims traveling back to the past is impossible
  2. Talk show host Geraldo Rivera’s nose was broken by a young hatermonger while he taped a show about young hatemongers. 
  3. And detective John McClane faced off against professional bad guy Hans Gruber in Die Hard.  In 1988 and that year this one-hit wonder gained new life when it was featured in the movie Napoleon Dynamite in 2004 Here is When In Rome "The Promise"