Here is the answer to the 80s timeline:

 

1Disney opened the Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow, otherwise known as EPCOT in Orlando, Florida.

 

2. Professional wheel-turner Vanna White took over for original co-host Susan Stafford on Wheel of Fortune. 


3. Mr. T coined the phrase that made him famous, "I pity the fool," as Clubber Lang in Rocky III.   in 1982 and in that year Modern English wrote this song about making love while nuclear bombs are falling, Now THAT is something to add to your bucket list here is “I Melt With You”