On 12 May 1987 actor-director Woody Allen testified before a Senate subcommittee to protest the computerized colorization of classic black-and-white movies.

On 23 May 1983 bandleader Count Basie and tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins were both awarded the Jazz Master Awards by the National Endowment for the Arts.

In 1989 movie actress Kim Basinger bought the near-bankrupt town of Braselton, Georgia, for $20 million.

On 25-28 August 1988 the Vienna Philharmonic and Boston Symphony were among the participants in a celebration of Leonard Bernstein's seventieth birthday and the forty-fifth anniversary of his conducting debut with the New York Philharmonic.

On 23 January 1986 Chuck Berry, James Brown, Fats Domino, Ray Charles, Little Richard, and Jerry Lee Lewis were among the first inductees into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

On 7 February more than fifteen hundred friends and fans of composer Eubie Blake honored him on his one hundredth birthday at a...