1979 Clay Tablet
Mairi Moore – From the Brandywine School District Office for allowing me to scan several yearbooks and really getting this archive started. Unlike most of us, she has access to several yearbooks that were left behind within the confines of the Brandywine School District.Thank you Mairi
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1979 in Review
The Year in review:
1979[Courtesy of Wikipedia]
World Events
January 1 – United Nations Secretary General Kurt Waldheim heralds the start of the International Year of the Child.
Many musicians donate to the Music for UNICEF Concert fund including ABBA, who wrote the song Chiquitita, to commerate the event.
January 29 – Brenda Ann Spencer opens fire at a school in San Diego, California, killing 2 faculty members and wounding 8 students. Her response to the action, “I don’t like Mondays,” inspired the Boomtown Rats to make a song of the same name.
February 1 – Convicted bank robber Patty Hearst is released from prison after her sentence is commuted by U.S. President Jimmy Carter.
February 18 – The Sahara Desert experiences snow for 30 minutes.
February 28 – Mr. Ed, the ‘talking horse’ featured in the television show of the same name, dies.
March 8 – Philips demonstrates Compact Disc publicly for the first time.
March 29 – America’s most serious nuclear power plant accident, at Three Mile Island, Pennsylvania.
April 1 – The Pinwheel Network changes its name to Nickelodeon and begins airing on various Warner Cable systems beginning in Buffalo, New York, expanding its audience reach
May 4 – Conservatives win the British general election; Margaret Thatcher becomes the new prime minister.
McDonald’s introduces the Happy Meal in June.
July 11 – NASA’s first orbiting space station Skylab begins its return to Earth, after being in orbit for 6 years and 2 months.
September 7 – The Entertainment Sports Programming Network, known as ESPN, debuts.
November 4 – Iran hostage crisis begins: 3,000 Iranian radicals, mostly students, invade the U.S. Embassy in Tehran and take 90 hostages (53 of whom are American). They demand that the United States send the former Shah of Iran back to stand trial.
December 24 – The Soviet Union invades Afghanistan.
Celebrities Born/died in this Year
January 15 – Drew Brees, American football player, born
February 2 – Sid Vicious, English musician (Sex Pistols) (drug overdose), died (b. 1957)
February 7 – Josef Mengele, German Nazi war criminal, died (b. 1911)
February 21 – Jennifer Love Hewitt, American actress and singer, born
March 30 – Norah Jones, American musician, born
April 4 – Heath Ledger, Australian actor, born (d. 2008)
April 10 – Dre, American producer, born
June 11 – John Wayne, American actor (True Grit) , died (b. 1907)
June 23 – LaDainian Tomlinson, American football player, born
November 1 – Coco Crisp, American baseball player, born
November 29 – Zeppo Marx, American actor and comedian, died (b. 1901)
Popular Songs of the Year
“Too Much Heaven” – Bee Gees
“Le Freak” – Chic
“I Will Survive” – Gloria Gaynor
“Tragedy” – Bee Gees
“What a Fool Believes” – The Doobie Brothers
“Knock on Wood” – Amii Stewart
“Heart of Glass” – Blondie
“Reunited” – Peaches & Herb
“Hot Stuff” – Donna Summer
“Love You Inside Out” – Bee Gees
“Hot Stuff” – Donna Summer
“Ring My Bell” – Anita Ward
“Bad Girls” – Donna Summer
“Good Times” – Chic
“My Sharona” – The Knack
“Sad Eyes” – Robert John
“Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough” – Michael Jackson
“Rise” – Herb Alpert
“Pop Muzik” – M
“Heartache Tonight” – Eagles
“Still” – Commodores
“No More Tears (Enough is Enough)” – Barbra Streisand and Donna Summer
“Babe” – Styx
“Escape (The Piña Colada Song)” – Rupert Holmes
1979[Courtesy of Wikipedia]
World Events
January 1 – United Nations Secretary General Kurt Waldheim heralds the start of the International Year of the Child.
Many musicians donate to the Music for UNICEF Concert fund including ABBA, who wrote the song Chiquitita, to commerate the event.
January 29 – Brenda Ann Spencer opens fire at a school in San Diego, California, killing 2 faculty members and wounding 8 students. Her response to the action, “I don’t like Mondays,” inspired the Boomtown Rats to make a song of the same name.
February 1 – Convicted bank robber Patty Hearst is released from prison after her sentence is commuted by U.S. President Jimmy Carter.
February 18 – The Sahara Desert experiences snow for 30 minutes.
February 28 – Mr. Ed, the ‘talking horse’ featured in the television show of the same name, dies.
March 8 – Philips demonstrates Compact Disc publicly for the first time.
March 29 – America’s most serious nuclear power plant accident, at Three Mile Island, Pennsylvania.
April 1 – The Pinwheel Network changes its name to Nickelodeon and begins airing on various Warner Cable systems beginning in Buffalo, New York, expanding its audience reach
May 4 – Conservatives win the British general election; Margaret Thatcher becomes the new prime minister.
McDonald’s introduces the Happy Meal in June.
July 11 – NASA’s first orbiting space station Skylab begins its return to Earth, after being in orbit for 6 years and 2 months.
September 7 – The Entertainment Sports Programming Network, known as ESPN, debuts.
November 4 – Iran hostage crisis begins: 3,000 Iranian radicals, mostly students, invade the U.S. Embassy in Tehran and take 90 hostages (53 of whom are American). They demand that the United States send the former Shah of Iran back to stand trial.
December 24 – The Soviet Union invades Afghanistan.
Celebrities Born/died in this Year
January 15 – Drew Brees, American football player, born
February 2 – Sid Vicious, English musician (Sex Pistols) (drug overdose), died (b. 1957)
February 7 – Josef Mengele, German Nazi war criminal, died (b. 1911)
February 21 – Jennifer Love Hewitt, American actress and singer, born
March 30 – Norah Jones, American musician, born
April 4 – Heath Ledger, Australian actor, born (d. 2008)
April 10 – Dre, American producer, born
June 11 – John Wayne, American actor (True Grit) , died (b. 1907)
June 23 – LaDainian Tomlinson, American football player, born
November 1 – Coco Crisp, American baseball player, born
November 29 – Zeppo Marx, American actor and comedian, died (b. 1901)
Popular Songs of the Year
“Too Much Heaven” – Bee Gees
“Le Freak” – Chic
“I Will Survive” – Gloria Gaynor
“Tragedy” – Bee Gees
“What a Fool Believes” – The Doobie Brothers
“Knock on Wood” – Amii Stewart
“Heart of Glass” – Blondie
“Reunited” – Peaches & Herb
“Hot Stuff” – Donna Summer
“Love You Inside Out” – Bee Gees
“Hot Stuff” – Donna Summer
“Ring My Bell” – Anita Ward
“Bad Girls” – Donna Summer
“Good Times” – Chic
“My Sharona” – The Knack
“Sad Eyes” – Robert John
“Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough” – Michael Jackson
“Rise” – Herb Alpert
“Pop Muzik” – M
“Heartache Tonight” – Eagles
“Still” – Commodores
“No More Tears (Enough is Enough)” – Barbra Streisand and Donna Summer
“Babe” – Styx
“Escape (The Piña Colada Song)” – Rupert Holmes
1979 Clay Tablet Image Index
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