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Most Popular Television Shows 
1. 60 Minutes
2. Three’s Company
3. That’s Incredible!
4. Alice
5. M*A*S*H
6. Dallas
7. Flo
8. The Jeffersons
9. The Dukes of Hazzard
10. One Day At A Time
11. Archie Bunker's Place
12. Eight Is Enough
13. Taxi
14. House Calls
15. Real People
16. Happy Days
17. Little House On The Prairie
18. CHiPs
19. Charlie's Angels
20. Trapper John, M.D
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Popular Movies 
1. Superman
2. Every Which Way But Loose
3. Rocky II
4. Alien
5. The Amityville Horror
6. Star Trek
7. Moonraker
8. The Muppet Movie
9. Kramer vs. Kramer
10. The Deer Hunter
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Top 20 Songs of 1979 1. Too Much Heaven - Bee Gees
2. Da Ya Think I'm Sexy? - Rod Stewart
3. I Will Survive - Gloria Gaynor
4. Tragedy - Bee Gees
5. What a Fool Believes - Doobie Brothers
6. Knock on Wood - Ami Stewart
7. Heart of Glass - Blondie
8. Reunited - Peaches and Herb
9. Hot Stuff - Donna Summers
10. Love You Inside Out - Bee Gees
11. Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2 - Pink Floyd
12. London Calling - The Clash
13. Rapper's Delight - The Sugarhill Gang
14. Good Times – Chic
15. Dont Stop 'Til You Get Enough - Michael Jackson
16. We Are Family - Sister Sledge
17. Comfortably Numb - Pink Floyd
18. Rock With You – Michael Jackson
19. Brass in Pocket - The Pretenders
20. I Want You To Want Me – Cheap Trick
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Most Popular Books Fiction:
1. The Matarese Circle by Robert Ludlum
2. Sophie's Choice by William Styron
3. Overload by Arthur Hailey
4. Memories of Another Day by Harold Robbins
5. Jailbird by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Non-fiction:
1. Aunt Erma's Cope Book by Erma Bombeck
2. The Complete Scarsdale Medical Diet by Herman Tarnower
3. How to Prosper During the Coming Bad Years by Howard Ruff
4. Cruel Shoes by Steve Martin
5. The Pritiken Program for Diet and Exercise by Nathan Pritiken
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Academy Awards 
Best Picture: Kramer vs. Kramer
Best Director: Robert Benton for Kramer vs. Kramer
Best Actor: Dustin Hoffman in Kramer vs. Kramer
Best Actress: Sally Field in Norma Rae
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Tony Awards Best Play: The Elephant Man by Bernard Pomerance
Best Musical: Sweeny Todd
Best Actor in a play: Tom Conti for Whose Life is It Anyway?
Best Actresses in a play: Constance Cummings for Wings & Carole Shelley for The Elephant Man
Best Actor in a musical: Len Cariou for Sweeney Todd
Best Actress in a musical: Angela Lansbury for Sweeny Todd
Best Director for a play: Jack Hofsiss for The Elephant Man
Best Director for a musical: Harold Prince for Sweeny Todd
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Pulitzer Prize Drama: Sam Shepard for 'Buried Child'
Fiction: John Cheever for 'The Stories of John Cheever'
History: Don E. Fehrenbacher for 'The Dred Scott Case: Its Significance in American
Law and Poltics'
International Reoprting: Richard Ben Cramer for 'Philadelphia Inquirer'
National Reporting: James Risser for 'Des Moines Register'
Public Service: 'Point Reyes (CA) Light'
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Grammy Awards Record of the Year: 'What a Fool Believes' by The Doobie Brothers
Song of the Year: 'What a Fool Believes' written by Kenny Loggins & Michael McDonald
Best Album: '52nd Street' by Billy Joel
Best New Artist: Rickie Lee Jones
Best Male Vocalist: Billy Joel for '52nd Street'
Best Female Vocalist: Dionne Warwick for 'I'll Never Love This Way Again'
Best Group: The Doobie Brothers for “Minute by Minute”
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Sports NBA: Seattle Supersonics vs. Washington Bullets; Score: 4-1
NCAA Football: Alabama Record: 12-0-0
Heisman Trophy: Charles White, USC, RB points: 1,695
Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadians vs. New York Rangers; Series: 4-1
Super Bowl XIII: Pittsburgh Steelers vs. Dallas Cowboys; Score: 35-31
US Open Golf: Hale Irwin; Score: 284; Course: Inverness Club, Location: Denver, CO
World Series: Pittsburgh Pirates vs. Baltimore Orioles; Series: 4-3
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Births/Deaths Births:
Kate Hudson
Heath Ledger
Jennifer Love Hewitt
Deaths:
Arthur Fiedler
John Wayne
Charles Mingus
Jean Renoir
Nelson Rockefeller
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Popular Culture -YMCA sues the Village People for libel because of their song of the same name
- Sid Vicious, a former member of the Sex Pistols dies due to a heroin overdose during
the trial for murdering his girlfriend
- Pink Floyd released the multi award winning concept album 'The Wall' with the top selling single 'Another Brick in the Wall'
- The general knowledge quiz game Trivial Pursuit is launched
- The first modern bungee jumping performed by a group from the Oxford University Dangerous Sports Club jumped from the Clifton Suspension Bridge joining England and Wales
- Muhammad Ali announces his retirement from boxing
- Sony introduces the Walkman costing $200.
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Major News Events of 1979 - Shah overthrown in Iranian revolution.
- Ayatollah Khomeini returns to Iran after 15 years in exile.
- Saddam Hussein becomes President of Iraq.
- Margaret Thatcher becomes Britain's first woman Prime Minister.
- Three Mile Island nuclear accident - a partial meltdown of a reactor occurs in the worst civilian nuclear accident in US history, at Midtown.
- USSR and USA sign the SALT II treaty, limiting nuclear arms.
- Soviets forces invade Afghanistan.
- Voyager I discovers faint ring system around Jupiter.
- Visicalc, first spreadsheet software introduced.
- Former US space station, Skylab, re-enters the Earth's atmosphere and debris is scattered in the Indian Ocean and Western Australia.
- Debut of the Garfield comic strip.
- Rhodesia becomes Zimbabwe.
- First European Ariane rocket is launched.
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US Statistics President: Jimmy Earl Carter, Jr.
Vice President: Walter F. Mondale
US Population: 225,055,487
Life expectancy: 73.9 years
Violent Crime Rate (per 1,000): 55.7
Property Crime Rate (per 1,000): 50.2
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US Economics US GDP (1998 dollars): $2,557.50 billion
Federal spending: $504.03 billion
Federal debt: $829.5 billion
Median Household Income: (current dollars): $16,461
Consumer Price Index: 72.6
Unemployment: 5.8%
Minimum Wage: $2.90
Dow-Jones Average: 844.40
Cost of a first-class stamp: $0.15
Cost of a candy bar: $0.25
Cost of a gallon of regular gas: $0.86
Average income per year: $17,500
Cost of a new house: $58,100
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Nobel Prize -Chemistry: Divided equally between HERBERT C. BROWN, U.S.A., Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, b. 1912 and GEORG WITTIG, Federal Republic of Germany, University of Heidelberg, 'for their development of the use of boron-and phosphorus-containing compounds, respectively, into important reagents in organic synthesis.'
-Literature: ELYTIS ODYSSEUS (pen name: ALEPOUDHELIS, ODYSSEUS), Greece, 'for his poetry, which, against the background of Greek tradition, depicts with sensuous strength and intellectual clear-sightedness modern man's struggle for freedom and creativeness'
-Peace: MOTHER TERESA, India, Leader of the Order of the Missionaries of Charity.
-Physiology or Medicine: Awarded jointly to ALLAN M. CORMACK, U.S.A., Tufts University, Medford, MA, and Sir GODFREY N. HOUNSFIELD, Great Britain, Central Research Laboratories, EMI, London, 'for the development of computer assisted tomography
-Physics: Divided equally between SHELDON L. GLASHOW, U.S.A., Lyman Laboratory, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, and ABDUS SALAM, Pakistan, International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, and Imperial College of Science and Technology, London, Great Britain, and STEVEN WEINBERG, U.S.A., Harvard University, Cambridge, MA,: 'for their contributions to the theory of the unified weak and electromagnetic interaction between elementary particles, including inter alia the prediction of the weak neutral current'
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1970's Fads mood rings
chia pets
smiley faces
skateboarding
lava lamps
pet rocks
sea monkeys
beer can collecting
ouija boards
pop rocks candy
8-track tapes
CB radios
Billy Beer - Billy Carter (the President's brother) had a beer named for him.
Streaking (running naked in public places) was the #1 fad of 1974.
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Most Popular Occupations in the 1970's for men:
1. various unskilled industrial positions
2. truck drivers & delivery men
3. physical laborers (non-farm)
4. cleaning service workers
5. freight, stock & material handlers
6. civil & mechanical engineers
7. business managers & administrators
8. auto mechanics & body repair
9. carpenters
10. firemen & law enforcement
11. manufacturing foremen
12. farm workers
13. wholesale/retail managers
14. retail sales clerks
15. retail administration & buyers
for women:
1. secretaries
2. retail sales clerks
3. elementary & preschool teachers
4. bookkeepers
5. waitresses & fast food
6. domestic service, living out
7. typists
8. factory seamstresses
9. registered nurses
10. clerical/bank cashiers
11. nurse's aides & orderlies
12. cleaning service workers
13. restaurant & institutional cooks
14. assembly line workers
15. high school teachers
16. hairdressers & cosmetologists
17. office machine operators
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What happened in the 1970's 1970
- Apollo 13: Houston, We've Got A Problem
-Four students were killed by National Guard troops during an anti-war rally at Kent State University
1972
-President Nixon Visits Red China
- Munich Olympic Hostage Tragedy
-1972-1974 The Watergate Scandal: Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward & Carl Bernstein exposed corruption in the nation's capital when they investigated the Watergate Hotel break-in. This scandal eventually caused the resignation of President Nixon.
1973-1974 Mideast Oil Crisis: The fuel shortages that were caused by the oil embargo resulted in
long lines at gas stations, some gas stations running out of gas completely, *a reduction of the speed limit to 55 mph, smaller cars with better gas mileage, the formation of the U.S. Department of Energy, and commuting to work in carpools
1973: *Roe vs. Wade': the Supreme Court legalized abortion
1974: newspaper heiress Patty Hearst was kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army, a radical group based in California
1975 - Wreck Of The S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald
1976
- the death penalty was reinstated
- At the American Legion Conference in Philadelphia, 221 attendees became sick and 34 died from a mysterious illness that was first known as 'legion fever.' Legionnaire's Disease was caused by bacteria growing in the water supply of the hotel's air-cooling system.
-The American Bicentennial
-Viking I Lands On Mars
1976 -1977, David Berkowitz killed 6 young people and wounded 7 others. He was first known as the .44 Caliber Killer...it was only after he began sending signed letters to the police that he received his most famous nickname: Son of Sam.
1977
- Gary Gilmore was the first person to be executed in the U.S. in 10 years
- Blackout In New York City
-The Alaska Pipeline Is Completed
- McDonalds introduces the Breakfast Menu and begins test marketing Happy Meals
1978
- 914 Cult Members Die In Guyana
- John Wayne Gacy Murder Case Begins
1979
- Susan B. Anthony dollar began circulation in 1979, but proved unpopular and was discontinued
- Three Mile Island Nuclear Accident
- Skylab Falls From Orbit
- U.S. Citizens Taken Hostage In Iran
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Fashions of the 1970's 
THE EARLY 1970's
clothing:
hot pants
mini-skirts
floor-length hostess gowns
crocheted vests
bell-bottoms
halter tops
maxi-skirts
groovy flowers
bodysuits
turtlenecks
plaid
hip-huggers
accessories:
funky floppy hats
platform shoes
leather chokers
macrame belts & jewelry
hair:
long & straight
shag haircuts
natural afros
long hair & mustaches for men
MID TO LATE 1970's
clothing:
turtlenecks
denim
string bikinis
iron-on T-shirt transfers
cowel-neck sweaters
the Annie Hall look
peasant blouses
disco dresses with handkerchief hems
wrap-around skirts
jumpsuits
tunic tops
gauchos
patchwork designs
smock tops
hemlines just below the knee
accessories:
scarves knotted around the neck
stick pins
earth shoes
funky head scarves (like Rhoda)
leather clogs
tube socks with stripes at the top
Dr. Scholl's exercise sandals
hair & makeup:
short, stylish cuts
smooth pageboy styles
blue & green eyeshadow
feathered hairstyles
the Dorothy Hamill wedge
For the men
polyester shirts
wide lapels
leisure suits
blow-dried hair
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Our Favorite Toys 
Barbie
Chatty Cathy
Little Kiddles
Fingerdings
dolls that 'walk'
Betsy Wetsy
Vintage Barbie & Friends
Chatty Cathy
Vintage Ken
Barbie travel case
Hot Wheels
frisbees
pedal cars
Super Balls
slot cars
go-carts
The Original Wham-O Super Ball
Hot Wheels Collectibles
Slot Car Garage
Life
Twister
Mystery Date
Cootie
Don't Spill The Beans
Don't Break The Ice
Ants In The Pants
What Shall I Be?
Major Matt Mason
Fisher-Price Little People
Gumby bendable figures
metal dollhouses with plastic furniture
plastic army men
G.I. Joe
Colorforms
Tinkertoys
Mr. Potato Head
Lincoln Logs
monster kits
See 'n Say Give-A-Show Projector
erector sets
Etch-a-Sketch
Mr. Machine
crayons
Spirograph
Easy Bake Oven
child-sized kitchens & dinnerware
Kenner Easy Curl
doctor kits
cash registers & play money
plastic portable record players
Snoopy Sno-Cone Machine
Cut-Up shopping spree game
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