WARNING: this could possiblly be the most educational blog I have ever written. Please proceed with caution.
so my birthday is on Saturday. I will be a quater of a century old (25 for all of you that are a little slow) that means I was born in 1980, "The year of Dallas" according to some random website. I have decided to blog lots of important things that happened in 1980 this week (ok today could be the only day I do it, but I really am going to try)
so today's facts from 1980:
1.Summer Olympics in Moscow, USSR, The US boycotts
2.Post-It Notes are introduced by 3-M (this may be part of the reason for my addiction to the darn sticky notes. I love these things)
3.The first all news service started by Turner Cable Network begins
4.John Lennon is assassinated by Mark David Chapman
5.Who Shot JR? is talked about heavily from the TV show Dallas. On November 21, the conclusion draws more viewers than any other show in TV history up to that po
6.Brook Shields whispers, "You know what comes between me and my Calvins? Nothing." the ad was banned.
7.Ronald Reagan is elected, defeating Jimmy Carter, and takes credit for freeing the Iranian hostages in his innaugural speech.
8.RU-486, the abortion pill is released in France.
9.The US Supreme Court allows patents on living organisms.
10. Mt. Saint Helens erupts, killing 60 people.
11. CNN is launched as the first all news network (oh joy. how did ppl ever live without CNN)
12.Richard Pryor gets badly burned trying to freebase cocaine.
13.Small pox is considered eradicated by the World Health Orginization.
14.Sadam Hussein launches war against Iran for close to a decade over oil rights.
15.Bill Gates licenses MS-DOS to IBM, makes next to nothing on the deal. The pair buys the rights to a simple operating system manufactured by Seattle Computer Products and use it as a template. The money is made later from licensing it to third party clone makers
16.Genetic Engineering of insulin began clinical trials.
17.US suspends grain sales to the Soviet Union in respond to their support of the war in Afghanistan.
18.President Carter attempted a helicopter rescue of the hostages in Iran, failing miserably.
19.US hockey team beat Russia for the gold in the Winter Olympics.
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i need to see the lisa
Ugh...now I feel really old! Okay...I was TEN & ELEVEN...but I still remember so much of it. I was in 6th grade watching the speech as the hostages were being released and I remember thinking that Iran did that on purpose...though I was too young to remember why!
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