What’s all this talk about being “dynasty weary”?

May 20, 2008

When…

Jimmy Carter was President

The "Chrysler Corporation Loan Guarantee” [some still call it “the bailout”] was enacted

The London Gold Fixing [international gold price] hit its highest price ever

The Pittsburgh Steelers won its 4th Super Bowl [Super Bowl XIV]
“Abscam” was breaking to the public

The XIII Winter Olympics was held in Lake Placid, New York

The "Miracle on Ice" [“Do you believe in miracles?"— The United States Olympic Hockey Team defeated the Soviet Union in the semifinals of the Winter Olympics]

Pierre Trudeau returned to office as Prime Minister of Canada\

The United States boycotted the Summer Olympics in Moscow

The Hunt brothers [Nelson Bunker Hunt and Herbert Hunt] attempted to corner the market in silver [Silver Thursday]

Airplane!; Coal Miner’s Daughter ; 9 to 5; The Empire Strikes Back; Ordinary People; The Elephant Man; Smokey and the Bandit II; Any Which Way You Can; Private Benjamin; Stir Crazy and The Blue Lagoon were released

“They’re not gonna catch us. We’re on a mission from God” [The Blues Brothers]

The Screen Actors Guild (S.A.G.) Emmy awards boycott

“Who shot J.R.?”

A Day In Hollywood, A Night In The Ukraine; 42nd Street ; Richard Burton revives "Camelot."; Whose Life is it Anyway? and Talley's Folly were on Broadway [On Golden Pond closed]

On TV—Barney Miller; MASH; Beat the Clock (The All New Beat the Clock); Dallas; Are You Being Served?” “ Uncle Walter” Cronkite announces his retirement; The Cable News Network (CNN) begins broadcasting; The David Letterman Show debuts on NBC; The Facts of Life; Solid Gold; That's Incredible! ; Magnum, P.I. ; Bosom Buddies and The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson [The soap opera Love of Life airs its last episode]

FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) was a 1 year old

The US National Debt: ended the year at $ 930,210,000,000.00 [today, roughly multiply by 10—now it’s measured in trillions not billions]

“Britain's Roswell”/ Rendlesham Forest Incident— (alleged landing of an extraterrestrial spacecraft in Rendlesham Forest, Suffolk, England) was scaring us

The U.S. Embassy hostages were in Tehran, Iran

Comedian Richard Pryor was badly burned trying to freebase cocaine
U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy won several primaries, including California, on 'Super Tuesday'

Ronald Reagan was nominated for, and later elected as, U.S. President by the Republican Party

Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, deposed shah of Iran, died

The nationwide independent trade union Solidarity was established

The Philadelphia Phillies won their first World Series

A fire at the MGM Grand Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada killed 85 people

A magnitude 7 earthquake in southern Italy killed approximately 3,000 people and left 300,000 homeless

Former Beatle John Lennon died in the hospital after being shot outside his New York City apartment by Mark David Chapman

Elton John released Little Jeanie as a 45 rpm record

That’s the first time, 1980, that the name Bush or Clinton was on the national ballot.

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