December 14 2015

Were you alive in 1979?

Do you remember the significant events of this year?

It was the international Year of the Child. - today this child would be 36 :-)
There was even a huge UNICEF concert held at the UN General Assembly to raise money for this cause. The head liners were the Bee Gees and of course ABBA, Rod Stewart and Donna Summer.

Do you remember the song "I don't like Mondays" ?
It was inspired by a school shooting that year by Brenda Ann Spencer who's reason for killing 2 and wounding 8 was that "I don't like Mondays"

Did you know it snowed in the Sahara Desert for 30 minutes in 1979?

And of course it was the year that gave Great Britain its first female Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.

Closer to home Neville Wran opened the new Eastern Suburbs railway line that was initially a shuttle service between Central and Bondi Junction.

In China the 'one child' policy was introduced.

At McDonald's the McHappy Meal was invented. :-)

It also saw the birth of Jesse Spencer, Valentino Rossi, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Benji and Joel Madden, Geoff Huegill, Heath Ledger, Kate Hudson, Rose Byrne, and James Blake.

As well as that it saw the deaths of John Wayne, Vivian Vance, Gracie Fields, Zeppo Marx, and Richard Rodgers.

Mother Teresa won the Nobel Peace Prize too.

Of course it is also the title of a Smashing Pumpkins song :-)

For me 1979 is best remembered for the summer time. The hot days when you had the cricket on the TV as you were in and out from the backyard. The Rugby League Grand Final which the Bulldogs came from nowhere to make it only to be beaten by the Dragons.


What did 1979 mean to you?

JGS