Born, June 1979 Jun 1st - Santana Moss, American football player Jun 5th - Pete Wentz, American musician (Fall Out Boy) Jun 8th - Derek Tr...

Those of us who toil in the cube farms of America are well versed in the use of spreadsheets and word processors, now pretty much exclusi...

The Cars had their breakthrough the previous year, but it was the release of Candy-O  in June of 1979 that locked them in.  Featuring an ori...

The first international election in history took place between June 7-10, 1979--  the election of a European Parliament.  There were 81 sea...

On June 9, 1979 (the day I graduated from college), two of the best records of the year were released:  Nick Lowe's Labour of Lust  and ...

There are few bigger political players in the last 33 years than the religious right. Time and again, we’ve seen republicans shuffle over to...

A true icon of American pop culture made it's debut in June of 1979:  McDonald's Happy Meal.  It's hard to imagine going to the...

The Gulf of Mexico is still recovering from the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill.  During the spring and summer of 2010, almost 5 million barr...

Many people in this country credit Ronald Reagan for ending the Cold War.  (I'm sure his previous six predecessors would have something...

Born, May 1979 May 2 - Jason Chimera, Canadian ice hockey player May 2 - Roman Lyashenko, Russian ice hockey player (d. 2003) May 4 - W...

This might be the craziest thing I found while digging through 1979. We've already seen the introduction of the compact disc , and in a ...

Etan Patz has been in the news this week .  Etan was a six year old boy living in New York City when he disappeared on the morning of May ...

It's been 31 years since Jimmy Carter was president and yet for the republicans it's still 1979. Whether it's Romney himself or...

May 1979 was pretty quiet, for our purposes. A few tidbits from that month… Elton John became the first western pop star to play both Isra...

On May 4th, 1979, Margaret Thatcher was appointed as the first woman PM in British History.  She's already been in Parliament for twen...

Born, April 1979 Apr 4 – Heath Ledger (d. 2008) Apr 7 - Adrián Beltré, Dominican baseball player Apr 8 - Jeremy Guthrie, American base...

The single Pop Muzik broke in the UK in the Spring of 1979, but didn't come out here until that fall.  Released by "M", it had...

Much was made in 2011 of the possibility of a US default. The republicans were rightly castigated for playing games with the financial cred...

On April 20 1979, one of the weirdest occurrences in presidential history happened involving Jimmy Carter and a rabbit.  On a short vacati...

Kate Bush has always been an acquired taste.  She was never that well known here in the states save for her  Hounds of Love  LP that feature...

Another great new band from the UK, because of legal issues they were originally known as "UK Squeeze" here.  They would hit gold ...

On April 5, 1979 Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, the prime minister of Pakistan was executed.  He was overthrown in the summer of '77 in a coup tha...

April 1st, 1979 was also the day the Nickelodeon network went on the air.  Technically, it was a relaunch of the Pinwheel Network which had ...

On April 1, 1979, a referendum was held, the outcome of which was that Iran was declared an Islamic Republic.  This act formally deposed the...

Ian Dury and the Blockheads recorded "Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick" in late '78, but it hit the top of the pops in the UK and...

On March 29, 1979, the US House of Representatives Select Committee on Assassinations released their report on the assassinations of John F....

Born, March 1979 Mar 4th - Jon Fratelli, Scottish singer (The Fratellis) Mar 6th - Erik Bedard, Canadian baseball player Mar 8th - Tom C...

The worst commercial nuclear accident in the US took place on March 28th, 1979 at Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station near Harrisbu...

On March 26th, 1979, history was truly made with the signing of the Egypt-Israel Peace Treaty. The negotiations for the treaty were accompli...

On this day in 1979, the most-watched NCAA Men's Basketball Championship was played between Magic Johnson's Michigan State Universit...

The first functional space shuttle, Columbia, was delivered to the Kennedy Space Center on this date in 1979.  Not even 10 years after the m...

This was the week in 1979 that, after hearing NewWave and Punk records for over a year, I finally saw live what all the fuss was about.  On ...

Brian Lamb, CEO and Founder of C-SPAN stepped down today, the 33rd anniversary of its first broadcast of US House proceedings on March 19th,...

The direct step toward a European currency was taken on March 13, 1979 when the European Economic Community created the ECU, or European Cur...

Graham Parker was lumped in with Joe Jackson and Elvis Costello in the all-important "Angry Young Man" category but wasn't as ...

As we've seen, this was still the era of the LP record.  The beginning of the end of that dominance took place on March 8th, 1979 when P...

While the musical focus here has been and will remain New Wave, I do have some rather suspect favorites that were radio hits in 1979.  This ...