Do you remember June 1979?

Scott McEvoy • June 8, 2026

If you attended high school in 1979, you are likely nearing age 65, the point when you’ll start making decisions about your Medicare options.

A pair of hands holds a white, open-top container filled with vibrant orange and purple flower buds.

McDonald’s introduced the Happy Meal in the United States in a nationwide advertising campaign after testing the product in Missouri. (Photo: Wikipedia)


If you attended high school in 1979, you are likely nearing age 65, the point when you’ll start making decisions about your Medicare options.


To learn more about your options, give me a call to schedule a no-cost, no-obligation informational meeting.

In the meantime, enjoy recalling these memories from June 1979:


Top 5 Singles – June 16, 1979

#1 “Hot Stuff”– Donna Summer

#2 “We Are Family” – Sister Sledge

#3 “Ring My Bell” – Anita Ward

#4 “Just When I Needed You Most” –Randy Vanwarmer

# 5 “Love You Inside Out” – Bee Gees


Top-Grossing Movie Week of June 13

“Alien” 


June 1979 Events

  • Pope John Paul II arrived in his native Poland for his first official, nine-day visit, becoming the first pope to visit a communist country.
  • The song “Tusk” was recorded by Fleetwood Mac along with the 112-member University of Southern California marching band, setting a record for the most musicians on a rock music single.
  • John Wayne, 72, (stage name for Marion Morrison), popular American film actor, died of stomach cancer.
  • McDonald’s introduced the Happy Meal in the United States in a nationwide advertising campaign after testing the product in Missouri.
  • The James Bond film “Moonraker,” adapted from Ian Fleming’s 1955 novel of the same name, and starring Roger Moore as Bond, had its world premiere at London’s Odeon Leicester Square Cinema.
  • President Jimmy Carter and Soviet Communist Party First Secretary Leonid Brezhnev met for the first time after both had arrived in the Austrian capital of Vienna to sign the SALT II treaty to reduce the number of nuclear weapons to be deployed by both nations.
  • The U.S. Consumer Products Safety Commission voted to turn down a petition to ban the further manufacture and sale of skateboards after a consumer safety advocacy group cited 140,000 skateboard accidents reported by physicians during 1977.
  • The Home Depot chain of superstores for home improvement began operations with the opening of two stores near Atlanta.
  • At a meeting in Geneva of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), the representatives of the 13 OPEC nations voted to increase the price of a barrel of oil by 16 percent, to as high as $23.50 a barrel. Since the beginning of 1979, the price of oil had increased by almost 50 percent, from $15.50.

—Source: Wikipedia


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