Do you remember March 1979?
Scott McEvoy • March 10, 2026
If you attended high school in 1979, you are likely nearing age 65, the point when you will start making decisions about your Medicare options.
Mello Yello was introduced by The Coca-Cola Company as a caffeinated, citrus-flavored soft drink to compete with PepsiCo’s Mountain Dew.
If you attended high school in 1979, you are likely nearing age 65, the point when you will 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 March 1979:
Top 5 Singles – March 17, 1979
#1 “I Will Survive” – Gloria Gaynor
#2 “Tragedy” – Bee Gees
#3 “Da Ya Think I’m Sexy” – Rod Stewart
#4 “Heaven Knows” – Donna Summer with Brooklyn Dreams
#5 “Shake Your Groove Thing” – Peaches and Herb
Top-Grossing Movie Week of March 14
“Superman”
March 1979 Events
- “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street,” a macabre Broadway musical about a murderous barber, with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, made its debut.
- The film “Norma Rae,” based on a true story about labor union activist Crystal Lee Sutton, had its premiere, starring Sally Field in the title role.
- Voyager 1 made its closest approach to Jupiter, coming within 172,000 miles of the largest planet in the Solar System.
- The Dutch electronics corporation Philips publicly demonstrated a prototype of what would become known as a “CD,” a compact disc that stores digital audio.
- Mello Yello was introduced by The Coca-Cola Company as a caffeinated, citrus-flavored soft drink to compete with PepsiCo’s Mountain Dew.
- C-SPAN, the Cable-Satellite Public Affairs Network, went on the air with a live broadcast of a session of the U.S. House of Representatives, starting with a speech by then-Congressman Al Gore.
- Anthropologist Mary Leakey announced the earliest known evidence, up to that time, of bipedalism in hominids, based on the discovery of two pairs of footprints left in hardened volcanic ash.
- Israel’s parliament, the Knesset, voted 95 to 18 to authorize Prime Minister Menachem Begin to sign the negotiated peace treaty with Egypt.
- The first fully functional Space Shuttle orbiter, Columbia, was delivered to the Kennedy Space Center, arriving on the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft, to be prepared for its first launch.
- Michigan State University, led by Earvin “Magic” Johnson, defeated Indiana State, led by Larry Bird, 75-64, to win the NCAA basketball championship.
- America’s most serious nuclear power plant accident occurred at Three Mile Island, with a partial meltdown and destruction of the TMI-2, one of the nuclear reactors at the plant.
—Source: Wikipedia
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