Do you remember November 1979?

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 November 1979:

Top 5 Singles – November 17, 1979

#1 “Still” – The Commodores

#2 “Dim All the Lights” – Donna Summer

#3 “No More Tears (Enough Is Enough)” – Barbra Streisand / Donna Summer 

#4 “Babe” – Styx

#5 “Heartache Tonight” – The Eagles

Top-Grossing Movie – November 14, 1979

“...And Justice for All” 

November 1979 Events

• “Video Concert Hall,” the first music video program on television, was launched on November 1 at 11 p.m. as part of cable’s Madison Square Garden Sports Network (renamed in 1980 as the USA Network).

• Pro football defensive end Ed “Too Tall” Jones of the Dallas Cowboys made his professional boxing debut and won his first pro heavyweight bout, facing Abraham Yaqui Meneses in Las Cruces, New Mexico. 

• The Iran hostage crisis began when several hundred Iranian radicals, mostly students, stormed the U.S. Embassy in Tehran and took 90 hostages (53 of whom were American). They demanded that the United States send the former Shah of Iran back to stand trial.

• The radio news program “Morning Edition” premiered on National Public Radio in the United States at 6 a.m. Eastern Time, with updated versions for stations in other time zones.

• Former California Governor and film star Ronald Reagan announced that he was a candidate for the Republican Party nomination for the U.S. presidency in the 1980 election. 

• The relatively new “California roll” was first mentioned in the press in a review by Los Angeles Times food critic Dick Roraback of Niikura, a Japanese restaurant in Tarzana, California. Created by Masayuki “Nick” Niikura, the California roll was a seaweed wrap “of shrimp, avocado, rice rolled in sesame seeds, [and] a cucumber ‘flower’ sprouting from the middle.”

• Sugar Ray Leonard won the World Boxing Council welterweight championship by knocking out title holder Wilfred Benítez only six seconds before the final bell of the 15th round in their bout in Las Vegas.

• “The Wall,” a rock opera and concept album by Pink Floyd, went on sale for the first time. 

   —Source: Wikipedia

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