May 12, 2005 09:56
1. EMI sacks the the Sex Pistols.
2. Star Wars breaks all box office records.
3. The Apple II, the first practical personal computer, goes on sale.
4. The New York City Blackout of 1977 lasts for 25 hours and results in looting and other disorder.
5. Elvis Presley dies in Tennessee.
6. Swedish music group ABBA passes The Beatles as having most records sold.
7. John Travolta discoed in Saturday Night Fever.
8. Nuclear-proliferation pact, curbing spread of nuclear weapons, is signed by 15 countries including US and USSR.
9. British Airways inaugurates regular London to New York City supersonic Concorde service
10. DJ_Kool_Herc classifies and introduces a new movement in America, calling it Hip hop.
An interesting year...Number 6 is particularly disturbing to me! How did THAT happen?!
Anyway, I don't feel a day over 15! Now where's the vodka?