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World population:
4.378 billion
Nobel Peace Prize: Mother
Teresa of Calcutta (India)
Vietnam and Vietnam-backed
Cambodian insurgents announce
fall of Cambodian capital Phnom
Penh and collapse of Pol Pot
regime (Jan. 7).
Shah leaves Iran after year
of turmoil (Jan. 16);
revolutionary forces under
Muslim leader, Ayatollah
Ruhollah Khomeini, take over
(Feb. 1 et seq.).
Conservatives win British
election; Margaret Thatcher
becomes new prime minister
(May 3).
Carter and Brezhnev sign SALT II
agreement (June 14).
Nicaraguan President General
Anastasio Somoza Debayle resigns
and flees to Miami
(July 17); Sandinistas form
government (July 19).
Iranian militants seize US
embassy in Teheran and hold
hostages (Nov. 4).
Soviet invasion of
Afghanistan stirs world protests
(Dec. 27).
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President: James Earl
Carter, Jr.
Vice President: Walter F.
Mondale
Population: 225,055,487
Life expectancy: 73.9 years
Ohio agrees to pay $675,000 to
families of dead and injured in
Kent State University shootings
(Jan. 4).
Nuclear power plant accident
at
Three Mile
Island, Pa., releases
radiation (March 28).
The U.S. Voyager I space
probe photos reveal Jupiter's
rings (March 4).
McDonald's introduces the
Happy Meal (June).
Eleven fans are killed during
a stampede for seats before The
Who concert at the Riverfront
Coliseum in Cincinnati, Ohio
(Dec 3)
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US GDP (1998 dollars):
$2,557.50 billion
Federal spending: $504.03
billion
Federal debt: $829.5
billion
Median Household Income
(current dollars):
$17,500.00
Unemployment: 5.8%
Minimum wage: $2.65
Cost of a first-class stamp:$0.15
Average cost of 1 gallon of
Gas:
86
cents a gallon
Price tag on a 1979 Ford
Mustang II $4,105
Average price of a loaf
of bread: $0.60
Cost of 1 dozen eggs:
$$.85
Cost of a gallon of
milk: $1.50
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Super Bowl: Pittsburgh d.
Dallas (35-31) (Patriots
tied for first in AFC East with
Miami1979 9-7-0 2nd AFC East )
World Series: Pittsburgh d.
Baltimore (4-3) (Red Sox
finished Third in AL East)
NBA Championship: Seattle d.
Washington Bullets (4-1)
(Celtics finished 5th Place
Atlantic Division 29-53)
Stanley Cup: Montreal d.
NY Rangers (4-1) (Boston
Bruins (43 23 14) lost to
Montreal (4-2) in the
Semi-Finals
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Movies: Apocalypse
Now, All That Jazz, Kramer vs.
Kramer, Breaking Away, Midnight
Express, Escape from Alcatraz,
Alien, Mad MaxAcademy
Award, Best Picture:
The Deer Hunter
Nominees Best Picture:
Coming Home, The Deer
Hunter, Heaven Can Wait, An
Unmarried Woman
Academy Award, Best Actor:
Jon Voight, Coming Home
Academy Award, Best Actress:
Jane Fonda, Coming Home
Emmy, TV Drama: Lou
Grant
Emmy, Lead Actor: Ron
Leibman, Kaz
Emmy, Lead Actress:
Mariette Hartley, The
Incredible Hulk: “Married
Grammy Award Record of the
Year: "Just the Way You
Are," Billy Joel
Grammy Award Album of the
Year: "Saturday Night
Fever," Bee Gees
Grammy Award Song of the
Year: "Just the Way You
Are," Billy Joel, songwriter
Miss America: Kylene
Baker (VA)
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