NAME THAT YEAR

NAME THAT YEAR

(1958)

• Tallahassee Florida sets their all-time snowfall record, 2.8 inches.
• First class U.S. postage takes a leap, doubling from three cents to six!
• R.C. Taylor hits the record books as the first black flight attendant.
• The Gibson Guitar company ships the first "Flying V" guitar.
• Smokey & The Miracles release their very first, an answer song to the Silhouettes, "Got A Job."
• Paul Anka's string of hits was underway with his follow-up to "Diana," and his second top ten hit, "You Are My Destiny."

(1969)

• Back then he was Georgia Governor, but future President Jimmy Carter saw a UFO!
• In the White House, the presidential salary doubles from $100,000 year to $200,000.
• The supersonic Concorde makes it's debut flight from Bristol England.
• The Beatles release the soundtrack to "Yellow Submarine."

(1970)

• Aircraft hijacking reached it's peak, with sixty-five airliners seized over the last twelve months.
• The state of Mississippi integrates its first three public school districts.
• The U.S. Supreme Court rules unconstitutional Selective Service General Lewis Hershey's directive that local draft boards reclassify all anti-draft demonstrators as very available "1A."
• RCA Records announced that since bursting on the scene in 1956, Elvis had Presley had sold over 160 million records, including his 83rd of over 114 hits in the top 40, written by Mac Davis. ("Don't Cry Daddy").

(1972)

• President Nixon commits America to plans to design a re-usable space vehicle, and signs the $5.5 billion dollar Space Shuttle bill.
• "The Sonny & Cher Show" begins a four and a half year run on CBS-TV.
• "French Connection," "A Clockwork Orange," and Sean Connery as James Bond in "Diamonds Are Forever" are in theatres.
• And with a total of five certified million sellers, Philadelphia's Stylistics had their very first, with "You Are Everything."

(1973)

• President Nixon announces peace talk progress, and halts all U.S. offensive action in North Vietnam.
• Former President LBJ passes on at his Texas ranch at age 64, and actor Edward G. Robinson dies at 79.
• Elvis "Live From Hawaii" TV special receives the largest TV audience shares in history. A record that would stand until the "Who Shot J.R.?" "Dallas" episode.
• After 440 shows, it's TV's final "Bonanza" episode.
• George Foreman over Joe Frasier for the heavyweight championship in a second round TKO, and baseball's American League owners vote yes for the designated hitter rule on a trial basis.
• Mick Jagger backs Carly Simon, who tops the charts with "You're So Vain."

(1979)

• President Carter asks Americans to voluntarily conserve energy because of Iran cutting off oil shipments.
• 3000 farmers on tractors demonstrate in Washington, DC.
• A total solar eclipse casts a moving shadow 175 miles wide from Oregon to North Dakota before moving north into Canada.
• 43 million viewers watch the TV special "Elvis!" on ABC.
• "YMCA" by the Village People peaks at #2 on the U.S. top 40 chart.

(1981)

• President Reagan makes his first televised speech from the Oval Office, saying Congress should pass big tax cuts.
• "Late Night with David Letterman" premieres on NBC.
• Buckingham Palace announces the engagement of Britain's Prince Charles to Lady Diana Spencer.
• Chrysler declares loses of $1,700,000,000 over the last year.
• "Celebration" by Kool & The Gang hits #1 on the U.S. top 40 chart and stayed there for 2 weeks.

(1990)

• President Bush and the leaders of Colombia, Bolivia and Peru meet in Cartagena, Colombia, for a drug-fighting summit.
• CBS News suspends resident humorist Andy Rooney for racial comments he purportedly made to a gay magazine, comments Rooney denied making.
• Heavyweight champion Mike Tyson is knocked out in the 10th round of his fight with Buster Douglas in Tokyo.

(1994)

• Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders labels smoking an "adolescent addiction" and accused the tobacco industry of trying to convince teen-agers that cigarettes will make them sexy and successful.
• The U.S lifts the 19-year-old trade embargo against Vietnam.
• American speedskater Dan Jansen wins an Olympic gold medal, breaking the world record in the 1000 meters.
• Lorena Bobbitt is released from a state mental hospital in Virginia, five weeks after she was acquitted by reason of insanity of mutilating her husband, John, by cutting of his penis.
• "The Power Of Love" by Celine Dion hits #1 on the U.S. top 40 chart and stayed there for 4 weeks.

(1995)

• President George W. Bush opens a museum commemorating the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.
• The Federal Reserve boosts interest rates by 0.5 percent, the seventh rate hike in a year.
• The Space Shuttle Discovery blasts off with a woman in the pilot's seat for the first time in NASA history, bound for an unprecedented rendezvous with the Russian space station.
• Chicago stockbroker Steve Fosset becomes the first person to fly solo across the Pacific Ocean in a balloon.
• Jewel's album "Pieces Of You" is released.