MRE & Wise Words with CMSgt Leible

NAME THAT YEAR

(1984)

• Martina Navratilova battles from behind to defeat Chris Evert Lloyd and defend her women's singles crown at the U.S. Open Tennis Championships.
• Hurricane Diana slams into North Carolina's southeastern coast with winds clocked at 100 mph.
• Joe Kittinger begins the first solo balloon flight across the Atlantic ascending from Maine.
• The police drama "Miami Vice" premieres on NBC-TV.
• Janet Jackson marries James DeBarge. The marriage lasts less than a year.

(1960)

• Cassius Clay wins the gold medal in light heavyweight boxing Summer Olympics in Rome.
• The "upstart" new pro football league, the AFL, tries something never done before, they'll put the players names on their jerseys!
• "It Started In Naples" with Clark Gable and Sophia Loren was in theatres.
• Johnny Burnette was hot on the charts with "Dreamin'."

(1979)

• A Los Angeles court orders Clayton Moore, who played TV's "The Lone Ranger," to stop wearing the Lone Ranger mask.
• Hurricane David smashes into the Florida coast, leaving several people dead and causing millions in damages.
• The Entertainment and Sports Programming Network (ESPN) makes its cable TV debut.
• Joe Walsh announces his bid for the U.S. presidency.
• Kenny Rogers receives a star in the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

(1958)

• Miss America crowns 21-year-old Miss Mississippi, Mary Ann Mobley as Miss America in Atlantic City, and Bert Parks sings.
• CBS-TV premieres "Wanted-Dead Or Alive" with Steve McQueen.
• Elvis Presley boards the USS General Randall at the Brooklyn, NY, Military Terminal for the 9-day ride to join his Army unit in Germany.
• 19-year-old Eddie Cochran hits the top ten with the original version of "Summertime Blues."

(1991)

• Academy Award-winning director Frank Capra, whose films included "It Happened One Night," "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" and "It's a Wonderful Life," dies in La Quinta, CA, at age 94.
• Jury selection begins in Miami in the drug and racketeering trial of former Panamanian ruler Manuel Noriega.
• Boxer Mike Tyson is indicted in Indianapolis on a charge of raping a beauty pageant contestant. (Tyson was later convicted.)
• The Senate Judiciary Committee opens hearings on the nomination of Clarence Thomas to the U.S. Supreme Court.
• "(Everything I Do) I Do It For You" by Bryan Adams is certified triple platinum.

(1972)

• In San Francisco, something totally new in commuting: BART, the Bay Area Rapid Transit opens for business with 26 miles of rail from Oakland to Fremont, CA.
• Jerry Lewis welcomes John & Yoko on the Labor Day Weekend MDA Telethon.
• In sports, for the 6th year in a row, Chicago Cub pitcher Ferguson Jenkins wins his twentieth game of the year.
• Philadelphia's O'Jays top the charts with "Backstabbers."

(1998)

• Mark McGwire of the St. Louis Cardinals hits his 56th and 57th home runs, breaking the one-season record set by Hack Wilson in 1930.
• NBC's sitcom "Frazier" wins its fifth consecutive Emmy, a record, as best comedy series.
• Independent counsel Kenneth Starr sends his report to Congress, which included explicit testimony of President Clinton's relationship with Monica Lewinsky. The report accused him of 11 possible impeachable offenses.
• The New York Times closes its web site after hackers add offensive material.
• "Cruel Summer" by Ace Of Base is certified gold.

(1963)

• Mary Ann Fischer of Aberdeen South Dakota made the papers with America's first ever quintuplets. Four girls, one boy!
• It would last eight years, pretty good for Hollywood types, Barbra Streisand marries Elliott Gould.
• On NBC-TV, the final broadcast of "The Jack Benny Program." And the premiere on ABC-TV of the sci-fi show, "The Outer Limits."
• The National Professional Football Hall of Fame is dedicated in Canton, Ohio.
• Bronx, New York's Jaynetts have their only brush with fame with "Sally Go Round The Roses."

(1985)

• The sunken Titanic is found by French and American scientists at a dept of 12,000 feet.
• Hurricane Elena hits the Mississippi coast.
• 20th Space Shuttle Mission - Discovery 6 returns to Earth.
• The U.S. slips to the status of "debtor nation."
• Sting begins his first tour as a solo performer in San Diego.

(1966)

• On TV, "Star Trek" and "The Monkees" both premiere on NBC, Marlo Thomas stars as "That Girl" on ABC and it's Brian Keith in the sitcom "Family Affair" on CBS.
• Jerry Lewis' Muscular Dystrophy Association telethon airs for the first time.
• Only 413 people show up for a game at Yankee Stadium!
• Wilson Pickett had a top ten hit with "Land Of 1000 Dances."

(1980)

• Iraqi troops seize Iranian territory in a border dispute beginning the Iraq-Iran War.
• The world's longest auto tunnel opens at St. Gotthard in the Swiss Alps.
• The 32nd annual Emmy Awards are shown despite a boycott.
• Jaromir Wagner sets the record for airplane "wing-walking" when he wing-walks across the Atlantic Ocean.
• Billy Joel appears on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine.

(1968)

• France explodes a hydrogen bomb on a South Pacific island, and becomes the fifth nuclear nation.
• Bobby Darin sells his music publishing company for a million dollars.
• Actress-model Halle Berry is born.
• Apple Records debuts their first releases. Among them, "Hey Jude" and flip side "Revolution."
• B.J. Thomas is hot on the charts with "Eyes Of A New York Woman."

(1978)

• The sitcom "Taxi" debuts on ABC-TV.
• Muhammad Ali wins his third heavyweight crown by defeating Leon Spinks.
• A 7.7 earthquake kills 25,000 people in Iran.
• Pope John Paul I is installed as the 246th pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church.
• "How Much I Feel" by Ambrosia enters the U.S. top 40 chart.

(1983)

• Wall Street commodities trader Marc Rich is indicted on a charge of evading $48 million in taxes, the biggest case in U.S. history.
• The barefoot water ski speed record is set at 119mph.
• The NCAC certified August 1983 as the hottest in U.S. history.
• Congress invokes the War Powers Act for the first time when it authorizes President Reagan to keep 1,600 U.S. Marines in Lebanon for up to 18 months longer.
• ZZ Top's album "Eliminator" is certified platinum.

(1971)

• The U.S. launches the first satellite into lunar orbit from a manned spacecraft.
• George Harrison inspired Concert For Bangladesh held at New York's Madison Square Garden featured Badfinger, Eric Clapton, Bob Dylan, Billy Preston, Leon Russell, and Ringo Starr.
• Paul McCartney announces he'll form a new band, "Wings," including his wife Linda.
• CBS-TV premieres "The Sonny & Cher Show."
• Richard Petty becomes the first stock car driver to earn a million dollars.
• Detroit's Undisputed Truth put their only hit right at the top of the charts, "Smiling Faces Sometime."

(1990)

• Gabriela Sabatini wins the U.S. Open women's championship and her first grand slam title as she defeats Steffi Graf.
• President Bush and Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev hold a one-day summit in Helsinki, Finland, after which they joined in condemning Iraq's invasion of Kuwait.
• Former savings-and-loan chief executive Charles H. Keating is jailed in Los Angeles in lieu of $5 million dollars bail after he was indicted on criminal fraud charges.
• Madonna, Paula Abdul and Janet Jackson appear on the cover of TV Guide.

(1965)

• Baseball's all-time homerun king had one taken back by the umpires. They said Hank Aaron was outside the batters box when he slammed one over the wall, so it doesn't count.
• The Beatles play Shea Stadium with 56,000 people, biggest yet, grossing $304,000.
• Elvis hosts the Beatles at his Bel Air California home in their only meeting. A nervous Elvis plays bass along with music on his TV.
• Sonny & Cher tops the charts with "I Got You Babe."

(1992)

• President Bush Sr. asks Congress to provide more than $7.6 billion to help victims of Hurricane Andrew.
• President Bush Sr.says he was approving the sale of 72 F-15 jet fighters to Saudi Arabia.
• The space shuttle Endeavour blasts off, carrying with it Mark Lee and Jan Davis, the first married couple in space.
• Stefan Edberg defeats Pete Sampras to win the U.S. Open title.
• "Free Your Mind" by En Vogue enters the U.S. top 40 chart.

(1958)

• Departing Cape Canaveral, the world's first moon probe, "Thor-Able," explodes at t plus 77.
• Television's game show cheating scandal investigation begins.
• The U.S. Air Force Academy opens.
• Elvis Presley loses his mom, Gladys, at only 46 years old.
• Earvin "Magic" Johnson is born, and Buddy Holly and Maria Elena Santiago tie the knot in Lubbock Texas.
• The Silver Beatles, with Lennon, McCartney, Pete Best, and Stu Sutcliffe open four months of club gigs in Hamburg Germany.

(1998)

• Mark McGwire of the St. Louis Cardinals hits his 56th and 57th home runs, breaking the one-season record set by Hack Wilson in 1930.
• The New York Times closes its web site after hackers add offensive material.
• NBC's sitcom "Frazier" wins its fifth consecutive Emmy, a record, as best comedy series.
• The U.S.'s first march on cancer takes place at the National Mall in Washington, DC.
• "Cruel Summer" by Ace Of Base is certified gold.