Class of 1979 (Ward Melville High School Class of 1979)

Interesting Facts

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World Events

World Statistics

Population: 4.378 billion

population by decade

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.).
Carter and Brezhnev sign SALT II agreement (June 14).
Conservatives win British election; Margaret Thatcher becomes new prime minister (May 3).
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).

U.S. Events

U.S. Statistics

President: James Earl Carter, Jr.

Vice President: Walter F. Mondale

Population: 225,055,487

Life expectancy: 73.9 years

Violent Crime Rate (per 1,000): 55.7

Property Crime Rate (per 1,000) 50.2

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). Background: Nuclear Power Plant Accidents

Economics

US GDP (1998 dollars): $2,557.50 billion

Federal spending: $504.03 billion

Federal debt $829.5 billion

Median Household Income(current dollars): $16,461 billion

Consumer Price Index: $72.6

Unemployment: 5.8%

Cost of a first-class stamp: $0.

Sports

Super Bowl

Pittsburgh d. Dallas

World Series

Pittsburgh d. Baltimore (4-3)

NBA Championship

Seattle d. Washington Bullets

Stanley Cup

Montreal d. NY Rangers

Wimbledon

Women: Martina Navratilova d. C. Evert Lloyd (6-4 6-4)
Men: Bjorn Borg d. R. Tanner (6-7 6-1 3-6 6-3 6-4)

Kentucky Derby Champion

Spectacular Bid

NCAA Basketball Championship

Michigan St. d. Indiana St. (75-64)

NCAA Football Champions

Alabama (12-0-0)

Entertainment

Sports

Sports Links

Pro Football Summary

Pro Basketball Summary

Pro Baseball Summary

Super Bowl

Pittsburgh d. Dallas

World Series

Pittsburgh d. Baltimore (4-3)

NBA Championship

Seattle d. Washington Bullets

Stanley Cup

Montreal d. NY Rangers

Wimbledon

Women:Martina Navratilova d. C. Evert Lloyd (6-4 6-4)
Men:Bjorn Borg d. R. Tanner (6-7 6-1 3-6 6-3 6-4)

Kentucky Derby Champion

Spectacular Bid

NCAA Basketball Championship

Michigan St. d. Indiana St. (75-64)

NCAA Football Champions

Alabama (12-0-0)

Entertainment

Sports

Sports Links

Pro Football Summary

Pro Basketball Summary

Pro Baseball Summary

Super Bowl

Pittsburgh d. Dallas

World Series

Pittsburgh d. Baltimore (4-3)

NBA Championship

Seattle d. Washington Bullets

Stanley Cup

Montreal d. NY Rangers

Wimbledon

Women:Martina Navratilova d. C. Evert Lloyd (6-4 6-4)
Men:Bjorn Borg d. R. Tanner (6-7 6-1 3-6 6-3 6-4)

Kentucky Derby Champion

Spectacular Bid

NCAA Basketball Championship

Michigan St. d. Indiana St. (75-64)

NCAA Football Champions

Alabama (12-0-0)

Entertainment

Entertainment Awards

Pulitzer Prizes

Fiction: The Stories of John Cheever, John Cheever

Music: Aftertones of Infinity, Joseph Schwantner

Drama: Buried Child, Sam Shepard

Oscars awarded in 1979

Academy Award, Best Picture: The Deer Hunter, Barry Spikings, Michael Deeley, Michael Cimino and John Peverall, producers (Universal)

Nobel Prize for Literature: Odysseus Elytis (Greece)