- Boys baseball became an official school sport.
- 75 seniors had their picture taken for the yearbook.
- The snowboard was invented..
- The first commercial cellular network was launched.
- Three Mile Island had their nuclear accident. We recovered the fuel in the 1980s and it is stored at the INL.
- China instituted the one child per family rule.
- Pink Floyd release The Wall.
- 63 Americans are taken hostage in the American Embassy in Tehran
- The general knowledge quiz game Trivial Pursuit was launched.
- ESPN launches on cable television
- The top song was My Sharona by The Knack
- The movies to watch included Alien, Rocky 2, The Muppet Movie, Apocalypse Now and Star Trek.
- The US life expectancy for females was 77.8 years, and for males was 70.0 years.
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