1979
Friday, April 6th, 2007In 1979:
- The United Nations proclaimed such year as The International Year of the Child.
- The Village People was sued by YMCA for the use of the organization’s name in their hit single.
- For half an hour, the unlikely Sahara Desert received snowfall.
- The Republic of Malta declares its independence from Britain.
- The Pinwheel Network was lauched by the Nickelodeon TV.
- Greenland, the world’s largest island, was granted a self-governing status.
- An oil well in the Gulf of Mexico spews around 600,000 tons of oil causing the worst inadvertent oil spill in history.
- Poland, a Communist country, was visited by Pope John Paul II. Poland is also the birthplace of the Pope.
- Venezuela claims its first title in the Miss Universe pageant in the person of Maritza Sayalero. The stage accidentally crashed as press photographers and contestants rushed to greet the winner.
- "My Sharona" by The Knack was the year’s biggest single. The record was said to be the one that killed disco in that era.
- Billy Joel scored multiple Grammy wins with his hit ballad, "Just The Way You Are".
- Kramer vs. Kramer, a film which starred Dustin Hoffman and Meryl Streep, claims Best Picture in the Oscars.
- Galaxian became the first arcade video game in color.
- William Styron publishes Sophie’s Choice which eventually became a film in the early 80s starring Meryl Streep.
- Alien, which stars Sigourney Weaver, and The Amityville Horror, which bills Margot Kidder, became two of the scariest films to hit the silverscreen.
- ESPN started its operations in sports broadcasting.
- A tsunami killed a score of people in Nice, France.
- USSR invades Afghanistan on Christmas Eve.
A healthy baby boy was born to salesman, Leonardo A. Halcon and saleswoman, Soledad F. Abainza, in the 7th of April in the City of Mandaluyong.
1979 - The Smashing Pumpkins
Shakedown 1979, cool kids never have the time
On a live wire right up off the street
You and I should meet
Junebug skipping like a stone
With the headlights pointed at the dawn
We were sure we’d never see an end to it all
And I don’t even care to shake these zipper blues
And we don’t know
Just where our bones will rest
To dust I guess
Forgotten and absorbed into the earth below
Double cross the vacant and the bored
They’re not sure just what we have in store
Morphine city slippin dues down to see
That we don’t even care as restless as we are
We feel the pull in the land of a thousand guilts
And poured cement, lamented and assured
To the lights and towns below
Faster than the speed of sound
Faster than we thought we’d go, beneath the sound of hope
Justine never knew the rules,
Hung down with the freaks and the ghouls
No apologies ever need be made, I know you better than you fake it
To see that we don’t even care to shake these zipper blues
And we don’t know just where our bones will rest
To dust I guess
Forgotten and absorbed into the earth below
The street heats the urgency of sound
As you can see there’s no one around
:) 
