A lot happened during our four years at Bourgade.
Some of these you may remember, others you may not . . .

1976

September

• 6th: Soviet pilot flies a MiG 25 to Japan, asks for asylum
• 9th: Mao Tse-Tung, Chinese leader, dies at 82
• 17th: Space Shuttle is unveiled
• 28th: Muhammad Ali wins a decision over Ken Norton to retain his heavyweight championship title

October

• 21st: The Cincinnati Reds win the World Series in four straight games over the New York Yankees

November

• 2nd: Jimmy Carter is elected President over incumbent Gerald R. Ford
• 25th: O.J. Simpson of the Buffalo Bills breaks his own single-game rushing record of 250 yards by running 273 yards against the Detroit Lions, but the Lions won the game.

December

• 16th: The swine flu inoculation program in the US is suspended after a link to paralysis
• 20th: Chicago Mayor Richard Daly dies

Top Movies of 1976:
1. Rocky
2. A Star is Born
3. King Kong
4. Silver Streak
5. All the President’s Men
6. Marathon Man
7. Network
8. The Omen
9. Taxi Driver
10. The Song Remains the Same

The Top Ten TV Shows of 1976:
1. Happy Days
2. Laverne & Shirley
3. The ABC Monday Night Movie
4. M*A*S*H
5. Charlie’s Angels
6. The Big Event
7. The Six Million Dollar Man
8. The ABC Sunday Night Movie
9. Baretta
10. One Day at a Time

The Top Ten Singles of 1976:
1. Disco Lady by Johnnie Taylor
2. Don’t Go Breaking My Heart by Elton John and Kiki Dee
3. Play That Funky Music by Wild Cherry
4. Tonight’s the Night by Rod Stewart
5. Kiss and Say Goodbye by The Manhattans
6. Silly Love Songs by Paul McCartney and Wings
7. A Fifth of Beethoven by Walter Murphy
8. Love Machine (Part 1) by The Miracles
9. 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover by Paul Simon
10. December, 1963 (Oh, What a Night) by the 4 Seasons

The Academy Awards:
Best Picture: Rocky
Best Actor: Peter Finch, Network
Best Actress: Faye Dunaway, Network
Best Supporting Actor: Jason Robards, All the President’s Men
Best Supporting Actress: Beatrice Straight, Network
Best Director: John G. Avildsen for Rocky

1977

January

• 1st: USC beats Michigan 14-6 in the Rose Bowl
• 9th: Super Bowl XI is played in Pasadena. The Raiders defeat the Vikings 32-14
• 17th: Convict Gary Gilmore is executed by firing squad in Utah State Prison, first person executed in US in 10 years. This follows a highly-publicized campaign on his part to be executed.
• 20th: President Carter is sworn in
• 21st: President Carter pardons all Vietnam-era draft dodgers
• 29th: Actor Freddie Prinze (Chico and the Man) commits suicide

February

• 1st: The final episode of the mini-series Roots attracts 80 million viewers, all-time record up to that point
• 6th: Queen Elizabeth celebrates her Silver Jubilee
• 18th: The Space Shuttle takes its first ride on the back of a 747
• 25th: Ugandan President Idi Amin holds 240 Americans hostage

March

• 1st: Uganda frees all American hostages
• 15th: Film director Roman Polanski arrested for rape
• 27th: Chris Everet beats Sue Barker to win fifty thousand dollars in the Virginia Slims championship
• 27th: History’s worst aviation accident occurs at Los Rodeos Airport on the island of Tenerife in the Canary Islands. A KLM Boeing 747 collides with a Pan Am 747 on a fog-shrouded runway, killing 583 people

April

• 12th: Chewing gum magnate Philip K. Wrigley dies
• 18th: President Carter, in a TV address, says that the oil crisis must be treated as the moral equivalent of war
• 23rd: A blowout on a North Sea oil-drilling platform creates a 20-square mile oil slick that heads for Norway

May

• 10th: Actress Joan Crawford dies at age 73
• 14th: The Montreal Canadians beat the Boston Bruins to capture the Stanley Cup
• 25th: A relatively obscure film called Star Wars begins a limited run in the United States
• 29th: A.J. Foyt wins the Indianapolis 500 for the fourth time

June

• 11th: Seattle Slew wins the Triple Crown
• 16th: Rocket scientist Werner von Braun dies at 65
• 16th: Leonid Brezhnev named first president of the Soviet Union
• 20th: The $7.7 billion Alaska Pipeline opens

July

• 2nd: Wimbledon; Virginia Wade beats Betty Stove, and Bjorn Borg over Jimmy Connors
• 14th: Massive power blackout in New York, over 3,300 people arrested for looting
• 31st: The so-called “Son of Sam” killer wounds his twelfth and thirteenth victims in New York

August

• 10th: David Berkowitz, the “Son of Sam” killer, is caught
• 16th: Singer Elvis Presley dies at age 42
• 19th: Comedian Groucho Marx dies at 77
• 20th: The first Voyager 2 spacecraft is launched to Jupiter and Saturn

September

• 4th: Four cases of the mysterious Legionnaire’s Disease is diagnosed
• 7th: President Carter signs the historic Panama Canal Treaty that will turn over control of the canal to the Panamanians in 1999
• 8th: Comedian Zero Mostel dies
• 29th: Muhammad Ali wins a decision over Ernie Shavers

October

• 14th: Actor and crooner Bing Crosby dies at 73
• 18th: The New York Yankees beat the Los Angeles Dodgers in the sixth game of the World Series
• 18th: West German commandos storm a hijacked Lufthansa passenger jet in Somalia. The terrorists demanded the release of 11 members of the imprisoned Bader-Meinhof gang. All 4 hijackers were killed. No other casualties
• 19th: The first Concorde SST lands at Kennedy Airport in New York

November

• 1st: President Carter signs into law a minimum wage increase from $2.30 an hour to $3.35 an hour
• 5th: Band leader Guy Lombardo dies at 75
• 21st: Egyptian President Anwar Sadat addresses the Israeli Knesset in a move towards achieving peace between the two countries
• 22nd: The Civil Aeronautics Board bans cigar and pipe smoking on US airlines

December

• 10th: Angry US farmers roll into Washington with their farm machinery, disrupting traffic to protest the grave economic conditions facing them
• 12th: The widow of Winston Churchill dies at 92
• 25th: Actor Charlie Chaplin dies in Switzerland at age 88

The Top Movies of 1977:
1. Star Wars
2. Close Encounters of the Third Kind
3. Saturday Night Fever
4. Smokey and the Bandit
5. The Goodbye Girl
6. Annie Hall
7. Carrie
8. Looking for Mr. Goodbar
9. Oh, God!
10. One on One    

The Top Ten TV Shows of 1977:
1. Laverne and Shirley
2. Happy Days
3. Three’s Company
4. Charlie’s Angels
5. All in the Family
6. 60 Minutes
7. Little House on the Prairie
8. M*A*S*H
9. Alice
10. One Day at a Time

Top Ten Singles of 1977:
1. You Light Up My Life by Debby Boone
2. I Just Want To Be Your Everything by Andy Gibb
3. Evergreen by Barbra Streisand
4. Undercover Angel by Alan O’Day
5. I Like Dreamin’ by Kenny Nolan
6. Dancing Queen by ABBA
7. Torn Between Two Lovers by Mary MacGregor
8. Higher and Higher by Rita Coolidge
9. Best of My Love by The Emotions
10. Southern Nights by Glen Campbell

The Academy Awards:
Best Picture: Annie Hall
Best Actor: Richard Dreyfuss in The Goodbye Girl
Best Actress: Diane Keaton in Annie Hall
Best Supporting Actor: Jason Robards in Julia
Best Supporting Actress: Vanessa Redgrave in Julia
Best Director: Woody Allen for Annie Hall

1978

January

• 2nd: Washington University over Michigan 27-20 in the Rose Bowl
• 13th: Former Vice-President (under Lyndon Johnson) Hubert Humphrey dies at age 66
• 15th: The Dallas Cowboys beat the Denver Broncos 27-10 in Super Bowl XII
• 27th: In a highly-publicized case, the Illinois Supreme Court rules that American Nazis can display the swastika during a Skokie, Illinois march. Many former concentration camp inmates live there.

February

• 15th: Leon Spinks wins a split decision over Muhammad Ali to win the world heavyweight boxing title
• 24th: The oldest humanoid footprints are found in Africa (3.5 million years old) by Mary Leakey

March

• 16th: Red Brigade terrorists kidnap ex-Italian premier Aldo Moro, demands release of imprisoned compatriots
• 16th: Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt is shot and critically wounded in Georgia
• 22nd: Famed tightrope walker Karl Wallenda dies in a 100-foot   fall in Puerto Rico
• 27th: Kentucky over Duke 94-88 in the NCAA basketball title
• 29th: President Carter increased federal aid to farmers

April

• 2nd: Charlie Chaplin’s body is stolen from a cemetery in Switzerland
• 10th: The first Volkswagen is produced in America
• 18th: The U.S. Senate ratifies the Panama Canal Treaty
• 30th: Afghan President Mohammed Daud is killed in a bloody coup

May

• 8th: David Berkowitz pleads guilty to the Son of Sam killings
• 9th: Aldo Moro’s bullet-riddled body is found in Rome
• 16th: Bloody riots sweep Iran in opposition to the Shah’s rule
• 17th: Charlie Chaplin’s coffin is found in Nouville, Switzerland
• 19th: French and Belgian paratroopers drop into Zaire to free 3,000 foreigners trapped by communist-backed rebels
• 27th: Princess Caroline of Monaco marries a commoner
• 28th: Al Unser wins his third Indy 500 title

June

• 1st: The U.S. reports finding wiretaps in their embassy in Moscow
• 6th: Proposition 13 wins in California in the biggest “tax revolt” in history that will cut $7 billion from the amount of the property tax revenue
• 7th: The Baltimore Bullets beat the Seattle Supersonics 105-99 for the NBA title
• 9th: Larry Holmes beats Ken Norton for the WBC heavyweight title
• 12th: The US Supreme Court rules that American Nazis may stage a parade in Skokie, Illinois
• 28th: The U.S. Supreme Court rules 5-4 allowing Alan Bakke to enter the University of California medical college in a reverse-discrimination case
• 30th: Public opposition forces the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to order a halt in the construction of the Seabrook (New Hampshire) Nuclear Plant.

July

• 8th: Wimbledon, Bjorn Borg over Jimmy Connors
• 9th: Police arrest 72 people at the American Nazi rally in Skokie, Illinois
• 25th: The world’s first test-tube baby, Louise Brown, is born in England

August

• 7th: Families living near the Love Canal area of Niagara Falls, New York, are told to leave because of the leakage of dangerous chemicals from an abandoned dump
• 19th: Three Americans make the first transatlantic balloon crossing
• 26th: Pope Paul Vi dies at age 80 in Rome

September

• 17th: 36-year-old Muhammad Ali defeats Leon Spinks in a 15-round bout to regain his title for the third time
• 18th: Egyptian President Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Begin reach a peace agreement between their two countries (brokered by President Carter) at Camp David
• 25th: 150 people are killed in one of the worst air disasters in the United States. A small Cessna aircraft collides with a Pacific Southwest Airlines Boeing 727 over San Diego. All aboard both planes are killed
• 30th: Pope John Paul I dies after just one month as Pope.

October

• 13th: Former Sex Pistols bass guitarist Sid Vicious kills his girlfriend, Nancy Spungen, in Manhattan
• 23rd: The first non-Italian Pope, John Paul II, is inaugurated in Rome

November

• 2nd: The Chrysler Corporation announces it will hire Lee Iacocca 8th: Noted American painter Norman Rockwell dies at age 84 
• 27th: In San Francisco, Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk are shot and killed by Dan White, a former worker at the capitol
• 29th: In an event that shocked the world, 909 members of the People’s Temple in Jonestown, Guyana, are murdered or commit suicide under orders from the cult’s leader, the Reverend Jim Jones. Congressman Leo Ryan and several others, who had gone to Jonestown to investigate conditions there, were shot and killed at a Guyanese airstrip just hours before the mass killings.

December

• 8th: Former Israeli Prime Minister Gold Meir dies at 80
• 10th: President Sadat and Prime Minister Begin win the Nobel Peace Prize
• 11th: Millions of Iranians march in Tehran in opposition to the rule of the Shah
• 16th: Cleveland is the first U.S. city to default since the Great Depression
• 28th: 21 bodies are found at the home of serial killer John Wayne Gacy

The Top Movies of 1978:
1. Grease
2. Superman: The Movie
3. National Lampoon’s Animal House
4. Every Which Way But Loose
5. Coming Home
6. The Deer Hunter
7. FM
8. Halloween
9. Midnight Express
10. Thank God It’s Friday       

The Top Ten TV Shows of 1978:
1. Laverne and Shirley
2. Three’s Company
3. Mork & Mindy
4. Happy Days
5. The Ropers
6. What’s Happening?
7. Alice
8. M*A*S*H
9. One Day at a Time
10. Taxi

Top Ten Singles of 1978:
1. Night Fever by the Bee Gees
2. Shadow Dancing by Andy Gibb
3. Stayin’ Alive by the Bee Gees
4. Kiss You All Over by Exile
5. Three Times a Lady by the Commodores
6. Boogie Oogie Oogie by A Taste of Honey
7. Baby Come Back by Player
8. Emotion by Samantha Sang
9. You’re the Only One That I Want by John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John
10. Grease by Frankie Valli

The Academy Awards:
Best Picture:  The Deer Hunter
Best Actor: Jon Voight in Coming Home
Best Actress: Jane Fonda in Coming Home
Best Supporting Actor: Christopher Walken in The Deer Hunter
Best Supporting Actress: Maggie Smith in California Suite
Best Director: Michael Cimino for The Deer Hunter

1979

January

• 16th: The Shah of Iran flees his country in the wake of massive protests against his regime
• 21st: The Pittsburgh Steelers beat the Dallas Cowboys 35-31 in the Super Bowl
• 26th: Former Vice-President Nelson Rockefeller dies of a heart attack at age 70

February

• 1st: Patty Hearst is released from prison after serving 22 months
• 5th: Three thousand farmers clog traffic in Washington, D.C. demanding higher price supports
• 26th: The exiled Ayatollah Khomeini returns to Iran from Paris

March

• 7th: The Voyager I spacecraft sends back photos showing a thin ring around the planet Jupiter
• 10th: Actor Lee Marvin is sued in a “palimony” case brought by his companion Michelle Triola
• 29th: Idi Amin, dictator of Uganda, flees the capitol and is driven from power
• 31st: Egypt and Israel sign a peace treaty at the White House
• 31st: Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania is forced to release radioactive steam into the air to prevent a reactor meltdown

April

• 16th: A new record is set by runner Bill Rodgers in the Boston Marathon, 2 hours, 9 minutes, 27 seconds
• 18th: Actor Lee Marvin pays $104,000 in a palimony suit in Los Angeles

May

• 3rd: Margaret Thatcher is elected the first woman Prime Minister in England
• 18th: A federal jury in Oklahoma awards the estate of Karen Silkwood $10.5 million for radiation contamination at the Kerr-McGee plutonium plant.
• 21st: The Montreal Canadians beat the New York Rangers 4-1 to win the Stanley Cup
• 25th: The worst air disaster in the United States occurs in Chicago as an engine falls off a DC-10 at take-off from O’Hare International Airport

June

• 7th: President Carter approves the MX missile program
• 11th: Actor John Wayne dies of stomach and lung cancer at age 72 
• 18th: President Carter and Soviet President Brezhnev sign the SALT II pact in Vienna
• 26th: Boxer Muhammad Ali announces his retirement

July

• 10th: Boston Pops conductor Arthur Fiedler dies
• 11th: The Skylab space station reenters the Earth’s atmosphere. Some pieces land in Australia
• 25th: President Somoza of Nicaragua goes into exile
• 31st: The Chrysler Corporation asks the U.S. Government for a $1 billion bail-out

August

• 3rd: The first black female, Patricia Harris, is sworn-in as a member of President Carter’s cabinet
• 20th: Diana Nyad swims 60 miles from the Bahamas to the United States
• 21st: Two men steal $2 million from a Brink’s truck in New York
• 30th: The Irish Republican Army kills Lord Mountbatten, World War Two hero, by a bomb planted in his fishing boat

September

• 9th: Tracy Austin and John McEnroe win US Open singles titles
• 23rd: St. Louis Cardinal player Lou Brock steals his 938th base, a league record
• 28th: Larry Holmes beats Erne Shavers with a KO to retain the heavyweight boxing title

October

• 2nd: Pope John Paul II begins a tour of the United States
• 17th: The Pittsburgh Pirates beat the Baltimore Orioles to win the World Series in 5 games 22nd: The Shah of Iran flies to New York for cancer treatments

November

• 1st: Former First Lady Mamie Eisenhower dies
• 4th: Students in Tehran, Iran, seize the U.S. Embassy and hold the employees hostage. The crisis would go on for 444 days. The students demand the return of the Shah to Iran to stand trial
• 5th: Cartoonist Al Capp (Lil Abner) dies at age 70

December

• 3rd: Eleven people are crushed to death in Cincinnati in a rush to see the Who at a concert
• 10th: Mother Teresa wins the Nobel Peace Prize
• 15th: The Shah of Iran leaves the U.S. for exile in Panama
• 26th: The Soviet Union invades Afghanistan
• 30th: Composer Richard Rogers (of  Rogers and Hammerstein) dies at age 77

The Top Movies of 1979:
1. Kramer vs. Kramer
2. Star Trek: The Motion Picture
3. The Jerk
4. Rocky II
5. Alien
6. The Amityville Horror
7. Breaking Away
8. The China Syndrome
9. Norma Rae
10. 10

The Top Ten TV Shows of 1979:
1. 60 Minutes
2. Three’s Company
3. That’s Incredible!
4. M*A*S*H
5. Alice
6. Dallas
7. Flo
8. The Jeffersons
9. The Dukes of Hazzard
10. One Day at a Time

Top Ten Singles of 1979:
1. My Sharona by The Knack
2. Le Freak by Chic
3. Do Ya Think I’m Sexy? by Rod Stewart
4. Bad Girls by Donna Summer
5. YMCA by the Village People
6. Reunited by Peaches & Herb
7. Ring My Bell by Anita Ward
8. I Will Survive by Gloria Gaynor
9. Too Much Heaven by the Bee Gees
10. Hot Stuff by Donna Summer

The Academy Awards:
Best Picture: Kramer vs. Kramer
Best Actor: Dustin Hoffman in Kramer vs. Kramer
Best Actress: Sally Field in Norma Rae
Best Supporting Actor: Melvyn Douglas in Being There
Best Supporting Actress: Meryl Streep in Kramer vs. Kramer
Best Director: Robert Benton for Kramer vs. Kramer

1980

January

• 1st: USC beats Ohio State 17-16 in the Rose Bowl
• 11th: Honda announces the building of it’s first auto plant in the U.S, to be built in Ohio
• 18th: Gold hits a record price of $802 an ounce
• 20th: The Pittsburgh Steelers beat the Los Angeles Rams 31-19 in Super Bowl XIV
• 29th: Comedian Jimmy Durante dies at age 86

February

• 12th: The Winter Olympics open in Lake Placid, New York
• 22nd: The U.S. ice hockey team beats the Soviet National team 4-3 in what would later be dubbed “The Miracle on Ice”
• 24th: Eric Heiden wins his fifth gold medal in men’s speedskating

March

• 21st: President Carter announces that the United States will boycott the Summer Olympic Games in Moscow in protest of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
• 24th: Archbishop Oscar Romero is shot and killed while saying Mass in San Salvador, El Salvador
• 28th: Mount St. Helens in Washington state begins to erupt

April

• 24th: Eight US servicemen are killed in a failed rescue attempt of the American hostages being held at the US Embassy in Tehran, Iran. Secretary of State Cyrus Vance resigns in protest over the raid 
• 29th: Film director Alfred Hitchcock dies at age 80 in Los Angeles
• 30th: Hockey legend Gordie Howe retires at age 52

May

• 4th: Yugoslavian leader Tito dies at age 87
• 6th: “The King of Late Night”, Johnny Carson, signs a three-year contract with NBC
  
  
• 19th: 18 people are killed and 400 injured in riots in Miami sparked by the acquittal of 4 police officers charged with murdering an African-American man
• 21st: The sequel to Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back, opens in the U.S.
• 24th: The New York Islanders win hockey’s Stanley Cup

The Top Movies of 1980:
1. The Empire Strikes Back
2. Nine to Five
3. Stir Crazy
4. Airplane
5. Any Which Way You Can
6. Private Benjamin
7. Coal Miner’s Daughter
8. Smokey and the Bandit 2
9. The Blues Brothers
10. Ordinary People

The Top Ten TV Shows of 1980:
1. Dallas
2. 60 Minutes
3. The Dukes of Hazzard
4.The Love Boat
5.Private Benjamin
6.M*A*S*H
7. House Calls
8. The Jeffersons
9. The Two of Us
10.  Little House on the Prairie

Top Ten Singles of 1980:
1. Call Me by Blondie
2. Celebration by Kool & The Gang
3. Another One Bites the Dust by Queen
4. You Shook Me All Night Long by AC/DC
5. Love Will Tear Us Apart by Joy Division
6. Whip It by Devo
7. Upside Down by Diana Ross
8. Fame by Irene Cara
9. Back in Black by AC/DC
10. (Just Like) Starting Over by John Lennon

The Academy Awards:
Best Picture: Ordinary People
Best Actor: Robert DeNiro in Raging Bull
Best Actress:  Sissy Spacek in Coal Miner’s Daughter
Best Supporting Actor: Timothy Hutton in Ordinary People
Best Supporting Actress: Mary Steenburgen in Melvin & Howard
Best Director: Robert Redford for Ordinary People