What happened in 1979?

Shah leaves Iran

Carter and Brezhnev sign SALT II

Three Mile Island, Pa.,

Margaret Thatcher becomes new prime minister (May 3).

World Series...

Super Bowl....

Stanley Cup....

"Rapper's Delight"...

The Deer Hunter,

Album of the Year: Saturday Night Fever, Bee Gees

Song of the Year: "Just the Way You Are," Billy Joel, songwriter

Nobel in Medicine: Allan MacLeod Cormack (U.S.) and Godfrey Newbold Hounsfield (U.K.),
for developing computed axial tomography (CAT scan) X-ray technique

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
Consumer Price Index:   72.6
Unemployment:   5.8%
Cost of a first-class stamp:   $0.15

Fall of Cambodian capital Phnom Penh