1. Honey Nut Cheerios were introduced
2. The State of Ohio agreed to a settlement for victim's families in the Kent State shootings
3. 1979 was the "International Year of the Child"
4. Ayatollah Khomeini returned to Iran after 15 years of exile
5. Pluto moved inside of Neptune's orbit
6. It snowed in the Sahara Desert for 30 minutes on February 18th
7. Top songs were My Sharona, YMCA, I Will Survive, My Life, Just When I Needed You Most, The Gambler, The Devil Went Down to Georgia, Le Freak
8. Because of a police strike, the New Orleans Mardi Gras festival was cancelled
9. Jimmy Carter was president
10. The TV network Nickelodeon began airing around New York
11. Notable births: Drew Brees, Heath Ledger, Mena Suvari, Brandy, Norah Jones, Adam Levine, Clare Danes, Kate Hudson, Evangeline Lilly, John Krasinski
12. Margaret Thatcher became the first female prime minister
13. The deadliest aviation accident occured at O'Hare in Chicago when a plane crashes during takeoff, killing 273 people
14. Saddaam Hussein took power in Iraq
15. Michael Jackson released his album Off the Wall
16. ESPN debuted
17. Celebrity Deaths included: Conrad Hilton, Sarah Carter, Nelson Rockefeller, Lester Flatt, John Wayne, Mamie Eisenhower, Peggy Guggenheim
18. Mother Teresa won the Nobel Peace Prize
19. The Pittsburgh Pirates won the World Series
20. The Iran Hostage Crisis began
21. Eleven fans were crushed and killed at a Who concert in Ohio
22. The "One Child Policy" was enacted in China
23. Happy Meals were introduced
24. "Usenet" (the precursor to the Internet) experiments began at Duke University
25. Top movies in 1979 were Kramer vs. Kramer, Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Apocalypse Now, The Muppet Movie, and The Jerk
26. Top TV shows included: Three's Company, Alice, Dallas, and M*A*S*H
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Thursday
Random Trivia
1. The same actor does the voice for Winnie the Pooh, Kaa the snake in Jungle Book, the stork in Dumbo, and Alice in Wonderland's Chesire Cat.
2. When KFC's slogan "finger lickin' good" was first translated in Chinese, it came out as "eat your fingers off."
3. Donald Duck was banned in Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
4. The US government doesn't allow for living people to be pictured on stamps.
5. A donkey will sink in quicksand but a mule will not.
6. The G in g-string stands for groin. How about that?
7. Don McClean's song American Pie was named after the plane that Buddy Holly died in.
8. Eric Clapton was born to an unwed mother and grew up believing his grandparents were his parents and his mother was his sister.
9. Nutmeg is poisonous if injected intravenously.
10. Deborah Winger did the voice of E.T.
11. Simon & Garfunkel's original band name was Tom & Jerry.
12. A fully ripened cranberry can be bounced like a basketball.
13. The word "testify" comes from when in Roman court, men would swear on their testicles.
14. Walt Disney was going to make The Little Mermaid a lot earlier, but was stopped because of World War II.
15. Your thumb is about the same size as your nose.
16. Coca-Cola was originally green.
17. An average person's yearly fast food intake will contain 12 pubic hairs.
18. The University of Alaska stretches across four time zones.
19. Soundgarden got it's name from a pipe structure in Seattle that hums in the wind.
20. The only member of ZZ Top who didn't have a beard was Frank Beard.
2. When KFC's slogan "finger lickin' good" was first translated in Chinese, it came out as "eat your fingers off."
3. Donald Duck was banned in Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
4. The US government doesn't allow for living people to be pictured on stamps.
5. A donkey will sink in quicksand but a mule will not.
6. The G in g-string stands for groin. How about that?
7. Don McClean's song American Pie was named after the plane that Buddy Holly died in.
8. Eric Clapton was born to an unwed mother and grew up believing his grandparents were his parents and his mother was his sister.
9. Nutmeg is poisonous if injected intravenously.
10. Deborah Winger did the voice of E.T.
11. Simon & Garfunkel's original band name was Tom & Jerry.
12. A fully ripened cranberry can be bounced like a basketball.
13. The word "testify" comes from when in Roman court, men would swear on their testicles.
14. Walt Disney was going to make The Little Mermaid a lot earlier, but was stopped because of World War II.
15. Your thumb is about the same size as your nose.
16. Coca-Cola was originally green.
17. An average person's yearly fast food intake will contain 12 pubic hairs.
18. The University of Alaska stretches across four time zones.
19. Soundgarden got it's name from a pipe structure in Seattle that hums in the wind.
20. The only member of ZZ Top who didn't have a beard was Frank Beard.
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