DHS Class of 1979

View Steve Allen's page for the Class of 1979 by clicking [here].

The Senior Class of 1979 is holding their 25th reunion on the weekend of July 9-10, 2004.  If anyone has contact information for the Class of 1979, please provide it to Doug Brooker at dabrooker@mindspring.com or send info to Steve and he will pass it along to Doug.

Notable Events of 1979

The Shah of Iran flees Iran with his family and relocate to Egypt after a year of turmoil.  Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini seizes power in Iran.

In Kabul, Muslim extremists kidnap the American ambassador to Afghanistan, Adolph Dubs who is later killed during a gunfight between his kidnappers and police.

The People's Republic of China invades northern Vietnam launching the Sino-Vietnamese War. 

Nuclear power plant accident at Three Mile Island, Pa., releases radiation.

The first gay rights march in the United States takes place in Washington, DC, involving many tens of thousands of people.

ESPN starts broadcasting.

Iranian Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini urged his people to demonstrate on November 4th and to expand attacks on United States and Israeli interest (on November 4 militants seized the US embassy in Tehran and took 63 Americans hostage).

The United States Embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan is attacked by a mob and set afire, killing four.

In Antarctica, a DC-10 carrying Air Zealand Flight 901 crashes into Mount Erebus on a sightseeing trip, killing all 257 people on board.

The World Health Organization declares the world free of naturally occurring smallpox. 

The Susan B. Anthony one dollar coin is introduced in the US.

VisiCalc becomes the first spreadsheet program. 

Top Grossing Films of 1979

Apocalypse Now
Kramer vs. Kramer
Alien
The Muppet Movie
Moon Raker

Other Films of the Year

Norma Ray
Caligula
Production begins on Raiders of the Lost Ark
Production begins on The Empire Strikes Back

The Year in Music

Disco reigned supreme in 1979, with several #1 hits from  The Bee Gees and Donna Summer this year.  Several artists who were not regarded as dance/disco acts, scored major successes by releasing disco singles, including new wave band Blondie with their first US number one single "Heart Of Glass" and Rod Stewart with "Do Ya Think I'm Sexy".
Spirits Have Flown - The Bee Gees
Eat to the Beat - Blondie
Bop till you Drop - Ry Cooder
52nd Street - Billy Joel
Victims of Love - Elton John
Back to the Egg - Paul McCartney and Wings
Greatest Hits - Steely Dan
Into the Music - Van Morrison
I Will Survive - Gloria Gaynor

Popular Television Shows

Alice
Charlie's Angels
Dallas
Hawaii Five-O
Little House on the Prairie
Mash
Mork and Mindy
Sesame Street
Taxi
Three's Company
WKRP in Cincinnati
The Walton's
Wheel of Fortune
Knot's Landing begins this year

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