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The movie The China Syndrome premiered.
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The incident at Three Mile Island occured.
The movie Phantasm was released.
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I have a certificate for participating in a Health Fair at Tiffin Elementary with this date on it.
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The Wild Wild West Revisited aired on television. I watched this. It was funny to see Paul Williams as a villain. Shields and Yarnell were featured in this as his automatons or Six Hundred Dollar People as Williams referred to them.
Somehow, Williams' character had created an atomic bomb, but he didn't call it that. The production used stock footage and I remember him saying Same damn mushroom cloud.
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The movie Alien premiered. My friend Darren and I would go and see this with my sister Barb sometime after the premiere date.
This was two years to the day that Star Wars premiered. I doubt that it was a coincidence.
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The US space station Skylab re-entered Earth's atmosphere and some parts impacted in Western Australia.
No more than a few weeks before this happened, we had gone to Kings Island near Cincinnati. I remember that the Screaming Demon roller coaster was new. It was lightly raining when I road it. There was a large patio umbrella for the ride operator. They had drawn up a sign which read OFFICIAL U.S. GOVERNMENT SKYLAB SHELTER, or something like that, and affixed it to the mast for the umbrella. It was very funny at the time.
Someplace I've got an issue of either Time or Newsweek that talks about the impending re-entry. I think it mentions that WNCI 97.9 FM in Columbus, Ohio as the entity offering the largest amount for a piece of Skylab. A paper in San Francisco offered $10,000, but WNCI offered $98,000 with a few rules. It must have impacted within the state of Ohio and you had 98 hours to bring it in to the radio station. That seems long, but it couldn't have been only 98 minutes. I remember a radio ad in the morning before the re-entry where some hillbilly character had brought in his refrigerator door and was trying to claim the money.
Sir, that's a refrigerator door.
No, no! It's Skylab!
I do remember something about the final destination would have been in the Great Lakes region if Skylab had not been put into a terminal spin, but this might be urban legend. After all, I was 11 years old at the time. I kept hoping that it would happen on my birthday.
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My 12th birthday.
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The Iranian Hostage Crisis began.
Operation Eagle Claw, the failed attempt to rescue the hostages would take place on 1980-04-25 Thursday.
The hostage crisis would continue until 1981-01-20 Tuesday when Ronald Reagan was swarn in as President of the United States.
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The Disney movie The Black Hole was released.
One day in the first few months of 2001, I went over to Lowell's house and we watched some of this on DVD. It had lost some of it's luster. But I was correct about the Palamino having a hatch taken off of an Eagle Transporter from Space 1999.
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