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Kwan Fan Page, just click on my banner!
 
Michelle
was born 36 years ago today, on July 7, 1980!
- The following songs were
at the top
of the charts:
- Coming Up by
Paul McCartney and Wings
- The Rose by Bette
Midler
- Against the Wind
by Bob Seger
- He Stopped Loving
Her Today by George Jones
- It’s Still Rock &
Roll to Me by Billy Joel
- From Monday July 7, 1980
to Thursday July 7, 2015 is 13149 days
- Sandra Day O'Connor was
the first female nominated to the Supreme Court
- First solar-powered aircraft
crosses English Channel
- Jim King completes riding
Miracle Strip Roller Coaster for 368 hours
- Larry Holmes TKOs Scott
LeDoux in 7 rounds for heavyweight boxing title
- Shawn Weatherly, of USA,
crowned 29th Miss Universe
- The album Glass Houses
by Billy Joel is in its 4th of 6 weeks at the top
- Magna doodle was a hot toy
- Make a Time
Capsule for July 7, 1980
What has happened
on July 7 in history?
- Check out these links:
- Who else was born on July 7 (very long list!)?
- What
happened in sports history on July 7?
- It is the 188th day of the
year.
- There are 171 shopping days
until Christmas.
- It is Video Games Day and
Chocolate Day!
- In 1802, the first comic
book, The Wasp, was published.
- In 1852, Sherlock Holmes'
sidekick, Dr. John H. Watson, is born on this day (according to Sir
Arthur Conan Doyle's stories.) Coincidentally, the author died on this
day in England at the age of 71 in 1930.
- In 1928, the first Chrysler,
called the Plymouth, was unveiled to the public. It cost $670, and Amelia
Earheart was hired to sit behind wheel. The publicity blitz brought
30,000 people to the Chicago Coliseum for a glimpse of the new car.
- Also in 1928, sliced bread is sold for the first time by the Chillicothe Baking Company
- In 1930, construction began
on the Hoover Dam
- In 1936, the NL won their
first All Star Game vs the AL
- In 1954, Memphis D.J. Dewey
Phillips of WHBQ became the first D.J. to play an Elvis Presley record,
"That's All Right (Mama)."
- In 1986, the USA's biggest
success at the Goodwill Games was Jackie Joyner-Kersee. She broke
the heptathlon world record this day with 7,148 points at the event
in Moscow. In 1998, Michelle won at the Goodwill
Games
- In 1994, "Les Miserables,"
opens at Imperial Theatre, Tokyo. Michelle skated to On
My Own from the musical.
- In 1995, the soundtrack
for the movie Pocahontas was #2 on the Billboard album chart. Michelle
skated to a few songs from the soundtrack for her Pocahontas
program.
- In 2000, Amazon.com announced
that they had sold almost 400,000 copies of "Harry Potter and The Goblet
of Fire," making it the biggest selling book in e-tailing history.
- In 2007, the date 7-7-07 was considered so lucky that 31,000 U.S. couples got married - roughly three times the number of couples who married the year before on the first Saturday of July.
- These songs were at the
top of the charts:
- 1948: Woody Woodpecker
Song by The Kay Kaiser Orchestra
- 1955: Rock Around
the Clock by Bill Haley and His Comets
- 1956: Be-Bop-A-Lula
by Gene Vincent & His Blue Caps
- 1959: Lonely Boy
by Paul Anka
- 1963: Surf City
by Jan and Dean
- 1964: I Get Around
by The Beach Boys
- 1971: It's Too Late/I
Feel the Earth Move by Carole King
- 1972: Song Sung Blue
by Neil Diamond
- 1979: Ring My Bell
by Anita Ward
- 1984: When Doves
Cry by Prince (became the best selling single of the year)
- 1988: If It Don’t
Come Easy by Tanya Tucker
- The following people
also have birthdays today:
- 1860: Gustav Mahler,
music director of the New York Philharmonic.
- 1861: Nettie Maria Stevens,
scientist
- 1899: George Cukor,
director of My Fair Lady and The Philadelphia Story.
- 1906: Baseball player
Satchel Paige
- 1907: Robert A. Heinlein,
author who helped develop Science Fiction
- 1911: Composer Gian
Carlo Menotti
- 1913: Blues musician
Pinetop Perkins
- 1915: Billie Holiday,
jazz blues singer
- 1922: French fashion
designer Pierre Cardin
- 1927: Musician-conductor
Doc Severinsen
- 1940: Rock star Ringo
Starr
- 1949: Actress Shelley
Duvall
- 1959: Actor Billy Campbell
- 1963: Singer Vonda Shepard
- 1965: Actress Paula
Devicq
- 1968: Actress Jorja
Fox
- 1969: Actress Amy Carlson
- 1972: Basketball Player Lisa Leslie
What happened in 1980?
- Who
else was born in 1980?
- What
were the top 100 songs of 1980?
- What
happened at the 1980 Academy Awards®?
-
What
happened at the 1980 Emmy Awards?
- What
else happened in 1980?
- CNN is launched as the first
all news network
- Post-It Notes are introduced
- A stamp in the US costs
$0.15
- Top grossing movies in
the USA:
- The Empire Strikes Back...$290,158,751
- Superman II...$108,200,000
- Nine to Five...$103,290,500
- Stir Crazy...$101,300,000
- Airplane!...$83,400,000
- Movies that opened this
year that matter to Michelle:
Check out the Michelle's Program Information
section for more info on both programs.
- Lion of the Desert...Michelle
skated to the song Lion of the Desert from this movie as
part of her long program in the '96/'97 season.
- Othello...Also in the
'96/'97 season, Michelle's theme for her short program was Dream
of Desdemona. Desdemona is a character from Othello
- The
Greatest Films of 1980
- What
other movies came out in 1980?
- Top TV Shows for the
1980-81 season:
- Dallas
- 60 Minutes
- The Dukes of Hazzard
- Private Benjamin
- M*A*S*H
- The Love Boat
- The NBC Tuesday Night
Movie
- House Calls
- The Jeffersons (tie)
Little House On the Prarie (tie)
- Sports Champions
- Baseball: Philadelphia
Phillies
- Basketball: LA Lakers
- Football: Pittsburgh
Steelers
- Hockey: New York Islanders
- Figure Skating at the
Olympics
- Men: Robin Cousins
- Ladies: Annett Poetzsch
- Pairs: Irina Rodnina/Alexander
Zaitsev
- Dance: Natalia Linichuk/Gennadi
Karponsov
- Critically Acclaimed
Books
- Cosmos by Carl
Sagan
- Earthly Powers
by Anthony Burgess
- The Name of the Rose
by Umberto Eco
- Man in the Holocene
by Max Frisch
- Thy Neighbor's Wife
by Gay Talese
Last updated on July 7
Thanks to Hayley for making the MK Fan Page banner, and to BBS for the background!
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