Alien and Apocalypse Now were top box office hits. The Kack’s My Sharona and Rod Stewart’s Do Ya Think I’m Sexy were topping the music charts. The Ayatollah Khomeini returned from 15 years of exile to sieze power in Iran and created a major hostage crisis while it snowed in the Sahara desert for 30 minutes and the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant experienced a partial meltdown in Pennsylvania.

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Apple Admits Brit Invented iPod — In 1979
