Celebrating a Milestone

Today is a special day to me. Some years ago on a humid and very stormy night my journey began... See if you can guess the milestone I am celebrating today from the following clues:

The year I was born:

* A gallon of gas could be bought for $1.19 for leaded and $1.25 for unleaded regular. (Yes, you had to be specific which you needed for your car, I actually remember this.)

* A first class postage stamp cost 15¢.

* The Bourne Identity by Robert Ludlum was a New York Times bestseller.

* The Post It Note was introduced revolutionizing how notes and messages were left.

* Shoulder Pads, mini skirts, and fingerless gloves were high fashion.

* Funkytown sung by Lipps was a #1 hit the week I was born.

* Pittsburgh Steelers Quarterback, Terry Bradshaw was voted Most Valuable Player and football fans watched Superbowl XIV, in which the Steelers played the Los Angeles Rams and won (15-4).

* Tom Selleck appeared in the first season of the television show Magnum P.I.

* The Winter Olympics were held in Lake Placid, New York.

* The President of the United States announced that the United States would be boycotting the Summer Olympics, which would be held in Moscow, Russia.

* A new arcade game called PacMan was released.

* The movie Raging Bull starring Robert De Niro won Best Picture.

* Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back was in theatres and fans everywhere wondered what would happen now that hero Han Solo was encased in carbonate!

* Mount St Helen's erupted killing 57 people.

* California Governor Ronald Regan was elected as the 40th President of the United States.








So what year was it? It was a time when the Internet, cell phones, iPods, and Blueray DVDs were not part of our daily usage. We'd never heard the term "google" and the Cold War was a very real fear. It was three decades ago on this day, the year was 1980.