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February 13 – The intense February 13, 1979 Windstorm strikes western Washington and sinks a 1/2-mile-long section of the Hood Canal Bridge. February 14 – In Kabul, Muslim extremists kidnap the American ambassador to Afghanistan, Adolph Dubs, who is later killed during a gunfight between his kidnappers and police.
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The following is the 1979–80 network television schedule for the three major English language commercial broadcast networks in the United States. The schedule covers primetime hours from September 1979 through August 1980. The schedule is followed by a list per network of returning series, new series, and series cancelled after the 1978–79 ...
1981–1982 — The killing of 6-year-old Adam Walsh (1981), and the disappearance of Johnny Gosch, a 12-year-old newspaper carrier from Des Moines, Iowa (1982), raise awareness of missing children cases in the United States. 1983 – 241 U.S. Marines are killed by a suicide bomb in Lebanon. 1983 – The United States invades Grenada.
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1. January 3, 1979. Superman. $4,859,936. Superman grossed $13,135,498 nationally from all markets for the 4-day weekend ended January 1, a record weekend gross. Its 3-day gross of $10,364,384 beat the record $10.2 million set by Star Wars in its 1978 reissue. [1][2][3] 2. January 10, 1979.
Stations in the Mountain time zone that started their network schedule at 8:00 AM would follow the Central and Pacific pattern that year. Some network programs, particularly before 7:00 AM and after 10:00/9:00 AM, were subject to preemption by local affiliate stations in favor of syndicated or locally produced programs.
The fire started at 6:00 in the evening on the second floor of the 150-year-old building that had been designed by famous American architect Robert Mills. [89] [90] 26-year-old Richard Keith Job of Hastings, New York, fell 400 feet (120 m) to his death while standing on the snow-covered edge of the Rim Trail in Grand Canyon National Park. [91]