20th Century Women

Ford manufactures its 10 millionth Model T automobile

Mickey Mouse makes his first appearance in "Steamboat Willie"

Radio City Music Hall opens in NYC

Adolf Hitler opens the 11th Olympic Games in Berlin

Booker T Washington is the first black person to appear on a U.S. stamp

Tupperware is sold in department and hardware stores

The first oral contraceptive pill is invented

Jim Fitzpatrick and George “Buster” P. Wilson nail roller-skate trucks onto 6x1 wood planks to make homemade skateboards

Bob Dylan walks off the Ed Sullivan show

Woodstock

Roe vs. Wade makes abortion a U.S. constitutional right

In August 1979, Talking Heads release their third album Fear Of Music. In his review Lester Bangs wrote; “So of course I always thought Talking Heads were about the individual human units response to cybernation, depersonalization, the effect of corporate consciousness on individual identity, all those great contemporary questions nobody can seem to come up with any real or workable answers for. Richard Hell was about the same thing on a darker, more hermetically self- enclosed/obsessed/possessed level, in fact the Ramones, Clash, just about all these New Wave bands that really count seem to be trying to deal with these questions which is why no matter what happens to it commercially New Wave for me will always be a lot more crucial than the R’n’R bands explosion of the Sixties, when it was all too easy to croon how there’s somethin’ happenin’ in here and what it is ain’t exactly clear. The point is, now we’re all “in here,” and apart from each other, and how are we gonna get out? “

“A-Team” with Mr. T premieres on NBC

Demolition of the Berlin Wall begins