20th Century Women

Ellis Island closes as immigration entry point for the U.S.

Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow meet

Shirley Temple appears in her first movie "Stand Up & Cheer"

"The Wizard of Oz" film premieres

World War II ends

The first oral contraceptive pill is invented

Elvis Presley purchases a mansion in Memphis and calls it Graceland

First known skateboard contest in Hermosa, CA

Evel Knievel jumps his motorcycle over 16 cars lined up in a row

First skateboard trucks specifically designed for skateboarding is designed by Ron Bennett

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

OJ Simpson found guilty in civil case