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The 14th Academy of Country Music Awards were held on 2 May 1979 at the Hollywood Palladium and televised live in prime time on NBC; Kenny Rogers won Entertainer of the Year and Male Vocalist, and the Oak Ridge Boys took Album and Vocal Group.

Hayao Miyazaki's feature directing debut, Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro, opened in Japanese theaters on 15 December 1979, distributed by Toho. The gentleman thief Lupin follows counterfeit money to the tiny country of Cagliostro to rescue Princess Clarisse.

Seasonal dining in a historic mill beside Ancaster’s waterfall.

At the 22nd Annual Grammy Awards on 27 February 1980 at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, the Doobie Brothers' "What a Fool Believes" won Record and Song of the Year, Billy Joel's 52nd Street took Album of the Year and Rickie Lee Jones was named Best New Artist.

The 15th Academy of Country Music Awards were held on 1 May 1980 at Knott's Berry Farm in Buena Park, California, live on NBC; Willie Nelson won Entertainer of the Year, Larry Gatlin took Album and Single, and Loretta Lynn was named Artist of the Decade.

The World Health Assembly certified that smallpox had been wiped from the earth - the only human disease ever eradicated. The last natural case had been in Somalia in 1977, and the campaign that found it had traced and vaccinated outwards from every case for a decade.

An earthquake at 8:32 a.m. local time dropped the volcano's weakened north face away in the largest subaerial landslide on record, uncorking a lateral blast toward Spirit Lake. Fifty-seven people were killed.

Tokyo Movie Shinsha's Tomorrow's Joe 2 continues the boxing manga adaptation, following a downhearted Joe Yabuki as he wanders away from the gym before an old rival helps pull him back into the ring.

The Zhongshan Road shop serves Minnan pork rice dumplings with shacha noodles, meat-skin wonton soup and local snacks.

At the 23rd Grammy Awards on 25 February 1981 at Radio City Music Hall, Christopher Cross became the first artist to win Record, Album and Song of the Year and Best New Artist in one night, taking five awards in all.

The 16th Academy of Country Music Awards were held on 30 April 1981 at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, hosted by Larry Gatlin, Don Meredith and Tammy Wynette; Barbara Mandrell won Entertainer of the Year and George Jones took Male Vocalist, Single and Song with "He Stopped Loving Her Today".

Launched as the William J. DeLancey and later renamed Paul R. Tregurtha, the Great Lakes' longest ship began hauling cargo with its maiden voyage on 10 May 1981.

The CDC's weekly report carried five cases of Pneumocystis pneumonia in previously healthy young men in Los Angeles, two of them already dead. It is the first published account of what became AIDS, four years before the virus behind it was agreed on.

The Fox and the Hound is a 1981 American animated buddy film produced by Walt Disney Productions and directed by Ted Berman, Richard Rich, and Art Stevens. It reached US theaters on 10 July 1981.

The Daicon III Opening Animation screens at the Nihon SF Taikai convention in Osaka, the first of two self-funded fan short films that a young Hideaki Anno, Hiroyuki Yamaga, and Takami Akai made under the amateur group Daicon Film before founding Gainax.

One- and two-bedroom apartments at a HUD-assisted property in Berwyn. Confirm the applicable subsidized program and tenant contribution with management. Property information reviewed October 10, 2026. Published rents: 1 bedroom — operator-listed $1,021, 2 bedroom — operator-listed $1,247.

At the 24th Annual Grammy Awards on 24 February 1982 at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, Kim Carnes' "Bette Davis Eyes" won Record and Song of the Year, and Yoko Ono and Sean Lennon accepted Album of the Year for John Lennon and Ono's Double Fantasy more than a year after Lennon's murder.

The 17th Academy of Country Music Awards were held on Thursday, 29 April 1982 at Knott's Berry Farm in Buena Park, hosted by Mickey Gilley, Conway Twitty and Dottie West; Alabama won Entertainer of the Year, Album of the Year and Top Vocal Group.

In September 1982, Volvo Trucks built the first Volvo-branded truck ever assembled in North America, a Volvo F7, at its newly acquired New River Valley plant in Dublin, Virginia. The factory has produced every Volvo truck sold in North America ever since.

The Antonov An-124 Ruslan, still one of the largest cargo aircraft ever built, first flew over Kyiv on 26 December 1982, years before it entered airline service.

The first Spago opened in 1982 on the Sunset Strip and made Wolfgang Puck a name outside kitchens, largely by putting the wood-fired pizza oven where the dining room could see it and topping the pizzas with smoked salmon rather than tomato. The restaurant later moved to Beverly Hills, where it still trades, and the brand grew into a group.

An established Tianyuan Lane restaurant known for its four traditional dishes of liver, kidneys, eggs and meatballs.

German heavy-vehicle maker Scheuerle Fahrzeugfabrik developed and launched the Self-Propelled Modular Transporter (SPMT), the modular, multi-axle hauler that became the industry standard for moving exceptionally heavy loads. Its name is now used generically across the heavy-transport industry.

At the 25th Annual Grammy Awards on 23 February 1983 at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, Toto won Record of the Year for "Rosanna" and Album of the Year for Toto IV, Willie Nelson's "Always on My Mind" took Song of the Year and Men at Work won Best New Artist.

Swatch introduced its first collection of twelve plastic quartz watches on 1 March 1983 in Zürich, priced from CHF 39.90 to CHF 49.90, a launch credited with helping rescue the Swiss watch industry.

Casio launched the DW-5000C in April 1983, the first G-Shock, a shock-resistant digital watch that began a line now past 100 million sales.

The 18th Academy of Country Music Awards were held on 9 May 1983 at Knott's Berry Farm in Buena Park, hosted by Jerry Reed, John Schneider and Tammy Wynette; Alabama won Entertainer of the Year for the second straight year and Willie Nelson's "Always on My Mind" took Album and Single.

Sweet glaze over a savory rice cracker; light and crisp. Saltiness is described here because it is not a separate radar axis.

At the 26th Grammy Awards on 28 February 1984 at the Shrine Auditorium, Michael Jackson won a then-record eight awards from 12 nominations, including Album of the Year for Thriller and Record of the Year for "Beat It".

Topcraft's Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind releases in Japanese theaters, Hayao Miyazaki's post-apocalyptic adventure adapting his own manga about Princess Nausicaä's struggle to bridge humanity and a poisoned, insect-guarded wilderness.