1977 Annual History Facts 20th Century Fox heavily promoted The Other Side of Midnight, thinking Star Wars would be a flop. The Top Song was You Light Up My Life by Debby Boone The Big Movies included Star Wars (Ep. IV: A New Hope), Smokey and the Bandit, and Saturday Night Fever The US Population […]
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1977 Books & Bestsellers 1977 Fiction Top Ten Books (according to Publisher’s Weekly) 1. The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien and Christopher Tolkien 2. The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough 3. Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah by Richard Bach 4. The Honourable Schoolboy by John Le Carre 5. Oliver’s Story by Erich Segal 6. Dreams Die First by Harold Robbins 7. Beggarman, Thief by Irwin Shaw 8. How To Save
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1976 Annual History Facts Politics: by law, no United States officer can outrank George Washington. He was posthumously promoted to Six-Star General in 1976. The Top Song was Tonight’s The Night (Gonna Be Alright) by Rod Stewart The Big Movies included Rocky, To Fly! and A Star is Born The price of a dozen eggs
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1976 Books & Bestsellers 1976 Fiction Top Ten Books (according to Publisher’s Weekly) 1. Trinity by Leon Uris 2. Sleeping Murder by Agatha Christie 3. Dolores by Jacqueline Susann 4. Storm Warning by Jack Higgins 5. The Deep by Peter Benchley 6. 1876 by Gore Vidal 7. Slapstick: or, Lonesome No More! by Kurt Vonnegut 8. The Lonely Lady by Harold Robbins 9. Touch Not the Cat by Mary Stewart 10. A Stranger in the
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1975 Annual History Facts Math: The English meaning of 1 billion, which was 1 million million, was changed in 1975 to adopt the American meaning of 1 thousand million. The Top Song was Love Will Keep Us Together by The Captain and Tennille The Big Movies included Jaws, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and
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1975 Books & Bestsellers 1975 Fiction Top Ten Books (according to Publisher’s Weekly) 1. Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow 2. The Moneychangers by Arthur Hailey 3. Curtain by Agatha Christie 4. Looking for Mister Goodbar by Judith Rossner 5. The Choirboys by Joseph Wambaugh 6. The Eagle Has Landed by Jack Higgins 7. The Greek Treasure: A Biographical Novel of Henry and Sophia Schliemann by Irving Stone 8. The Great Train Robbery by
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1974 Annual History Facts Politics: President Richard M. Nixon resigned after the Watergate Scandal. The Top Song was The Way We Were by Barbra Streisand The Big Movies included Blazing Saddles, The Towering Inferno, and The Trial of Billy Jack Price of a postage stamp in 1974: 10 cents AMC Gremlin automobile: $2,408.00 The World
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1974 Books & Bestsellers 1974 Fiction Top Ten Books (according to Publisher’s Weekly) 1. Centennial by James A. Michener 2. Watership Down by Richard Adams 3. Jaws by Peter Benchley 4. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John Le Carré 5. Something Happened by Joseph Heller 6. The Dogs of War by Frederick Forsyth 7. The Pirate by Harold J. Robbins 8. I Heard the Owl Call My Name by Margaret Craven 9. The
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1973 Annual History Facts Politics: The Roe v. Wade US Supreme Court decision legalized abortion. The Top Song was Killing Me Softly With His Song by Roberta Flack The Big Movies included The Exorcist, The Sting and American Graffiti On August 11, 1973, at 1520 Sedgwick Avenue, Bronx, NYC, Hip Hop was created by DJ
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1973 Books & Bestsellers 1973 Fiction Top Ten Books (according to Publisher’s Weekly) 1. Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach 2. Once Is Not Enough by Jacqueline Susann 3. Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut 4. The Odessa File by Frederick Forsyth 5. Burr by Gore Vidal 6. The Hollow Hills by Mary Stewart 7. Evening in Byzantium by Irwin Shaw 8. The Matlock Paper by Robert Ludlum 9. The Billion Dollar Sure
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