It Was a Very Good Year...

My birth isn't the only reason 1981 was a great year! Let's review the year that introduced me to the world...

"Bette Davis Eyes" was the #1 song of the year

Raiders of the Lost Ark was the top film at the box office

Dallas was television's most watched program

3M Corp introduces Post Its

Journey releases their Escape album, featuring the song "Don't Stop Believing", which is later used in one of the most controversial finales in television history

The movie never ends, it goes on, and on, and on, and on...

The wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer was televised around the world and viewed by 700 million people

MTV launched

Sandra Day O'Connor is nominated to become the first female justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.

The first American test tube baby is born!

Why stop at one?

Pope John Paul II and President Ronald Regan survive separate shootings

Scientists identify the AIDS virus

US space shuttle Columbia launches into space for the very first time

A gallon of gas cost $1.25

The term "Internet" is introduced