Do you remember January 1977?

By Scott McEvoy, HealthMarkets Insurance Agency

If you were in high school in 1977, you are likely approaching age 65, which is when you will begin making decisions regarding your Medicare options.

To learn more about your options, give me a call to schedule a no-cost, no-obligation educational meeting.

In the meantime, enjoy recalling these memories from January 1977:

Top 5 Singles – January 22, 1977
#1 “I Wish” – Stevie Wonder
#2 “Car Wash” – Rose Royce
#3 “You Make Me Feel Like Dancing” – Leo Sayer
#4 “Dazz” – Brick
#5 “You Don’t Have to Be a Star (To Be in My Show)” – Marilyn McCoo and Billy Davis Jr.

Top-Grossing Movie Week of January 19
“King Kong”

January 1977 Events

• Apple Computer, Inc. was incorporated by Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs.
• U.S. Congressman Thomas P. “Tip” O’Neill of Massachusetts was formally elected Speaker of the House in a 291 to 142 vote along party lines.
• Dolly Sinatra, 79, mother of singer Frank Sinatra, was killed along with three other people in the crash of a chartered Jet Avia Learjet 24 that had taken off from Palm Springs toward Las Vegas.
• The Oakland Raiders defeated the Minnesota Vikings, 32-14, to win Super Bowl XI.
• Drummer Stewart Copeland of the U.S., arrived in London and met in a jam session with English schoolteacher Gordon Sumner (Sting), a singer and bass player, and guitarist Henry Padovani. Copeland persuaded Sumner and Padovani to join him and to form a new rock band, which they named “The Police.” Andy Summers replaced Padovani shortly thereafter to complete the band’s classic lineup.
• The pilot for the popular TV anthology “Fantasy Island” aired in the U.S. as the feature for the Saturday Movie of the Week.
• Michigan became the first U.S. state to permit lawyers to run advertisements beyond their regular telephone directory listings.
• Jimmy Carter was sworn in as the 39th President of the United States.
• Mexico lifted its ban against citizens band radios, allowing visitors driving from the U.S. to bring their CB radios with them.
• The eighth and concluding episode of the ABC miniseries “Roots” was watched in an estimated 36,380,000 U.S. households and by more than 100 million viewers, becoming the most-watched TV episode (excluding news and sporting events) up to that time. The record has been exceeded only by the final episode of “M*A*S*H,” watched on February 28, 1983, by 105.9 million people.

—Source: Wikipedia

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