1980

We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best that we find in our travels is an honest friend.
Robert Louis Stevenson.

July 4, 1980

Birthdays:

	Terry Fox 1958-1981 invested as a Companion of the Order of Canada. The one-legged cancer victim whose marathon run across Canada raised millions of dollars for cancer research is the youngest so honored.
	January 18th, Pink Floyd's "The Wall" hits #1. We watched at a theatre on Hasting street, in East Vancouver.
	The Empire Strikes back is released in theaters in the USA. The second in the middle Trilogy series.
	Mt. St. Helens erupts in Washington State, killing 26 people and causing $2.7 billion in damage
	August 17th Azaria Chamberlain disappears from a campsite near Ayers Rock. The Dingo becomes inappropriately famous!
	Upon returning from a recording session, Ex-Beatle, John Lennon, is shot five times outside of his Manhattan apartment. He dies minutes later from a massive loss of blood. Less than three weeks later, his song, (Just Like) Starting Over spends five weeks at the top of the Billboard Pop Chart.
	August 23, Toronto Ontario - The Talking Heads make their live debut as a nine-piece band (up to now a quartet) at the Heat wave Festival.

Life returns to volcano’s blast zone

20 years after eruption, Mount St. Helens ecosystems thrive

	DC -10. For those with good memories, 1980 was the year engines were falling off of DC-10's.
	In August Sydney's counter culture AM radio station 2JJ AM becomes 2JJJ FM ( this I do remember) continuing the JJ controversy by playing as its first track the then-banned Skyhooks track 'You Just Like Me 'Cause I'm Good in Bed' this same track was 2JJ's first!

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It would be nice to travel if you knew where you were going and where you would live at the end or do we ever know, do we ever live where we live, we’re always in other places, lost, like sheep.
Janet Frame (b. 1924), New Zealand novelist, poet. You Are Now Entering the Human Heart, "The Day of the Sheep" (1983).

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