Do you remember June 1977?
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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 informational meeting.
In the meantime, enjoy recalling these memories from June 1977:
Top 5 Singles – June 18, 1977
#1 “Dreams” – Fleetwood Mac
#2 “Got to Give It Up” – Marvin Gaye
#3 “Gonna Fly Now (Theme from ‘Rocky’)” – Bill Conti
#4 “Feels Like the First Time” – Foreigner
#5 “Lucille” – Kenny Rogers
Top-Grossing Movie Week of June 15
“Star Wars”
June 1977 Events
• The Japanese playing card company Nintendo put its first home video game on the market, branded as “Color TV-Game.”
• New Jersey became only the second state in the United States (after Nevada) to legalize casino gambling.
• Vincent van Gogh’s painting Poppy Flowers was stolen from Cairo’s Khalil Museum in Egypt. Recovered 10 years later, the painting was stolen again in 2010 and has not been seen since.
• The Portland Trail Blazers beat the Philadelphia 76ers, 109-107, to win the NBA championship.
• Singer Elvis Presley released his recording, “Way Down,” which reached number one on the Billboard Country Music chart on the week before he died on August 16, 1977.
• Plans for a conversion of U.S. roadway signs to the metric system were canceled.
• Former U.S. President Gerald R. Ford hit a hole-in-one while playing golf, the year after losing the 1976 presidential election.
•U.S. thoroughbred horse Seattle Slew won the Triple Crown by finishing four lengths ahead of the runner-up at the Belmont Stakes, after having won the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness Stakes.
• The first Victoria’s Secret women’s lingerie store was opened by its founding couple, Roy Raymond and his wife Gaye Raymond, at the Stanford Shopping Center in Palo Alto, California.
• High school teacher Jill Jacobs married U.S. Senator Joe Biden of Delaware at the Chapel at the United Nations in New York.
• The Alaska Pipeline (officially the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System) began operations as the first oil entered it from the North Slope oil fields at Prudhoe Bay in the U.S. state of Alaska.
—Source: Wikipedia
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