1975 AD to 1984 AD

1975 AD: Vietnam the fall of the South and the rise of the Nation. US economic and military aid had continued to the bilacous faction of South Vietnam had continued to this date. The capture of Saigon marked the end of the war. The war had cost the death of about 4 million Vietnamese, 2 million Laotians and Cambodians, and 58,159 US soldiers.

1976 AD to 1978 AD, US: No Major wars. 

~ U.K: Elizabeth II, queen of the UK, sent an email message from the Royal Signals and Radar Establishment.`

~ China: An Earthquake in the Tungshan area of that country took about 750,000 lives!

~ US: It seems I was a licenced mail order stamp dealer in Manhattan Beach, California!

~ to 1978 AD, USA: Seems that I was also an unlicensed paper hanger.

1977 AD to 1980 AD: the Dem., Jimmy Carter was US President.

~ Stratigraphy: Thanks to Wikipedia. The global Commission on Stratigraphy(now the International Commission on Stratigraphy)began to define the global references known as GSSp(Global Boundary Stratotype Sections and Points) for geologic periods and faunal stages.

1977 AD to 1980 AD: the Dem., Jimmy Carter was US President. Have I shortchanged the Pres

July to October of 1980, USA: My memory of my doings are less than clear. My notes say that I was hanging wall paper while living in Lennox, California. It seems to me that about this time I was getting two houses ready to sell and teach classes of 4th 5th and 6th graders. And that before Christmas of  1980 I was in Spain after spending time in Iceland, passing through Belgium and England, spending time in Ireland and France. I was a busy boy.

1978 AD, USA: There was an exceptionally strong blizzard in New England.

~ USA: It seems that I sold the Osage property, in Lennox. That sees about right. I remember that I had wanted to buy and fix up other property, but the market was not right in southern Cal and explains my trip to NY, through western Europe including a bit of Greece and on through India to a stay in Sri Lanka.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             

1979 AD: Cold War. CIA proxy war in Afghanistan.

~ November, USA: The UAW, United Auto Workers, started what would be 172 day strike at International Harvester.

~ USA: The Salton Sea of California surface elevation was recorded at 228 feet below sea level.

~ January 19th, USA: The UFW, United Farm Workers, strike vegetable growers and boycott produce at Bruce Church, Inc.

~ February 10th, USA: Fufino Contreas, UFW martyr, shot to death near Calexico, California.

~ November, USA: I was touring in Massachusetts.

~ June 8th, USA: Women Coal Miners Association was founded.

~ August, USA: PATCO workers struck only to be fired by President Reagan!

~ I was sandblasting, waterblasting, and refinishing luxury log cabins and condos as a private contractor in Mammoth Lake, California.

1980 AD: Cold War. CIA Proxy war in Afghanistan.

1980 AD to 1990 AD, North America: US southern states began to claim their part of pre-Columbian history and archaeology more effectively.

~ US: The people of the southern states began to claim their part in the National Parks and i Native American archaeology sites.

1980 AD to 1990 AD, North America: US southern states began to claim their part of pre-Columbian history and archaeology more effectively.

~ US: The people of the southern states began to claim their part in the National Parks and in Native American archaeology sites

1981 AD to 1982 AD: Ten Republicans die on hunger strike in Maze Prison in Northern Ireland.                                                                                       
 ~ Dying hunger-striker, Bobby Sands elected to British Parliament.
~  Cold War. CIA proxy wars in Afghanistan and Nicaragua. First Gulf of Sidra Incident.

~ July 1st, USA: The UAW reaffiliated with the AFL-CIO.

~ USA: The Columbia space shuttle built by United Auto Workers was launched.

~ 400,000 workers demonstrated against president Reagan administration labor policies.

1982 AD, US "war": Cold War. CIA proxy war in Afghanistan and Nicaragua.
Conflict in Lebanon.  

~ USA: to 1986 AD: I taught 4th through 10 grades in 4 California counties.
 
 
 1883 AD: USA: The National Association of PHCC, formerly the National association of Master Plumbers, first met at the old Astor House.
~ US War: Cold war. Invasion of Grenada. CIA proxy war in Nicaragua and Afghanistan. Conflict in Lebanon. 

1984 AD, US wars: Cold war. CIA proxy war in Afghanistan and Nicaragua. Conflict in Persian Gulf.

~ October, USA: United Auto Workers and Ford Motor Co signed a three-year moratorium on plant closures.

~ July, USA: United Farm Workers started third grape boycott in protest of farm labor law non enforcement. I was difficult to imagine that such non enforcement could happen in America.

~ to 1985 AD, USA: I took some math classes and education classes at Long Beach City College.