Celebrating 30 years!

2009 marks 30 years of business for Campanale in Ottawa.  We'd like to take this opportunity to thank all those that we've dealt with over these years.  We look forward to 30 more years!

1979 vs. 2009

1979 - Canadian Events

Terry Fox starts training for his Marathon of Hope

The first Winterlude is held in Ottawa

Canadians Chris Haney & Scott Abbott invent Trivial Pursuit

Total eclipse of the Sun on 26 February 1979

NHL's greatest scorer Wayne Gretzky scores his first NHL goal on 14 October 1979

TSE finished the year up a whopping 38 per cent, its best performance ever

1979 - World Events

US hostages held in Iran

Margaret Thatcher becomes British PM

The Soviets invade Afghanistan

The Sony Walkman is introduced

Skylab fell into the Indian Ocean

Three Mile Island partial meltdown

Mother Teresa Wins Nobel Peace Prize

The Sahara Desert experiences snow for 30 minutes

China institutes the one child per family rule to help control its exploding population

The price of oil reaches a new record of $24 per barrel

Fun Facts in 1979

Kramer vs. Kramer wins 5 Academy Awards (including best picture) and is also the highest grossing film of the year

The Magic Cube (Rubik's Cube) goes on sale late in the year at Budapest, where local inventor Erno Rubik, 35, has devised a multi-colored cube with 43,252,003,274,489,856,000 possible configurations but only one way to have a single color on each side.

The first commercial network of cellular telephones is set up in Tokyo, Japan.

Hayes begins selling a modem that connects computers directly to a phone line for communicating with other computers.

In June the Apple II Plus is introduced. It has BASIC built into the read-only memory (ROM) instead of supplied on a separate cassette tape.

1979 - Winners in sport

NHL - Montreal Canadiens

CFL - Edmonton Eskimos

NBA - Seattle Supersonics

NFL - Pittsburgh Steelers

MLB - Pittsburgh Pirates