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
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