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During the Summer of 2008 105.7 The Hawk turns back the clock every Friday with 13 Years In 13 Fridays starting at 9AM with Race Thomas presented by Clayton Masonry Center. 
All day long we'll relive the TV, movies, news and the music from 1980, the year Ronald Reagan beat Jimmy Carter for President, the United States boycotts the Summer Olympics in Moscow over its invasion of Afghanistan, the Iranian hostage crisis drags on as six United States diplomats, posing as Canadians, manage to escape from Tehran, Iran as they board a flight to Zürich, Switzerland. However, a military rescue attempt fails, killing 6 in a mid-air collision. John Lennon is shot outside his apartment at the Dakota in New York. Subway workers go on strike for 11 days in New York, the FBI runs a sting operation on several Congressman called Abscam, Mt. St. Helens erupts in Washington State, 85 people are killed in a fire at the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas and Pac-Man is released, The United States Olympic Hockey Team defeats the Soviet Union in the semifinals of the Winter Olympics, dubbed the Miracle on Ice during the Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, the Phillies beat the Royals to win their first World Series but the Sixers fall to the Lakers for the NBA Championship while the Flyers fall to the Islanders in the Stanley Cup. CNN debuts on cable,millions tune in to find out "Who Shot J.R?" on Dallas, Walter Cronkite retires as anchor of the CBS Evening News, David Letterman debuts on NBC during the daytime, That's Incredible, Galactica 1980, Solid Gold, Bosom Buddies and Magnum P.I. all debut.
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