27 years ago today

On October 25th, 1978, my family set foot on North American soil for the first time.

As a family we had not traveled too far from our English homeland except for a once-in-a-lifetime trip to see my uncle in Singapore for Christmas 1975. I feel it was perhaps that visit which ultimately raised the family's desires to test the waters of a foreign land.

Landing late on a rainy October night (much like tonight) in Detroit, we were driven to our new home across the river in Windsor, Ontario. Unfortunately, the memories of a less-than-direct route through the seedier streets of downtown Detroit still stick in all our memories.

It took each of us a while to adjust, but it's hard to imagine now what our lives would have been like if we hadn't been tempted by green (or perhaps, Autumn orange) pastures.

• FA cup: Ipswich defeats Arsenal 1-0
• World Cup: Argentina defeats Holland 3-1
• Formula 1 world champion Mario Andretti
• Muhammed Ali beats Leon Spinks in New Orleans, to win the world heavyweight championship a record third time.
• Louise Brown, the world's first test-tube baby, is born in Manchester, England, weighing five pounds-twelve ounces.
• Hits in the UK, incl. a song from Grease and Rasputin by Boney M.
• Billboard's hits in America incl. Andy Gibb - Shadow Dancing and lots of Bee Gees.
• Keith Richards is convicted in Canada of heroin possession. He receives a one-year suspended sentence and is ordered to play a charity concert for the blind.
• Nancy Spungen, American girlfriend of Sex Pistol Sid Vicious, is found dead from multiple stab wounds at New York's Chelsea Hotel. Sid Vicious is charged with murder but claims to remember nothing about the night.

• The Montreal Canadiens defeat the Boston Bruins in 6 games to win the Stanley Cup.
• The Dallas Cowboys win the Super Bowl 17-10 over the Denver Broncos.
• The NY Yankees win the World Series in 6 games over the Los Angeles Dodgers.

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