Current Events by Year, 1970–1989

always knew there was something fishy about that place

I read it as the second COLD war, tried places like China and Egypt (which gave me the last one).

If you grow up in Washington you get really, really tired of hearing about that damn thing.

There was definitely a seizure of power in Iran. A couple of them, actually. A lot of people don't know that the Shah, who was last in the line of kings going back 2500 years to Cyrus the Great, was actually forced out of power twice. The popular narrative seems to be that he was forced on the Iranian people by Americans. Prime Minister Mosaddegh had seized power similar to how Hitler seized power in Germany, both were popularly elected but then went on to take more power than they were granted by their office. Mosaddegh oversaw the wholesale theft of the energy infrastructure in Iran that had been built by foreign companies, and this was part of why foreign powers helped to see the rightful ruler (the Shah) returned to power over Mosaddegh. We only hear about the Shah being unpopular in the West because of his oppressive police state-like policies, but in truth he was mostly unpopular because he wanted things like equality and education for women and peace with other states (Israel).

Could have helped for '74, '77, and '81, too

Mt St Helens worked for me

Same here. The moment I saw the answer it clicked.

cheap Kool-Aid knock off.

You won't know until you try it.

Shouldn't things that happened 30 to 50 years ago be "historical events"? I mean, I know I was there, but still.

This took me down a bit of a rabbit hole.

Flavor Aid is not a popular or well-known brand. It still exists in the U.S. but people in casual usage (and even people at the time) would call it Kool-Aid, since that's become a generic term for instant drink mix. The piece of "interesting" trivia here is the brand.

Punch may mean different things to different people. I don't think every flavor of instant drink mix would be described as "punch", in fact. Lemonade, for example, and maybe not even the grape flavor.

I'm not sure how reliable this is, but apparently grape was the flavor of Flavor Aid used at Jonestown. Is that "punch"? I'm not sure.

Some people might use punch as a general term for this kind of drink. But it's even more generic than that, since it also includes non-instant drinks maid with mixed fruit juices and a number of alcoholic drinks. So "punch" may be correct, but if so, it's meaninglessly, tautologically so; as if we were to accept "beverage" itself.

The Jonestown massacre is where the expression "Don't drink the Kool Aid" comes from

That would sort of be like accepting Chin for China.

And besides, it's not that hard to type one more letter...

Basically, Iceland did not like the UK's EEZ, which gives them fishing, drilling, and other rights. Iceland wanted access to the Cod, and "war" was fought. Iceland won, and got to expand their EEZ.

I think