A Brief History of Sports. Here is a timeline of some of the significant events in the world of sports up until the 20th century. The Chinese played a soccer type game named Tsu Chu.
In 1978 she published Mommie Dearest, a blistering autobiography that portrayed Joan Crawford as a sadistic perfectionist, an alcoholic prone to unpredictable squalls of maternal fury who would punish the mildest misdemeanours with disproportionate force.
Xavier Roberts designed his Little People dolls in 1978. They were renamed the Cabbage Patch Kids in 1982 and sold by Coleco. They were the hottest toys of Christmas 1983. Cabbage Patch Kids are now made by Mattel. Each doll comes with a birth certificate and has its own first and middle names.