At Hefner's fundraiser for the Hollywood Sign, individual Sign letters were ceremoniously "auctioned" off at $27,700 per letter. Rocker Alice Cooper "purchased" an "O" in honor of the late Groucho Marx.
The 25th Anniversary issue of Playboy contained 410 pages and sold 6.4 million copies.
The citizens of New Jersey voted to approve gambling in Atlantic City the same day that Jimmy Carter was elected the 39th President of the United States.
Eight years after Dorothy Stratten's murder, director Peter Bogdanovich, her lover at the time, married Stratten's little sister Louise. They divorced in 2001.
It is estimated that 58,220 American soldiers died during the Vietnam conflict. In Hanoi's official report in 1995, 1.1 million Communist fighters and almost 2 million Vietnamese civilians were also killed.