opens. Drawing Center established. Mainstream prominence of disco music confirmed with December 14 release of Saturday Night Fever (set in the Italian-American community of Brooklyn). Also that evening, city formed heavy metalers Kiss plays the first of their three night return gigs through the 16th at Madison Square Garden, all sold outs like their first such "Garden gig" that February 18. Dean & DeLuca food shop, Big Apple Circus, Smith & Wollensky restaurant, and Christie's branch office in business. I ♥ NY advertising campaign begins. New York Yankees won their 21st World Series championship. 1978 January 1: Ed Koch becomes the 105th mayor. January 9: New newspaper – The Trib. May ? David Berkowitz is sentenced to multiple 25 years-life terms for his 1976-1977 "Son of Sam" serial murders. July 28: Woman gives birth at top of Empire State Building. August–November: Multi-union strikes of the city's three major newspapers: The New York Times, New York Daily News and New York Post. October 12: Rocker Sid Vicious allegedly stabs his girlfriend Nancy Spungen to death in their room in the Hotel Chelsea. New York Yankees won their 22nd World Series championship. 1979 February 13: The Guardian Angels are formed in Brooklyn by Curtis Sliwa. May 25: Six-year-old Etan Patz vanishes after leaving his SoHo apartment to walk to his school bus alone. Despite a massive search by the NYPD the boy is never found, and was declared legally dead in 2001. September 16: Sugar Hill Gang releases "Rapper's Delight", introducing Hip hop to the country and the world. October 2: Pope John Paul II visits city, gives speech at U.N. against all forms of concentration camps and tortures in light of the then 40th anniversary of World War II's first establishing of both in his native Poland by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union and continuation afterwards by post-war Polish Communists. New York Theatre Workshop founded. Geraldine Ferraro becomes U.S. representative for New York's 9th congressional district. New York Yankees come from behind to beat the Baltimore Orioles, 5–4, on a day when they buried their team captain Thurman Munson, with a game-winning 2-run hit by Bobby Murcer. November 13: Ronald Reagan announces his candidacy for next year's presidential election. Performance Space 122 opens. Fulton John Sheen, aka Fulton Sheen, American Catholic bishop and television and radio broadcasting personality, dies at 84. 1980s–1990s 1980s 1980 March 14: Ex-Congressman Allard Lowenstein is