It was July, 1979. Jimmy Carter was president, ESPN was still a few months away from it’s first broadcast and Laverne & Shirley was the most watched show on television. Against this backdrop, a DJ named Steve Dahl and fellow Chicagoland personality Garry Meier convinced Mike Veeck and his father Bill Veeck, owner of the Chicago White Sox, to hold an anti-Disco rally between games of a doubleheader.

After the Tigers beat the White Sox 3-1 in the first game… madness ensued, as can be seen in this compilation of news footage from Chicago that fateful night, 33 years ago. Keep an eye open for a young Greg Gumbel.

The second game, of course, ended up being cancelled, forfeited to the Tigers. It would be the last forfeit in American League history to this day and the second-to-last forfeit in MLB history (there was “ball day” on August 10, 1995 in Los Angeles).

Interestingly, despite claims that Disco Demolition Night ended disco forever, later that year the Pittsburgh Pirates won the World Series while playing Sister Sledge’s “We Are Family” as their theme song.

The Pittsburgh Pirates, it should be noted, have not been back to the World Series since.