What happend in 1979

Events
DateEvent
1979 Milton Ager Died
1979 Miguel Álvarez-Fernández Was Born
1979 Vicente Asencio Died
1979 Ronald Binge Died
1979 Nadia Boulanger Died
1979 Fernando Bustamante Died
January 09 1979 Avery Claflin Died
1979 Rebecca Helferich Clarke Died
1979 Paul Dessau Died
1979 Louis Durey Died
1979 Klaus Egge Died
1979 Roy Harris Died
1979 Volodymyr Ivasiuk Died
1979 Miloslav Kabeláč Died
1979 Stanyslav Lyudkevych Died
1979 Paul Paray Died
1979 Yuvan Shankar Raja Was Born
1979 Richard Rodgers Died
1979 Nino Rota Died
1979 Seymour Shifrin Died
June 27 1979 Benjamin Speed Was Born
1979 Dimitri Tiomkin Died
1979 Kalervo Tuukkanen Died
1979 Ivan Vïshnegradsky Died
January 01 1979 China And The US Establish Diplomatic Relations
June 16 1979 Ben Weber Died
January 07 1979 Pol Pot Driven Out As Phnom Penh Falls
January 08 1979 Tanker Betelgeuse Explodes In Bantry Bay
January 16 1979 Last Iranian Shah & Family Flees To Egypt
January 25 1979 Pope Begins Visits Outside Italy
January 28 1979 CBS News Sunday Morning Debuts
January 28 1979 Pope John Paul II Visits Mexico
January 30 1979 Boeing Freighter From Japan Disappears Over Pacific
February 01 1979 Ayatollah Khomeini Returns To Tehran After Exile
February 07 1979 New Discovery: Pluto Inside Neptune's Orbit
February 11 1979 Iranian Revolution Leads To Establishment Of Islamic Theocracy
February 13 1979 Half-mile Section Of Bridge Sinks In Washington
February 14 1979 In Kabul, Militants Kidnapped The American Ambassador
February 15 1979 Don Dunstan Resigns As Premier
February 17 1979 The Sino-Vietnamese War Begins
February 18 1979 First Snowfall In Sahara Desert
February 22 1979 Saint Lucia Cedes From UK
March 05 1979 Soiet And American Satellites Hit By Radiation
March 05 1979 Voyager 1 Spacecraft Approaches Jupiter
March 08 1979 Philips Introduces The CD To The Public
March 13 1979 Maurice Bishop Ousts Eric Gairy
March 14 1979 Trident Crashes In Beijing, Kills 200
March 16 1979 Liberation Army Crosses The Border Back Into China
March 17 1979 Penmanshiel Tunnel Collapse Kills 2
March 19 1979 U.S. House Begins First C-SPAN Broadcast
March 25 1979 Orbiter Prepared For Its First Launch
March 26 1979 Al-Sadat, Begin, And Carter Sign Peace Treaty
March 28 1979 Three Mile Island Had Nuclear Meltdown
March 28 1979 Callaghan's Government Loses Vote Of No Confidence
March 30 1979 The IRA Killed MP Airey Neave
March 31 1979 British Soldiers Leave, Malta Declares Freedom Day
April 01 1979 Iran Overthrows Shah
April 04 1979 Pakistani Prime Minister Bhutto Is Executed
April 06 1979 Student Protests Break Out In Nepal
April 10 1979 Texas Tornado Kills 42
April 11 1979 Ugandan Dictator Idi Amin Is Deposed
May 03 1979 Thatcher Forms Her First Government
May 04 1979 Thatcher Becomes First U.K. Prime Minister
May 04 1979 End the premiership of James Callaghan
May 04 1979 Start premiership of baroness Margaret Thatcher
May 09 1979 Jewish Execution Prompts Religion Exodus From Iran
May 10 1979 Micronesia Becomes Self-governing
May 21 1979 White Night Riots Follow White Conviction
May 25 1979 American Crash At O'Hare Kills 273
May 25 1979 Patz Disappears From Home
May 28 1979 Greece Signs Accession Treaty
June 01 1979 Rhodesia: Black-led Government Takes Power
June 02 1979 Pope John Paul II Visits Poland
June 03 1979 3,000,000 Barrels Of Oil Spilled
June 04 1979 Jerry Rawlings Takes Power In Ghana
June 09 1979 Sydney Luna Park Fire Kills Seven
June 12 1979 Bryan Allen Wins A Kremer Prize
June 18 1979 SALT II Signed By U.S
June 20 1979 ABC New Correspondent Shot By Nicaraguan Soldier
July 01 1979 Sony Introduces The Walkman
July 03 1979 Carter Directs Aid To Kabul Soviet Opponents
July 09 1979 ODESSA Claimes Reponsibilty For Car Bomb In France
July 11 1979 Skylab Explodes Over The Indian Ocean
July 12 1979 Kiribati Given Independece From United Kingdom
July 15 1979 President Carter Never Uses The Term Malaise
July 16 1979 Iraq: President Al-Bakr Resigns, Replaced By Hussein
July 17 1979 Nicaraguan Dictator Debayle Flees To Miami
July 19 1979 Nicaragua: Sandinistas Overthrow Somoza
July 25 1979 Israel Returns Sinai Section To Egypt
August 05 1979 Afghan Maoists Attempt Military Uprising
August 07 1979 Tornadoes Hit Woodstock, Ontario, Canada
August 11 1979 Two Tu-134's Crash Over Dniprodzerzhynsk, Killing 178
August 13 1979 Uncompleted Roof Collapses, Kills 5 In Rosemont
August 21 1979 Godunov Defects To US
August 27 1979 Provisional IRA Attacks British Soldiers
August 28 1979 IRA Bomb Explodes At Brussels' Grote Markt
September 01 1979 Pioneer 11 Reaches Saturn
September 07 1979 Chrylser Goverment Bailout 1.5 Million
September 12 1979 8.1 Earthquake Hits Indonesia
September 13 1979 Venda Independent From South Africa
September 14 1979 Amin Orders Taraki Assassinated
September 20 1979 Central Africa's Emperor Bokasa I Overthrown
September 22 1979 South Atlantic Flash Observed Near Bouvet Island
September 24 1979 CompuServe Launches First Public Email Service
September 27 1979 13th US Cabinet Is Department Of Education
September 29 1979 John Paul II Historic Visit To Ireland
September 30 1979 MTR Commences With Kwun Tong Line
October 01 1979 Pope John Paul II Visits The US
October 01 1979 Hong Kong's Rapid Transit Railway Opens
October 01 1979 Panama Regains Savereignty Of The Panama Canal
October 02 1979 While In NYC, The Pope Denounces Torture
October 06 1979 Pope John Paul To Visit White House
October 12 1979 Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy Published
October 12 1979 Typhoon Tip- Lowest Atmospheric Pressure In Pacific
October 14 1979 200,000 March For LGBT Rights In Washington, D.C
October 15 1979 Malta Labour Party Destroys Adami's Residence
October 17 1979 Mother Teresa Awarded Nobel Peace Prize
October 17 1979 The Government Signed Department Of Education Organization Act
October 21 1979 Dayan Resigns From Israeli Government Over Arab Policy
October 26 1979 Chung-hee Assassinated. Kyu-hah Acting. Kim Executed
October 27 1979 The Grenadines Gains Its Independence
November 01 1979 Natusch Ousts Guevara In Bloody Coup
November 03 1979 Five Dead In Greensboro Anti-Klan Rally
November 04 1979 Iranian Students Take Tehran Embassy Hostage
November 09 1979 NORAD Nuclear False Alarm Averted In Maryland
November 10 1979 A Train Derails And Explodes In Ontario
November 12 1979 The US Embargo's Iranian Oil During Crisis
November 14 1979 U.S. Freezes Iranian Assets
November 15 1979 Chicago-Washington DC Flight Makes Emergency Landing Due To Smoking Package
November 16 1979 Bucharest Metro (Line M1) Is Opened
November 17 1979 Initial Stage Of Brisbane Railway Electrification Commissioned
November 19 1979 Khomeini Orders Release Of Hostages
November 20 1979 Grand Mosque Seizure: Sunni Take 6000 Hostages
November 21 1979 US Embassy In Pakistan Attacked
November 23 1979 McMahon Life Sentence Post Mountbatten Assassination, Dublin
November 28 1979 A New Zealand Airline Crashed Over Antarctica
December 03 1979 11 Died At A Who Concert
December 03 1979 Ayatollah Khomeini Becomes First Leader Of Iran
December 04 1979 Three Schoolboys Killed In Hastie Fire And Bruce Lee Arrested
December 09 1979 Smallpox Virus Eradicated From Earth
December 10 1979 KMT Suppresses Demonstrations, Arresting Organizers
December 12 1979 South Korean General Orders Arrest
December 12 1979 Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq Confers On Nishan-e-Imtiaz On Dr Abdus Salam
December 12 1979 Southern Rhodesia Returns To British Name & Control
December 13 1979 Joe Clark's Defeat Prompts Canada's 1980 Election
December 16 1979 Lybia Joins OPEC In Raising Oil Prices Effecting United States
December 21 1979 Independence For Rhodesia Agreed Upon
December 23 1979 Soviet War In Afganistan Forces Occupy Kabul
December 24 1979 First European Ariane Rocket Launched
December 27 1979 Soviet Union Invades Republic Of Afghanistan




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