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1979
1979 is a common year starting on Monday.
Events
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March 5 - Voyager I passes Jupiter
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March 13 - In Grenada, Maurice Bishop leads a successful coup
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March 14 - In China, a Hawker-Siddeley Trident crashes into a factory near Beijing killing at least 200
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March 25 - The first fully functional space shuttle orbiter, Columbia, was delivered to the John F. Kennedy Space Center to be prepared for its first launch
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March 26 - In a ceremony at the White House, President Anwar Sadat of Egypt and Prime Minister Menachem Begin of Israel sign a peace treaty
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March 28 - Nuclear power plant accident at Three Mile Island, Pennsylvania, releases radiation
- March 28 - In the United Kingdom, Jim Callaghan's government loses a motion of confidence by one vote, forcing a general election
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March 29 - Sultan Yahya Petra ibni Almarhum Sultan Ibrahim Petra, 6th Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia dies in office. He is replaced by Sultan Haji Ahmad Shah Al-Mustain Billah ibni Almarhum Sultan Sir Abu Bakar Riayatuddin Al-Muadzam Shah, Sultan of Pahang.
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March 30 - Airey Neave, World War Two veteran and Conservative Northern Ireland spokesman, is killed by INLA bomb in British House of Commons car park
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March 31 - The Royal Navy withdraws from Malta
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June 1 - The first black-led government of Rhodesia in 90 years takes power, ousting Ian Smith
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June 2 - Pope John Paul II visits his native Poland, becoming the first Pope to visit a Communist country
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June 3 - A blowout at the Ixtoc I oil well in the southern Gulf of Mexico causes at least 600,000 tons (176,400,000 gallons) of oil to be spilled into the waters, the worst oil spill to date. Some estimate the spill to be 428 million gallons, making it the largest unintentional oil spill ever.
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June 4 - Joe Clark becomes Canada's sixteenth, and youngest, prime minister.
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June 12 - Bryan Allen flies the Gossamer Albatross, man powered, across the English Channel.
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June 18 - Jimmy Carter and Leonid Brezhnev sign the SALT II agreement in Vienna.
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June 20 - a national guard soldier in Nicaragua kills ABC TV news correspondent Bill Stewart and his interpreter Juan Espinosa . Other members of the news crew capture the killing on tape
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November 1 - Iran hostage crisis: Iranian Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini urged his people to demonstrate on November 4 and to expand attacks on United States and Israeli interests
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November 2 – French police shoots gangster Jacques Mesrine in Paris
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November 3 - In Greensboro, North Carolina, five members of the Communist Workers Party are shot to death and seven are wounded by a group of Klansmen and neo-Nazis during a "Death to the Klan" rally
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November 4 - Iran hostage crisis begins: 3000 Iranian radicals, mostly students, invade the United States embassy in Tehran and take 90 hostages (63 of whom are American). They demand that the United States send the former shah back to Iran to stand trial.
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November 5 - The radio news program Morning Edition premieres on National Public Radio.
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November 12 - Iran hostage crisis: In response to the hostage situation in Tehran, US President Jimmy Carter orders a halt to all oil imports into the United States from Iran
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November 14 - Iran hostage crisis: US President Jimmy Carter issues Executive Order 12170 , freezing all Iranian assets in the United States and US banks in response to the hostage crisis
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November 16 - Bucharest Metro Line 1 is opened, in Bucharest, Romania (from Timpuri Noi to Semanatoarea stations, 8.63 km)
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November 17 - Iran hostage crisis: Iranian leader Ruhollah Khomeini orders the release of 13 female and black American hostages being held at the US Embassy in Tehran.
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November 21 - The United States Embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan is attacked by a mob and set afire, killing four. (see: Foreign relations of Pakistan)
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November 23 - In Dublin, Ireland, Irish Republican Army member Thomas McMahon is sentenced to life in prison for the assassination of Lord Mountbatten
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November 28 - In Antarctica, a DC-10 carrying Air New Zealand Flight 901 crashes into Mount Erebus on a sightseeing trip, killing all 257 people on board
Unknown dates
Year in topic
Births
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January 16 - Aaliyah, singer (d. 2001)
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January 21 - Brian O'Driscoll, Irish rugby star
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January 24 - Tatyana Ali, actress
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February 9 - Mena Suvari, actress, Zhang Ziyi, Actress/Model
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February 11 - Brandy Norwood, singer
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February 21 - Jennifer Love Hewitt, actress, singer
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March 12 - Pete Doherty, singer/guitarist (The Libertines and Babyshambles)
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March 30 - Norah Jones, musician
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April 4 - Heath Ledger, actor
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April 10 - Tsuyoshi Domoto, artist
- April 10 - Rachel Corrie, American activist, member of the International Solidarity Movement (d. 2003)
- April 10 - Sophie Ellis-Bextor, singer
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April 12 - Claire Danes, American actress
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April 18 - Michael Bradley, NBA basketball player
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April 19 - Kate Hudson, actress (Almost Famous, How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days)
- April 19 - Antoaneta Stefanova, chess star
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May 24 - Tracy McGrady, NBA star
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May 25 - Jonny Wilkinson, English rugby star
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June 13 - Nila Håkedal, Norwegian beach volleyball player
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June 23 - LaDainian Tomlinson, American football player
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June 28 - Randy McMichael, American football player
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July 3 - Ludivine Sagnier, model and actress
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July 10 - Shane West, actor
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July 21 - David Carr, American football quarterback
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August 16 - Sarah Balabagan, Filipina prisoner and singer
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August 26 - Jamal Lewis, American football player
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September 13 - Bjørn-Arild Berthelsen, Norwegian salvationist
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September 28 - Bam Margera, skater, troublemaker
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October 1 - Rudi Johnson, American football player
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October 17 - Kimi Räikkönen, Finnish Formula One racing driver
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November 6 - Lamar Odom, basketball player
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November 13 - Ron Artest, basketball player
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December 12 - Nate Clements, American football player
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December 14 - Michael Owen, English soccer player
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December 27 - Carson Palmer, American football quarterback, Heisman Trophy winner
Deaths
January-March
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January 3 - Conrad Hilton, hotelier
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January 5 - Charles Mingus, American jazz musician
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January 13 - Donny Hathaway, musician
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January 26 - Nelson Rockefeller, Governor of New York, Vice President of the United States
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February 2 - Sid Vicious of Sex Pistols
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February 7 - Josef Mengele, Nazi war criminal
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February 12 - Jean Renoir, Film Director
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February 14 - Reginald Maudling British politician and butt of Monty Python's jokes
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February 23 - W.A.C. Bennett, British Columbia politician
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February 28 - Mr. Ed, the talking horse
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March 1 - Mustafa Barzani, Leader of Kurdish Democratic Party
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March 19 - Richard Beckinsale, British actor
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March 28 - Emmett Kelly, clown
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March 29 - Sultan Yahya Petra ibni Almarhum Sultan Ibrahim Petra, Sultan of Kelantan and 6th Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia.
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March 30 - Airey Neave MP, British politician, assassinated by INLA terrorists
April-September
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April 4 - Ali Bhutto, President and Prime Minister of Pakistan
- April 4 - Edgar Buchanan, actor, Petticoat Junction (b. 1903)
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April 10 - Nino Rota, composer
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April 23 - Blair Peach, Anti-Nazi League campaigner, killed by police during protest
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April 24 - Clayton Robert Berg , director
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May 11 – Barbara Hutton, America's "Poor Little Rich Girl"
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May 29 - Mary Pickford, actress, studio founder
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June 11 - John Wayne, actor
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June 17 - Duffy Lewis, Major League Baseball player (b. 1888)
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July 3 - Louis Durey, French composer
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July 10 - Arthur Fiedler, American conductor (b. 1894)
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July 12 - Minnie Riperton, R&B singer
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July 16 - Alfred Deller, English countertenor (b. 1912)
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July 29 - Bill Todman, game show producer
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August 2 - Thurman Munson, baseball player
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August 27 - Earl Mountbatten of Burma, 79, British World War II hero
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September - Ismail Nasiruddin Shah ibni Almarhum Sultan Zainal Abidin III, Sultan of Terengganu and former 4th Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia.
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September 8 - Jean Seberg, actress
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September 10 - Agostinho Neto, Angolan nationalist
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September 28 - John Herbert Chapman, Canadian physicist who directed the launch of the first Canadian satalite, Alouette 1.
October-December
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October 6 - Elizabeth Bishop, poet
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October 10 - Christopher Evans, British psychologist and computer scientist
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October 13 - Rebecca Clarke, composer and violist
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November 1 - Krisztina Poropszki , EU Champipnship 2nd place, Kick-boxer
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November 1 - Mamie Eisenhower, wife of Dwight D. Eisenhower and First Lady of the United States
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November 29 - Zeppo Marx, actor, comedian (b. 1901)
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December 7 - Prince Chahryar Shafik , nephew of the Shah of Iran
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December 17 - William Green, American football player
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December 23 - Peggy Guggenheim, art collector
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December 27 - Hafizullah Amin, president of Afghanistan
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