Historical Events In 1979

Mar 08 The first extraterrestrial volcano discovered (Jupiter's satellite Io)

Mar 19 House of Representatives begins live TV broadcasts via C-SPAN

Mar 26 Camp David peace treaty between Israel &Egypt

Mar 24 First appearance as Australian cricket captain for Kim Hughes

Mar 20 Columbia flies on Shuttle carrier aircraft to Kennedy Space Center

Mar 17 World Ice Dance Championship at Vienna won by N Linichuk and G Karponosov USSR

Mar 09 Bowie Kuhn orders baseball to give equal access to female reporters

Mar 28 Major nuclear accident at 3 Mile Island, Middletown PA (no deaths but lots of stress)

Mar 13 European Monetary System is established, ECU created

Mar 24 Columbia flown on aircraft carrier lands at Kennedy Space Center

Mar 13 Gairy dictatorship in Grenada overthrown by New Jewel Movement

Mar 04 US Voyager I photo reveals Jupiter's rings

Mar 18 Battles between Kurds & Iranians break in Sananday Iran

Mar 25 Major riot at Bourda prevents day's play in WSC Supertest

Mar 07 USS Constellation and her escort ships were ordered to the Gulf of Aden in response to the conflict between North and South Yemen.

Mar 20 The last variant of the P-2 Neptune rolled off the production line at ceremonies in Japan. This was the longest production run of any aircraft type in history, 34 years from the first model which was built in 1945

Mar 22 Israeli parliament approves peace treaty with Egypt

Mar 08 China withdraws invasion troops from Vietnam

Mar 11 Randy Hold receives 67 minutes in penalties in a 60 minute NHL hockey game

Mar 04 200th episode of "All in the Family"

Mar 15 Apparat releases Newdos+ 2.1 for Radio Shack's TRS-80

Mar 29 Last day of Test cricket for Mushtaq Mohammad

Mar 08 Shuttle Columbia (OV-102) transported 38 miles overland from Palmdale

Mar 14 Near Coast of Guerrero, Mexico a 7.6 earthquake was centered about 250 km south of Mexico City. At least five people were reported killed

Mar 29 Delhi beat Karnataka by 399 runs to win Cricket's Ranji Trophy

Mar 14 Peter Lougheed 1928- wins third term in provincial election and so continues the Tory Blue Rule

Mar 16 CBS-TV airs "Wings Over the World" with Paul McCartney

Mar 29 Andrew Hilditch given out handled the ball vs Pakistan at WACA

Mar 21 Egyptian Parliament unanimously approve peace treaty with Israel

Mar 27 Supreme Court rules, 8-1, cops can't randomly stop cars

Mar 23 In a ceremony at NAS Norfolk, Vice Admiral Forrest S. Petersen transferred ownership of the last Kawanishi H8K2 flying boat to the Japanese Museum of Maritime Science.

Mar 28 British government of Callaghan falls

Mar 05 Voyager I's closest approach to Jupiter (172,000 miles)

Mar 28 A serious radiation leak occurs at the Three Mile Island nuclear plant in the US

Mar 09 France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island

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