Historical Events In 1979

Jul 09 Voyager 2 flies past Jupiter

Jul 19 Nicaragua Liberation Day; Sandinistas take over from Somoza

Jul 11 Debris from the US Skylab space station fall on Australia

Jul 19 Patricia Harris, becomes sect of HEW

Jul 14 George De Witt TV host (Name that Tune), dies at 56

Jul 17 Sebastian Coe runs world record 3 49 mile in Oslo

Jul 12 Kiribati (Gilbert & Ellice Is) gains independence from Britain

Jul 13 George Harrison releases "faster"

Jul 10 Arthur Fiedler the conductor of The Boston Pops Orchestra died

Jul 08 Voyager 2 takes first ever photo of Jupiter's satellite Adrastea (J14)

Jul 20 44-kg Newfoundland dog pulls 2293-kg load, Bothell, Wash

Jul 22 Hope Summers actress (Clara-Andy Griffith Show), dies at 78

Jul 01 Stampede Pass, Washington is covered with 6" of snow

Jul 11 US Skylab enters atmosphere over Australia & disintegrates

Jul 09 Dr Walter Massey named director of Argonne national Lab

Jul 26 Estimated 109 cm (43") of rain falls in Alvin, TX (national record)

Jul 31 N Chernykh discovers asteroids #2402 Satpaev & #2416 Sharonov

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

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