Jan 25 Bani Sadr elected President of Iran

Jan 25 Finance Minister Abolhassan Bani-Sadr is elected president of Iran.

Jan 29 6 Iranian held US hostages escape with help of the Canadians

Jan 01 Mob storms Russian embassy in Teheran

Jan 03 Joy Adamson, author of "Born Free," is killed by a servant in northern Kenya.

Jan 26 175,000 pay to hear Frank Sinatra sing in Rio de Janeiro!

Jan 21 Gold hits record $850 an ounce

Jan 20 US female Figure Skating championship won by Linda Fratianne

Jan 06 Indira Gandhi's Congress Party wins elections in India

Jan 21 Gold reaches intra-day historic high price of $870 in New York.

Jan 20 President Jimmy Carter announces US boycott of Olympics in Moscow

Jan 11 Debut of the Pretenders

Jan 01 Sweden changes order of succession to throne

Jan 31 Ontario to rebate up to $700 in sales tax for purchasers of 1979 model cars; effort to help slumping car sales

Jan 17 NASA launches Fltsatcom-3

Jan 24 North of Livermore Valley, California s 5.9, earthquake injured 44 people and caused and estimated $11.5 million in property damage (of which, $10 million damage occurred at the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory at Livermore

Jan 18 Pink Floyd's "The Wall" hits #1

Jan 06 Indira Gandhi's Congress Party wins elections in India

Feb 05 Egyptian parliament votes to end boycott of Israel

Feb 16 Eric Heiden skates 5k in 7 02.29 (Olympics Record)

Feb 13 Opening ceremonies for the 13th Winter Olympics begin in Lake Placid, New York.

Feb 21 Hanni Wenzel is first Liechtensteiner to win Olympics gold (giant slalom)

Feb 04 Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini names Abolhassan Bani-Sadr as president of Iran.

Feb 14 13th Winter Olympics games open in Lake Placid NY

Feb 27 Terrorists occupies Dominican embassy in Bogota

Feb 13 Apollo Computer Inc incorporated

Feb 22 Afghanistan declares martial law

Feb 18 Billy Wyman said he will leave the Rolling Stones in 1983 (Sure!)

Feb 25 Coup ousts PM Henck Arron of Suriname

Feb 02 The U.S. learns of an FBI sting operation named "Abscam" that targeted members of Congress using agents posing as Arab businessmen.

Feb 22 USA beats USSR in Olympics hockey 4-3 en route to a gold medal

Feb 26 Egypt & Israel exchange ambassadors for the first time

Feb 01 Soap opera "Love of Life" ends a 28 year run

Feb 23 Eric Heiden wins all 5 speed skating golds at Lake Placid Olympics

Feb 29 Yigal Allon, former Israeli foreign minister and supporter of Israeli independence, dies at age 61.

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