Page 14: Historical Events In 1979
Friday, 12 June 2026
Oct 15 The inaugural Monday Night Footbal game from NYC, Jets beat Vikings 14-7 (Shea Stad). 


Oct 17 1800 Marines landed in Guantanamo Bay as a demonstration of naval power in the wake of the Soviet refusal to withdraw the Russian combat brigade in Cuba 


Oct 17 D Bautista of Mexico completes 20000 m walk in record 1 20 06.8 


Oct 17 John Stuart, actor (Number 17), dies at 81 


Oct 17 Mother Teresa of India, awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. 


Oct 18 "Beatlemania" opens in London. 


Oct 20 John F Kennedy Library dedicated in Boston. 


Oct 22 Deposed Shah of Iran arrives in NY for medical treatment. 


Oct 22 Jesse Bishop, murderer, dies in Nevada gas chamber. 


Oct 22 Ousted Shah of Iran arrives in New York for cancer treatment 


Oct 22 Walt Disney World's 100-millionth guest. 


Oct 24 Guinness Book of Records presents Paul McCartney with a rhodium disc. 


Oct 26 Jackie Grant, cricketer (West Indian captain 1930-35), dies 


Oct 27 In this year, Voluntary Euthanasia Society publishes how-to-do-it suicide guide 


Oct 28 USS Kitty Hawk and her escort ships were directed to operate south of the Korean peninsula in response to the assassination of South Korean President Park on 26 October 


Oct 29 50 years after the great stock market crash, anti-nuclear protestors fail to shut down the New York Stock Exchange 


Oct 30 NASA launches space vehicle S-203 


Oct 30 Richard Arrington elected mayor of Birmingham 


Nov 01 Federal government made $1.5 billion loan to Chrysler. 


Nov 01 Jacques Mesrine, French "enemy of the state", shot to death. 


Nov 01 Tanker Burmah Agate off Galveston Bay, Texas, spills 10.7 m gallons of oil, in US's worst oil spill disaster 


Nov 03 63 Americans taken hostage at US Embassy (Teheran, Iran) 


Nov 03 The Greensboro Massacre - Klu Klux Clan shoot 5 members of the communist workers party IN Greensboro, North Carolina, 


Nov 04 500 Iranian "students" seize US embassy, take 90 hostages (444 days). 


Nov 05 Al Capp cartoonist (Lil' Abner), dies at 70 


Nov 05 Al Capp, US cartoonist (Li'l Abner), dies at 70 


Nov 07 Amedeo Nazzari, actor (Lure of Sila, Night of Cabiria), dies at 71. 


Nov 08 ABC broadcasts "Iran Crisis American Held Hostage" with Frank Reynolds (the forerunner to "Nightline") 


Nov 08 Sydney Tafler, actor (Too Many Crooks), dies at 63. 


Nov 09 Lewis Charles, actor (Feather and Father Gang), dies at 59 


Nov 10 CP Rail no. 54 suffers a hot axle box and derails 24 cars containing dangerous commodities, in Mississaugua, Ont. Almost a quarter of a million people were evacuated for periods of up to five days. 


Nov 10 Friedrich Thorberg, writer, dies at 71. 


Nov 12 Dimitri Tiompkin, composer, dies at 85. 


Nov 12 US halts Iranian oil imports and freezes Iranian assets. 


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