Historical Events In 1979
Friday, 29 March 2024
Oct 24 On this day in history guinness Book of Records presents Paul McCartney with a rhodium disc
Oct 26 Jackie Grant, cricketer (West Indian captain 1930-35), dies in the year 1979.
Oct 27 On this day in history 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 in the year 1979.
Oct 29 On this day in history 50 years after the great stock market crash, anti-nuclear protestors fail to shut down the New York Stock Exchange.
Oct 30 On this day in history nASA launches space vehicle S-203
Oct 30 Richard Arrington elected mayor of Birmingham in the year 1979.
Nov 01 Federal government made $1.5 billion loan to Chrysler in the year 1979.
Nov 01 On this day in history jacques Mesrine, French "enemy of the state", shot to death
Nov 01 In the year 1979 tanker Burmah Agate off Galveston Bay, Texas, spills 10.7 m gallons of oil, in US's worst oil spill disaster
Nov 03 In the year 1979 63 Americans taken hostage at US Embassy (Teheran, Iran)
Nov 03 In the year 1979 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) on this day in history.
Nov 05 Al Capp cartoonist (Lil' Abner), dies at 70 in the year 1979.
Nov 05 Al Capp, US cartoonist (Li'l Abner), dies at 70 in the year 1979.
Nov 07 Amedeo Nazzari, actor (Lure of Sila, Night of Cabiria), dies at 71 on this day in history.
Nov 08 ABC broadcasts "Iran Crisis American Held Hostage" with Frank Reynolds (the forerunner to "Nightline") on this day in history.
Nov 08 On this day in history 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 in the year 1979.
Nov 09 On this day in history lewis Charles, actor (Feather & 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 in the year 1979.
Nov 10 In the year 1979 friedrich Thorberg, writer, dies at 71
Nov 12 Dimitri Tiompkin, composer, dies at 85 in the year 1979.
Nov 12 In the year 1979 uS halts Iranian oil imports &freezes Iranian assets
Nov 13 Rebecca Clarke, composer, dies at 93 in the year 1979.
Nov 13 In the year 1979 ronald Reagan in NY announces his candidacy for President
Nov 14 Bill Farrimond, England cricket wicketkeeper (4 Tests 1930-35), dies on this day in history.
Nov 15 ABC-TV announces it would broadcast nightly specials on Iran hostage in the year 1979.
Nov 15 On this day in history british government identifies Sir Anthony Blunt as 4th man in Soviet spy ring
Nov 16 On this day in history paul McCartney releases "Wonderful Christmas"
Nov 17 John Glassock, bass (Jethro Tull), dies at 27 following heart surgery in the year 1979.
Nov 19 On this day in history chuck Berry released from prison on income tax evasion
Nov 22 On this day in history anne Vondeling, Male Dutch soc democratic party-minister, dies at 63
Nov 23 On this day in history merle Oberon, actress (Assignment Foreign Legion), dies at 68
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