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Page 15: Historical Events In 1979

Tuesday, 15 July 2025

Oct 24   In the year 1979 guinness Book of Records presents Paul McCartney with a rhodium disc  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

Oct 26   Jackie Grant, cricketer (West Indian captain 1930-35), dies on this day in history.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

Oct 27   Voluntary Euthanasia Society publishes how-to-do-it suicide guide in the year 1979.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

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.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

Oct 29   50 years after the great stock market crash, anti-nuclear protestors fail to shut down the New York Stock Exchange on this day in history.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

Oct 30   NASA launches space vehicle S-203 on this day in history.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

Oct 30   In the year 1979 richard Arrington elected mayor of Birmingham  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

Nov 01   Federal government made $1.5 billion loan to Chrysler in the year 1979.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

Nov 01   Jacques Mesrine, French "enemy of the state", shot to death in the year 1979.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

Nov 01   Tanker Burmah Agate off Galveston Bay, Texas, spills 10.7 m gallons of oil, in US's worst oil spill disaster on this day in history.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

Nov 03   63 Americans taken hostage at US Embassy (Teheran, Iran) on this day in history.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

Nov 03   On this day in history the Greensboro Massacre - Klu Klux Clan shoot 5 members of the communist workers party IN Greensboro, North Carolina,  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

Nov 04   In the year 1979 500 Iranian "students" seize US embassy, take 90 hostages (444 days)  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

Nov 05   Al Capp cartoonist (Lil' Abner), dies at 70 on this day in history.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

Nov 05   On this day in history al Capp, US cartoonist (Li'l Abner), dies at 70  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

Nov 07   Amedeo Nazzari, actor (Lure of Sila, Night of Cabiria), dies at 71 in the year 1979.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

Nov 08   On this day in history aBC broadcasts "Iran Crisis American Held Hostage" with Frank Reynolds (the forerunner to "Nightline")  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

Nov 08   On this day in history aBC broadcasts "Iran Crisis: American Held Hostage" with Frank Reynolds (the forerunner to "Nightline")  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

Nov 08   On this day in history sydney Tafler, actor (Too Many Crooks), dies at 63  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

Nov 09   Lewis Charles, actor (Feather & Father Gang), dies at 59 on this day in history.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

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 on this day in history.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

Nov 10   In the year 1979 friedrich Thorberg, writer, dies at 71  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

Nov 12   In the year 1979 dimitri Tiompkin, composer, dies at 85  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

Nov 12   In the year 1979 uS halts Iranian oil imports &freezes Iranian assets  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

Nov 13   Rebecca Clarke, composer, dies at 93 on this day in history.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

Nov 13   In the year 1979 ronald Reagan in NY announces his candidacy for President  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

Nov 14   In the year 1979 bill Farrimond, England cricket wicketkeeper (4 Tests 1930-35), dies  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

Nov 15   ABC-TV announces it would broadcast nightly specials on Iran hostage in the year 1979.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

Nov 15   In the year 1979 british government identifies Sir Anthony Blunt as 4th man in Soviet spy ring  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

Nov 16   Paul McCartney releases "Wonderful Christmas" on this day in history.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

Nov 17   John Glassock, bass (Jethro Tull), dies at 27 following heart surgery on this day in history.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

Nov 19   Chuck Berry released from prison on income tax evasion on this day in history.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

Nov 22   Anne Vondeling, Male Dutch soc democratic party-minister, dies at 63 on this day in history.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

Nov 23   On this day in history merle Oberon, actress (Assignment Foreign Legion), dies at 68  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

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Apr 02   Jesse Carmichael, American musician (Maroon 5) was born in the year 1979.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

Apr 21   In the year 1979 birth of james McAvoy, Scottish actor  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

Apr 28   In the year 1979 birth of bahram Radan, Iranian actor  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

Apr 30   On this day in history birth of gerardo Torrado, Mexican footballer  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

May 07   In the year 1979 birth of katie Douglas, American basketball player  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

May 19   In the year 1979 birth of barbara Nedeljakova, Slovak actress  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

May 19   On this day in history birth of diego Forlán, Uruguayan footballer  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

May 19   Andrea Pirlo, Italian footballer was born in the year 1979.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

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Famous People Died In This Year In History

Jan 03   Conrad Hilton, US founder (Hilton Hotels), dies at 91 in the year 1979.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

Jan 04   Charles Mingus, jazz bassist, dies of heart attack in the year 1979.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

Jan 05   Charles Mingus, US jazz bassist/composer/orchestra leader, dies at 56 in the year 1979.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

Jan 07   Zbigniew Turski, composer, dies at 70 on this day in history.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

Jan 09   On this day in history avery Claflin, composer, dies at 80  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

Jan 11   On this day in history jack Soo, actor (Nick Yemana-Barney Miller, Green Berets), dies at 63  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

Jan 13   Donny Hathaway, Chicago Ill, rocker (Ghetto), commits suicide at 33 died in the year 1979.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

Jan 14   Thomas DeSimone, gangster associate of the Lucchese crime family (b. 1950) died in the year 1979.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard


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