Page 2: Historical Events In 1979

Jan 19   Paul Meurisse, actor (Diabolique, Truth, Suspects, Monocle), dies   

Jan 21   Neptune is recorded as becoming outermost planet (Pluto moves closer)   

Jan 21   Price of gold increases to record $875 troy ounce   

Jan 22   Ali Hassan Salameh, [Abu Hassan], killed by car bomb; believed to have helped mastermind massacre of 1972 Munich Olympics athletes.   

Jan 23   Willie Mays elected to Baseball Hall of Fame   

Jan 24   Jerry Damon, comedian (That Was The Week That Was), dies at 51   

Jan 24   US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site.   

Jan 25   22.2-km Oshimizu railroad tunnel holed through, central Honshu, Japan   

Jan 25   J Robertson Hare, actor (Fighting Stock), dies at 87.   

Jan 25   Jean-Luc Pepin and John Robarts release the Report of the Task Force on Canadian Unity; recommend that Quebec should have the power to maintain its language and culture, and that federal powers be reduce   

Jan 25   Pope John Paul II's inaugural overseas trip as supreme pontiff.   

Jan 26   "The Dukes of Hazzard" premieres on CBS's vast wasteland   

Jan 26   Former U.S. Vice President Nelson A. Rockefeller dies in New York at age 70   

Jan 26   Music Center Vredenburg opens in Utrecht Netherlands   

Jan 26   Nelson Rockefeller, former VP and (4X Gov-R-NY), dies at 70   

Jan 27   36th Golden Globes Midnight Express, Jon Voight and Jane Fonda   

Jan 29   Brenda Spencer results in the deaths of 2, inspires Boomtown Rats "I Don't Like Mondays"   

Jan 29   Chinese Vice Premier Deng Xiaoping is welcomed to the White House by U.S. President Jimmy Carter Carter, as the two countries re-establish formal relations.   

Jan 29   Chinese vice-premier Deng Xiaoping visits Washington DC.   

Jan 29   President Carter commuted Patricia Hearst's 7 year sentence to 2 years   

Jan 30   Iran announces that Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini is returning, ending his exile in France.   

Jan 30   Rhodesia agrees to new constitution   

Jan 30   Rhodesian whites vote to transfer to majority rule.   

Feb 01   Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returns to Iran after 15 years in exile.   

Feb 01   Mort Marshall, actor (Cully-Dumplings), dies at 60.   

Feb 01   Newspaper heiress Patty Hearst leaves federal prison when her sentence for bank robbery is commuted by President Jimmy Carter   

Feb 01   USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR.   

Feb 02   Jim Burke, cricketer (Australian opener), commits suicide   

Feb 03   "YMCA" by Village People peaks at #2 on pop singles chart   

Feb 03   Jody Gilbert, actress (Willard, Shaggy, Blonde Dynamite), dies.   

Feb 03   US female Figure Skating championship won by Linda Fratianne   

Feb 03   US male Figure Skating championship won by Charles Tickner   

Feb 05   Costliest single periodical ad, $3.2 million, Gulf + Western in Time.   

Feb 05   Eddie Paynter, cricketer (20 Tests for England, avg 59.23), dies.   

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Apr 02   Jesse Carmichael, American musician (Maroon 5) was born in the year 1979.   

Apr 21   James McAvoy, Scottish actor was born in the year 1979.   

Apr 28   On this day in history birth of bahram Radan, Iranian actor   

Apr 30   Gerardo Torrado, Mexican footballer was born on this day in history.   

May 07   In the year 1979 birth of katie Douglas, American basketball player   

May 19   On this day in history birth of barbara Nedeljakova, Slovak actress   

May 19   Diego Forlán, Uruguayan footballer was born in the year 1979.   

May 19   On this day in history birth of andrea Pirlo, Italian footballer   

Jan 03   In the year 1979 conrad Hilton, US founder (Hilton Hotels), dies at 91   

Jan 04   Charles Mingus, jazz bassist, dies of heart attack on this day in history.   

Jan 05   In the year 1979 charles Mingus, US jazz bassist/composer/orchestra leader, dies at 56   

Jan 07   On this day in history zbigniew Turski, composer, dies at 70   

Jan 09   Avery Claflin, composer, dies at 80 on this day in history.   

Jan 11   Jack Soo, actor (Nick Yemana-Barney Miller, Green Berets), dies at 63 in the year 1979.   

Jan 13   Donny Hathaway, Chicago Ill, rocker (Ghetto), commits suicide at 33 died on this day in history.   

Jan 14   On this day in history death of thomas DeSimone, gangster associate of the Lucchese crime family (b. 1950)