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1979 Historical Event(s)
January 28, 1979
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Sheep in Chinese astrology.
February 1, 1979
– The Ayatollah Khomeini is welcomed back to Tehran, Iran after nearly 15 years of exile.
July 12, 1979
– Disco Demolition Night at Comiskey Park Chicago, IL
July 15, 1979
– U.S. President Jimmy Carter gives his so-called “malaise” speech, where he characterizes the greatest threat to the country as “this crisis in the growing doubt about the meaning of our own lives and in the loss of a unity of purpose for our nation” but in which he never uses the word malaise
August 7, 1979
– Several tornadoes struck the city of Woodstock, Ontario, Canada and the surrounding communities.
September 12, 1979
– Indonesia is hit with an earthquake that measures 8.1 on the Richter scale.
September 22, 1979
– The Vela Incident (also known as the South Atlantic Flash) is observed near Bouvet Island, thought to be a nuclear weapons test.
November 4, 1979
– Iran hostage crisis begins: a group of Iranians, mostly students, invades the US embassy in Tehran and takes 90 hostages (53 of whom are American).
December 5, 1979
– Sonia Johnson is formally excommunicated by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for her outspoken criticism of the church concerning the proposed Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.
December 24, 1979
– The first European Ariane rocket is launched.
Who Were Born On 1979?
January 23, 1979
– Dawn Porter, British television presnter
April 13, 1979
– Baron Davis, American basketball player
April 18, 1979
– Michael Bradley, American basketball player
June 15, 1979
– Danielle Lineker, Welsh model
July 20, 1979
– Miklós Fehér, Hungarian footballer (d. 2004)
August 1, 1979
– Junior Agogo, Ghanaian footballer
August 8, 1979
– Rashard Lewis, American basketball player
August 30, 1979
– Juan Ignacio Chela, Argentine tennis player
September 30, 1979
– Cameron Bruce, Australian rules footballer
November 30, 1979
– Chris Atkinson, Australian rally driver