1979 Calendar
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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 17, 1979 – The Sino-Vietnamese War begins.
- March 8, 1979 – Philips demonstrates the Compact Disc publicly for the first time.
- March 13, 1979 – The New Jewel Movement, headed by Maurice Bishop, ousts Prime Minister Eric Gairy in a nearly bloodless coup d'etat in Grenada.
- April 4, 1979 – President Zulfikar Ali Bhutto of Pakistan is executed.
- July 16, 1979 – Iraqi President Hasan al-Bakr resigns and is replaced by Saddam Hussein.
- September 20, 1979 – A coup d'état in the Central African Empire overthrows Emperor Bokasa I.
- September 29, 1979 – Pope John Paul II becomes the first pope to set foot on Irish soil with his pastoral visit to the Republic of Ireland.
- October 14, 1979 – The first Gay Rights March on Washington, D.C., the National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights, demands “an end to all social, economic, judicial, and legal oppression of lesbian and gay people”, and draws 200,000 people.
- November 28, 1979 – Air New Zealand Flight 901, a DC-10 operated sightseeing flight over Antarctica, crashes into Mount Erebus, killing all 257 people on board.
Who Were Born On 1979?
- February 10, 1979 – Daryl Palumbo, American musician
- March 5, 1979 – Tang Gonghong, Chinese weightlifter
- May 21, 1979 – James Clancy Phelan, Australian novelist
- July 22, 1979 – James Mason, British professional wrestler
- August 22, 1979 – Brandon Quintin Adams, American actor
- September 5, 1979 – Stacey Dales, Canadian basketball player and sportscaster
- September 29, 1979 – Takumi Beppu, Japanese cyclist
- November 9, 1979 – Martin Taylor, English footballer
- December 1, 1979 – Angelique Bates, American actress
- December 14, 1979 – Jean-Alain Boumsong, French footballer