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.
March 26, 1979
– Anwar al-Sadat, Menachem Begin and Jimmy Carter sign the Israel-Egypt Peace Treaty in Washington, D.C.
June 18, 1979
– SALT II is signed by the United States and the Soviet Union.
June 20, 1979
– ABC News correspondent Bill Stewart is shot dead by a Nicaraguan soldier under the regime of Anastasio Somoza Debayle. The murder is caught on tape and sparks an international outcry against the regime.
July 11, 1979
– America’s first space station, Skylab, is destroyed as it re-enters the Earth’s atmosphere over the Indian Ocean.
August 27, 1979
– A Provisional Irish Republican Army bomb kills British World War II admiral Louis Mountbatten and three others while they are boating on holiday in Sligo, Republic of Ireland. Shortly after, 18 British Army soldiers are killed in an ambush near Warrenpoint, Northern Ireland (see Warrenpoint ambush).
October 17, 1979
– Mother Teresa awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
November 10, 1979
– A 106-car Canadian Pacific freight train carrying explosive and poisonous chemicals from Windsor, Ontario, Canada derails in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada just west of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, causing a massive explosion and the largest peacetime evacuation in Canadian history and one of the largest in North American history.
November 14, 1979
– Iran hostage crisis: US President Jimmy Carter issues Executive order 12170, freezing all Iranian assets in the United States in response to the hostage crisis.
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.
Who Were Born On 1979?
March 25, 1979
– Lee Pace, American actor
April 14, 1979
– Noé Pamarot, French footballer
August 2, 1979
– Marco Bonura, Italian footballer
September 17, 1979
– Billy Miller, American actor
October 30, 1979
– Yukie Nakama, Japanese actress
November 20, 1979
– Maree Bowden, New Zealand netball player (Silver Ferns)
December 5, 1979
– Evonne Hsu, Taiwanese singer
December 8, 1979
– José Peña, Venezuelan track and field athlete
December 25, 1979
– Hyun Young-Min, South Korean footballer