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1979 Calendar

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•  January 1, 1979 – Formal diplomatic relations are established between the China and the United States.
•  January 28, 1979 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Sheep in Chinese astrology.
•  March 5, 1979 – America’s Voyager 1 spacecraft has its closest approach to Jupiter, 172,000 miles.
•  June 3, 1979 – A blowout at the Ixtoc I oil well in the southern Gulf of Mexico causes at least 3000000 oilbbl of oil to be spilled into the waters, the second-worst accidental oil spill ever recorded.
•  August 7, 1979 – Several tornadoes struck the city of Woodstock, Ontario, Canada and the surrounding communities.
•  October 17, 1979 – Mother Teresa awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
•  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).
•  November 21, 1979 – The United States Embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan is attacked by a mob and set on fire, killing four. (see: Foreign relations of Pakistan)
•  November 23, 1979 – In Dublin, Ireland, Provisional Irish Republican Army member Thomas McMahon is sentenced to life in prison for the assassination of Lord Mountbatten.
•  December 12, 1979 – A major earthquake and tsunami kill 259 people in Colombia.

•  January 27, 1979 – Liesbet Van Breedam, Belgian beach volleyball player
•  March 20, 1979 – Bernard O'Connor, Gaelic Footballer
•  May 17, 1979 – Wayne Thomas, English footballer
•  May 18, 1979 – Anna Chatziathanassiou, Greek figure skater
•  May 21, 1979 – Damián Ariel Álvarez, Argentinian footballer
•  July 1, 1979 – Forrest Griffin, American mixed martial artist
•  September 10, 1979 – Andreas Aniko, Estonian footballer
•  September 23, 1979 – Lote Tuqiri, Fijian/Australian Rugby League and Rugby Union Player
•  November 16, 1979 – Bruce Irons, American surfer