1979 Calendar
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1979 Historical Event(s)
January 8, 1979
– The tanker Betelgeuse explodes in Bantry Bay, Ireland.
January 28, 1979
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Sheep in Chinese astrology.
January 29, 1979
– Brenda Spencer kills two people and wounds eight at the Grover Cleveland Elementary School shootings.
March 30, 1979
– Airey Neave, a British Member of Parliament, is killed by a car bomb as he exits the Palace of Westminster. The Irish National Liberation Army claims responsibility.
April 4, 1979
– President Zulfikar Ali Bhutto of Pakistan is executed.
July 1, 1979
– Sony introduces the Walkman.
October 15, 1979
– Black Monday in Malta. The Building of the Times of Malta, the residence of the opposition leader Eddie Fenech Adami and several Nationalist Party clubs are ransacked and destroyed by supporters of the Malta Labour Party.
October 17, 1979
– Mother Teresa awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
November 3, 1979
– Greensboro massacre: Five members of the Communist Workers Party are shot dead and seven are wounded by a group of Klansmen and neo-Nazis during a “Death to the Klan” rally in Greensboro, North Carolina, United States.
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?
January 18, 1979
– Paulo Ferreira, Portuguese footballer
March 19, 1979
– Sheldon Brown, American football player
March 24, 1979
– Norris Hopper, American baseball player
April 26, 1979
– Ariane Moffatt, Canadian singer and songwriter
June 22, 1979
– Brad Hawpe, American baseball player
July 9, 1979
– Ella Koon, Hong Kong singer and actress
August 5, 1979
– David Healy, Northern Irish footballer
August 20, 1979
– Cory Sullivan, American baseball player
October 4, 1979
– Rachael Leigh Cook, American actress
November 19, 1979
– Leam Richardson, English football player