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1979 Calendar

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•  January 28, 1979 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Sheep in Chinese astrology.
•  February 11, 1979 – Islamic revolution of Iran establishes an Islamic theocracy under the leadership of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.
•  February 22, 1979 – Independence of Saint Lucia from the United Kingdom.
•  March 5, 1979 – America’s Voyager 1 spacecraft has its closest approach to Jupiter, 172,000 miles.
•  March 28, 1979 – Operators of Three Mile Island’s Unit 2 nuclear reactor outside of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania fail to recognize that a relief valve in the primary coolant system has stuck open following an unexpected shutdown. As a result, enough coolant drains out of the system to allow the core to overheat and partially melt down.
•  May 21, 1979 – White Night riots in San Francisco following the manslaughter conviction of Dan White for the assassinations of George Moscone and Harvey Milk.
•  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 12, 1979 – The island nation of Kiribati becomes independent from Great Britain.
•  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 15, 1979 – A package from the Unabomber Ted Kaczynski begins smoking in the cargo hold of a flight from Chicago to Washington, forcing the plane to make an emergency landing.

•  January 16, 1979 – Jason Ward, Canadian ice hockey player
•  January 20, 1979 – Shang Yi, Chinese footballer
•  February 26, 1979 – Pedro Mendes, Portuguese footballer
•  March 12, 1979 – Nidia Guenard, American wrestler
•  April 18, 1979 – Michael Bradley, American basketball player
•  June 19, 1979 – Moonika Aava, Estonian javelin thrower
•  July 10, 1979 – Mvondo Atangana, Cameroon footballer
•  July 19, 1979 – Rick Ankiel, American baseball player
•  October 5, 1979 – Curtis Sanford, Canadian ice hockey player
•  November 24, 1979 – Becca Barlow, American guitarist (BarlowGirl)