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1979 Calendar

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•  January 7, 1979 – Third Indochina War – Cambodian–Vietnamese War: Phnom Penh falls to the advancing Vietnamese troops, driving out Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge.
•  January 28, 1979 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Sheep in Chinese astrology.
•  February 18, 1979 – Snow falls in the Sahara Desert in southern Algeria for the only time in recorded history.
•  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.
•  September 13, 1979 – South Africa grants independence to the “homeland” of Venda (not recognised outside South Africa).
•  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.
•  November 16, 1979 – The first line of Bucharest Metro (Line M1) is opened from Timpuri Noi to Semănătoarea in Bucharest, Romania.
•  November 20, 1979 – Grand Mosque Seizure: About 200 Sunni Muslims revolt in Saudi Arabia at the site of the Kaaba in Mecca during the pilgrimage and take about 6000 hostages. The Saudi government receives help from French special forces to put down the uprising.
•  December 12, 1979 – President of Pakistan, Zia-ul-Haq, confers Nishan-e-Imtiaz on Nobel laureate Dr Abdus Salam.
•  December 27, 1979 – The Soviet Union invades the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan.

•  February 9, 1979 – Irina Slutskaya, Russian figure skater
•  March 25, 1979 – Natasha Yi, American model
•  May 25, 1979 – Sam Sodje, Nigerian footballer
•  June 28, 1979 – Randy McMichael, American football player
•  July 4, 1979 – Renny Vega, Venezuelan soccer player
•  July 9, 1979 – Suzanne Stokes, American model
•  September 1, 1979 – James O'Connor, Irish footballer
•  September 2, 1979 – Brian Westbrook, American football player
•  October 8, 1979 – Gregori Chad Petree, American musician (Shiny Toy Guns)
•  December 8, 1979 – Daniel Fitzhenry, Australian rugby league footballer