Page 2: Historical Events In 1979

Jan 19   Paul Meurisse, actor (Diabolique, Truth, Suspects, Monocle), dies in the year 1979.   

Jan 21   Neptune becomes outermost planet (Pluto moves closer) on this day in history.   

Jan 21   On this day in history price of gold increases to record $875 troy ounce   

Jan 22   Ali Hassan Salameh, [Abu Hassan], killed by car bomb; believed to have helped mastermind massacre of 1972 Munich Olympics athletes in the year 1979.   

Jan 23   On this day in history willie Mays elected to Baseball Hall of Fame   

Jan 24   Jerry Damon, comedian (That Was The Week That Was), dies at 51 in the year 1979.   

Jan 24   On this day in history uS performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site   

Jan 25   22.2-km Oshimizu railroad tunnel holed through, central Honshu, Japan on this day in history.   

Jan 25   J Robertson Hare, actor (Fighting Stock), dies at 87 on this day in history.   

Jan 25   On this day in history jean-Luc Pepin and John Robarts release the Report of the Task Force on Canadian Unity; recommend that Quebec should have the power to maintain its language and culture, and that federal powers be reduce   

Jan 25   Pope John Paul II's first overseas trip as supreme pontiff in the year 1979.   

Jan 26   In the year 1979 "The Dukes of Hazzard" premieres on CBS's vast wasteland   

Jan 26   On this day in history former U.S. Vice President Nelson A. Rockefeller dies in New York at age 70.   

Jan 26   Music Center Vredenburg opens in Utrecht Netherlands on this day in history.   

Jan 26   On this day in history nelson Rockefeller, former VP & (4X Gov-R-NY), dies at 70   

Jan 27   In the year 1979 36th Golden Globes Midnight Express, Jon Voight &Jane Fonda   

Jan 29   On this day in history brenda Spencer kills 2, inspires Boomtown Rats "I Don't Like Mondays"   

Jan 29   Chinese Vice Premier Deng Xiaoping is welcomed to the White House by U.S. President Jimmy Carter Carter, as the two countries re-establish formal relations on this day in history.   

Jan 29   On this day in history chinese vice-premier Deng Xiaoping visits Washington DC   

Jan 29   President Carter commuted Patricia Hearst's 7 year sentence to 2 years in the year 1979.   

Jan 30   Iran announces that Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini is returning, ending his exile in France in the year 1979.   

Jan 30   Rhodesia agrees to new constitution on this day in history.   

Jan 30   Rhodesian whites vote to transfer to majority rule on this day in history.   

Feb 01   Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returns to Iran after 15 years in exile in the year 1979.   

Feb 01   On this day in history mort Marshall, actor (Cully-Dumplings), dies at 60   

Feb 01   On this day in history newspaper heiress Patty Hearst leaves federal prison when her sentence for bank robbery is commuted by President Jimmy Carter.   

Feb 01   On this day in history uSSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR   

Feb 02   On this day in history jim Burke, cricketer (Australian opener), commits suicide   

Feb 03   On this day in history "YMCA" by Village People peaks at #2 on pop singles chart   

Feb 03   In the year 1979 jody Gilbert, actress (Willard, Shaggy, Blonde Dynamite), dies   

Feb 03   On this day in history uS female Figure Skating championship won by Linda Fratianne   

Feb 03   US male Figure Skating championship won by Charles Tickner on this day in history.   

Feb 05   On this day in history costliest single periodical ad, $3.2 million, Gulf + Western in Time   

Feb 05   In the year 1979 eddie Paynter, cricketer (20 Tests for England, avg 59.23), dies   

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Apr 02   Jesse Carmichael, American musician (Maroon 5) was born in the year 1979.   

Apr 21   In the year 1979 birth of james McAvoy, Scottish actor   

Apr 28   In the year 1979 birth of bahram Radan, Iranian actor   

Apr 30   In the year 1979 birth of gerardo Torrado, Mexican footballer   

May 07   Katie Douglas, American basketball player was born in the year 1979.   

May 19   In the year 1979 birth of barbara Nedeljakova, Slovak actress   

May 19   On this day in history birth of diego Forlán, Uruguayan footballer   

May 19   Andrea Pirlo, Italian footballer was born in the year 1979.   

Jan 03   Conrad Hilton, US founder (Hilton Hotels), dies at 91 on this day in history.   

Jan 04   Charles Mingus, jazz bassist, dies of heart attack in the year 1979.   

Jan 05   In the year 1979 charles Mingus, US jazz bassist/composer/orchestra leader, dies at 56   

Jan 07   Zbigniew Turski, composer, dies at 70 on this day in history.   

Jan 09   Avery Claflin, composer, dies at 80 on this day in history.   

Jan 11   On this day in history jack Soo, actor (Nick Yemana-Barney Miller, Green Berets), dies at 63   

Jan 13   Donny Hathaway, Chicago Ill, rocker (Ghetto), commits suicide at 33 died in the year 1979.   

Jan 14   Thomas DeSimone, gangster associate of the Lucchese crime family (b. 1950) died on this day in history.