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| Born : | 01/10/1979 | Chris H E Smith, [Daddy Mack], Atlanta, rapper (Kris Kross-Warm it Up) |
| Born : | 11/04/1979 | Daisy Eagan, Bkln NY, actresss (Secret Graden) |
| Born : | 08/21/1979 | David Osmond, Utah, vocalist (Osmond Boys) |
| Born : | 01/30/1979 | Dick Cheney, (Rep-R-WY, 1979- ) |
| Born : | 01/30/1979 | Diva Zappa, daughter of Frank |
| Born : | 05/16/1979 | Evan Ferrante, actor (Owen-Swan's Crossing) |
| Born : | 08/20/1979 | Frank J Guarini, (Rep-D-NJ, 1979- ) |
| Born : | 03/26/1979 | Heidi Zeigler, actress (Sherry-Just the 10 of Us) |
| Born : | 04/09/1979 | Keshia Knight Pulliam, Newark NJ, actress (Rudy-Crosby) |
| Born : | 11/16/1979 | Michael Faustino, actor (brother of David) |
| Born : | 07/06/1979 | Nicolas Daniel Maricio, Prince of Netherlands |
| Born : | 01/08/1979 | Sequoyah, chimpanzee (son of Washoe) |
| Born : | 01/24/1979 | Tatyana Ali, NYC, actress (Sesame St, Fresh Prince of Bel Air) |
| Born : | 10/08/1979 | [Gregory] Chad Petree, Shawne Okla, rocker (PC Quest-Can You See) |
| Died : | 02/14/1979 | Adolph Dubs, US ambassador to Afghanistan, murdered |
| Died : | 03/30/1979 | Airey Neave, British Conservatives MP, killed by a bomb |
| Died : | 11/11/1979 | Al Capp, US cartoon character (Li'l Abner), dies at 70 |
| Died : | 11/05/1979 | Al Capp, cartoonist (Lil' Abner), dies at 70 |
| Died : | 03/19/1979 | Al Hodge, actor (Capt Video), dies at 65 |
| Died : | 06/30/1979 | Alfons Vranckx, Belgian politician, dies |
| Died : | 08/09/1979 | Allan Frank, actor (Charade Quiz), dies at 64 |
| Died : | 07/24/1979 | Archie Duncan, actor (Sherlock Holmes), dies at 65 |
| Died : | 07/10/1979 | Arthur Fiedler, orch leader (Boston Pops), dies at 84 |
| Died : | 05/16/1979 | Asa Philip Randolph, labor leader & civil rights pioneer, dies at 90 |
| Died : | 06/11/1979 | August Maes, Flemish actor/director (Farmer that Dies), dies at 85 |
| Died : | 12/15/1979 | Bern Hoffman, actor (Major Dell Conway), dies at 66 |
| Died : | 07/09/1979 | Betty Evans Grayson, softball pitcher (Hall of Fame 1959), dies at 53 |
| Died : | 04/02/1979 | Carroll D Rosenbloom, LA Rams president, dies at 72 |
| Died : | 12/07/1979 | Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, 1st woman full prof at Harvard U, dies |
| Died : | 06/26/1979 | Charles Clore, financier, dies |
| Died : | 01/05/1979 | Charles Mingus, US jazz bassist/composer/orchestra leader, dies |
| Died : | 03/06/1979 | Charles Wagenheim, actor (Halligan-Gunsmoke), dies at 83 |
| Died : | 10/03/1979 | Charles White, artist, dies at 61 in Los Angeles |
| Died : | 10/05/1979 | Charlie Smith, oldest American (137 year), dies |
| Died : | 12/11/1979 | Claire Carleton, NYC, actress (Alice-Cimarron City), dies at 66 |
| Died : | 10/13/1979 | Clarence Muse, actor (Sam-Casablanca), dies at 90 |
| Died : | 10/03/1979 | Claudia Jennings, playmate (Nov, 1969)/actress, dies at 29 |
| Died : | 01/03/1979 | Conrad Hilton, US founder (Hilton Hotels), dies at 91 |
| Died : | 05/09/1979 | Cyrus S Eaton, Canada/US multi-millionaire, dies at 95 |
| Died : | 06/13/1979 | Darla Hood, actress (Little Rascals), dies |
| Died : | 12/22/1979 | Darryl F Zanuck, film producer (20th Century Fox), dies |
| Died : | 08/10/1979 | Dick Foran, actor (OK Crackerby), dies at 69 |
| Died : | 01/13/1979 | Donnie Hathaway, singer, dies |
| Died : | 04/04/1979 | Edgar Buchanan, actor (Uncle Joe-Petticoat Junction), dies at 77 |
| Died : | 10/06/1979 | Elizabeth Bishop, poetess (North & South, Pulitzer 1956), dies at 68 |
| Died : | 03/28/1979 | Emmett Kelly, circus clown (Weary Willy), dies at 80 |
| Died : | 06/22/1979 | Emory Parnell, St Paul Minn, actor (Life of Riley), dies at 85 |
| Died : | 05/03/1979 | Erin O'Brien-Moore, actress (Nurse Choate-Peyton Place), dies at 76 |
| Died : | 12/09/1979 | Fulton J Sheen, archbishop/religious broadcaster dies in NYC at 84 |
| Died : | 12/10/1979 | Fulton J Sheen, bishop (Life is Worth Living), dies at 84 |
| Died : | 09/18/1979 | Gene Kelly, sportscaster (Sportsreel), dies at 60 |
| Died : | 07/14/1979 | George De Witt, TV host (Name that Tune), dies at 56 |
| Died : | 03/07/1979 | Guiomar Novaes, pianist (Brazilian Order of Merit), dies at 84 |
| Died : | 06/08/1979 | Herb Polesie, producer/playwright (20 Questions), dies at 79 |
| Died : | 07/22/1979 | Hope Summers, actress (Clara-Andy Griffith Show), dies at 78 |
| Died : | 01/11/1979 | Jack Soo, actor (Nick Yemana-Barney Miller, Green Berets), dies at 63 |
| Died : | 07/16/1979 | James F Mcintyre, archbishop of Los Angeles, dies at 93 |
| Died : | 08/22/1979 | James T Farrell, US writer (French Girls are Vicious), dies |
| Died : | 02/28/1979 | Jane Hylton, actress (Adv of Sir Lancelot), dies at 52 |
| Died : | 09/08/1979 | Jean Seberg, actress (Breathless), dies at 40 |
| Died : | 03/26/1979 | Jean Stafford, US author (Boston Adventure), dies at 63 |
| Died : | 01/24/1979 | Jerry Damon, comedian (That Was The Week That Was), dies at 51 |
| Died : | 10/22/1979 | Jesse Bishop, murderer, dies in Nevada gas chamber |
| Died : | 06/02/1979 | Jim Hutton, actor (Ellery Queen), dies at 45 |
| Died : | 09/28/1979 | Jimmy McCulloch, guitarist of Wings, dies at 26 |
| Died : | 09/27/1979 | Jimmy McCullough, musician (Wings), dies of a drug overdose |
| Died : | 12/25/1979 | Joan Blondell, actress (Real McCoys), dies at 70 |
| Died : | 08/09/1979 | Johan Daisne, [Herman Thiery], Belgian writer (Lago Maggiore), dies |
| Died : | 05/10/1979 | John Cameron Andrieu Bingham Morton, writer, dies |
| Died : | 11/17/1979 | John Grascock, of Jethro Tull, dies at 27 following heart surgery |
| Died : | 09/21/1979 | John McQuade, actor (Charlie Wild Private Detective), dies at 73 |
| Died : | 07/08/1979 | John Reed King, TV host (Why?, Let's See), dies at 64 |
| Died : | 06/11/1979 | John Wayne, [Marion M Morrison], US actor (True Grit), dies of cancer |
| Died : | 12/13/1979 | Jon Hall, actor (Ramor of the Jungle), dies at 66 |
| Died : | 07/05/1979 | Judson Laire, actor/singer (Papa-Mama), dies at 76 |
| Died : | 06/22/1979 | Julius Sommer, dies of heart failure, buried in Dayton Ohio |
| Died : | 07/23/1979 | Keith Godchaux, rocker (Grateful Dead), dies in a car accident at 32 |
| Died : | 08/06/1979 | Kurt Kasznar, actor (Cmdr Fitzhugh-Land of the Giants), dies at 65 |
| Died : | 12/25/1979 | Lee Bowman, actor (Ellery Queen, Miami Undercover), dies at 64 |
| Died : | 05/11/1979 | Lester Flatt, of Flatt & Scruggs, dies at 64 |
| Died : | 11/09/1979 | Lewis Charles, actor (Feather & Father Gang), dies at 59 |
| Died : | 06/17/1979 | Lou Frizzel, actor (Dusty Rhoades-Bonanza), dies at 58 |
| Died : | 08/27/1979 | Louis Mountbatten, British adm of the Fleet, assassinated by IRA |
| Died : | 05/10/1979 | Louis Paul Boon, Flemish writer (Eros en de eenzame man), dies |
| Died : | 02/16/1979 | Louise Allbritton, actress (Celia-Stage Door), dies at 58 |
| Died : | 06/29/1979 | Lowell George, rocker (Mothers of Invention. Little Feat), dies at 34 |
| Died : | 04/06/1979 | M Marie Widlow, softball pitcher (Hall of Fame 1957), dies at 61 |
| Died : | 03/29/1979 | Melville Cooper, TV panelist (I Got a Secret), dies at 82 |
| Died : | 11/23/1979 | Merle Oberon, actress (Assignment Foreign Legion), dies at 68 |
| Died : | 07/12/1979 | Minnie Ripperton, singer (Lovin' You), dies of cancer at 30 |
| Died : | 02/01/1979 | Mort Marshall, actor (Cully-Dumplings), dies at 60 |
| Died : | 02/28/1979 | Mr Ed, talking horse, dies |
| Died : | 01/26/1979 | Nelson Rockefeller, former VP & 4 time governor of NY, dies at 70 |
| Died : | 04/10/1979 | Nino Rota, Italian composer, dies |
| Died : | 10/26/1979 | Park Chung-hee, South Korean President is assassinated |
| Died : | 04/20/1979 | Peter Donald, host (Masquerade Party), dies at 60 |
| Died : | 12/07/1979 | Prince Chahryar Shafik, Shah of Iran's nephew, murdered in Paris |
| Died : | 03/02/1979 | Richard Sykes, British ambassador is assassinated in Holland |
| Died : | 07/01/1979 | Richard Ward, actor (Beacon Hill), dies at 64 |
| Died : | 12/04/1979 | Robert Karnes, actor (Max-The Lawless Years), dies at 62 |
| Died : | 10/01/1979 | Roy Harris, US composer, dies at 81 |
| Died : | 12/24/1979 | Rudi [Rudolf) Dutschke, German student leader, dies |
| Died : | 10/17/1979 | S J Perelman, US humorist (Around the World in 80 Days), dies at 75 |
| Died : | 02/02/1979 | Sid Vicious, musician (Sex Pistols), dies of a heroin overdose |
| Died : | 08/25/1979 | Stan Kenton, orch leader (Music 55), dies at 67 |
| Died : | 01/16/1979 | Ted Cassidy, Pittsburgh, actor (Lurch-Addams Family), dies at 46 |
| Died : | 08/02/1979 | Thurmon Munson, killed in a plane crash at Akron Oh at 32 |
| Died : | 09/15/1979 | Tommy Leonetti, singer/actor (Gomer Pyle USMC), dies at 50 |
| Died : | 03/11/1979 | Victor Kilian, actor (Gentleman's Agreement), dies at 88 |
| Died : | 08/17/1979 | Vivian Vance, actress (Ethel Mertz-I Love Lucy), dies at 72 |
| Died : | 06/01/1979 | Werner Forssman, German urologist (Nobel 1956), dies |
| Died : | 02/16/1979 | William Gargan, actor (New Adventures of Martin Kane), dies at 73 |
| Died : | 11/30/1979 | Zeppo Marx, [Herbert], US comic (Marx Brothers), dies at 78 |
| Died : | 04/04/1979 | Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, former Pakistani president, hanged in Pakistan |
| Special : | 10/18/1979 | "Beatlemania" opens in London |
| Special : | 05/23/1979 | "Kids Are Alright" premiers |
| Special : | 12/27/1979 | "Knots Landing," premieres on CBS-TV |
| Special : | 06/03/1979 | "Madwoman of Central Park West" opens on Broadway |
| Special : | 06/29/1979 | "Moonraker" premiers in US |
| Special : | 05/02/1979 | "Quadrophenia" premieres in London |
| Special : | 04/18/1979 | "Real People" premieres on NBC TV |
| Special : | 04/25/1979 | "Rock 'n Roll High Schools" premiers |
| Special : | 01/26/1979 | "The Dukes of Hazzard" premiers on CBS's vast wasteland |
| Special : | 02/11/1979 | "They are Playing our Song" opens on Broadway |
| Special : | 05/17/1979 | -12ø F (11ø C), Mauna Kea, Hawaii (state record) |
| Special : | 02/18/1979 | -52ø F (-47ø C), Old Forge, New York (state record) |
| Special : | 07/25/1979 | 109 cm rainfall at Alvin Texas (state record) |
| Special : | 12/03/1979 | 11 trampled to death at Cincinnati Who concert [or 1204?] |
| Special : | 04/16/1979 | 15th Mayor's Trophy Game, Yanks & Mets tie 1-1 |
| Special : | 09/26/1979 | 1984 summer LA Olympic coverage sold to ABC for $225 million |
| Special : | 10/15/1979 | 1st Monday night game from NYC, Jets beat Vikings 14-7 (Shea Stad) |
| Special : | 01/10/1979 | 1st brother Billy Carter makes allegedly anti-Semitic remarks |
| Special : | 03/09/1979 | 1st extraterrestrial volcano discovered (Jupiter's satellite Io) |
| Special : | 08/30/1979 | 1st recorded occurrance-comet hits sun (energy=1 mil hydrogen bombs) |
| Special : | 06/15/1979 | 1st space shuttle SRB qualification test firing; 122 seconds |
| Special : | 05/20/1979 | 1st western pop star to tour USSR-Elton John |
| Special : | 05/03/1979 | 1st woman prime minister of Great Britain (Margaret Thatcher) |
| Special : | 07/19/1979 | 2 supertankers collide off Tobago-260,000 TONS of oil spill |
| Special : | 08/22/1979 | 200 black leaders, meet in NY, to support Andrew Young |
| Special : | 03/04/1979 | 200th episode of "All in the Family" |
| Special : | 06/06/1979 | 200th running of horse's Derby in England |
| Special : | 04/08/1979 | 204th & final episode of "All in the Family" |
| Special : | 01/25/1979 | 22.2-km Oshimizu railroad tunnel holed through, central Honshu, Japan |
| Special : | 08/11/1979 | 28øF in Embarrass Minnesota |
| Special : | 09/10/1979 | 3 Puerto Rican nationalists who attempted to kill Truman are freed |
| Special : | 01/02/1979 | 30th Islander shut-out opponent-Glenn Resch 9-0 vs Vancouver |
| Special : | 02/11/1979 | 43 million watch "Elvis!" on ABC |
| Special : | 07/20/1979 | 44-kg Newfoundland dog pulls 2293-kg load, Bothell, Wash |
| Special : | 09/07/1979 | 5 day MUSE concert against nuclear energy opens at MSG, NY |
| Special : | 11/03/1979 | 5 mortally wounded during anti-Ku Klux Klan demonstration in NC |
| Special : | 11/04/1979 | 500 Iranian "students" seize US embassy, take 90 hostages (444 days) |
| Special : | 01/08/1979 | 512 die as oil tanker Bantry Bay blows up |
| Special : | 11/03/1979 | 63 Americans taken hostage at US Embassy (Teheran, Iran) |
| Special : | 01/29/1979 | 9th AFC-NFC pro bowl, NFC wins 13-7 |
| Special : | 05/18/1979 | A Mrkos discovers asteroid #2304 Slavia |
| Special : | 09/17/1979 | A Mrkos discovers asteroid #2936 |
| Special : | 03/19/1979 | A Mrkos discovers asteroid #3665 |
| Special : | 09/25/1979 | A Mrkos discovers asteroids #2325 Chernykh & #2403 Sumava |
| Special : | 02/09/1979 | ABC airs "Heroes of Rock N Roll" special |
| Special : | 11/15/1979 | ABC-TV announces it would broadcast nightly specials on Iran hostage |
| Special : | 11/28/1979 | Air New Zealand DC-10 crashes into Mt Erebus on Antarctica kills 257 |
| Special : | 05/25/1979 | American Airlines DC-10 crashes in Chicago killing 275 |
| Special : | 11/25/1979 | American Airlines DC-10 crashes on takeoff from Chicago, kills 275 |
| Special : | 08/15/1979 | Andrew Young resigns as UN ambassador |
| Special : | 03/15/1979 | Apparat releases Newdos + 2.1 for the Radio Shack's TRS-80 |
| Special : | 02/01/1979 | Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returns to Iran after 15 yrs in exile |
| Special : | 06/10/1979 | Balt Orioles pull their 8th triple play (5-4-3 vs Cleve) |
| Special : | 02/09/1979 | Beginning of James Clavell's novel "Whirlwind" |
| Special : | 06/07/1979 | Bhaskara 1, Indian Earth resources/meteorology satellite, launched |
| Special : | 06/18/1979 | Billy Martin becomes Yankee manager (2nd time), replacing Bob Lemon |
| Special : | 10/29/1979 | Billy Martin fired as Yankee manager (2nd time) |
| Special : | 02/22/1979 | Billy Martin named manager of Oakland A's |
| Special : | 10/24/1979 | Billy Martin punches a marshmallow salesman, puts job in jeopardy |
| Special : | 09/20/1979 | Bloodless coup in Central African Rep overthrows Emperor Bokassa I |
| Special : | 01/09/1979 | Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to WS Merwin |
| Special : | 08/23/1979 | Bolshoi Ballet dancer Alexander Godunov defects in NYC |
| Special : | 09/18/1979 | Bolshoi Ballet dancers Leonid & Valentina Kozlov defect |
| Special : | 01/29/1979 | Brenda Spencer kills 2, inspires Boomtown Rats "I Don't Like Mondays" |
| Special : | 11/15/1979 | Brit govt identifies Sir Anthony Blunt as 4th man in Soviet spy ring |
| Special : | 06/12/1979 | Bryan Allen flew man-powered Gossamer Albatross over English Channel |
| Special : | 12/17/1979 | Budweiser rocket car reaches 1190 kph (record for wheeled vehicle) |
| Special : | 11/22/1979 | C Kowal discovers asteroid #2241 |
| Special : | 03/06/1979 | C-I Lagerkvist discovers asteroid #3250 |
| Special : | 03/16/1979 | CBS-TV airs "Wings Over the World" with Paul McCartney |
| Special : | 09/25/1979 | Calif Angels win their 1st NL West pennent |
| Special : | 08/25/1979 | California Angels trounce Toronto Blue Jays, 24-2 |
| Special : | 03/26/1979 | Camp David peace treaty between Israel & Egypt |
| Special : | 06/16/1979 | Carl Yastrzemski hits his 1,000th extra base hit |
| Special : | 09/16/1979 | Catfish Hunter Day at Yankee Stadium |
| Special : | 06/23/1979 | Charlie Daniels Band releases "Devil Went Down to Georgia" |
| Special : | 01/13/1979 | Charlie Daniels hosts the Volunteer Jam |
| Special : | 03/29/1979 | Chernykh discovers asteroid 2553 Viljev, 2566 Kirghizia & 2703 Rodari |
| Special : | 02/17/1979 | China invades Vietnam |
| Special : | 05/12/1979 | Chris Evert's 125-match winning streak on clay comes to an end |
| Special : | 12/03/1979 | Christies auctions a thimble for a record $18,400 |
| Special : | 11/19/1979 | Chuck Berry released from prison on income tax evasion |
| Special : | 12/04/1979 | Cleveland Cavaliers retire jersey # 7, Bingo Smith |
| Special : | 06/09/1979 | Coastal wins Belmont Stakes |
| Special : | 03/20/1979 | Columbia flies on Shuttle carrier aircraft to Kennedy Space Center |
| Special : | 03/24/1979 | Columbia flown on carrier aircraft lands at Kennedy Space Center |
| Special : | 08/31/1979 | Comet Howard-Koomur-Michels collides with Sun |
| Special : | 09/24/1979 | CompuServe system started |
| Special : | 07/08/1979 | Congo adopts constitution |
| Special : | 09/27/1979 | Congress' final approval to create Dept of Education |
| Special : | 02/05/1979 | Costliest single periodical ad, $3.2 million, Gulf + Western in Time |
| Special : | 08/19/1979 | Crew of Soyuz 32 returns to Earth aboard Soyuz 34 aft 175 d flight |
| Special : | 11/21/1979 | Crowd at Islamabad, Pakistan attack US embassy, 1 dies |
| Special : | 12/02/1979 | Crowds attack US embassy at Tripoli Libya |
| Special : | 10/17/1979 | D Bautista of Mexico completes 20,000 m walk in record 1:20:06.8 |
| Special : | 05/21/1979 | Dan White convicted of manslaughter death of SF mayor Moscone |
| Special : | 07/28/1979 | Dave Kingman becomes 6th to have a 2nd 3 HR game |
| Special : | 08/06/1979 | David Graham wins PGA golf tournament |
| Special : | 09/01/1979 | Debbie Boone & Gabriel Ferrer wed in LA |
| Special : | 10/22/1979 | Deposed Shah of Iran arrives in NY for medical treatment |
| Special : | 12/15/1979 | Deposed Shah of Iran leaves US for Panama |
| Special : | 10/28/1979 | Dick Howser (best Yank mngr win-lost pct .636) replaces Billy Martin |
| Special : | 08/31/1979 | Donald McHenry named to succeed Andrew Young as UN ambassador |
| Special : | 07/09/1979 | Dr Walter Massey named director of Argonne national Lab |
| Special : | 12/16/1979 | E Bowell discovers asteroid #2264 Sabrina |
| Special : | 07/23/1979 | E Bowell discovers asteroid #2736 Ops |
| Special : | 12/14/1979 | E Bowell discovers asteroids #2246 Bowell, #2772 Dugan & #3478 Fanale |
| Special : | 09/05/1979 | Earl of Mountbatten funeral held in Bruma |
| Special : | 05/01/1979 | Elton John becomes 1st pop star to perform in Israel |
| Special : | 05/21/1979 | Elton John becomes 1st western rocker to perform live in USSR |
| Special : | 01/29/1979 | Emerson, Lake & Palmer disband after 10 years together |
| Special : | 07/26/1979 | Estimated 109 cm (43") of rain falls in Alvin, TX (national record) |
| Special : | 04/19/1979 | FCC raids & shuts down pirate radio station WFAT (Bkln NY) |
| Special : | 08/03/1979 | Fastest jai-alai shot (188 mph), Jose Arieto at Newport Jai Alai, RI |
| Special : | 11/01/1979 | Federal government made $1.5 billion loan to Chrysler |
| Special : | 05/10/1979 | Federated States of Micronesia becomes self-governing |
| Special : | 10/14/1979 | Flyers start 35 game unbeaten streak beating Toronto 4-3 |
| Special : | 12/02/1979 | Foots Walker becomes 1st Cleve Cavalier to score a triple-double |
| Special : | 02/23/1979 | Frank Peterson Jr named 1st black general in Marine Corps |
| Special : | 05/06/1979 | Fred Markham set a bicycle speed record of 818 kph over 200 m |
| Special : | 03/13/1979 | Gairy dictatorship in Grenada overthrown by New Jewel Movement |
| Special : | 05/07/1979 | Gary Roenicke hits into Orioles 13th triple play (Oakland) |
| Special : | 12/21/1979 | Gary Unger plays in record 914th consecutive NHL game |
| Special : | 07/23/1979 | George Brett gets his 1,000th hit |
| Special : | 02/16/1979 | George Harrison releases "Blow Away" |
| Special : | 02/23/1979 | George Harrison releases "George Harrison" album |
| Special : | 04/27/1979 | George Harrison releases "Love Comes to Everyone" |
| Special : | 07/13/1979 | George Harrison releases "faster" |
| Special : | 09/24/1979 | Ghana adopts constitution |
| Special : | 08/02/1979 | Gilda Radner Live From New York opens on Broadway |
| Special : | 07/18/1979 | Gold hits record $303.85 an ounce in London |
| Special : | 09/29/1979 | Gold hits record $400.20 an ounce in Hong Kong |
| Special : | 12/12/1979 | Gold hits record $462.50 an ounce |
| Special : | 10/21/1979 | Greta Waitz wins woman participation in NYC marathon (02:27:33) |
| Special : | 10/24/1979 | Guinness Book of Records presents Paul McCartney with a rhodium disc |
| Special : | 05/19/1979 | Guitarist Eric Clapton marries Patti Boyd |
| Special : | 12/16/1979 | H Debehogne discovers asteroid #2795 Lepage & #3175 Netto |
| Special : | 12/17/1979 | H Kosai & G Sasaki discovers asteroid #3392 Setouchi |
| Special : | 06/16/1979 | H-E Schuster discovers asteroid #2275 |
| Special : | 06/17/1979 | Hale Irwin wins again US Open golf tournament |
| Special : | 10/06/1979 | Harry Drake set long distance footbow shot record of 2,006 yds 1'9" |
| Special : | 06/26/1979 | Heiavyweight Muhammad Ali confirms that his 3rd retirement is final |
| Special : | 04/07/1979 | Henri La Mothe dives 28' into 12 3/8" of water |
| Special : | 01/09/1979 | High-school player Daryl Moreau makes 126th consecutive free throws |
| Special : | 02/24/1979 | Highest price ever paid for a pig, $42,500, Stamford, Texas |
| Special : | 05/01/1979 | Home rule introduced to Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland) |
| Special : | 03/19/1979 | House of Reps begins live TV broadcasts |
| Special : | 04/07/1979 | Houston Astro Ken Forsch no-hits Atlanta Braves, 6-0 |
| Special : | 08/30/1979 | Hurricane David hits Domincan Rep, Puerto Rico & US; about 2,000 die |
| Special : | 09/03/1979 | Hurricane David, a strong Atlantic storm kills over 1,000 |
| Special : | 09/12/1979 | Hurricane Frederick hits Mobile Alabama; 5 die & $23 million damage |
| Special : | 09/12/1979 | Indiana Pacers cut Ann Meyers, 1st woman on an NBA club |
| Special : | 01/01/1979 | International Year of the Child begins |
| Special : | 12/03/1979 | Iran accepts constitution |
| Special : | 04/01/1979 | Iran proclaimed an Islamic Republic following fall of Shah |
| Special : | 04/07/1979 | Islander's Mike Bossy scores 4 goals against Flyers |
| Special : | 01/17/1979 | Islanders didn't get a shot off in 1 period against the Rangers |
| Special : | 01/27/1979 | Islanders ends 23 undefeated games at home streak (15-0-8) |
| Special : | 10/27/1979 | Islanders score 2 goals within 6 seconds 3 goals within 44 seconds |
| Special : | 03/15/1979 | Isle's Bryan Trottier's 5th career hat trick |
| Special : | 03/13/1979 | Isle's Mike Bossy's 5th career hat trick |
| Special : | 05/25/1979 | Israel begins to return Sinai to Egypt |
| Special : | 04/02/1979 | Israeli PM Menachem Begin visits Cairo Egypt |
| Special : | 03/22/1979 | Israeli parliament approves peace treaty with Egypt |
| Special : | 06/03/1979 | Ixtoc I rig in Gulf of Mexico blows; 3 million bbl of oil spilled |
| Special : | 04/19/1979 | J C Muzzio discovers asteroid #3666 |
| Special : | 05/31/1979 | J Kveton discovers asteroid #2672 Pisek |
| Special : | 05/04/1979 | Jackie Mercer wins her 4th golf title 31 years after her 1st |
| Special : | 04/03/1979 | Jane Byrne elected 1st female mayor of Chicago |
| Special : | 09/23/1979 | Jane Fonda & 200,000 attend anti-nuke rally in Battery Park, NYC |
| Special : | 04/04/1979 | Jane M Byrne (D), elected 1st woman mayor of Chicago Ill |
| Special : | 10/20/1979 | John F Kennedy Library dedicated in Boston |
| Special : | 09/09/1979 | John McEnroe beats Vitas Gerulaitis, for US Open Tennis title |
| Special : | 05/10/1979 | John McMullen becomes CEO of Houston Astros |
| Special : | 01/19/1979 | John N Mitchell (former AG) released on parole from federal prison |
| Special : | 06/02/1979 | John Paul II becomes 1st pope to visit a communist country (Poland) |
| Special : | 06/30/1979 | Johnny Rotten & Joan Collins appear together on BBC's Juke Box Jury |
| Special : | 01/01/1979 | Jura, 26th canton of Switzerland, established |
| Special : | 11/24/1979 | Kings' Charley Simmer fails on 8th penalty shot against Islanders |
| Special : | 02/12/1979 | Kosmos 1076, 1st Soviet oceanographic satellite, launched |
| Special : | 10/19/1979 | L Brozek discovers asteroid #2288 Karolinum |
| Special : | 08/30/1979 | L Brozek discovers asteroid #2613 Plzen |
| Special : | 12/24/1979 | L Zhuravleva discovers asteroid #3074 & #3566 |
| Special : | 12/23/1979 | L Zhuravleva discovers asteroid #3724 |
| Special : | 09/01/1979 | LA Court orders Clayton Moore to stop wearing Lone Ranger mask |
| Special : | 01/12/1979 | LA's Hillside Strangler, Kenneth Bianchi, arrested in Bellingham |
| Special : | 09/28/1979 | Larry Holmes (retain championship) KOs Earnie Shavers in 11 rounds |
| Special : | 02/26/1979 | Last total eclipse of Sun in 20th century for continental US |
| Special : | 12/04/1979 | Liza Minnelli's 3rd marriage (Mark Gero) |
| Special : | 04/13/1979 | Longest doubles ping-pong match ends after 101 hours |
| Special : | 04/09/1979 | Longest doubles ping-pong match of 101 hrs, begins |
| Special : | 08/13/1979 | Lou Brock gets his 3,000 career hit |
| Special : | 09/23/1979 | Lou Brock steals record 935th base |
| Special : | 03/28/1979 | Major nuclear accident at 3 Mile Island, Middletown, Pa (no deaths) |
| Special : | 06/19/1979 | Mali's constitution goes into effect |
| Special : | 05/04/1979 | Margaret Thatcher elected prime minister of England |
| Special : | 05/01/1979 | Marshall Islands (in Pacific) become self-governing |
| Special : | 05/05/1979 | Masterpiece Radio Theater begins broadcasting |
| Special : | 06/09/1979 | Michael Cairney topples a record row of 169,713 dominoes |
| Special : | 04/22/1979 | Mick Jaggar & Keith Richards give a benefit concert in Canada |
| Special : | 02/18/1979 | Miniseries "Roots: Next Generations" premiers on ABC TV |
| Special : | 02/03/1979 | Minnesota Twins trade Rod Carew to California for 4 players |
| Special : | 05/21/1979 | Mont Canadiens beat NY Rangers 4 games to 1 for Stanley Cup |
| Special : | 09/14/1979 | N Chernykh discovers asteroid #3120 |
| Special : | 08/20/1979 | N Chernykh discovers asteroid #3618 |
| Special : | 10/16/1979 | N Chernykh discovers asteroid #3661 |
| Special : | 07/31/1979 | N Chernykh discovers asteroids #2402 Satpaev & #2416 Sharonov |
| Special : | 07/21/1979 | N Chernykh discovers asteroids #2585 Irpedina & #3298 |
| Special : | 04/25/1979 | N Chernykh discovers asteroids #2656 Evenkia & #3653 |
| Special : | 09/23/1979 | N Chernykh discovers asteroids #2657 Bashkiria & #3013 Dobrovoleva |
| Special : | 08/27/1979 | N Chernykh discovers asteroids #3012 Minsk & #3283 |
| Special : | 02/28/1979 | N G Thomas discovers asteroid #2612 Kathryn |
| Special : | 05/04/1979 | NASA launches Fltsatcom-2 |
| Special : | 06/02/1979 | NASA launches space vehicle S-198 |
| Special : | 02/18/1979 | NASA launches space vehicle S-202 |
| Special : | 10/30/1979 | NASA launches space vehicle S-203 |
| Special : | 08/24/1979 | NFL fans (60,916) choose old Patriots logo over new |
| Special : | 03/22/1979 | NHL votes to accept 4 WHA teams (Oilers, Jets, Nordiques & Whalers) |
| Special : | 10/14/1979 | NHL's greatest scorer Wayne Gretsky scores his 1st NHL goal |
| Special : | 07/17/1979 | NL beats AL 7-6 in 50th All Star Game (Kingdome Seattle) |
| Special : | 12/23/1979 | NY Islanders greatest shutout lose (8-0) vs Chicago Black Hawks |
| Special : | 10/15/1979 | NY Knicks retire 2nd number, # 10, Walt Frazier |
| Special : | 11/17/1979 | NY Stars (WBL) home opener at MSG in NYC |
| Special : | 07/21/1979 | National Women's Hall of Fame (Seneca Falls, NY) dedicated |
| Special : | 01/21/1979 | Neptune becomes outermost planet (Pluto moves closer) |
| Special : | 07/19/1979 | Nicaragua Liberation Day; Sandinistas take over from Somoza |
| Special : | 10/01/1979 | Nigeria adopts constitution |
| Special : | 02/09/1979 | Nigeria amends constitution |
| Special : | 10/10/1979 | Nordiques' Real Cloutier sets NHL record of a hat trick in 1st game |
| Special : | 10/21/1979 | Ozzie Newsome begins NFL streak of 150 consecutive game receptions |
| Special : | 03/24/1979 | P Wild discovers asteroid #2303 Retsina |
| Special : | 08/29/1979 | P Wild discovers asteroid #2320 |
| Special : | 02/28/1979 | P Wild discovers asteroid #2521 |
| Special : | 10/10/1979 | Panama assumes sovereignty over Canal Area (ie Canal Zone) |
| Special : | 07/19/1979 | Patricia Harris, becomes sect of HEW |
| Special : | 02/01/1979 | Patricia Hearst is released from a SF prison for bank robbery |
| Special : | 11/16/1979 | Paul McCartney releases "Wonderful Christmas" |
| Special : | 02/15/1979 | Paul Shirley (21) of Australia, sucked a lifesaver for 4 hrs 40 mins |
| Special : | 05/30/1979 | Percom Data Company Inc release Microdos for Radio Shack's TRS-80 |
| Special : | 01/18/1979 | Peter Jenkins finishes "A Walk Across America", Florence, Or |
| Special : | 05/17/1979 | Phillies beat Cubs, 23-22, on 50 hits with 11 HRs |
| Special : | 06/09/1979 | Phillies wear burgundy uniforms for 1st & last time |
| Special : | 09/12/1979 | Pietro Mennea of Italy sets 200m record (19.72) in Mexico City |
| Special : | 09/17/1979 | Pietro Mennea runs world record 200 m (19.72") |
| Special : | 04/05/1979 | Pioneer 11 launched towards Jupiter |
| Special : | 09/01/1979 | Pioneer 11 makes 1st fly-by of Saturn, discovers new moon, rings |
| Special : | 09/29/1979 | Pope John Paul II becomes 1st pope to visit Ireland |
| Special : | 10/01/1979 | Pope John Paul II begins visit of US |
| Special : | 10/06/1979 | Pope John Paul II is 1st Pope to visit the White House |
| Special : | 06/10/1979 | Pope John Paul II visits Poland |
| Special : | 01/25/1979 | Pope John Paul II's 1st overseas trip as supreme pontiff |
| Special : | 05/27/1979 | Pope John Paul ordains John J O'Conner as a bishop |
| Special : | 07/16/1979 | Premier/pres al-Bakr of Iraq is succeeded by Saddam Hussein |
| Special : | 06/18/1979 | Pres Carter & Leonid I Brezhnev sign SALT 2 treaty |
| Special : | 08/30/1979 | Pres Carter attacked by a rabbit on a canoe trip in Plains Ga |
| Special : | 01/29/1979 | Pres Carter commuted Patricia Hearst's 7 year sentence to 2 years |
| Special : | 01/14/1979 | Pres Carter proposes Martin Luther King's birthday be a holiday |
| Special : | 10/12/1979 | Pressure in nucleus of tropical cyclone at Guam hits record 870 hpa |
| Special : | 06/22/1979 | Pro Football Researchers Association founded at Canton, Ohio |
| Special : | 04/16/1979 | Pulitzer prize awarded to Sam Shepard for "Buried child" |
| Special : | 09/27/1979 | Purple Mountain Observatory discovers asteroid #2344 Xizang |
| Special : | 10/10/1979 | Purple Mountain Observatory discovers asteroid #2510 Shandong |
| Special : | 10/18/1979 | Purple Mountain Observatory discovers asteroid #2729 |
| Special : | 11/19/1979 | Purple Mountain Observatory discovers asteroid #3171 |
| Special : | 10/12/1979 | Purple Mountain Observatory discovers asteroid #3340 |
| Special : | 09/26/1979 | Purple Mountain Observatory discovers asteroid #3443 |
| Special : | 12/14/1979 | Purple Mountain Observatory discovers asteroids #2778 & #3570 |
| Special : | 10/01/1979 | RKO radio network begins operation |
| Special : | 05/31/1979 | Radio City Music Hall (NYC) reopens |
| Special : | 05/--/1979 | Radio Shack introduces TRS-80 Model II |
| Special : | 08/--/1979 | Radio Shack releases TRSDOS 2.3 |
| Special : | 05/29/1979 | Radio's 1st rock network "Source" premiers |
| Special : | 08/14/1979 | Rainbow seen in Northern Wales for a 3 hours duration |
| Special : | 03/11/1979 | Randy Hold receives 67 min in penalties in a 60 min NHL hockey game |
| Special : | 05/25/1979 | Raul Gonz les of M‚xico completes 50,000 m walk in record 3:41:38.4 |
| Special : | 01/12/1979 | Record blizzard struck midwest killing over 100 |
| Special : | 12/29/1979 | Red Army beats NY Islanders 3-2 at Nassau Coliseum |
| Special : | 12/27/1979 | Red Army beats NY Rangers 5-2 at MSG |
| Special : | 09/12/1979 | Red Carl Yastrzemski gets his 3,000th hit off Yankee Jim Beattie |
| Special : | 09/15/1979 | Red Sox Bob Watson is 1st to hit for cycle in AL & NL (Astros) |
| Special : | 07/24/1979 | Red Sox Carl Yastrzemski hits his 400th HR |
| Special : | 12/12/1979 | Rhodesia becomes independent nation of Zimbabwe |
| Special : | 10/30/1979 | Richard Arrington elected mayor of Birmingham |
| Special : | 06/14/1979 | Rock group "Little Feat" disbands |
| Special : | 12/30/1979 | Rock group, Emerson, Lake & Palmer break up |
| Special : | 06/23/1979 | Rock group, the Knack releases "My Sharona" |
| Special : | 06/07/1979 | Rocker Chuck Berry is charged with tax evasion |
| Special : | 05/23/1979 | Rocker Tom Petty files chapter 11 bankruptcy |
| Special : | 04/06/1979 | Rod Stewart & Alana Collins wed |
| Special : | 11/13/1979 | Ronald Reagan in NY announces his candidacy for president |
| Special : | 02/05/1979 | Sears Radio Theater premiers on CBS |
| Special : | 06/05/1979 | Seychelles adopts constitution |
| Special : | 01/17/1979 | Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi flees Iran |
| Special : | 01/16/1979 | Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi of Iran flees Iran for Egypt |
| Special : | 08/29/1979 | Sheridan Broadcasting Corp purchases Mutual Black Network |
| Special : | 03/08/1979 | Shuttle Columbia (OV-102) transported 38 miles overland from Palmdale |
| Special : | 09/09/1979 | Sid Bernstein offers $« billion for a Beatle reunion |
| Special : | 01/02/1979 | Sid Vicious' trial for murder of girlfriend Nancy Spingen begins |
| Special : | 08/20/1979 | Singer Vikki Carr & Michael Nilsson wed |
| Special : | 02/18/1979 | Snow falls in Sahara |
| Special : | 08/25/1979 | Somali adopts constitution |
| Special : | 09/23/1979 | Somali constitution approved by president |
| Special : | 06/08/1979 | Source, 1st computer public information service, goes online |
| Special : | 09/13/1979 | South Africa grants Venda independence (Not recognized out of S Afr) |
| Special : | 12/27/1979 | Soviet troops invade Afgh nist n, Pres Hafizullah Amin overthrown |
| Special : | 02/25/1979 | Soyuz 32 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station is launched |
| Special : | 04/10/1979 | Soyuz 33 launched with a Russian & a Bulgarian |
| Special : | 04/12/1979 | Soyuz 33 returns to Earth |
| Special : | 02/22/1979 | St Lucia gains independence from Britain |
| Special : | 10/27/1979 | St Vincent & Grenadines becomes independent of UK (Nat'l Day) |
| Special : | 07/01/1979 | Stampede Pass, Washington is covered with 6" of snow |
| Special : | 12/18/1979 | Stanley Barrett 1st to exceed land sonic speed (739.666 MPH) |
| Special : | 01/21/1979 | Steelers beat Cowboys (35-31), 1st team to win 3 Super Bowls (XIII) |
| Special : | 09/18/1979 | Steven Lachs, appointed Calif's 1st admittedly gay judge |
| Special : | 06/01/1979 | Supersonics beat Bullets for NBA championship, 4 games to 1 |
| Special : | 06/27/1979 | Supreme Court rules employers may use quotas to help minorities |
| Special : | 03/27/1979 | Supreme Court rules, 8-1, cops can't randomly stop cars |
| Special : | 05/30/1979 | Ted Coombs began a 5,193 mile roller skate from LA to NYC |
| Special : | 11/30/1979 | Ted Koppel becomes anchor of nightly news on Iranian Hostages (ABC) |
| Special : | 02/15/1979 | Temple City Kazoo Orchestra appears on Mike Douglas Show |
| Special : | 01/08/1979 | Today Show gets a new theme song |
| Special : | 12/30/1979 | Togo adopts constitution |
| Special : | 11/12/1979 | Tony Franklin of Philadelphia Eagles kicks 59-yard field goal |
| Special : | 02/07/1979 | Toronto Maple Leaf Darryl Sittler scores NHL record 10 pts (6 goals) |
| Special : | 08/28/1979 | Train crash at N˜megen, 7 die |
| Special : | 08/24/1979 | UN's Vienna office begins issuing postage stamps |
| Special : | 08/23/1979 | UN's Vienna office opens |
| Special : | 01/01/1979 | US & China (Peoples Republic) begin diplomatic relations |
| Special : | 07/11/1979 | US Skylab enters atmosphere over Australia & disintegrates |
| Special : | 03/04/1979 | US Voyager I photo reveals Jupiter's rings |
| Special : | 11/12/1979 | US halts Iranian oil imports & freezes Iranian assets |
| Special : | 10/01/1979 | US returns Canal Zone to Panama after 75 years (but not the canal) |
| Special : | 04/11/1979 | Ugandan dictator Idi Amin overthrown; Tanzania takes Kampala |
| Special : | 01/07/1979 | Vietnamese forces capture Phnom Penh from Khmer Rouge |
| Special : | 03/08/1979 | Volcanoes on Io discovered by Voyager 1 |
| Special : | 10/27/1979 | Voluntary Euthanasia Society publishes how-to-do-it suicide guide |
| Special : | 05/05/1979 | Voyager 1 passes Jupiter |
| Special : | 03/05/1979 | Voyager 1's closest approach to Jupiter |
| Special : | 07/09/1979 | Voyager 2 flies past Jupiter |
| Special : | 07/08/1979 | Voyager 2 takes 1st ever photo of Jupiter's satellite Adrastea (J14) |
| Special : | 01/23/1979 | W Liller discovers asteroid #3040 Kozai |
| Special : | 10/22/1979 | Walt Disney World's 100-millionth guest |
| Special : | 02/24/1979 | War between North & South Yemen begins |
| Special : | 02/13/1979 | Washington State's Hood Canal Bridge breaks up in windstorm |
| Special : | 06/06/1979 | Willie Horton becomes 43rd player to hit 300 HRs in the majors |
| Special : | 06/09/1979 | Willie Horton is honored at Seattle's Kingdome |
| Special : | 06/08/1979 | Wings release "Back to the Egg" album |
| Special : | 08/10/1979 | Wings release "Getting Closer" & "Baby's Request" |
| Special : | 06/01/1979 | Wings release "Old Siam, Sir" |
| Special : | 12/31/1979 | Winterland Rock Concert Hall in SF closes after 556 concerts |
| Special : | 12/15/1979 | World Court in Hague rules Iran should relase all US hostages |
| Special : | 01/13/1979 | YMCA files libel suit against Village People's YMCA song |
| Special : | 09/09/1979 | Yusef Islam (Cat Stevens) weds Fouzia Ali at Kensington Mosque |
| Special : | 08/14/1979 | Z Vavrova discovers asteroid #2474 Ruby |
| Special : | 11/25/1979 | Z Vavrova discovers asteroid #3628 |
| Special : | 12/21/1979 | Zimbabwe adopts constitution |
| Special : | 05/31/1979 | Zimbabwe proclaims independence |
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