1979 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1979?
- January 1, 1979 – Formal diplomatic relations are established between the China and the United States.
- January 8, 1979 – The tanker Betelgeuse explodes in Bantry Bay, Ireland.
- January 16, 1979 – The Shah of Iran flees Iran with his family and relocates to Egypt.
- January 28, 1979 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Sheep in Chinese astrology.
- March 13, 1979 – The New Jewel Movement, headed by Maurice Bishop, ousts Prime Minister Eric Gairy in a nearly bloodless coup d'etat in Grenada.
- March 17, 1979 – The Penmanshiel Tunnel collapses during engineering works, killing two workers.
- March 19, 1979 – The United States House of Representatives begins broadcasting its day-to-day business via the cable television network C-SPAN.
- April 11, 1979 – Ugandan dictator Idi Amin is deposed.
- May 4, 1979 – Margaret Thatcher becomes the first female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
- May 28, 1979 – Constantine Karamanlis signs the full treaty of the accession of Greece with the European Economic Community.
- June 2, 1979 – Pope John Paul II first official visit to his native Poland, becoming the first Pope to visit a Communist country.
- July 3, 1979 – U.S. President Jimmy Carter signs the first directive for secret aid to the opponents of the pro-Soviet regime in Kabul.
- August 5, 1979 – In Afghanistan, Maoists undertake an attempted military uprising.
- September 13, 1979 – South Africa grants independence to the “homeland” of Venda (not recognised outside South Africa).
- September 24, 1979 – Compu-Serve launches the first consumer internet service, which features the first public electronic mail service.
- September 30, 1979 – The Hong Kong MTR commences service with the opening of its Modified Initial System (aka. Kwun Tong Line).
- October 1, 1979 – The United States returns sovereignty of the Panama canal to Panama.
- 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 4, 1979 – Iran hostage crisis begins: a group of Iranians, mostly students, invades the US embassy in Tehran and takes 90 hostages (53 of whom are American).
- December 9, 1979 – The eradication of the smallpox virus is certified, making smallpox the first and to date only human disease driven to extinction.
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