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''This page refers to the year 1979. For the Smashing Pumpkins song, see
1979 (song) .''
('''
MCMLXXIX ''') was a
Common Year Starting On Monday (the link is to a full 1979 calendar). It was proclaimed
International Year Of The Child by the
United Nations .
- March 1 - Scotland voted narrowly for home rule, which was not implemented, and Wales voted against
- March 4 - U.S. Voyager I photo reveals Jupiter's Rings
- March 5 - Voyager I 's closest approach to Jupiter at 172,000 miles
- March 13 - In Grenada , Maurice Bishop leads a successful coup
- March 14 - In China , a Hawker-Siddeley Trident crashes into a factory near Beijing killing at least 200
- March 25 - The first fully functional Space Shuttle orbiter, '' Columbia ,'' was delivered to the John F. Kennedy Space Center to be prepared for its first launch
- March 26 - In a ceremony at the White House , President Anwar Sadat of Egypt and Prime Minister Menachem Begin of Israel sign a peace treaty
- March 28 - Nuclear Power Plant accident at Three Mile Island , Pennsylvania, releases radiation
- March 28 - In Britain , Jim Callaghan 's government loses a Motion Of Confidence by one vote, forcing a general election
- March 29 - Sultan Yahya Petra Ibni Almarhum Sultan Ibrahim Petra , 6th Yang Di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia dies in office. He is replaced by Sultan Haji Ahmad Shah Al-Mustain Billah Ibni Almarhum Sultan Sir Abu Bakar Riayatuddin Al-Muadzam Shah , Sultan of Pahang .
- March 30 - Airey Neave , World War Two veteran and Conservative Northern Ireland spokesman, is killed by INLA bomb in British House Of Commons car park
- March 31 - The Royal Navy withdraws from Malta
, the first female
Prime Minister Of The United Kingdom .]]
- June 1 - The first black-led government of Rhodesia in 90 years takes power, in succession to Ian Smith and under his power-sharing deal.
- June 2 - Pope John Paul II visits his native Poland , becoming the first Pope to visit a Communist country
- June 3 - A blowout at the Ixtoc I oil well in the southern Gulf Of Mexico causes at least 600,000 tons (176,400,000 gallons) of oil to be spilled into the waters, the worst oil spill to date. Some estimate the spill to be 428 million gallons, making it the largest unintentional Oil Spill ever.
- June 4 - Joe Clark becomes Canada 's sixteenth, and youngest, Prime Minister .
- June 12 - Bryan Allen flies the Gossamer Albatross , man powered, across the English Channel .
- June 18 - Jimmy Carter and Leonid Brezhnev sign the SALT II agreement in Vienna .
- June 20 - a national guard soldier in Nicaragua kills ABC TV news correspondent Bill Stewart and his interpreter Juan Espinosa . Other members of the news crew capture the killing on tape
- Premier Neville Wran officially opens the Eastern Suburbs Railway . It operates as a shuttle between Central & Bondi Junction until full integration with the Illawarra Line during 1980 .
, shortly after seizing the compound.]]
- ian Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini urged his people to demonstrate on November 4 and to expand attacks on United States and Israeli interests
- November 2 - French police shoots gangster Jacques Mesrine in Paris
- November 3 - In Greensboro, North Carolina , five members of the Communist Workers Party are shot to death and seven are wounded by a group of Klansmen and Neo-Nazis during a "Death to the Klan" rally
- ian radicals, mostly students, invade the United States embassy in Tehran and take 90 hostages (63 of whom are American). They demand that the United States send the former Shah back to Iran to stand trial.
- November 5 - The radio news program '' Morning Edition '' premieres on National Public Radio .
- November 6 - At Montevideo , Uruguay the International Olympic Committee adopts a resolution where Taiwan Olympic and sports team participate with the name Chinese Taipei in future Olympics Games and international sports tournaments and championships .
- , US President Jimmy Carter orders a halt to all Oil imports into the United States from Iran
- issues Executive Order 12170 , freezing all Iran ian assets in the United States and US banks in response to the hostage crisis
- November 16 - Bucharest Metro Line 1 is opened, in Bucharest , Romania (from Timpuri Noi to Semanatoarea stations, 8.63 km)
- ian leader Ruhollah Khomeini orders the release of 13 female and black American hostages being held at the US Embassy in Tehran .
- November 20 - A group of around 200 militant Muslims occupied Mecca 's Grand Mosque . They were driven out by French commandos (allowed into the city under these special circumstances despite their being non-Muslims) after bloody fighting that left 250 people dead and 600 wounded.
- November 20 - Group of Sunni Muslim s barricade themselves into the Holy Mosque of Mecca . They hold out until December 4
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- November 23 - In Dublin , Ireland , Irish Republican Army member Thomas McMahon is sentenced to life in prison for the assassination of Lord Mountbatten
- DC-10 crashes into Mount Erebus on a sightseeing trip, killing all 257 people on board.
- January 1 - Koichi Domoto , Japanese entertainer ( Kinki Kids )
- January 2 - Morena Baccarin , Italian Brazilian actress
- January 12 - Marián Hossa , Slovak ice hockey player
- January 16 - Aaliyah , American singer (d. 2001 )
- January 20 - Rob Bourdon , American drummer ( Linkin Park )
- January 21 - Brian O'Driscoll , Irish rugby union player
- January 24 - Tatyana Ali , American actress
- January 27 - Rosamund Pike , British actress
- January 29 - Sui Feifei , Chinese basketball player
- February 1 - Julie Augustyniak , American soccer player
- February 9 - Mena Suvari , American actress
- February 9 - Zhang Ziyi , Chinese actress and model
- February 11 - Brandy Norwood , American singer
- February 16 - Valentino Rossi , Italian motorcycle racer
- February 21 - Jennifer Love Hewitt , American actress and singer
- March 5 - Flick Shagwell , British porn actress
- March 9 - Melina Perez , American professional wrestler
- March 11 - Benji Madden and Joel Madden , twins from Good Charlotte
- March 12 - Pete Doherty , British singer and guitarist ( The Libertines and Babyshambles )
- March 30 - Norah Jones , American musician
- April 4 - Heath Ledger , Australian actor
- April 3 - Daniel Lane , British music journalist ( Kerrang! )
- April 8 - Alexi Laiho , Finnish guitarist ( Children Of Bodom )
- April 10 - Rachel Corrie , American activist (d. 2003 )
- April 10 - Tsuyoshi Domoto , Japanese entertainer ( Kinki Kids )
- April 10 - Sophie Ellis-Bextor , British singer
- April 12 - Claire Danes , American actress
- April 14 - Pierre Roland , Indonesian Actor
- April 18 - Vahid Rahbani , Iranian director.
- April 18 - Michael Bradley , American basketball player
- April 19 - Kate Hudson , American actress
- April 19 - Antoaneta Stefanova , Bulgarian chess player
- April 28 - Jorge Garcia , American actor
- May 2 - Roman Lyashenko , Russian hockey player (d. 2003 )
- May 9 - Rosario Dawson , American actress
- May 24 - Tracy McGrady , American basketball player
- May 25 - Jonny Wilkinson , British rugby union player
- May 26 - Ashley Massaro , American professional wrestler and model
- June 5 - Pete Wentz , American bassist and lyricist ( Fall Out Boy )
- June 13 - Nila Håkedal , Norwegian beach volleyball player
- June 19 - John Duddy , Northern Irish boxer
- June 23 - LaDainian Tomlinson , American football player
- June 24 - Craig Shergold , British cancer patient
- June 28 - Randy McMichael , American football player
- June 29 - Marleen Veldhuis , Dutch swimmer
- July 3 - Ludivine Sagnier , French model and actress
- July 5 - Amélie Mauresmo , French tennis player
- July 21 - David Carr , American football player
- July 26 - Johnson Beharry , British war hero
- July 27 - Jorge Arce , Mexican boxer
- July 30 - Graeme McDowell , Northern Irish professional golfer
- August 5 - David Healy , Northern Irish footballer
- August 10 - Joanna Garcia , American actress
- August 13 - Taizo Sugimura , Japanese politician
- August 16 - Sarah Balabagan , Filipina prisoner and singer
- August 18 - Selena Silver , pornographic film actress
- August 26 - Jamal Lewis , American football player
- August 28 - Robert Hoyzer , German football referee
- September 8 - Alecia Moore (Pink), American singer
- September 13 - Bjørn-Arild Berthelsen , Norwegian Salvation Army soldier
- September 13 - Ivan Miljković , Serbian volleyball player
- September 14 - Stuart Fielden , English rugby league player
- September 15 - Amy Davidson , American actress
- September 17 - Akin Ayodele , American football player
- September 28 - Bam Margera , American skater
- October 1 - Rudi Johnson , American football player
- October 10 - Mya , American singer and actress
- October 14 - Stacy Keibler , American professional wrestler
- October 17 - Kimi Räikkönen , Finnish race car driver
- October 20 - John Krasinski , American actor
- October 30 - Yukie Nakama , Japanese actress
- November 4 - Audrey Hollander , American pornographic actress
- November 6 - Lamar Odom , American basketball player
- November 7 - Jon Peter Lewis , American singer and songwriter
- November 8 - Aaron Hughes , Northern Irish footballer
- November 13 - Ron Artest , American basketball player
- November 22 - Mohammad Tanzeel-ul-siddiqi Al-husaini , Pakistani author
- November 27 - Hilary Hahn , American violinist
- November 29 - Jayceon Taylor , American rapper
- January 3 - Conrad Hilton , American hotelier (b. 1887 )
- January 5 - Charles Mingus , American musician (b. 1922 )
- January 13 - Donny Hathaway , American musician (b. 1945 )
- January 26 - Nelson Rockefeller , Governor of New York, Vice President Of The United States (b. 1908 )
- February 2 - Sid Vicious , English musician ( Sex Pistols ) (drug overdose) (b. 1957 )
- February 2 - Issa Pliyev , Soviet general (b. 1903 )
- February 7 - Josef Mengele , Nazi war criminal (b. 1911 )
- February 9 - Dennis Gabor , Hungarian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1900 )
- February 12 - Jean Renoir , French film director (b. 1894 )
- February 14 - Reginald Maudling , British politician (b. 1917 )
- February 23 - W.A.C. Bennett , Canadian politician (b. 1900 )
- February 28 - Mr. Ed , American talking horse (b. 1949 )
- March 1 - Mustafa Barzani , Iraqi Kurdish politician (b. 1903 )
- March 19 - Richard Beckinsale , British actor (b. 1947 )
- March 28 - Emmett Kelly , American clown (b. 1898 )
- March 29 - Sultan Yahya Petra Ibni Almarhum Sultan Ibrahim Petra , King of Malaysia (b. 1917 )
- March 30 - Airey Neave , British politician (assassinated) (b. 1916 )
- April 4 - Zulfikar Ali Bhutto , President and Prime Minister Of Pakistan (executed) (b. 1928 )
- April 4 - Edgar Buchanan , American actor (b. 1903 )
- April 10 - Nino Rota , Italian composer (b. 1911 )
- April 23 - Blair Peach , New Zealand-born anti-Nazi campaigner (killed by police) (b. 1946 )
- May 2 - Giulio Natta , Italian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1903 )
- May 11 - Barbara Hutton , American socialite (b. 1912 )
- May 29 - Mary Pickford , Canadian actress and studio founder (b. 1892 )
- June 1 - Werner Forssmann , German physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine (b. 1904 )
- June 11 - John Wayne , American actor (b. 1907 )
- June 17 - Duffy Lewis , baseball player (b. 1888 )
- June 19 - Paul Popenoe , American eugenicist (b. 1888 )
- June 21 - Angus MacLise , American percussionist, composer, mystic, shaman, poet, occultist, calligrapher and original drummer for the Velvet Underground (b. 1938 )
- June 29 - Lowell George , American musician ( Little Feat ) (b. 1945 )
- July 3 - Louis Durey , French composer (b. 1888 )
- July 8 - Sin-Itiro Tomonaga , Japanese physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1906 )
- July 8 - Robert B. Woodward , American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1917 )
- July 10 - Arthur Fiedler , American conductor (b. 1894 )
- July 12 - Minnie Riperton , American singer (b. 1947 )
- July 16 - Alfred Deller , English countertenor (b. 1912 )
- July 22 - Nittatsu Hosoi, Japanese priest (b. 1902 )
- July 29 - Bill Todman , American game show producer (b. 1916 )
- August 2 - Thurman Munson , baseball player (b. 1947 )
- August 3 - Bertil Ohlin , Swedish economist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899 )
- August 6 - Feodor Felix Konrad Lynen , German biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine (b. 1911 )
- August 12 - Ernst Boris Chain , German-born biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize For Physiology Or Medicine (b. 1906 )
- August 27 - Earl Mountbatten , last British Viceroy Of India (assassinated) (b. 1900 )
- August 31 - Sally Rand , American dancer (b. 1904 )
- September - Ismail Nasiruddin Shah Ibni Almarhum Sultan Zainal Abidin III , King of Malaysia (b. 1907 )
- September 8 - Jean Seberg , American actress (b. 1938 )
- September 10 - Agostinho Neto , Angolan nationalist (b. 1922 )
- September 28 - John Herbert Chapman , Canadian physicist (b. 1921 )
- September 29 - Francisco Macias Nguema , first president of Equatorial Guinea
- October 6 - Elizabeth Bishop , American poet (b. 1911 )
- October 10 - Christopher Evans , British psychologist and computer scientist (b. 1931 )
- October 13 - Rebecca Clarke , English composer and violist (b. 1886 )
- October 16 - Johan Borgen , Norwegian author (b. 1903 )
- October 22 - Nadia Boulanger , French composer and composition teacher (b. 1887 )
- October 26 - Park Chung-hee , President Of South Korea (b. 1917 )
- November 1 - Mamie Eisenhower , First Lady Of The United States (b. 1896 )
- November 29 - Zeppo Marx , American actor and comedian (b. 1901 )
- December 3 - Dhyan Chand , Indian hockey player (b. 1905 )
- December 23 - Peggy Guggenheim , American art collector (b. 1898 )
- December 27 - Hafizullah Amin , President Of Afghanistan (b. 1929 )
