1979

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	19th century – 20th century – 21st century
Decades:	1940s 1950s 1960s – 1970s – 1980s 1990s 2000s
Years:	1976 1977 1978 – 1979 – 1980 1981 1982

1979 (MCMLXXIX) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1979th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 979th year of the 2nd millennium, the 79th year of the 20th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1970s decade.

Events

Picture of Jupiter taken by Voyager 1

January 4 – The State of Ohio agrees to pay $675,000 to families of the dead and injured in the Kent State shootings
February 1 – Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returns to Tehran, Iran after nearly 15 years of exile
March 4 – The U.S. Voyager 1 spaceprobe photos show Jupiter's rings
April 1 – Iran's government becomes an Islamic Republic by a 98% vote, overthrowing the Shah officially
May 1 – Greenland is given limited autonomy from Denmark. The new Parliament of Greenland will meet in Nuuk.
June 18 – Jimmy Carter and Leonid Brezhnev sign the SALT II agreement in Vienna
July 16 – Iraqi President Hasan al-Bakr resigns and Vice President Saddam al-Tikriti replaces him
August 3 – Dictator Francisco Macías Nguema of Equatorial Guinea is overthrown in a bloody coup d'état led by Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo
September 1 – The American Pioneer 11 becomes the first spacecraft to visit Saturn when it passes the planet at a distance of 21,000 km
September 7 – The Chrysler Corporation asks the United States government for $1 billion to avoid bankruptcy
September 7 – ESPN starts broadcasting
September 16 – Three families flee from East Germany by balloon
September 20 – French paratroopers help David Dacko to overthrow Bokassa
September 22 – The South Atlantic Flash is observed near Bouvet Island, thought to be a nuclear weapons test
October 14 – A major gay rights march in the United States takes place in Washington, DC, involving many tens of thousands of people
October 16 – 23 people die in Nice, France, when the coastal town is hit by a tsunami
October 21 – 259 Muslim radicals occupy Kaaba and the Grand Mosque in Mecca. Saudi-Arabian army goes in to expel them
October 26 – South Korean president Park Chunghee killed by KCIA head Kim Jaekyu
October 27 – Saint Vincent and the Grenadines gains independence
October 29 – Pope John Paul II visits Ireland
November 5 – The radio news program Morning Edition premieres on National Public Radio in the United States
December 5 – Jack Lynch resigns as Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland. He is succeeded by Charles Haughey.
December 15 – Chris Haney and Scott Abbott develop the board game Trivial Pursuit

Births

Pierre Bouvier of Simple Plan

Florin Salam

January 2 – Morena Baccarin, Brazilian actress
January 12 – Marián Hossa, Slovakian hockey player
January 16 – Aaliyah, American singer (d. 2001)
January 20 – Will Young, English singer and actor
January 26 – Sara Rue, American actress
February 9 – Irina Slutskaya, Russian figure skater
February 11 – Brandy Norwood, American singer
February 21 – Jennifer Love Hewitt, American actress
March 8 – Tom Chaplin, English singer (Keane)
March 9 – Melina Perez, American wrestler
March 12 – Pete Doherty, English musician
March 27 – Hiromu Shinozuka, Japanese manga artist
April 4
- Heath Ledger, Australian actor (d. 2008)
- Roberto Luongo, Canadian hockey player
April 5 – Timo Hildebrand, German footballer
April 24 – Marie Picasso, Swedish model and singer
May 9 – Pierre Bouvier, Canadian musician
May 15 – Dominic Scott, Irish guitarist
May 16 – Prince Carl Philip of Sweden
May 26 – Ashley Massaro American model and wrestler
May 29 – Arne Friedrich German footballer
August 3 – Evangeline Lilly, Canadian actress
August 16 – Cleo Lemon, American NFL player
September 13 – Manuel Friedrich, German footballer
September 17 – Chuck Comeau, Canadian musician
October 1 - Florin Salam, Romanian singer
October 3 – John Hennigan, American wrestler
October 8 – Kristanna Loken, American actress
November 14 – Michael Owen, English footballer
November 27 – Hilary Hahn, American violinist
December 26 – Chris Daughtry, American singer

Deaths

January

Charles Mingus

Nelson Rockefeller

Victoria Ocampo

January 3 – Conrad Hilton, American hotelier (b. 1887)
January 5 – Charles Mingus, American bassist (b. 1922)
January 16 – Ted Cassidy, American actor (b. 1932)
January 18 – Gaston Heuet, French long-distance runner (b. 1892)
January 26 – Nelson Rockefeller, 41st Vice President of the United States (b. 1908)
January 27 – Victoria Ocampo, Argentine writer (b. 1890)

February

February 2 – Sid Vicious, English musician (b. 1957)
February 7 – Josef Mengele, Nazism war criminal (b. 1911)
February 8 – Nikolai Tikhonov, Soviet writer (b. 1896)
February 9 – Dennis Gabor, Hungarian-British engineer (b. 1900)
February 12 – Jean Renoir, French film director (b. 1894)
February 17 – William Gargan, American actor (b. 1905)

March

Mustafa Barzani

José María Velasco Ibarra

March 1 – Mustafa Barzani, Kurdish leader (b. 1903)
March 7 – Klaus Egge, Norwegian nationalist (b. 1906)
March 15 – Alexandre Parodi, French Politician (b. 1901)
March 30 – José María Velasco Ibarra, 24th President of Ecuador (b. 1893)

April

Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto

April 4 – Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, 4th President of Pakistan (b. 1928)

May

Giulio Natta

Gabriel Ramanantsoa

Mary Pickford

May 1 – Morteza Motahhari, Iranian philosopher (b. 1919)
May 2 – Giulio Natta, Italian chemical engineer (b. 1903)
May 9 – Gabriel Ramanantsoa, 2nd President of Madagascar (b. 1906)
May 29 – Mary Pickford, Canadian-American actress (b. 1892)

June

John Wayne

June 11 – John Wayne, American actor (b. 1907)

July

Shin'ichirō Tomonaga

Gustavo Díaz Ordaz

July 3 – Louis Durey, French composer (b. 1988)
July 8 – Shin'ichirō Tomonaga, Japanese physicist (b. 1906)
July 15 – Gustavo Díaz Ordaz, 49th President of Mexico (b. 1911)

August

Bertil Ohlin

Giuseppe Meazza

Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma

August 3 – Bertil Ohlin, Swedish economist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899)
August 21 – Giuseppe Meazza, Italian football player (b. 1910)
August 27 – Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, British statesman and naval officer (b. 1900)

Nobel Prizes

Nobel Prize in Physics shared by Sheldon Lee Glashow, Abdus Salam, and Steven Weinberg for their work on electroweak interactions
Nobel Prize in Chemistry shared by Herbert C. Brown and Georg Wittig for their work with organoboranes
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine shared by Allan McLeod Cormack and Godfrey N. Hounsfield for their work on X-ray computed tomography
Nobel Prize in Literature won by Odysseas Elytis, Greek poet
Nobel Peace Prize won by Mother Teresa
Nobel Prize in Economics – Theodore Schultz, American economist, and W. Arthur Lewis, Saint Lucian economist

Movies released

10
Alien, important for science fiction types of movie
The Amityville Horror based on Jay Anson's novel
Apocalypse Now, written by Francis Ford Coppola and John Milius
Kramer vs. Kramer, winner of 5 Academy Awards
Monty Python’s Life of Brian
The Muppet Movie
Mad Max
Rocky II
Star Trek: The Motion Picture
The Warriors, a cult movie

Hit songs

Freddie Mercury in 1977

"A Message To You Rudi/Nite Klub" – The Specials
"Accidents Will Happen" – Elvis Costello and the Attractions
"After the Love Has Gone" – Earth, Wind & Fire
"Ambition" – Vic Goddard and the Subway Sect
"Bad Case Of Loving You(Doctor Doctor)" – Robert Palmer
"Bang Bang" – B.A. Robertson
"Bat out of Hell" – Meat Loaf
"Boogie Wonderland" – Earth Wind and Fire with the Emotions
"Born To Be Alive" – Patrick Hernandez
"Boys Don't Cry" – The Cure
"Boys Keep Swinging" – David Bowie
"Breakfast In America" – Supertramp
"Bright Side Of The Road" – Van Morrison
"California Über Alles" – The Dead Kennedys
"Can You Feel The Force" – The Real Thing
"Can't Stand Losing You" – The Police
"Chiquitita" – ABBA
"Comme disait Mistinguett" – Dalida
"Computer Games" – Mi-Sex
"Cool for Cats" – Squeeze
"Crazy Little Thing Called Love" – Queen
"Cruel To Be Kind" – Nick Lowe
"Dance Away" – Roxy Music
"Death Disco" – Public Image Limited
"Do Anything You Wanna Do" – Thin Lizzy
"Does Your Mother Know?" – ABBA
"Don't Do Me Like That" – Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
"Don't Stop Me Now" – Queen
"Dreaming" – Blondie
"Driver's Seat" – Sniff and the Tears
"Duchess" – The Stranglers
"Electricity" – OMD
"Eton Rifles" – The Jam
"Every Day Hurts" – Sad Cafe
"Everybody's Happy Nowadays" – The Buzzcocks
"Gangsters" – The Specials AKA
"Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!" – ABBA
"Girls Talk" – Dave Edmunds
"Go West" – Village People
"Gonna Get Along Without You Now" – Viola Wills
"Goodbye Stranger" – Supertramp
"H.A.P.P.Y. Radio" – Edwin Starr
"He must have been eighteen" – Dalida
"Helwa Ya Baladi" – Dalida
"Here Comes The Summer" – The Undertones
"Highway to Hell" – AC/DC
"I Don't Like Mondays" – The Boomtown Rats
"I Only Wanna Be With You" – The Tourists
"I Have A Dream" – ABBA
"Il faut danser reggae" – Dalida
"In The Navy" – Village People
"Into The Valley" – The Skids
"Is It Love You're After?" – Rose Royce
"Is She Really Going Out With Him?" – Joe Jackson
"Jimmy Jimmy" – The Undertones
"Just The Way You Are" – Barry White
"Just What I Needed" – The Cars
"Lady Writer" – Dire Straits
"Lay Your Love On Me" – Racey
"Let me dance tonight" – Dalida
"Let's Go" – The Cars
"London Calling" – The Clash
"Lucky Number" – Lene Lovich
"Making Plans For Nigel" – XTC
"Milk And Alcohol" – Dr. Feelgood
"Monday, Tuesday... Laissez-moi danser" – Dalida
"Morning Dance" – Spyro Gyra
"Oliver's Army" – Elvis Costello and the Attractions
"On My Radio" – The Selector
"One Step Beyond" – Madness
"On The Inside – Lynne Hamilton
"Parisenne Walkways" – Gary Moore
"Problemorama (L'Argent... L'Argent...)" – Dalida
"Reasons To Be Cheerful (Part 3)" – Ian Dury and the Blockheads
"Rikki Don't Lose That Number" – Steely Dan
"Roll Over Beethoven(EP)" – Chuck Berry
"Roxanne" – The Police
"Sarah" – Thin Lizzy
"Slap And Tickle" – Squeeze
"Smash It Up" – The Damned
"Something Else/Friggin' In The Riggin'" – The Sex Pistols
"Spiral Scratch(EP)" – The Buzzcocks
"Stop Your Sobbing" – Pretenders
"Sultans Of Swing" – Dire Straits
"Take Me To The River" – Talking Heads
"Tears Of A Clown/Ranking Full Stop" – The Beat
"The Ballad Of Lucy Jordan" – Marianne Faithfull
"The Cost Of Living(EP)" – The Clash
"The Logical Song" – Supertramp
"The Long Run" – The Eagles
"Transmission" – Joy Division
"Union City Blue" – Blondie
"Up The Junction" – Squeeze
"Vedrai Vedrai" – Dalida
"Voulez-Vous" – ABBA
"We Are Family" – Sister Sledge
"Whatever You Want" – Status Quo
"Wonderful Christmastime" – Paul McCartney
"You Decorated My Life" – Kenny Rogers
"You Needed Me" – Anne Murray

New books

Douglas Adams in 2008

Douglas Adams – The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
V. C. Andrews – Flowers in the Attic
David Attenborough – Life on Earth
L. Sprague de Camp, editor – The Blade of Conan
Stephen King – The Dead Zone

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