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Events on the year of 1979 in history

Events
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01 Jan 1979 Jura, 26th canton of Switzerland, established
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01 Jan 1979 US and China (Peoples Republic) begin diplomatic relations
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01 Jan 1979 Formal diplomatic relations are established between China and the United States.
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02 Jan 1979 30th Islander shut-out opponent-Glenn Resch 9-0 vs. Vancouver
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02 Jan 1979 Gavaskar gets twin tons for India for the third time (vs. West Indies)
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07 Jan 1979 Vietnamese forces capture Phnom Penh from Khmer Rouge
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07 Jan 1979 Third Indochina War: Cambodian–Vietnamese War: Phnom Penh falls to the advancing Vietnamese troops, driving out Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge.
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08 Jan 1979 512 die as oil tanker Bantry Bay blows up
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08 Jan 1979 Argentina and Chile sign Beagle Canal accord
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08 Jan 1979 Today Show gets a new theme song
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08 Jan 1979 Vietnamese troops overtook Khmer Rouge and occupy Phnom Penh
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08 Jan 1979 The tanker Betelgeuse explodes in Bantry Bay, Ireland.
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09 Jan 1979 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to WS Merwin
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09 Jan 1979 High-school player Daryl Moreau makes 126th consecutive free throws
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09 Jan 1979 Supreme Court strikes down (6-3) PA law requiring doctors performing an abortion to try to preserve lives of potentially viable fetuses
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10 Jan 1979 Entertainer of the Year Awards
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10 Jan 1979 1st brother Billy Carter makes allegedly anti-Semitic remarks
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11 Jan 1979 "Grand Tour" opens at Palace Theater NYC for 61 performances
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11 Jan 1979 "Grand Tour" opens at Palace Theater New York City NY for 61 performances
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12 Jan 1979 6th American Music Award Barry Manilow, Linda Ronstadt win
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12 Jan 1979 Record blizzard struck midwest killing over 100
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12 Jan 1979 Los Angeles's Hillside Strangler, Kenneth Bianchi, arrested in Bellingham
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13 Jan 1979 YMCA files libel suit against Village People's YMCA song
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13 Jan 1979 Charlie Daniels hosts the Volunteer Jam
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14 Jan 1979 President Carter proposes Martin Luther King's birthday be a holiday
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16 Jan 1979 The last Iranian Shah flees Iran with his family for good and relocates to Egypt.
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16 Jan 1979 Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi of Iran flees Iran for Egypt
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17 Jan 1979 USSR performs underground nuclear test
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17 Jan 1979 New York Islanders didn't get a shot off in 1 period against New York Rangers
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17 Jan 1979 Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi flees Iran
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18 Jan 1979 Peter Jenkins finishes "A Walk Across America" Florence, Oregon
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19 Jan 1979 John N Mitchell (former AG) released on parole from federal prison
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21 Jan 1979 Neptune becomes outermost planet (Pluto moves closer)
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21 Jan 1979 Price of gold increases to record $875 troy ounce
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21 Jan 1979 Super Bowl XIII Pittsburgh Steelers beat Dallas Cowboys, 35-31 in Miami; Super Bowl MVP Terry Bradshaw, Pittsburgh, Quarterback
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23 Jan 1979 Willie Mays elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
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24 Jan 1979 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
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25 Jan 1979 22.2-km Oshimizu railroad tunnel holed through, central Honshu, Japan
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25 Jan 1979 Pope John Paul II's 1st overseas trip as supreme pontiff
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26 Jan 1979 "The Dukes of Hazzard" premieres on CBS's vast wasteland
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26 Jan 1979 Music Center Vredenburg opens in Utrecht Netherlands
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27 Jan 1979 Islanders ends 23 undefeated games at home streak (15-0-8)
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27 Jan 1979 36th Golden Globes Midnight Express, Jon Voight & Jane Fonda
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28 Jan 1979 "Wiz" closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 1672 performances
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28 Jan 1979 Pope John Paul II starts his first pastoral visit to Mexico.
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28 Jan 1979 CBS News Sunday Morning debuts with original host and cocreator Charles Kuralt.
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28 Jan 1979 "Wiz" closes at Majestic Theater New York City NY after 1672 performances
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28 Jan 1979 Arthur Kopit's "Wings" premieres in New York City NY
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29 Jan 1979 9th AFC-NFC pro bowl, NFC wins 13-7
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29 Jan 1979 Brenda Spencer kills 2, inspires Boomtown Rats "I Don't Like Mondays"
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29 Jan 1979 Emerson, Lake & Palmer disband after 10 years together
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29 Jan 1979 President Carter commuted Patricia Hearst's 7 year sentence to 2 years
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29 Jan 1979 9th NFL Pro Bowl NFC beats AFC 13-7
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29 Jan 1979 Chinese vice-premier Deng Xiaoping visits Washington DC
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30 Jan 1979 A Varig Boeing 707-323C freighter, flown by the same commander as Flight 820, disappears over the Pacific Ocean 30 minutes after taking off from Tokyo.
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30 Jan 1979 Rhodesia agrees to new constitution
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01 Feb 1979 Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returns to Iran after 15 yrs in exile
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01 Feb 1979 Patricia Hearst is released from a SF prison for bank robbery
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01 Feb 1979 The Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returns to Tehran, Iran after nearly 15 years of exile.
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03 Feb 1979 "YMCA" by Village People peaks at #2 on pop singles chart
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03 Feb 1979 Minnesota Twins trade Rod Carew to California for 4 players
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03 Feb 1979 US female Figure Skating championship won by Linda Fratianne
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03 Feb 1979 US male Figure Skating championship won by Charles Tickner
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04 Feb 1979 "Co-Ed Fever, " TV Comedy, debut and cancelled that outing on CBS
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04 Feb 1979 End of last 3+day D / N game for 15 yrs (WSC, SCG)
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04 Feb 1979 Joanne Carner wins LPGA Colgate Triple Crown Golf Tournament
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05 Feb 1979 Costliest single periodical ad, $3.2 million, Gulf + Western in Time
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05 Feb 1979 Sears Radio Theater premieres on CBS
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06 Feb 1979 Supreme court of Lahore affirms death sentence against Premier Bhutto
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07 Feb 1979 "Supertrain, " TV Anthology, Superbomb of 1979, debuts on NBC
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07 Feb 1979 Faoud Bacchus scores 250 for WI vs. India at Kanpur
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07 Feb 1979 Pink Floyd premiered their live version of "The Wall" in Los Angeles
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07 Feb 1979 Toronto Maple Leaf Darryl Sittler scores NHL record 10 pts (6 goals)
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07 Feb 1979 Pluto moves inside Neptune's orbit for the first time since either was discovered.
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09 Feb 1979 21st Grammy Awards: Just the Way You Are, Taste of Honey
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09 Feb 1979 ABC airs "Heroes of Rock N Roll" special
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09 Feb 1979 Nigeria amends constitution
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10 Feb 1979 "Da Ya Think I'm Sexy?" by Rod Stewart peaks at #1
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10 Feb 1979 Border is named 12th man for Australia, only Test Cricket he missed
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11 Feb 1979 43 million watch "Elvis!" on ABC
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11 Feb 1979 The Iranian Revolution establishes an Islamic theocracy under the leadership of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.
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11 Feb 1979 43 million watch "Elvis!" on ABC
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11 Feb 1979 Emmy News & Documentaries Award presentation
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11 Feb 1979 Iran's premier Bakhtiar resigns, Ayatollah Khomeini seizes power
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11 Feb 1979 Musical "They're Playing Our Song" premieres at Imperial NYC for 1082 performances
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12 Feb 1979 Kosmos 1076, 1st Soviet oceanographic satellite, launched
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13 Feb 1979 An intense windstorm strikes western Washington and sinks a 1/2-mile-long section of the Hood Canal Bridge.
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13 Feb 1979 Washington State's Hood Canal Bridge breaks up in windstorm
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13 Feb 1979 2nd Emmy Sports Award presentation
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14 Feb 1979 "Whoopee!" opens at ANTA Theater NYC for 204 performances
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14 Feb 1979 In Kabul, Setami Milli militants kidnap the American ambassador to Afghanistan, Adolph Dubs who is later killed during a gunfight between his kidnappers and police.
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15 Feb 1979 Don Dunstan resigns as Premier of South Australia, ending a decade of sweeping social liberalisation.
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15 Feb 1979 Paul Shirley (21) of Australia, sucked a lifesaver for 4 hours 40 minutes
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15 Feb 1979 Temple City Kazoo Orchestra appears on Mike Douglas Show
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15 Feb 1979 21st Grammy Awards Just the Way You Are, Taste of Honey win
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16 Feb 1979 George Harrison releases "Blow Away"
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16 Feb 1979 George Harrison releases "Blow Away"
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16 Feb 1979 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR
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17 Feb 1979 The Sino-Vietnamese War begins.
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17 Feb 1979 China invades Vietnam
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17 Feb 1979 Eric Heiden equals skating world record 1000 meter (1:14.99)
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18 Feb 1979 Miniseries "Roots: Next Generations" premieres on ABC TV
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18 Feb 1979 Snow falls in the Sahara Desert in southern Algeria for the only time in recorded history.
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18 Feb 1979 -52
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18 Feb 1979 NASA launches space vehicle S-202
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18 Feb 1979 Snow falls in the Sahara Desert
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18 Feb 1979 Amy Alcott wins LPGA Elizabeth Arden Golf Classic
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18 Feb 1979 President Zia ur-Rahmans National Party wins elections in Bangladesh
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20 Feb 1979 "Comin' Uptown" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 45 performances
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21 Feb 1979 Japan launches Hakucho x-ray satellite and Corsa-B (550 / 580 km)
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21 Feb 1979 2 Iowa girls High School basketball teams play 4 scoreless quarters; the game was won 4-2 in the 4th overtime period
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22 Feb 1979 Billy Martin named manager of Oakland Athletics
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22 Feb 1979 Independence of Saint Lucia from the United Kingdom.
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22 Feb 1979 St Lucia gains independence from Britain
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22 Feb 1979 Cleveland Metroparks Zoo's Primate & Cat Building is dedicated
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23 Feb 1979 "Sarava" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 140 performances
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23 Feb 1979 George Harrison releases "George Harrison" album
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23 Feb 1979 Frank Peterson Jr named 1st black general in Marine Corps
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24 Feb 1979 Highest price ever paid for a pig, $42,500, Stamford, Texas
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24 Feb 1979 War between North & South Yemen begins
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25 Feb 1979 Soyuz 32 carries 2 Cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station is launched
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25 Feb 1979 Jane Blalock wins LPGA Orange Blossom Golf Classic
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26 Feb 1979 Last total eclipse of Sun in 20th century for continental US
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28 Feb 1979 Ernest Thompson's "On Golden Pond" premieres in New York NY
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01 Mar 1979 "Sweeney Todd" opens at Uris Theater NYC for 557 performances
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04 Mar 1979 "Grand Tour" closes at Palace Theater NYC after 61 performances
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04 Mar 1979 200th episode of "All in the Family"
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04 Mar 1979 Sally Little wins LPGA Bent Tree Golf Classic
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05 Mar 1979 America's Voyager 1 spacecraft has its closest approach to Jupiter, 172,000 miles.
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05 Mar 1979 Soviet probes Venera 11, Venera 12 and the American solar satellite Helios II all are hit by "off the scale" gamma rays leading to the discovery of soft gamma repeaters.
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07 Mar 1979 Baseball exhibition season opens with semipro and amateur umpires
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07 Mar 1979 Warren Giles and Hack Wilson selected to baseball Hall of Fame
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08 Mar 1979 China withdraws invasion troops from Vietnam
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08 Mar 1979 Shuttle Columbia (OV-102) transported 38 miles overland from Palmdale
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08 Mar 1979 Philips demonstrates the compact disc publicly for the first time.
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09 Mar 1979 Bowie Kuhn orders baseball to give equal access to female reporters
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11 Mar 1979 Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Sunstar Golf Classic
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11 Mar 1979 Randy Hold receives 67 minutes in penalties in a 60 minute NHL hockey game
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13 Mar 1979 The New Jewel Movement, headed by Maurice Bishop, ousts Prime Minister Eric Gairy in a nearly bloodless coup d'état in Grenada.
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13 Mar 1979 European Monetary System is established, ECU created
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13 Mar 1979 Gairy dictatorship in Grenada overthrown by New Jewel Movement
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13 Mar 1979 Isle's Mike Bossy's 5th career hat trick
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14 Mar 1979 In China, a Hawker Siddeley Trident crashes into a factory near Beijing, killing at least 200.
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15 Mar 1979 Apparat releases Newdos+ 2.1 for Radio Shack's TRS-80
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15 Mar 1979 Isle's Bryan Trottier's 5th career hat trick
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15 Mar 1979 Sarfraz takes 9-86 at MCG as Australia lose 7-5 to lose the Test
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16 Mar 1979 CBS-TV airs "Wings Over the World" with Paul McCartney
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16 Mar 1979 Sino-Vietnamese War: The People's Liberation Army crosses the border back into China, ends the war.
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17 Mar 1979 Ice Pairs Championship at Vienna won by Tai Babilonia and R Gardner USA
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17 Mar 1979 The Penmanshiel Tunnel collapses during engineering works, killing two workers.
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17 Mar 1979 World Ice Dance Championship at Vienna won by N Linichuk & G Karponosov USSR
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17 Mar 1979 World Ice Pairs Figure Skating Championship at Vienna won by Tai Babilonia & R Gardner (USA)
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17 Mar 1979 World Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Vienna won by Linda Fratianne (USA)
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17 Mar 1979 World Men's Figure Skating Championship in Vienna won by Vladimir Kovalev (USSR)
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18 Mar 1979 "On the 20th Century" closes at St. James Theater NYC after 460 performances
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18 Mar 1979 Battles between Kurds & Iranians break in Sananday Iran
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18 Mar 1979 Joanne Carner wins LPGA Honda Civic Golf Classic
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19 Mar 1979 The United States House of Representatives begins broadcasting its day-to-day business via the cable television network C-SPAN.
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19 Mar 1979 House of Representatives begins live TV broadcasts via C-SPAN
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20 Mar 1979 Columbia flies on Shuttle carrier aircraft to Kennedy Space Center
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21 Mar 1979 Egyptian Parliament unanimously approve peace treaty with Israel
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22 Mar 1979 NHL votes to accept 4 WHA teams (Oilers, Jets, Nordiques & Whalers)
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22 Mar 1979 Israeli parliament approves peace treaty with Egypt
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23 Mar 1979 Wings release "Goodnight Tonight"
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23 Mar 1979 Larry Holmes TKOs Osvaldo Ocasio in 7 for heavyweight boxing title
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23 Mar 1979 Wings release "Goodnight Tonight"
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24 Mar 1979 "Ballroom" closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 116 performances
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24 Mar 1979 10 rebounds & 10 assists, as the Spartans cruise to a 101-67 by University of Pennsylvania; Michigan State's Earvin "Magic" Johnson registers triple-double 29 points
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24 Mar 1979 1st appearance as Australian cricket captain for Kim Hughes
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24 Mar 1979 Columbia flown on aircraft carrier lands at Kennedy Space Center
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25 Mar 1979 The first fully functional Space Shuttle orbiter, Columbia, is delivered to the John F. Kennedy Space Center to be prepared for its first launch.
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25 Mar 1979 Major riot at Bourda prevents day's play in WSC Supertest
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25 Mar 1979 Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Sahara National Pro-Am Golf Tournament
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26 Mar 1979 Anwar al-Sadat, Menachem Begin and Jimmy Carter sign the Egypt–Israel Peace Treaty in Washington, D.C.
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26 Mar 1979 41st NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Michigan State Spartans beat Indiana State Sycamores, 75-64 as Magic Johnson outscores Larry Bird, 24-19; this snaps Indiana State's 33-game win streak
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26 Mar 1979 Camp David peace treaty between Israel & Egypt
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26 Mar 1979 Padres & Giants announce plans to play exhibition series in Tokyo but Giant players reject it
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27 Mar 1979 Supreme Court rules, 8-1, cops can't randomly stop cars
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28 Mar 1979 The British House of Commons passes a vote of no confidence against James Callaghan's government, precipitating a general election.
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28 Mar 1979 A coolant leak at the Three Mile Island's Unit 2 nuclear reactor outside Harrisburg, Pennsylvania leads to the core overheating and a partial meltdown.
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28 Mar 1979 British government of Callaghan falls
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28 Mar 1979 Lazarus & Vosburgh's "Day in Hollywood & night in Ukraine" premieres
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28 Mar 1979 Major nuclear accident at 3 Mile Island, Middletown PA (no deaths)
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29 Mar 1979 Andrew Hilditch given out handled the ball vs Pakistan at WACA
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29 Mar 1979 Caryl Churchill's "Cloud Nine" premieres in London
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29 Mar 1979 Delhi beat Karnataka by 399 runs to win Cricket's Ranji Trophy
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29 Mar 1979 Last day of Test cricket for Mushtaq Mohammad
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30 Mar 1979 Airey Neave, a British Member of Parliament, is killed by a car bomb as he exits the Palace of Westminster. The Irish National Liberation Army claims responsibility.
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31 Mar 1979 The last British soldier leaves the Maltese Islands. Malta declares its Freedom Day (Jum il-Helsien).
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01 Apr 1979 Iran proclaimed an Islamic Republic following fall of Shah
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01 Apr 1979 Iran becomes an Islamic republic by a 99% vote, officially overthrowing the Shah.
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02 Apr 1979 Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin visits Cairo Egypt / meets President Sadat
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03 Apr 1979 Jane M Byrne (D), elected 1st woman Mayor of Chicago, Illinois
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04 Apr 1979 Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto of Pakistan is executed.
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05 Apr 1979 Baltimore Manager Earl Weaver wins his 1,000th game as a skipper
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05 Apr 1979 Ex-premier Pol Jar flees out of Cambodia
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06 Apr 1979 Rod Stewart and Alana Collins wed
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06 Apr 1979 Student protests break out in Nepal.
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07 Apr 1979 Houston Astro Ken Forsch no-hits Atlanta Braves, 6-0
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08 Apr 1979 "Carmelina" opens at St. James Theater NYC for 17 performances
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08 Apr 1979 204th and final episode of "All in the Family"
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08 Apr 1979 8th Colgate Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Sandra Post
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09 Apr 1979 51st Academy Awards - "Deer Hunter, " Jon Voight and Jane Fonda win
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09 Apr 1979 Longest doubles ping-pong match of 101 hrs, begins
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10 Apr 1979 Red River Valley tornado outbreak: A tornado lands in Wichita Falls, Texas killing 42 people.
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10 Apr 1979 Soyuz 33 launched with a Russian & a Bulgarian
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10 Apr 1979 J R Richard throws major league record 6 wild pitches in Astrodome
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11 Apr 1979 Ugandan dictator Idi Amin is deposed.
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11 Apr 1979 Ugandan dictator Idi Amin overthrown; Tanzania takes Kampala
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12 Apr 1979 Soyuz 33 returns to Earth
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13 Apr 1979 Longest doubles ping-pong match ends after 101 hours
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13 Apr 1979 Christian Turks occupy St Jansbasiliek
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13 Apr 1979 Yusuf Lule becomes premier of Uganda
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14 Apr 1979 Susan Horvath, of Pennsylvania, crowned America's Young Woman of the Year
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15 Apr 1979 43rd Golf Masters Championship Fuzzy Zoeller wins, shooting a 280
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16 Apr 1979 Pulitzer prize awarded to Sam Shepard for "Buried child"
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16 Apr 1979 15th Mayor's Trophy Game, Yankees & Mets tie 1-1
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16 Apr 1979 83rd Boston Marathon won by Bill Rodgers of Massachusetts in 2:09:27
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16 Apr 1979 8th Boston Women's Marathon won by Joan Benoit Samuelson in 2:35:15
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16 Apr 1979 Failed Palestinian attack on Zaventem Airport in Belgium
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17 Apr 1979 Brian Clark's "Whose Life is it Anyway?", premieres in London
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18 Apr 1979 "Real People" premieres on NBC TV
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18 Apr 1979 "Real People" premieres on NBC TV
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18 Apr 1979 Major Haddad declares South-Lebanon independent
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19 Apr 1979 Following a 6-3 loss to the Orioles, Yanks Goose Gossage and Cliff
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19 Apr 1979 Johnson brawl, Gossage sustains a sprained ligament in his left thumb
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19 Apr 1979 FCC raids & shuts down pirate radio station WFAT (Brooklyn NY)
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19 Apr 1979 Following a 6-3 loss to the Orioles, Yankees Goose Gossage & Cliff Johnson brawl, Gossage sustains a sprained ligament in his left thumb
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21 Apr 1979 "Carmelina" closes at St. James Theater NYC after 17 performances
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22 Apr 1979 Mick Jaggar and Keith Richards give a benefit concert in Canada
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22 Apr 1979 Keith Richards and The New Barbarians give a concert to benefit the Canadian National Institute for the Blind in Ottawa Canada
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22 Apr 1979 Jane Blalock wins LPGA Florida Lady Citrus Golf Tournament
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24 Apr 1979 Rhodesian bishop Muzorewa wins general election
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25 Apr 1979 "Rock 'n Roll High Schools" premieres
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25 Apr 1979 Peace treaty between Israel & Egypt goes into effect
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27 Apr 1979 George Harrison releases "Love Comes to Everyone"
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29 Apr 1979 Jane Blalock wins LPGA Otey Crisman Golf Classic
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30 Apr 1979 Mary Therese Friel, (New York), crowned 28th Miss USA
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01 May 1979 Elton John becomes 1st pop star to perform in Israel
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01 May 1979 Home rule introduced to Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland)
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01 May 1979 Marshall Islands (in Pacific) become self-governing
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02 May 1979 "Quadrophenia" premieres in London
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02 May 1979 14th Academy of Country Music Awards: Kenny Rogers and Barbara Mandrell
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03 May 1979 1st woman Prime Minister of Great Britain (Margaret Thatcher)
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03 May 1979 Bobby Bonds hits his 300th HR (2nd to have 300 HRs & 300 stolen bases)
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03 May 1979 After the general election, Margaret Thatcher forms her first government as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
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04 May 1979 Jackie Mercer wins her 4th golf title 31 years after her 1st
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04 May 1979 Margaret Thatcher elected Prime Minister of England
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04 May 1979 NASA launches Fltsatcom-2
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04 May 1979 Margaret Thatcher becomes the first female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
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05 May 1979 105th Kentucky Derby: Ron Franklin on Spectacular Bid wins in 2:02.4
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05 May 1979 Masterpiece Radio Theater begins broadcasting
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05 May 1979 Voyager 1 passes Jupiter
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06 May 1979 Fred Markham set a bicycle speed record of 818 km/h over 200 m
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07 May 1979 5th UNCTAD-conference opens in Manila
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07 May 1979 Gary Roenicke hits into Orioles 13th triple play (Oakland)
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08 May 1979 Radio Shack releases TRSDOS 2.3
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09 May 1979 US and the USSR sign Salt 2 treaty, limiting nuclear weapons
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09 May 1979 Iranian Jewish businessman Habib Elghanian is executed by firing squad in Tehran, prompting the mass exodus of the once 100,000-strong Jewish community of Iran.
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10 May 1979 Vivekananda (Sri Lanka) completes nonstop cycle ride of 187 hrs, 28 min, around Vihara Maha Devi Park, Colombo, Sri Lanka [From May 2]
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10 May 1979 The Federated States of Micronesia become self-governing.
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10 May 1979 John McMullen becomes CEO of Houston Astros
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12 May 1979 Chris Evert's 125-match winning streak on clay comes to an end
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13 May 1979 "Utter Glory... Morrissey Hall" opens and closes at Mark Hellinger, New York City
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13 May 1979 "The Utter Glory of Morrissey Hall" opens & closes at Mark Hellinger NYC
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13 May 1979 Sandra Post wins LPGA Lady Michelob Golf Tournament
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13 May 1979 Shah & family sentenced to death in Teheran
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16 May 1979 FC Barcelona wins 19th Europe Cup II in Basel
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16 May 1979 National League approves Astros sales from Ford Motors to John J McMullen for $19 million
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17 May 1979 -12
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17 May 1979 Emmy 6th Daytime Award presentation
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17 May 1979 Phillies beat Cubs, 23-22, on 50 hits with 11 homeruns
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19 May 1979 "In The Navy" by Village People hits #3
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19 May 1979 "In The Navy" by Village People hits #3
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19 May 1979 105th Preakness: Ron Franklin aboard Spectacular Bid wins in 1:54.2
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19 May 1979 Guitarist Eric Clapton marries Patti Boyd
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20 May 1979 "I Love My Wife" closes at Barrymore Theater NYC after 864 performances
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20 May 1979 1st western pop star to tour USSR-Elton John
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20 May 1979 Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Coca-Cola Golf Classic
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21 May 1979 Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens beat the New York Rangers, 4 games to 1
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21 May 1979 White Night riots in San Francisco following the manslaughter conviction of Dan White for the assassinations of George Moscone and Harvey Milk.
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21 May 1979 Dan White convicted of manslaughter death of San Fransisco mayor Moscone
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21 May 1979 Elton John becomes 1st western rocker to perform live in the USSR
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21 May 1979 National Volksraad installed in Namibia
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21 May 1979 Stanley Cup: Montr
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22 May 1979 Canadians elect conservatives, Joseph Clark replaces Pierre Trudeau
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22 May 1979 Commencement of 1st ICC Trophy (PNG vs East Africa & Singapore vs Argentina)
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23 May 1979 "Kids Are All Right" premieres
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23 May 1979 "The Kids Are Alright" premieres
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23 May 1979 1st edition of "Wisden Cricket Monthly"
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23 May 1979 Borussia M
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23 May 1979 Rocker Tom Petty files chapter 11 bankruptcy
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23 May 1979 West-Germany elects Karl Carstens president
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24 May 1979 Billy Martin issues a public apology to Reno sportswriter Ray Hagar
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24 May 1979 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR
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25 May 1979 American Airlines Flight 191: In Chicago, a McDonnell Douglas DC-10 crashes during takeoff at O'Hare International Airport killing all 271 on board and two people on the ground.
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25 May 1979 Etan Patz, who is six years old, disappears from the street just two blocks away from his home in New York City, prompting an international search for the child, and causing the U.S. President Ronald Reagan to designate May 25 as National Missing Children's Day (in 1983).
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25 May 1979 American Airlines DC-10 crashes in Chicago killing 275
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25 May 1979 Israel begins to return Sinai to Egypt
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25 May 1979 Raul Gonz
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26 May 1979 "Dancin' Fool" by Frank Zappa hits #45
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27 May 1979 Penny Pulz wins LPGA Corning Golf Classic
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27 May 1979 Pope John Paul ordains John J O'Conner as a bishop
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28 May 1979 Konstantinos Karamanlis signs the full treaty of the accession of Greece with the European Economic Community.
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28 May 1979 European Market accepts Greece as member
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29 May 1979 Bishop Abel Muzorewa is sworn in as Zimbabwe's 1st black PM
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29 May 1979 Radio's 1st rock network "The Source" premieres
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30 May 1979 Nottingham Forrest wins 24th Europe Cup 1 at Munich
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30 May 1979 Pat Underwood makes his pitching debut for Detroit beats brother Tom
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30 May 1979 Percom Data Company Inc release Microdos for Radio Shack's TRS-80
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30 May 1979 Ted Coombs begins a 5,193 mile roller skate from Los Angeles to NYC
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31 May 1979 "I Remember Mama" opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 108 performances
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31 May 1979 Radio City Music Hall (NYC) reopens
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31 May 1979 Zimbabwe proclaims independence
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01 Jun 1979 33rd NBA Championship: Sea Supersonics beat Washington Bullets, 4 games to 1
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01 Jun 1979 Rhodesian Bishop Able Muzorewa becomes Premier
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01 Jun 1979 Wings release "Old Siam, Sir"
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01 Jun 1979 The first black-led government of Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) in 90 years takes power.
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02 Jun 1979 John Paul II becomes 1st Pope to visit a communist country (Poland)
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02 Jun 1979 NASA launches space vehicle S-198
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02 Jun 1979 Pope John Paul II starts his first official visit to his native Poland, becoming the first Pope to visit a Communist country.
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03 Jun 1979 "Madwoman of Central Park West" opens on Broadway
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03 Jun 1979 33rd Tony Awards: Elephant Man and Sweeny Todd win
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03 Jun 1979 Ex-President Idi Amin of Uganda flees to Libya
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03 Jun 1979 Ixtoc I rig in Gulf of Mexico blows; 3 million bbl of oil spilled
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03 Jun 1979 Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Golden Lights Golf Championship
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03 Jun 1979 A blowout at the Ixtoc I oil well in the southern Gulf of Mexico causes at least 3,000,000 barrels (480,000 m3) of oil to be spilled into the waters, the second-worst accidental oil spill ever recorded.
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04 Jun 1979 South-African President Vorster resigns due to scandal
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04 Jun 1979 Sri Lanka forfeit ICC Trophy game vs. Israel for political reasons
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04 Jun 1979 Flight Lieutenant Jerry Rawlings takes power in Ghana after a military coup in which General Fred Akuffo is overthrown.
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05 Jun 1979 Seychelles adopts constitution
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06 Jun 1979 Josef Mengeles corpse excavated in Brazil
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06 Jun 1979 Royal Air force receives 1st F-16
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06 Jun 1979 Willie Horton becomes 43rd player to hit 300 HRs in the majors
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07 Jun 1979 52nd National Spelling Bee: Katie Kerwin wins spelling maculature
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07 Jun 1979 Bhaskara 1, Indian Earth resources / meteorology satellite, launched
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07 Jun 1979 Portugal government of Mota Pinto resigns
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07 Jun 1979 Rocker Chuck Berry is charged with tax evasion
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08 Jun 1979 "The Source, " 1st computer public information service, goes on-line
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08 Jun 1979 Mariners draft Al Chambers #1
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08 Jun 1979 Wings release "Back to the Egg" album
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09 Jun 1979 111th Belmont: Ruben Hernandez aboard Coastal wins in 2:28.6
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09 Jun 1979 49th French Womens Tennis: Chris Evert beats Wendy Turnbull (62 60)
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09 Jun 1979 Michael Cairney topples a record row of 169,713 dominoes
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09 Jun 1979 Phillies wear burgundy uniforms for 1st and last time
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09 Jun 1979 The Ghost Train fire at Luna Park Sydney (Australia) kills seven.
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10 Jun 1979 25th LPGA Championship won by Donna Caponi Young
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10 Jun 1979 Baltimore Orioles pull their 8th triple play (5-4-3 vs. Cleveland)
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10 Jun 1979 Pope John Paul II visits Poland
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11 Jun 1979 Chuck Berry pleads guilty to income tax evasion, sentenced to 4 months
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12 Jun 1979 Opening ceremony at Cambridge Buddhist Association in Boston
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12 Jun 1979 Sanista occupies parts of Managua
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12 Jun 1979 Tigers fire manager Les Moss, hiring Sparky Anderson
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12 Jun 1979 Bryan Allen wins the second Kremer prize for a man powered flight across the English Channel in the Gossamer Albatross.
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12 Jun 1979 Bryan Allen flew man-powered Gossamer Albatross over English Channel in a human-powered aircraft; flight took 2 hrs, 49 min
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12 Jun 1979 Kevin St Onge throws a playing card a record 185'
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13 Jun 1979 "Madwoman of Central Park West" opens at 22 Steps NYC for 86 performances
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13 Jun 1979 Sioux nation receives $100 million in compensation for Black Hills, South Dakota
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14 Jun 1979 New York Giants Willie McCovey 513th HR is an NL lefty record
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14 Jun 1979 Rock group "Little Feat" disbands
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14 Jun 1979 Rock group "Little Feat" disbands
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15 Jun 1979 1st space shuttle SRB qualification test firing; 122 seconds
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16 Jun 1979 "Logical Song" by Supertramp peaks at #6
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16 Jun 1979 Moslem Brotherhood kills 62 sheiks in Aleppo Syria
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16 Jun 1979 Carl Yastrzemski hits his 1,000th extra base hit
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16 Jun 1979 H-E Schuster discovers asteroid #2275
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17 Jun 1979 "Sarava" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 140 performances
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17 Jun 1979 79th US Golf Open: Hale Irwin shoots a 284 at Inverness Club in Toledo
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17 Jun 1979 Jane Blalock wins LPGA Sarah Coventry Golf Tournament
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18 Jun 1979 President Carter and Leonid I Brezhnev sign SALT 2 treaty
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18 Jun 1979 US President Carter and Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev sign SALT II treaty
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18 Jun 1979 SALT II is signed by the United States and the Soviet Union.
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18 Jun 1979 Billy Martin becomes Yankee manager (2nd time), replacing Bob Lemon
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19 Jun 1979 In New York 36,211 show up to witness return of Billy Martin as Yank mgr
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20 Jun 1979 ABC News correspondent Bill Stewart is shot dead by a Nicaraguan soldier under the regime of Anastasio Somoza Debayle. The murder is caught on tape and sparks an international outcry against the regime.
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21 Jun 1979 Sri Lanka beat Canada by 60 runs to win the 1st ICC Trophy
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22 Jun 1979 Larry Holmes TKOs Mike Weaver in 12 for heavyweight boxing title
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22 Jun 1979 Little Richard quits rock & roll for religious pursuit
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22 Jun 1979 Pro Football Researchers Association founded at Canton, Ohio
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23 Jun 1979 Charlie Daniels Band releases "Devil Went Down to Georgia"
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23 Jun 1979 Rock group, the Knack releases "My Sharona"
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23 Jun 1979 The rock group, the Knack releases "My Sharona"
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24 Jun 1979 Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open
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24 Jun 1979 Rickey Henderson debuts for Oakland and steals his 1st base
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25 Jun 1979 "Got Tu Go Disco" opens at Minskoff Theater NYC for 8 performances
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25 Jun 1979 Failed attack on NATO commander Haig in Obourg, Belgium
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25 Jun 1979 E F Helin & S J Bus discovers asteroid #2343 Siding Spring,
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26 Jun 1979 Heavyweight Muhammad Ali confirms that his 3rd retirement is final
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26 Jun 1979 Rocker Nigel Olsson runs a stop sign, crashes and kills a driver
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27 Jun 1979 Muhammad Ali retires as boxing champ
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27 Jun 1979 Supreme Court rules employers may use quotas to help minorities
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28 Jun 1979 OPEC raises oil prices 24%
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29 Jun 1979 "Moonraker" premieres in US
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29 Jun 1979 San Diego Chicken reborn at Jack Murphy Stadium
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30 Jun 1979 "Got To Go Disco" closes at Minskoff Theater NYC after 8 performances
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30 Jun 1979 Johnny Rotten & Joan Collins appear together on BBC's Juke Box Jury
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01 Jul 1979 Stampede Pass, Washington is covered with 6" of snow
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01 Jul 1979 Sony introduces the Walkman.
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02 Jul 1979 Susan B Anthony dollar is issued, 1st US coin to honor a woman
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03 Jul 1979 U.S. President Jimmy Carter signs the first directive for secret aid to the opponents of the pro-Soviet regime in Kabul.
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04 Jul 1979 Algerian ex-President Ben Bella freed
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06 Jul 1979 86th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: M Navratilova beats Chris Evert (64 64)
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06 Jul 1979 IRA-bomb explodes in British consulate in Antwerp
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08 Jul 1979 Congo adopts constitution
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08 Jul 1979 Hollis Stacy wins LPGA Mayflower Golf Classic
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09 Jul 1979 Dr Walter Massey named Director of Argonne National Lab
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09 Jul 1979 Voyager 2 flies past Jupiter
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09 Jul 1979 A car bomb destroys a Renault motor car owned by the famed "Nazi hunters" Serge and Beate Klarsfeld at their home in France. A note purportedly from ODESSA claims responsibility.
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10 Jul 1979 Chuck Berry sentenced to 4 months for $200,000 in tax evasion
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11 Jul 1979 America's first space station, Skylab, is destroyed as it re-enters the Earth's atmosphere over the Indian Ocean.
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11 Jul 1979 US Skylab enters atmosphere over Australia & disintegrates
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12 Jul 1979 "Disco Demolition Night" at Comiskey Park, causes fans to go wild and causes White Sox to forfeit 2nd game of a doubleheader to Tigers
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12 Jul 1979 Ian Palce joins Whitesnake
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12 Jul 1979 Kiribati (formerly Gilbert Islands) declares independence from the UK
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12 Jul 1979 The island nation of Kiribati becomes independent from United Kingdom.
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12 Jul 1979 Kiribati (Gilbert & Ellice Is) gains independence from Britain
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13 Jul 1979 George Harrison releases "Faster"
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13 Jul 1979 George Harrison releases "faster"
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15 Jul 1979 Morarji Desai resigns as Premier of India
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15 Jul 1979 U.S. President Jimmy Carter gives his so-called malaise speech, where he characterizes the greatest threat to the country as "this crisis in the growing doubt about the meaning of our own lives and in the loss of a unity of purpose for our nation" but in which he never uses the word malaise.
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16 Jul 1979 Premier / President al-Bakr of Iraq is succeeded by Saddam Hussein
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16 Jul 1979 Iraqi President Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr resigns and is replaced by Saddam Hussein.
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17 Jul 1979 50th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 7-6 at Kingdome, Seattle
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17 Jul 1979 All star MVP: Dave Parker (Pittsburgh Pirates)
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17 Jul 1979 Nicaraguan Dictator Anastasio Somoza flees to Miami
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17 Jul 1979 Simone Veil becomes Chairman of European Parliament
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17 Jul 1979 Nicaraguan dictator General Anastasio Somoza Debayle resigns and flees to Miami, Florida.
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17 Jul 1979 NL beats AL 7-6 in 50th All Star Game (Kingdome Seattle)
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17 Jul 1979 Sebastian Coe runs world record 3:49 mile in Oslo
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18 Jul 1979 Gold hits record $303.85 an ounce in London
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19 Jul 1979 Maritza Sayalero, 18, of Venezuela, crowned 28th Miss Universe
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19 Jul 1979 Patricia Harris, becomes Secretary of HEW
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19 Jul 1979 The Sandinista rebels overthrow the government of the Somoza family in Nicaragua.
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19 Jul 1979 2 supertankers collide off Tobago-260,000 TONS of oil spill
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19 Jul 1979 Nicaragua Liberation Day; Sandinistas take over from Somoza
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20 Jul 1979 44-kg Newfoundland dog pulls 2293-kg load, Bothell, Washington
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21 Jul 1979 108th British Golf Open: Seve Ballesteros shoots a 283 at Royal Lytham
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21 Jul 1979 N Chernykh discovers asteroids #2585 Irpedina & #3298
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21 Jul 1979 National Women's Hall of Fame (Seneca Falls, NY) dedicated
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22 Jul 1979 Pat Meyers wins LPGA Greater Baltimore Golf Classic
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23 Jul 1979 George Brett gets his 1,000th hit
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23 Jul 1979 E Bowell discovers asteroid #2736 Ops
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24 Jul 1979 President Carter names Paul Volcker, President of Federal Reserves
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24 Jul 1979 Red Sox Carl Yastrzemski hits his 400th HR
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25 Jul 1979 109 cm rainfall at Alvin Texas (state record)
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25 Jul 1979 Another section of the Sinai Peninsula is peacefully returned by Israel to Egypt.
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26 Jul 1979 Estimated 109 cm (43") of rain falls in Alvin, TX (national record)
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28 Jul 1979 Dave Kingman becomes 6th to have a 2nd 3 HR game
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29 Jul 1979 7th du Maurier Golf Classic (Peter Jackson Classic): Amy Alcott
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31 Jul 1979 "But Never Jam Today" opens at Longacre Theater NYC for 7 performances
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31 Jul 1979 N Chernykh discovers asteroids #2402 Satpaev & #2416 Sharonov
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01 Aug 1979 Maria de Lurdes Pintasilgo forms government in Portugal
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02 Aug 1979 Gilda Radner Live From New York opens on Broadway
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03 Aug 1979 Fastest jai-alai shot (188 mph), Jose Arieto at Newport Jai Alai, Rhode Island
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04 Aug 1979 Italian government of Cossiga begins
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05 Aug 1979 "But Never Jam Today" closes at Longacre Theater NYC after 7 performances
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05 Aug 1979 Government of Mauretania signs peace treaty with Polisario
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05 Aug 1979 Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Colgate European Golf Open
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05 Aug 1979 Phillies Pete Rose collects NL record 2,427th career single
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05 Aug 1979 Varetta Shankle (Miss), crowned 12th Miss Black America
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05 Aug 1979 Willie Mays, Warren Giles, and Hack Wilson inducted in Hall of Fame
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05 Aug 1979 In Afghanistan, Maoists undertake an attempted military uprising.
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06 Aug 1979 61st PGA Championship: David Graham shoots a 272 at Oakland Hills, Michigan
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06 Aug 1979 Marcus Hooper, 12, is youngest person to swim English Channel
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07 Aug 1979 Several tornadoes strike the city of Woodstock, Ontario, Canada and the surrounding communities.
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08 Aug 1979 Iraqi President Saddam Hussein executes 22 political opponents
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09 Aug 1979 English seaside resort Brighton gets 1st British nude beach
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10 Aug 1979 Ecuador adopts its constitution
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10 Aug 1979 Wings release "Getting Closer" & "Baby's Request"
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11 Aug 1979 Phillies Tug McGraw gives up record 4th grand slam of year
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11 Aug 1979 Two Aeroflot Tupolev Tu-134s collide over the Ukrainian city of Dniprodzerzhynsk and crash, killing all 178 aboard both airliners.
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12 Aug 1979 "Whoopee!" closes at ANTA Theater NYC after 204 performances
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12 Aug 1979 Iran press censors start massive book burnings
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12 Aug 1979 Judy wins LPGA WUI Golf Classic Rankin
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13 Aug 1979 Lou Brock, is 14th to get 3,000 hits
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13 Aug 1979 The roof of the uncompleted Rosemont Horizon in Rosemont, Illinois, collapses, killing five workers and injuring 16.
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13 Aug 1979 Lou Brock gets his 3,000 career hit
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14 Aug 1979 Rainbow seen in Northern Wales for a 3 hour duration
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15 Aug 1979 Andrew Young resigns as UN ambassador
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17 Aug 1979 2 Russian passenger planes collide above Ukraine, 173 killed
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18 Aug 1979 Iran Ayatollah Khomeini demands Saint War against Kurds
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18 Aug 1979 Nick Lowe marries singer Carlene Carter
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19 Aug 1979 "My Sharonna" by the Knack hits #1 (stays for 42 days)
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19 Aug 1979 Sally wins LPGA Barth Golf Classic Little
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19 Aug 1979 Soviet Cosmonauts Vladimir Lyakov and Valery Ryumin returned to Earth aboard Soyuz 34 after a record 175 days in space
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19 Aug 1979 Crew of Soyuz 32 returns to Earth aboard Soyuz 34 aft 175 d flight
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20 Aug 1979 India Premier Charan Singh resigns
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20 Aug 1979 Singer Vikki Carr & Michael Nilsson wed
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21 Aug 1979 Mets win a protested game against Astros, 5-0
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22 Aug 1979 200 black leaders, meet in NY, to support Andrew Young
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23 Aug 1979 Bolshoi Ballet dancer Alexander Godunov defects in New York City
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23 Aug 1979 Iran army opens offensive against Kurds
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23 Aug 1979 UN's Vienna office opens
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24 Aug 1979 Cars play concert in New York Central Park
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24 Aug 1979 NFL fans (60,916) choose old Patriots logo over new
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24 Aug 1979 UN's Vienna office begins issuing postage stamps
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25 Aug 1979 "Madwoman of Central Park West" closes at 22 Steps NYC after 86 performances
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25 Aug 1979 Somali adopts constitution
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25 Aug 1979 California Angels trounce Toronto Blue Jays, 24-2
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26 Aug 1979 Beth Daniel wins LPGA Patty Berg Golf Classic
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27 Aug 1979 18 British militia die in ambush / bomb attack in Northern Ireland
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28 Aug 1979 IRA bomb explodes on Brussels Great Market
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28 Aug 1979 Train crash at Nijmegen, 7 die
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28 Aug 1979 An IRA bomb explodes at the Grote Markt in Brussels.
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29 Aug 1979 Sheridan Broadcasting Corp purchases Mutual Black Network
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30 Aug 1979 Ian Botham makes 1000 runs / 100 wkts in Tests in his 21st match
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30 Aug 1979 Kathy Horvath (14y5d) is youngest to play in US Tennis Open, she loses
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30 Aug 1979 President Carter attacked by a rabbit on a canoe trip in Plains, Georgia
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30 Aug 1979 Wildest US Tennis Open match, McEnroe defeats Ilie Nastase 6-4, 4-6, 6-3, 6-2. Nastase was defaulted by the umpire then reinstated
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30 Aug 1979 1st recorded occurrence-comet hits sun (energy=1 mil hydrogen bombs)
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31 Aug 1979 16 yr old Tracy Austin defeats 14 yr old Andrea Jaeger at US Open
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31 Aug 1979 Phillies replaces manager Danny Ozark with Dallas Green
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31 Aug 1979 Comet Howard-Koomur-Michels collides with the Sun
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31 Aug 1979 Donald McHenry named to succeed Andrew Young as UN ambassador
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01 Sep 1979 Debbie Boone and Gabriel Ferrer wed in LA
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01 Sep 1979 LA Court orders Clayton Moore to stop wearing Lone Ranger mask
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01 Sep 1979 Pioneer 11 makes 1st fly-by of Saturn, discovers new moon, rings
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01 Sep 1979 The American space probe Pioneer 11 becomes the first spacecraft to visit Saturn when it passes the planet at a distance of 21,000 kilometres (13,000 mi).
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02 Sep 1979 "I Remember Mama" closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 108 performances
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03 Sep 1979 Hurricane David, a strong Atlantic storm kills over 1,000
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03 Sep 1979 Iran army conquerors Mahabad
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03 Sep 1979 Jo Ann Washam wins LPGA Rail Charity Golf Classic
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04 Sep 1979 India need 438 to win vs. England, game ends at 8-429
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04 Sep 1979 Iran army conquerors Baneh
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05 Sep 1979 Canada puts its 1st gold bullion coin on sale
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05 Sep 1979 Earl of Mountbatten funeral held in Burma
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05 Sep 1979 Iran army occupies Piranshahr
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05 Sep 1979 Roscoe Tanner fires 11 aces, breaks the net with his bullet serve and upsets top-seeded Bjorn Borg in US Tennis Open quarterfinals
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06 Sep 1979 "Peter Pan" opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC for 578 performances
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07 Sep 1979 5 day MUSE concert against nuclear energy opens at Madison Square Garden, New York
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07 Sep 1979 The Chrysler Corporation asks the United States government for US$1.5 billion to avoid bankruptcy.
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08 Sep 1979 Cheryl Prewitt (Miss), 22, crowned 52nd Miss America 1980
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09 Sep 1979 31st Emmy Awards: Taxi, Lou Grant, Ron Leibman and Ruth Gordon
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09 Sep 1979 93rd US Womens Tennis: Tracy Austin beats C E Lloyd Mills (64 63)
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09 Sep 1979 99th US Mens Tennis: John McEnroe beats Vitas Gerulaitis (75 63 63)
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09 Sep 1979 Sally Little wins LPGA Columbia Savings Golf Classic
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09 Sep 1979 Yusef Islam (Cat Stevens) weds Fouzia Ali at Kensington Mosque
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10 Sep 1979 3 Puerto Rican nationalists who attempted to kill Truman are freed
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12 Sep 1979 Carl Yastrzemski, is 15th to get 3,000 hits
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12 Sep 1979 Hurricane Frederick hits Mobile Alabama; 5 die and $23 million damage
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12 Sep 1979 Indonesia is hit with an earthquake that measures 8.1 on the Richter scale.
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12 Sep 1979 Indiana Pacers cut Ann Meyers, 1st woman on an NBA club
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12 Sep 1979 Pietro Mennea of Italy sets the 200m record (19.72) in Mexico City
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12 Sep 1979 Red Sox Carl Yastrzemski gets his 3,000th hit off Yankee Jim Beattie
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13 Sep 1979 China PR performs nuclear test
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13 Sep 1979 South Africa grants Venda independence (Not recognized out of South Africa)
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13 Sep 1979 South Africa grants independence to the "homeland" of Venda (not recognised outside South Africa).
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14 Sep 1979 Afghan President Nur Muhammad Taraki is assassinated upon the order of Hafizullah Amin, who becomes the new president.
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14 Sep 1979 Theodore Coombs completes 5,193 mile roller skate from LA to NYC & back to Yates Center, Ks
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15 Sep 1979 Red Sox Bob Watson is 1st to hit for the cycle in AL & NL (Astros)
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16 Sep 1979 23rd Ryder Cup: US, 17-11 at Greenbrier
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16 Sep 1979 Coup in Afghanistan under Hafizullah Amin
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16 Sep 1979 Nancy Lopez / JoAnn Washam wins Portland- Ping Team Golf Championship
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16 Sep 1979 Catfish Hunter Day at Yankee Stadium
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17 Sep 1979 Pietro Mennea runs world record 200 m (19.72")
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17 Sep 1979 Royals George Brett is 6th to have 20 doubles / triples / HRs in a season
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18 Sep 1979 The Who opens NYC concerts at Madison Square Garden
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18 Sep 1979 Bolshoi Ballet dancers Leonid & Valentina Kozlov defect
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18 Sep 1979 Steven Lachs, appointed Calif's 1st admittedly gay judge
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19 Sep 1979 No Nukes Concert at Madison Square Garden includes Springsteen and Crosby, Stills and Nash
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20 Sep 1979 Coup in Central African Republic: David Dacko overthrows Emperor Bokassa I
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20 Sep 1979 Jose E dod Santos becomes President of Angola
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20 Sep 1979 A coup d'état in the Central African Empire overthrows Emperor Bokasa I.
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20 Sep 1979 Bloodless coup in Central African Rep overthrows Emperor Bokassa I
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20 Sep 1979 NASA launches HEAO
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22 Sep 1979 Israel performs nuclear test at Indian Ocean
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22 Sep 1979 Larry Parrish (Expos) HRs off Rawly Eastwick (Phillies) in DH
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22 Sep 1979 The Vela Incident (also known as the South Atlantic Flash) is observed near Bouvet Island, thought to be a nuclear weapons test.
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23 Sep 1979 Jane Fonda and 200,000 attend anti-nuke rally in Battery Park, New York City
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23 Sep 1979 Sandra Post wins LPGA ERA Real Estate Golf Classic
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23 Sep 1979 Somali constitution approved by President
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23 Sep 1979 St. Louis legend Lou Brock steals 938th and final base of his career
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23 Sep 1979 Lou Brock steals record 935th base
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24 Sep 1979 CompuServe began operation as 1st computer information service
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24 Sep 1979 Ghana adopts constitution
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24 Sep 1979 Pete Rose reaches 200 hits in a season for 10th time
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24 Sep 1979 Russian ice skaters Protopopov and Beloussova ask for asylum in Switzerland
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24 Sep 1979 CompuServe launches the first consumer internet service, which features the first public electronic mail service.
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24 Sep 1979 CompuServe system started
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25 Sep 1979 "Evita" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 1568 performances
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25 Sep 1979 California Angels win their 1st NL West pennant
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26 Sep 1979 1984 summer LA Olympic coverage sold to ABC for $225 million
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27 Sep 1979 Elton John, sick with flu, collapse on Hollywood Universal Ampitheater
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27 Sep 1979 The United States Department of Education receives final approval from the U.S. Congress to become the 13th US Cabinet agency.
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27 Sep 1979 Congress' final approval to create Dept of Education
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28 Sep 1979 Larry Holmes TKOs Earnie Shaver in 11 for heavyweight boxing title
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28 Sep 1979 Larry Holmes (retain championship) KOs Earnie Shavers in 11 rounds
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29 Sep 1979 "Bad Case Of Loving You" by Robert Palmer peaks at #14
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29 Sep 1979 "Boom Boom (Out Go Lights)" by Pat Travers peaks at #56
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29 Sep 1979 "Born To Be Alive" by Patrick Hernandez peaks at #16
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29 Sep 1979 "Cruel To Be Kind" by Nick Lowe peaks at #12
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29 Sep 1979 "Different Worlds" by Maureen McGovern peaks at #18
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29 Sep 1979 "Girls Talk" by Dave Edmunds peaks at #65
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29 Sep 1979 "Lonesome Loser" by Little River Band peaks at #6
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29 Sep 1979 "Message In A Bottle" by Police peaks at #1 in the UK
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29 Sep 1979 LA Dodger Manny Mota hits record 146th pinch hit
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29 Sep 1979 Pope John Paul II becomes the first pope to visit Ireland.
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29 Sep 1979 Gold hits record $400.20 an ounce in Hong Kong
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30 Sep 1979 Milwaukee Brewers lose 5-0 ending 213 straight games without a shutout
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30 Sep 1979 Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Mary Kay Golf Classic
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30 Sep 1979 The Hong Kong MTR commences service with the opening of its Modified Initial System (aka. Kwun Tong Line).
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01 Oct 1979 Nigeria adopts constitution, Alhaji Shagari becomes President
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01 Oct 1979 Pope John Paul II begins visit of US
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01 Oct 1979 RKO radio network begins operation
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01 Oct 1979 US returns Canal Zone to Panama after 75 years (but not the canal)
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01 Oct 1979 Pope John Paul II begins his first pastoral visit to the United States.
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01 Oct 1979 The MTR, the rapid transit railway system in Hong Kong, opens.
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01 Oct 1979 The United States returns sovereignty of the Panama Canal to Panama.
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02 Oct 1979 Pope John Paul II denounces all forms of concentration camps and torture while speaking at the U.N. in New York City.
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04 Oct 1979 Hugh Leonards "Life, " premieres in Dublin
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05 Oct 1979 Luke rapes Laura on General Hospital
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06 Oct 1979 Pope John Paul II is 1st Pope to visit White House
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06 Oct 1979 Pope John Paul II becomes the first pontiff to visit the White House.
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07 Oct 1979 "Eubie!" closes at Ambassador Theater NYC after 439 performances
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07 Oct 1979 Debbie Massey wins LPGA Wheeling Golf Classic
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08 Oct 1979 "Sugar Babies" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 1208 performances
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09 Oct 1979 Howard Stern begins broadcasting on WCCC in Hartford Conn
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10 Oct 1979 Fleetwood Mac gets a star in Hollywood
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10 Oct 1979 Recorded trace of snow in Central Park, New York City
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10 Oct 1979 Nordiques' Real Cloutier sets NHL record of a hat trick in 1st game
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10 Oct 1979 Panama assumes sovereignty over Canal Area (ie Canal Zone)
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11 Oct 1979 "Most Happy Fella" opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 53 performances
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11 Oct 1979 Allan McLeod Cormack & Godfrey Newbold Hounsfield win Nobel Prize for medicine for developing the CAT scan
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12 Oct 1979 Pressure in nucleus of tropical cyclone at Guam hits record 870 hpa
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12 Oct 1979 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, the first of five books in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy comedy science fiction series by Douglas Adams is published.
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12 Oct 1979 The lowest recorded non-tornadic atmospheric pressure, 87.0 kPa (870 mbar or 25.69 inHg), occurred in the Western Pacific during Typhoon Tip.
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14 Oct 1979 100,000 demonstrate in Bonn against nuclear energy
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14 Oct 1979 Amy Alcott wins LPGA United Virginia Bank Golf Classic
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14 Oct 1979 The first Gay Rights March on Washington, D.C., the National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights, demands "an end to all social, economic, judicial, and legal oppression of lesbian and gay people", and draws 200,000 people.
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14 Oct 1979 Flyers start 35 game unbeaten streak beating Toronto 4-3
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14 Oct 1979 NHL's greatest scorer Wayne Gretsky scores his 1st NHL goal
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15 Oct 1979 1st Monday night game from NYC, Jets beat Vikings 14-7 (Shea Stadium)
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15 Oct 1979 Chinese Premier Hwa Kwofeng visits Paris
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15 Oct 1979 Military coup in El Salvador: President / General Carlos Romero flees
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15 Oct 1979 New York Knicks retire 2nd number, # 10, Walt Frazier
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15 Oct 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.
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17 Oct 1979 "Beatlemania" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 920 performances
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17 Oct 1979 Pittsburgh Pirates beat Baltimore Orioles, 4 games to 3 in 76th World Series
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17 Oct 1979 President Carter signs legislation creating Department of Education
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17 Oct 1979 Mother Teresa is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
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17 Oct 1979 The Department of Education Organization Act is signed into law creating the US Department of Education and US Department of Health and Human Services.
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17 Oct 1979 D Bautista of Mexico completes 20,000 m walk in record 1:20:06.8
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18 Oct 1979 "Beatlemania" opens in London
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18 Oct 1979 Iranian Ayatollah Khomeini orders mass executions to stop
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18 Oct 1979 "Beatlemania" opens in London
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20 Oct 1979 Bob Dylan appears on SNL
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20 Oct 1979 John Tate beats Gerrie Coetze in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
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20 Oct 1979 John F Kennedy Library dedicated in Boston
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21 Oct 1979 10th NYC Marathon won by Bill Rodgers in 2:11:42
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21 Oct 1979 Israeli Minister of Foreign Affairs Moshe Dayan resigns
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21 Oct 1979 Ozzie Newsome begins NFL streak of 150 consecutive game receptions
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21 Oct 1979 Moshe Dayan resigns from the Israeli government because of strong disagreements with Prime Minister Menachem Begin over policy towards the Arabs.
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21 Oct 1979 Greta Waitz wins woman participation in NYC marathon (02:27:33)
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22 Oct 1979 Deposed Shah of Iran arrives in New York for medical treatment
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22 Oct 1979 Walt Disney World's 100-millionth guest
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23 Oct 1979 Billy Martin is involved in a barroom altercation with Joseph Cooper, a Minn marshmallow salesman. Cooper requires 15 stitches
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24 Oct 1979 Billy Martin punches a marshmallow salesman, puts job in jeopardy
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24 Oct 1979 Guinness Book of Records presents Paul McCartney with a rhodium disc
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26 Oct 1979 Park Chung-hee, President of South Korea is assassinated by Korean Central Intelligence Agency head Kim Jae-gyu. Choi Kyu-hah becomes the acting President; Kim is executed the following May.
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27 Oct 1979 St. Vincent and Grenadines becomes independent of the UK (National Day)
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27 Oct 1979 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines gains its independence from the United Kingdom.
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27 Oct 1979 Islanders score 2 goals within 6 seconds 3 goals within 44 seconds
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27 Oct 1979 Voluntary Euthanasia Society publishes how-to-do-it suicide guide
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28 Oct 1979 Dick Howser (best Yank mngr win-lost pct .636) replaces Billy Martin
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29 Oct 1979 Silvia Bertolaccini wins LPGA Colgate Far East Golf Open
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29 Oct 1979 Billy Martin fired as Yankee manager (2nd time)
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30 Oct 1979 NASA launches space vehicle S-203
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30 Oct 1979 Richard Arrington elected mayor of Birmingham
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31 Oct 1979 Mike Flanagan, wins AL Cy Young Award
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31 Oct 1979 US DC-10 crashes at Mexico-City, 74 killed
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01 Nov 1979 A L Webber musical "Joseph & Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, " premieres
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01 Nov 1979 Bolivia military coup under General Busch, President Guevara flees
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01 Nov 1979 Edward Bennett Williams buys Orioles from Hoffberger for $12.3 million
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01 Nov 1979 Federal government made $1.5 billion loan to Chrysler
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01 Nov 1979 In Bolivia, Colonel Alberto Natusch executes a bloody coup d'état against the constitutional government of Dr. Wálter Guevara.
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02 Nov 1979 Peter Shaffers musical "Amadeus, " premieres in London
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03 Nov 1979 5 mortally wounded during anti-Ku Klux Klan demonstration in North Carolina
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03 Nov 1979 63 Americans taken hostage at US Embassy (Teheran, Iran)
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03 Nov 1979 Amy Alcott wins LPGA Mizuno Japan Golf Classic
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03 Nov 1979 Marocco offensive against Polisario
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03 Nov 1979 Greensboro massacre: Five members of the Communist Workers Party are shot dead and seven are wounded by a group of Klansmen and neo-Nazis during a "Death to the Klan" rally in Greensboro, North Carolina, United States.
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04 Nov 1979 500 Iranian "students" seize US embassy, take 90 hostages (444 days)
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04 Nov 1979 Iran hostage crisis: A mob of Iranians, mostly students, overruns the US embassy in Tehran and takes 90 hostages (53 of whom are American).
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05 Nov 1979 Iran government of Bazargan resigns
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06 Nov 1979 Ayatolla Khomeini takes over in Iran
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07 Nov 1979 Cub reliever Bruce Sutter wins NL Cy Young Award
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08 Nov 1979 ABC broadcasts "Iran Crisis: American Held Hostage" with Frank Reynolds (forerunner to "Nightline")
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11 Nov 1979 Boston Court issues occupancy permit for Cambridge Buddhist Center
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12 Nov 1979 President Carter announces immediate halt to all imports of Iranian oil
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12 Nov 1979 Tony Franklin of Philadelphia Eagles kicks 59-yard field goal
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12 Nov 1979 US halts Iranian oil imports & freezes Iranian assets
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13 Nov 1979 British newspaper "Times" resumes publishing after 1 year
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13 Nov 1979 Ronald Reagan in New York announces his candidacy for President
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13 Nov 1979 Willie Stargell and Keith Hernandez share NL MVP Award NL
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15 Nov 1979 ABC-TV announces it would broadcast nightly specials on Iran hostage
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15 Nov 1979 British government identifies Sir Anthony Blunt as 4th man in Soviet spy ring
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16 Nov 1979 Paul McCartney releases "Wonderful Christmas"
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17 Nov 1979 Daniel Okrent sketches out 1st draft rules for Rotisserie Baseball
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17 Nov 1979 Khomeini frees most black and female US hostages
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17 Nov 1979 New York Stars (WBL) home opener at Madison Square Garden in New York City
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17 Nov 1979 On a flight to Austin, TX, Daniel Okrent sketches out the first
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17 Nov 1979 NY Stars (WBL) home opener at MSG in NYC
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18 Nov 1979 Ayatollah Khomeini charges US ambassador / embassy espionage
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19 Nov 1979 Astros sign Nolan Ryan, to record 4 year, $4.5 million contract
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19 Nov 1979 Chuck Berry released from prison on income tax evasion
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21 Nov 1979 Crowd at Islamabad, Pakistan attack US embassy, 1 dies
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24 Nov 1979 US admits troops in Vietnam were exposed to the toxic Agent Orange
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24 Nov 1979 Kings' Charley Simmer fails on 8th penalty shot against Islanders
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25 Nov 1979 "Most Happy Fella" closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 53 performances
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25 Nov 1979 67th CFL Grey Cup: Edmonton Eskimos defeats Montreal Alouettes, 17-9
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25 Nov 1979 Israel returns Alma oilfields in Gulf of Suez to Egypt
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25 Nov 1979 Pittsburgh gains 606 net yards against Cleveland, winning 33-30
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26 Nov 1979 International Olympic Committee votes to readmit China after 21 years
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26 Nov 1979 Twins John Castino and Jays Alfredo Griffin tie for AL Rookie of Year
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28 Nov 1979 "King of Schnorrers" opens at Playhouse Theater NYC for 63 performances
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28 Nov 1979 Air New Zealand DC-10 crashes into Mt Erebus on Antarctica kills 257
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28 Nov 1979 LA Dodger Rick Sutcliffe wins NL Rookie of Year
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28 Nov 1979 Air New Zealand Flight 901, a DC-10 sightseeing flight over Antarctica, crashes into Mount Erebus, killing all 257 people on board.
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28 Nov 1979 Air New Zealand DC-10 crashes in Antarctica killing 257
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30 Nov 1979 Ted Koppel becomes anchor of nightly news on Iranian Hostages (ABC)
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02 Dec 1979 Crowds attack US embassy at Tripoli Libya
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02 Dec 1979 Foots Walker becomes 1st Cleveland Cavalier to score a triple-double
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03 Dec 1979 45th Heisman Trophy Award: Charles White, Southern California (RB)
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03 Dec 1979 Christies auctions a thimble for a record $18,400
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03 Dec 1979 Iran accepts constitution
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03 Dec 1979 In Cincinnati, 11 fans are suffocated in a crush for seats on the concourse outside Riverfront Coliseum before a Who concert.
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03 Dec 1979 Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini becomes the first Supreme Leader of Iran.
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04 Dec 1979 Cleveland Cavaliers retire jersey # 7, Bingo Smith
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04 Dec 1979 The Hastie fire in Hull kills three schoolboys and eventually leads police to arrest Bruce George Peter Lee.
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05 Dec 1979 Ireland Premier Jack Lynch resigns
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09 Dec 1979 Murle Breer / Dave Eichelberger wins LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic
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09 Dec 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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10 Dec 1979 Kaohsiung Incident: Taiwanese pro-democracy demonstrations are suppressed by the KMT dictatorship, and organizers are arrested.
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10 Dec 1979 Piet Dankert appointed as chairman of European Parliament
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11 Dec 1979 Geoff Boycott scores cricket century in a limited-over international
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11 Dec 1979 Great Britain grants independence to Zimbabwe (Rhodesia)
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12 Dec 1979 Coup d'état of December Twelfth: South Korean Army Major General Chun Doo-hwan orders the arrest of Army Chief of Staff General Jeong Seung-hwa without authorization from President Choi Kyu-ha, alleging involvement in the assassination of ex-President Park Chung-hee.
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12 Dec 1979 President of Pakistan Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq confers Nishan-e-Imtiaz on Nobel laureate Dr Abdus Salam.
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12 Dec 1979 The unrecognised state of Zimbabwe-Rhodesia returns to British control and resumes using the name Southern Rhodesia.
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12 Dec 1979 Gold hits record $462.50 an ounce
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12 Dec 1979 Rhodesia becomes the independent nation of Zimbabwe
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13 Dec 1979 "Oklahoma!" opens at Palace Theater NYC for 301 performances
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13 Dec 1979 The Canadian Government of Prime Minister Joe Clark is defeated in the House of Commons, prompting the 1980 Canadian election.
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13 Dec 1979 Strikes against price increases in Gdansk Poland
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14 Dec 1979 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
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15 Dec 1979 Deposed Shah of Iran leaves US for Panam
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15 Dec 1979 World Court in Hague rules Iran should release all US hostages
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16 Dec 1979 Libya joins four other OPEC nations in raising crude oil prices, which has an immediate, dramatic effect on the United States.
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16 Dec 1979 68th Davis Cup: USA beats Italy in San Francisco (5-0)
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16 Dec 1979 QB Roger Staubach's last regular season game with the Dallas Cowboys
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17 Dec 1979 Budweiser rocket car reaches 1190 kph (record for wheeled vehicle)
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18 Dec 1979 Stanley Barrett 1st to exceed land sonic speed (739.666 MPH)
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21 Dec 1979 Lancaster House Agreement: An independence agreement for Rhodesia is signed in London by Lord Peter Carrington, Sir Ian Gilmour, Robert Mugabe, Joshua Nkomo, Bishop Abel Muzorewa and S.C. Mundawarara.
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21 Dec 1979 Gary Unger plays in record 914th consecutive NHL game
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21 Dec 1979 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR
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21 Dec 1979 Zimbabwe adopts constitution
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23 Dec 1979 Soviet war in Afghanistan: Soviet Union forces occupy Kabul, the Afghan capital.
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23 Dec 1979 New York Islanders greatest shutout lose (8-0) vs Chicago Black Hawks
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23 Dec 1979 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR
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24 Dec 1979 The first European Ariane rocket is launched.
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24 Dec 1979 1st Ariane-rocket launched
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25 Dec 1979 USSR airlifts invasionary army to Afghanistan
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25 Dec 1979 Opening day of 4th Test Cricket, India 8-112 vs Pakistan at Kanpur
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27 Dec 1979 "Knots Landing, " premieres on CBS-TV
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27 Dec 1979 The Soviet Union invades the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan.
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27 Dec 1979 "Knots Landing" premieres on CBS-TV
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27 Dec 1979 Red Army beats New York Rangers 5-2 at Madison Square Garden
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27 Dec 1979 Soviet troops invade Afgh
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30 Dec 1979 Rock group, Emerson, Lake and Palmer break up
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30 Dec 1979 Togo adopts constitution
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31 Dec 1979 Winterland Rock Concert Hall in San Francisco closes after 556 concerts
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