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News on the year of 1979 in history

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08 Jan 1979 BBC   Vietnam forces Khmer Rouge retreat
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09 Jan 1979 GUARDIAN   Waxing lyrical about Elvis Costello's new album
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10 Jan 1979 BBC   'No chaos here' declares Callaghan
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16 Jan 1979 BBC   Shah of Iran flees into exile
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16 Jan 1979 GUARDIAN   First steps towards open government
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17 Jan 1979 GUARDIAN   More women turn to fake fur
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17 Jan 1979 GUARDIAN   Cannabis does little harm, say advisors to government
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19 Jan 1979 GUARDIAN   Bakhtiar fears bloodshed under Khomeini
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22 Jan 1979 BBC   Public sector strike paralyses country
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01 Feb 1979 BBC   Exiled Ayatollah Khomeini returns to Iran
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02 Feb 1979 BBC   Sid Vicious dies from drugs overdose
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02 Feb 1979 GUARDIAN   Free Patty Hearst looks for privacy
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09 Feb 1979 BBC   Forest break football transfer record
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11 Feb 1979 BBC   Victory for Khomeini as army steps aside
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17 Feb 1979 BBC   China invades Vietnam
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13 Mar 1979 BBC   Grenada leader ousted by coup
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15 Mar 1979 GUARDIAN   Dog's life, French style
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18 Mar 1979 BBC   Three die in Golborne mine blast
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21 Mar 1979 GUARDIAN   Penguin books collection offered new home at the LSE
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22 Mar 1979 BBC   British ambassador assassinated in Holland
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28 Mar 1979 BBC   Early election as Callaghan defeated
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28 Mar 1979 BBC   Nuclear leak causes alarm in America
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30 Mar 1979 BBC   Car bomb kills Airey Neave
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30 Mar 1979 GUARDIAN   US nuclear plant leak worst ever
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31 Mar 1979 GUARDIAN   Car bomb kills MP Airey Neave
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04 Apr 1979 BBC   Deposed Pakistani PM is executed
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14 Apr 1979 BBC   New president for war-torn Uganda
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21 Apr 1979 GUARDIAN   Deal close on Australian television cricket rights
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23 Apr 1979 BBC   Teacher dies in Southall race riots
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03 May 1979 GUARDIAN   Electoral reform challenge to Tory leader
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04 May 1979 BBC   Election victory for Margaret Thatcher
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16 May 1979 GUARDIAN   Bridge made famous by Winnie the Pooh saved
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25 May 1979 BBC   Price of milk shoots up
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02 Jun 1979 BBC   Millions cheer as the Pope comes home
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18 Jun 1979 BBC   Leaders agree arms reduction treaty
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22 Jun 1979 BBC   Thorpe cleared of murder charges
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05 Jul 1979 BBC   Queen oversees Manx millennium
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09 Jul 1979 GUARDIAN   World art festival brings culture shock to Berlin
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11 Jul 1979 BBC   Skylab tumbles back to Earth
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17 Jul 1979 BBC   Sandinista rebels take Nicaraguan capital
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28 Aug 1979 GUARDIAN   IRA bombs kill Mountbatten and 17 soldiers
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09 Aug 1979 BBC   Brighton bares all
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09 Aug 1979 GUARDIAN   Leaky bathers put the 'p' into pool
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14 Aug 1979 BBC   Disgraced ex-MP released from jail
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14 Aug 1979 BBC   Freak storm hits yacht race
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23 Aug 1979 BBC   Kurdish revolt grows in Iran
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25 Aug 1979 GUARDIAN   What Auberon Waugh thinks about Blackpool
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27 Aug 1979 BBC   Soldiers die in Warrenpoint massacre
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27 Aug 1979 BBC   IRA bomb kills Lord Mountbatten
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27 Aug 1979 GUARDIAN   Watchers in the wings
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30 Aug 1979 GUARDIAN   Nothing funny about Life of Brian's Jesus joke
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10 Sep 1979 GUARDIAN   Rich slice of life at Gypsy wedding
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02 Sep 1979 BBC   Ripper suspected of 12th murder
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04 Sep 1979 GUARDIAN   Pakistanis 'want to return to homeland'
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05 Sep 1979 BBC   'You can't buy that sort of pride'
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05 Sep 1979 BBC   Mountbatten buried after final parade
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08 Sep 1979 GUARDIAN   Robert Runcie is to be the 102nd Archbishop of Canterbury
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21 Sep 1979 BBC   Harrier crash kills three
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29 Sep 1979 BBC   Pope calls for peace in Ireland
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02 Oct 1979 GUARDIAN   Ireland bids farewell to the man of peace
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03 Oct 1979 BBC   Anti-racists tackle South African rugby tourists
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19 Oct 1979 GUARDIAN   The wanderings of Odysseus
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26 Oct 1979 BBC   South Korean President killed
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28 Oct 1979 BBC   Chairman Hua arrives in London
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29 Oct 1979 GUARDIAN   Russian way with the mathematical travelling salesman
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04 Nov 1979 BBC   Militants storm US embassy in Tehran
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13 Nov 1979 BBC   Times returns after year-long dispute
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13 Nov 1979 GUARDIAN   The old bachelor men of the hills
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14 Nov 1979 GUARDIAN   A future powered by seaweed
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16 Nov 1979 BBC   Blunt revealed as 'fourth man'
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17 Nov 1979 GUARDIAN   Art historian who spied for the Soviet Union
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21 Nov 1979 BBC   Mob destroys US embassy in Pakistan
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24 Nov 1979 GUARDIAN   From the archive: Bomber with the luck of the Irish
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07 Dec 1979 BBC   Lord Soames to govern Rhodesia
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10 Dec 1979 BBC   Daredevil Kidd's 80ft river jump
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11 Dec 1979 GUARDIAN   Deposed Pol Pot gives interview in the jungle
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13 Dec 1979 GUARDIAN   British judge warns about 'tide of EEC immigrants'
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20 Dec 1979 BBC   Council tenants will have 'right to buy'
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24 Dec 1979 BBC   Europe launches first rocket
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26 Dec 1979 BBC   Joy as guerrillas fly in to Rhodesia
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28 Dec 1979 BBC   Tay Bridge rail disaster remembered
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