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1979 Major News Events 45 Years Ago. Three Mile island Nuclear Accident; China institutes the one child per family rule; General Knowledge Quiz Game Trivial Pursuit Launched; Pink Floyd release "The Wall" USSR Invades Afghanistan; Margaret Thatcher is elected Prime minister in the UK; Sony released the Walkman; Snowboard is invented in the USA
February 13 – The intense February 13, 1979 Windstorm strikes western Washington and sinks a 1/2-mile-long section of the Hood Canal Bridge. February 14 – In Kabul, Muslim extremists kidnap the American ambassador to Afghanistan, Adolph Dubs, who is later killed during a gunfight between his kidnappers and police.
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Major Events. Feb 1 Ayatollah Khomeini returns to Iran after 15 years in exile; Mar 28 A partial meltdown at Three Mile Island nuclear plant in the US results in the release of radioactive gas and iodine into the atmosphere but no deaths
Oct 15, 2016 · Historical Events for the Year 1979. 1st January » Formal diplomacy or diplomatic relations are established between China and the United States. 7th January » Sino-Vietnamese War or Third Indochina War Cambodian–Vietnamese War: Phnom Penh falls to the advancing Vietnamese troops, driving out Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge.
But the event which dominated the headlines in 1979 was the crisis in Iran. In the early part of the year, the Islamic Revolution had come to a climax, resulting in the Shah of Iran abdicating and fleeing to the U.S.
Clockwise from top-left: the Soviet Union invades Afghanistan, starting the Soviet-Afghan War; Sony releases the Walkman; the SALT II treaties are signed; Iranian students crowd the U.S. embassy in Tehran during the Iran hostage crisis; the oil tanker Betelgeuse explodes, killing 50 people; American Airlines Flight 191 crashes, leaving 271 peopl...
