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January 23 – Willie Mays receives 409 of 432 votes in the...
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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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1979 (MCMLXXIX) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1979th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 979th year of the 2nd millennium, the 79th year of the 20th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1970s decade.
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January 4 – The State of Ohio agrees to pay $675,000 to families of the dead and injured in the Kent State shootingsFebruary 1 – Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returns to Tehran, Iran after nearly 15 years of exileMarch 4 – The U.S. Voyager 1 spaceprobe photos show Jupiter's ringsApril 1 – Iran's government becomes an Islamic Republic by a 98% vote, overthrowing the ShahofficiallyJanuary 2 – Morena Baccarin, Brazilian actressJanuary 12 – Marián Hossa, Slovakian hockeyplayerJanuary 16 – Aaliyah, American singer (d. 2001)January 20 – Will Young, Englishsinger and actorJanuary
1. January 3 – Conrad Hilton, American hotelier (b. 1887) 2. January 5 – Charles Mingus, American bassist (b. 1922) 3. January 16 – Ted Cassidy, American actor (b. 1932) 4. January 18 – Gaston Heuet, French long-distance runner (b. 1892) 5. January 26 – Nelson Rockefeller, 41st Vice President of the United States (b. 1908) 6. January 27 – Victoria Ocampo, Argentine writer (b. 1890)
February
1. February 2 – Sid Vicious, English musician (b. 1957) 2. February 7 – Josef Mengele, Nazism war criminal (b. 1911) 3. February 8 – Nikolai Tikhonov, Soviet writer (b. 1896) 4. February 9 – Dennis Gabor, Hungarian-British engineer (b. 1900) 5. February 12 – Jean Renoir, French film director (b. 1894) 6. February 17 – William Gargan, American actor (b. 1905)
March
1. March 1 – Mustafa Barzani, Kurdish leader (b. 1903) 2. March 7 – Klaus Egge, Norwegian nationalist (b. 1906) 3. March 15 – Alexandre Parodi, French Politician (b. 1901) 4. March 30 – José María Velasco Ibarra, 24th President of Ecuador (b. 1893)
Nobel Prize in Physics shared by Sheldon Lee Glashow, Abdus Salam, and Steven Weinberg for their work on electroweakinteractionsNobel Prize in Chemistry shared by Herbert C. Brown and Georg Wittig for their work with organoboranesNobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine shared by Allan McLeod Cormack and Godfrey N. Hounsfield for their work on X-ray computed tomographyNobel Prize in Literature won by Odysseas Elytis, Greek poetYear-End Hot 100 singles of 1979. "My Sharona" by The Knack (singer Doug Fieger pictured) was the number one song of 1979. This is a list of Billboard magazine's Top Hot 100 songs of 1979. [1] [2] The Top 100, as revealed in the year-end edition of Billboard dated December 22, 1979. "Da Ya Think I'm Sexy?"
The premiere of ESPN in 1979 / Courtesy of ESPN. The economy might have been on shaky ground in 1979, but the TV and Movie Industries were going strong. Kramer vs. Kramer was the highest-grossing movie of the year, and absolutely crushed it at the Oscars, racking up best picture, director, actor, and supporting actress. Not too shabby.
Jo O'Meara, English singer and actress ( S Club 7) Matt Tong, drummer (Bloc Party) May 4 – Lance Bass, American singer, dancer, actor, film, and television producer, and author ( 'N Sync) May 9. Ara Mina, Filipino actress and singer. Andrew W.K., American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and music producer.
