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2 days ago · Simple Minds make their first television appearance, performing the songs "Chelsea Girl" and "Life in a Day" on BBC's The Old Grey Whistle Test. [1] March 31 – The Eurovision Song Contest, the biggest music festival in the world, takes place for the first time in a country outside Europe – Israel.
3 days ago · The Iranian Revolution (Persian: انقلاب ایران, Enqelâb-e Irân [ʔeɴɢeˌlɒːbe ʔiːɾɒːn]), also known as the Islamic Revolution (انقلاب اسلامی, Enqelâb-e Eslâmī), was a series of events that culminated in the overthrow of the Pahlavi dynasty in 1979. The revolution also led to the replacement of the Imperial ...
- 7 January 1978 – 11 February 1979, (1 year, 1 month and 4 days)
- Iran
- Overthrow of the Pahlavi dynasty
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1 day ago · In 1979, the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan, which led to the Soviet–Afghan War. The 1970s saw an initial increase in violence in the Middle East as Egypt and Syria declared war on Israel, starting the Yom Kippur War, but in the late 1970s, the situation was fundamentally altered when Egypt signed the Egyptian–Israeli Peace Treaty.
4 days ago · Alien is a 1979 science fiction horror film directed by Ridley Scott and written by Dan O'Bannon. Based on a story by O'Bannon and Ronald Shusett , it follows the crew of the commercial space tug Nostromo , who, after coming across a mysterious derelict spaceship on an uncharted planetoid , find themselves up against a deadly and aggressive ...
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May 1, 2024 · The following is a timeline of the presidency of Jimmy Carter, from January 1, 1979 to December 31, 1979. January [ edit ] January 1 – In a statement, President Carter announces the day marks the beginning of diplomatic relations between the United States and China .
5 days ago · Apocalypse Now is a 1979 American epic war film produced and directed by Francis Ford Coppola. The screenplay, co-written by Coppola, John Milius, and Michael Herr, is loosely based on the 1899 novella Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, with the setting changed from late 19th-century Congo to the Vietnam War.
4 days ago · The Sino-Vietnamese War (also known by other names) was a brief conflict that occurred in early 1979 between China and Vietnam. China launched an offensive in response to Vietnam's invasion and occupation of Cambodia in 1978, which ended the rule of the Chinese-backed Khmer Rouge.
