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Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1979. 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 poetMajor events. March 2 – Buena Vista release their first film since the advent of U.S. movie ratings to not be G-rated, Take Down. March 5 – Production begins on The Empire Strikes Back. March – Frank Price becomes president of Columbia Pictures. May 25 – Alien, a landmark of the science fiction genre, is released.
MonthDateNameAgeJanuary1161January1663January1646January1882Mad Max is a 1979 Australian action film directed by George Miller. Written by Miller and James McCausland from a story by Miller and producer Byron Kennedy, set "a few years from now". It tells a story of societal breakdown, murder, and revenge. The film, starring the then little-known Mel Gibson, was released internationally in 1980.
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List of American films of 1979 - Wikipedia. American films. by year. This is a list of American films released in 1979 . Box office. The highest-grossing American films released in 1979, by domestic box office gross revenue, are as follows: [1] January–March. April–June. July–September. October–December. See also.
OpeningOpeningTitleProduction CompanyJ A N U A R Y1Buena Vista Distribution / American Film ...J A N U A R Y26Special Event Entertainment / Elkins ...J A N U A R Y29AMLF / Gala / Les Films du CarrosseF E B R U A R Y2Warner Bros. / Polar Music / Reg Grundy ...Mad Max is a 1979 Australian dystopian action film directed by George Miller and produced by Byron Kennedy. Mel Gibson stars as "Mad" Max Rockatansky, a police officer turned vigilante in a near-future Australia in the midst of societal collapse.
Caligula. Jump to Edit. Summaries. A dramatization of the ascent to Caesar and subsequent reign of Caligula, one of the most notorious leaders of ancient Rome. We see his ambition, his scheming, his perversion and decadence, his brutality and his lunacy. Pagan Rome, 37 A.D.