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1. tammikuuta – Liikenneturva ry muuttui julkisoikeudelliseksi organisaatioksi eduskunnan hyväksymän lain nojalla. 2. tammikuuta – Neuvostoliiton uutistoimisto TASS aloitti virallisen kampanjan kirjailija Aleksandr Solženitsyniä vastaan, jonka romaani Vankileirien saaristo oli ilmestynyt venäjänkielisenä Pariisissa.
v. t. e. The Soweto uprising (or Soweto riots) was a series of demonstrations and protests led by black school children in South Africa during apartheid that began on the morning of 16 June 1976. [1] Students from various schools began to protest in the streets of the Soweto township in response to the introduction of Afrikaans, considered by ...
1974 – Julius Evola, Italian philosopher and author (b. 1898) 1976 – Jim Konstanty, American baseball player (b. 1917) 1979 – Alice Dalgliesh, Trinidadian-American author and publisher (b. 1893) 1979 – John Wayne, American actor, director, and producer (b. 1907) 1982 – H. Radclyffe Roberts, American entomologist (b. 1906)
Vikram Batra. 20 May – Shiboprosad Mukherjee, film director, writer and actor. 28 May – Mayur Puri, screenwriter, lyricist, actor, filmmaker. 30 May – Mohan Raja, film director. 7 June – Mahesh Bhupathi, tennis player. 22 June – Joseph Vijay, actor and playback singer. 22 June – Devayani, actress.
1977–78, 1978–79, 1979–80, 1980–81, 1981–82. The 1979–80 South-West Indian Ocean cyclone season was an above-average cyclone season, and is most notable for featuring the wettest tropical cyclone ever recorded, Cyclone Hyacinthe. The season officially ran from November 1, 1979, to April 30, 1980.
Soo, who died of cancer January 11, 1979, made his final appearance in the series in the season's ninth episode, "The Vandal". June 1. In Indianapolis, Indiana, NBC affiliate WRTV swaps affiliations with ABC affiliate WTHR, citing a stronger affiliation (at the time, NBC is in last place among the three major networks).
3 May – 1979 general election. 4 May – The Conservatives win the General Election by a 44-seat majority and Margaret Thatcher becomes the first female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Liberal Party leader Jeremy Thorpe is the most notable MP to lose his seat in the election.
