1979 (Redirected from July 1979)

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 people dead; Ixtoc 1 suffers a blowout, spilling 3.5 million barrels of oil; the Iranian Revolution culminates in the overthrow of the Pahlavi dynasty.
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1979 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1979
MCMLXXIX
Ab urbe condita2732
Armenian calendar1428
ԹՎ ՌՆԻԸ
Assyrian calendar6729
Baháʼí calendar135–136
Balinese saka calendar1900–1901
Bengali calendar1386
Berber calendar2929
British Regnal year27 Eliz. 2 – 28 Eliz. 2
Buddhist calendar2523
Burmese calendar1341
Byzantine calendar7487–7488
Chinese calendar戊午年 (Earth Horse)
4676 or 4469
    — to —
己未年 (Earth Goat)
4677 or 4470
Coptic calendar1695–1696
Discordian calendar3145
Ethiopian calendar1971–1972
Hebrew calendar5739–5740
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat2035–2036
 - Shaka Samvat1900–1901
 - Kali Yuga5079–5080
Holocene calendar11979
Igbo calendar979–980
Iranian calendar1357–1358
Islamic calendar1399–1400
Japanese calendarShōwa 54
(昭和54年)
Javanese calendar1910–1912
Juche calendar68
Julian calendarGregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar4312
Minguo calendarROC 68
民國68年
Nanakshahi calendar511
Thai solar calendar2522
Tibetan calendar阳土马年
(male Earth-Horse)
2105 or 1724 or 952
    — to —
阴土羊年
(female Earth-Goat)
2106 or 1725 or 953
Unix time283996800 – 315532799

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.

Events

January

February

22 February: Saint Lucia becomes independent
Restored flag of Iran

March

April

May

June

July

12 July: Kiribati becomes independent

August

September

October

27 October: Saint Vincent and the Grenadines becomes independent

November

December

Date unknown

Births

Births
January · February · March · April · May · June · July · August · September · October · November · December

January

Jagmeet Singh
Kevin Kuske
Sarah Polley
Siti Nurhaliza
Svetlana Khorkina

February

Cerina Vincent
Valentín Elizalde
Tawakkol Karman
Josh Keaton
Irina Slutskaya
Jesse Spencer
Mena Suvari
Jocelyn Quivrin
Valentino Rossi
Jennifer Love Hewitt
Jordan Peele

March

Ricardo Rosselló
Melina Perez
Danny Pudi
Oscar Isaac
Joel Madden
Adam Levine
Lee Pace
Norah Jones

April

Lindy Booth
Jesse Carmichael
Sophie Ellis-Bextor
Claire Danes
Jennifer Morrison
Luke Evans
Kourtney Kardashian
Kate Hudson
James McAvoy
Jaime King

May

Lance Bass
Jon Montgomery
Rosario Dawson
Mickey Madden
Maggie Q
Ashley Massaro
Elisabeth Harnois
Jesse Bradford

June

Morena Baccarin
Pete Wentz
Anna Torv
Robyn
Chris Pratt
Mindy Kaling
Busy Philipps
Ryan Tedder
Felicia Day
Matisyahu

July

Kevin Hart
Scott Porter
Laura Benanti
Jayma Mays
Mike Vogel
Marielle Franco
Rose Byrne
Mageina Tovah
Michelle Williams

August

Jason Momoa
Evangeline Lilly
Maria Haukaas Mittet
JoAnna Garcia Swisher
Peter Browngardt
Aaron Paul

September

Júlio César
Pink
Dave Annable
Amy Davidson
Flo Rida
Taavi Rõivas
Bam Margera

October

Brianna Brown
Rachael Leigh Cook
Aaron Ashmore
Shawn Ashmore
Kristanna Loken
Jawed Karim
Chris O'Dowd
Brandon Routh
John Krasinski

November

Lamar Odom
Cote de Pablo
Mpule Kwelagobe
Neeti Mohan
Kelly Brook
Joel Kinnaman

December

Sabina Babayeva
Eric Bauza
Sara Bareilles
Adam Brody
Zach Hill

Deaths

January

Nelson Rockefeller

February

Sid Vicious

March

José María Velasco Ibarra

April

Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

May

Mary Pickford

June

John Wayne

July

Shin'ichirō Tomonaga
Gustavo Diaz Ordaz

August

John Diefenbaker
Mika Waltari
Jean Seberg

September

Agostinho Neto
Gracie Fields
Francisco Macías Nguema

October

Park Chung Hee

November

Merle Oberon
Zeppo Marx

December

Richard Rodgers

Nobel Prizes

Media


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