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1979 Calendar Trivia
The next time you can reuse this calendar will be on year 2029. Both calendars will be exactly the same! This is assuming you are not interested in the dates for Easter and other irregular holidays that are based on a solar cycle.
April 4 (4/4), June 6 (6/6), August 8 (8/8), October 10 (10/10), December 12 (12/12), and the last day of February always fall on the same day of the week in any given year. This is called the ‘Doomsday rule’. Check these dates using the full 12-month calendar below to verify.
1979 Calendar
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Historical Events Of 1979
- January 7, 1979 – Third Indochina War: Cambodian–Vietnamese War: Phnom Penh falls to the advancing Vietnamese troops, driving out Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge.
- January 28, 1979 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Sheep in Chinese astrology.
- March 5, 1979 – America’s Voyager 1 spacecraft has its closest approach to Jupiter, 172,000 miles.
- March 26, 1979 – Anwar al-Sadat, Menachem Begin and Jimmy Carter sign the Egypt–Israel Peace Treaty in Washington, D.C.
- May 25, 1979 – American Airlines Flight 191: In Chicago, a McDonnell Douglas DC-10 crashes during takeoff at O'Hare International Airport killing all 271 on board and two people on the ground.
- June 4, 1979 – Flight Lieutenant Jerry Rawlings takes power in Ghana after a military coup in which General Fred Akuffo is overthrown.
- June 9, 1979 – The Ghost Train fire at Luna Park Sydney (Australia) kills seven.
- September 12, 1979 – Indonesia is hit with an earthquake that measures 8.1 on the Richter scale.
- October 12, 1979 – The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, the first of five books in the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy comedy science fiction series by Douglas Adams is published.
- December 23, 1979 – Soviet war in Afghanistan: Soviet Union forces occupy Kabul, the Afghan capital.
Who Were Born On 1979?
- February 2, 1979 – Irini Terzoglou, Greek shot putter
- April 22, 1979 – Daniel Johns, Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist (Silverchair and The Dissociatives)
- May 21, 1979 – Jamie Hepburn, Scottish politician, Minister for Sport, Health Improvement and Mental Health
- August 22, 1979 – Jennifer Finnigan, Canadian actress and producer
- August 23, 1979 – Ritchie Neville, English singer and actor (Five)
- October 12, 1979 – Jordan Pundik, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (New Found Glory and International Superheroes of Hardcore)
- November 1, 1979 – Milan Dudić, Serbian footballer
- November 20, 1979 – Joseph Hallman, American composer and academic
- December 6, 1979 – Yanina González, Paraguayan model, Miss Paraguay 2004
- December 28, 1979 – Maksim Smirnov, Estonian footballer