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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

Historical Events Of 1979

• January 25, 1979 – Pope John Paul II starts his first official papal visits outside Italy to The Bahamas, Dominican Republic and Mexico.
• January 28, 1979 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Sheep in Chinese astrology.
• February 7, 1979 – Pluto moves inside Neptune’s orbit for the first time since either was discovered.
• March 5, 1979 – Soviet probes Venera 11, Venera 12 and the American solar satellite Helios II all are hit by “off the scale” gamma rays leading to the discovery of soft gamma repeaters.
• March 28, 1979 – The British House of Commons passes a vote of no confidence against James Callaghan’s government, precipitating a general election.
• June 4, 1979 – Flight Lieutenant Jerry Rawlings takes power in Ghana after a military coup in which General Fred Akuffo is overthrown.
• June 20, 1979 – ABC News correspondent Bill Stewart is shot dead by a Nicaraguan soldier under the regime of Anastasio Somoza Debayle. The murder is caught on tape and sparks an international outcry against the regime.
• September 22, 1979 – The Vela Incident (also known as the South Atlantic Flash) is observed near Bouvet Island, thought to be a nuclear weapons test.
• October 26, 1979 – Park Chung-hee, President of South Korea is assassinated by Korean Central Intelligence Agency head Kim Jae-gyu. Choi Kyu-hah becomes the acting President; Kim is executed the following May.
• November 3, 1979 – Greensboro massacre: Five members of the Communist Workers Party are shot dead and seven are wounded by a group of Klansmen and neo-Nazis during a “Death to the Klan” rally in Greensboro, North Carolina, United States.

Who Were Born On 1979?

• January 7, 1979 – Bipasha Basu, Indian actress and singer
• April 13, 1979 – Gréta Arn, Hungarian tennis player
• April 19, 1979 – Kate Hudson, American actress, singer, and producer
• May 13, 1979 – Jenny Winkler, German actress
• May 17, 1979 – David Jarolím, Czech footballer
• July 23, 1979 – Anta Livitsanou, Greek actress and singer
• August 6, 1979 – Megumi Okina, Japanese actress and singer
• August 25, 1979 – Masato Wada, Japanese actor and singer (D-Boys)
• September 29, 1979 – Shelley Duncan, American baseball player and manager
• December 20, 1979 – George Lamb, English radio and television host