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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 28, 1979 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Sheep in Chinese astrology.
• February 11, 1979 – The Iranian Revolution establishes an Islamic theocracy under the leadership of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.
• May 4, 1979 – Margaret Thatcher becomes the first female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
• May 28, 1979 – Konstantinos Karamanlis signs the full treaty of the accession of Greece with the European Economic Community.
• June 2, 1979 – Pope John Paul II starts his first official visit to his native Poland, becoming the first Pope to visit a Communist country.
• June 12, 1979 – Bryan Allen wins the second Kremer prize for a man powered flight across the English Channel in the Gossamer Albatross.
• August 28, 1979 – An IRA bomb explodes at the Grote Markt in Brussels.
• November 4, 1979 – Iran hostage crisis: A mob of Iranians, mostly students, overruns the US embassy in Tehran and takes 90 hostages (53 of whom are American).
• November 9, 1979 – Nuclear false alarm: the NORAD computers and the Alternate National Military Command Center in Fort Ritchie, Maryland detected purported massive Soviet nuclear strike. After reviewing the raw data from satellites and checking the early-warning radars, the alert is cancelled.
• December 3, 1979 – Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini becomes the first Supreme Leader of Iran.

Who Were Born On 1979?

• January 5, 1979 – Kyle Calder, Canadian ice hockey player
• January 20, 1979 – Shang Yi, Chinese footballer
• January 24, 1979 – Nik Wallenda, American acrobat and tightrope walker
• February 7, 1979 – Tawakkol Karman, Yemeni journalist and activist and Nobel Prize laureate
• March 12, 1979 – Nidia Guenard, American wrestler and manager
• March 18, 1979 – Grzegorz Knapp, Polish motorcycle racer (d. 2014)
• April 5, 1979 – Dante Wesley, American football player
• September 16, 1979 – Aileen Celeste, Venezuelan actress
• September 24, 1979 – Kim Jong-min, South Korean singer and actor (Koyote)
• October 30, 1979 – Jason Bartlett, American baseball player