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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 28, 1979 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Sheep in Chinese astrology.
- 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 19, 1979 – The United States House of Representatives begins broadcasting its day-to-day business via the cable television network C-SPAN.
- April 4, 1979 – Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto of Pakistan is executed.
- 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 30, 1979 – The Hong Kong MTR commences service with the opening of its Modified Initial System (aka. Kwun Tong Line).
- October 12, 1979 – The lowest recorded non-tornadic atmospheric pressure, 87.0 kPa (870 mbar or 25.69 inHg), occurred in the Western Pacific during Typhoon Tip.
- October 21, 1979 – Moshe Dayan resigns from the Israeli government because of strong disagreements with Prime Minister Menachem Begin over policy towards the Arabs.
- December 12, 1979 – President of Pakistan Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq confers Nishan-e-Imtiaz on Nobel laureate Dr Abdus Salam.
- December 13, 1979 – The Canadian Government of Prime Minister Joe Clark is defeated in the House of Commons, prompting the 1980 Canadian election.
Who Were Born On 1979?
- January 31, 1979 – Emmett J. Scanlan, Irish actor and producer
- February 10, 1979 – Ross Powers, American snowboarder
- March 24, 1979 – Graeme Swann, English cricketer
- July 21, 1979 – Tamika Catchings, American basketball player
- August 14, 1979 – Jérémie Bréchet, French footballer
- September 25, 1979 – Jean-René Lisnard, French tennis player
- October 23, 1979 – Bud Smith, American baseball player
- November 6, 1979 – Myolie Wu, Hong Kong actress and singer
- November 10, 1979 – Ragnvald Soma, Norwegian footballer