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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 8, 1979 – The tanker Betelgeuse explodes in Bantry Bay, Ireland.
- January 28, 1979 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Sheep in Chinese astrology.
- February 13, 1979 – An intense windstorm strikes western Washington and sinks a 1/2-mile-long section of the Hood Canal Bridge.
- April 4, 1979 – Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto of Pakistan is executed.
- May 28, 1979 – Konstantinos Karamanlis signs the full treaty of the accession of Greece with the European Economic Community.
- July 1, 1979 – Sony introduces the Walkman.
- 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 10, 1979 – A 106-car Canadian Pacific freight train carrying explosive and poisonous chemicals from Windsor, Ontario, Canada derails in Mississauga, Ontario, just west of Toronto, causing a massive explosion and the largest peacetime evacuation in Canadian history and one of the largest in North American history.
- November 12, 1979 – Iran hostage crisis: In response to the hostage situation in Tehran, US President Jimmy Carter orders a halt to all petroleum imports into the United States from Iran.
- December 3, 1979 – In Cincinnati, 11 fans are suffocated in a crush for seats on the concourse outside Riverfront Coliseum before a Who concert.
Who Were Born On 1979?
- February 9, 1979 – Akinori Iwamura, Japanese baseball player
- February 13, 1979 – Mena Suvari, American actress and fashion designer
- April 3, 1979 – Simon Black, Australian footballer and coach
- April 10, 1979 – Shemekia Copeland, American singer
- April 13, 1979 – Gréta Arn, Hungarian tennis player
- October 1, 1979 – Curtis Axel, American wrestler
- October 10, 1979 – Joel Przybilla, American basketball player
- November 6, 1979 – Brad Stuart, Canadian ice hockey player
- November 17, 1979 – Matthew Spring, English footballer
- December 23, 1979 – Yukifumi Murakami, Japanese javelin thrower
