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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.
• January 30, 1979 – A Varig Boeing 707-323C freighter, flown by the same commander as Flight 820, disappears over the Pacific Ocean 30 minutes after taking off from Tokyo.
• May 25, 1979 – Etan Patz, who is six years old, disappears from the street just two blocks away from his home in New York City, prompting an international search for the child, and causing the U.S. President Ronald Reagan to designate May 25 as National Missing Children’s Day (in 1983).
• June 12, 1979 – Bryan Allen wins the second Kremer prize for a man powered flight across the English Channel in the Gossamer Albatross.
• August 21, 1979 – Soviet dancer Alexander Godunov defects to the United States.
• August 27, 1979 – A Provisional Irish Republican Army bomb kills British retired admiral Lord Mountbatten and three others while they are boating on holiday in Sligo, Republic of Ireland. Shortly after, 18 British Army soldiers are killed in an ambush near Warrenpoint, Northern Ireland.
• September 13, 1979 – South Africa grants independence to the “homeland” of Venda (not recognised outside South Africa).
• 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.
• 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.
• December 12, 1979 – President of Pakistan Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq confers Nishan-e-Imtiaz on Nobel laureate Dr Abdus Salam.

Who Were Born On 1979?

• January 16, 1979 – Aaliyah, American singer, dancer, and actress (d. 2001)
• March 22, 1979 – Staņislavs Olijars, Latvian hurdler
• June 14, 1979 – Shannon Hegarty, Australian rugby player
• June 22, 1979 – Brad Hawpe, American baseball player
• July 22, 1979 – Yadel Martí, Cuban baseball player
• September 7, 1979 – Paul Mara, American ice hockey player
• September 23, 1979 – Ricky Davis, American basketball player
• December 3, 1979 – Tiffany Haddish, American actress and dancer
• December 8, 1979 – Raymond Lam, Chinese actor and singer
• December 23, 1979 – Kenny Miller, Scottish footballer