42 events found for 1979
Former Liberal Party leader Jeremy Thorpe was acquitted of conspiracy to murder Norman Scott, who had accused Thorpe of
U.S. President Jimmy Carter signs the first directive for secret aid to the opponents of the pro-Soviet regime in Kabul.
A car bomb destroys a Renault motor car owned by "Nazi hunters" Serge and Beate Klarsfeld outside their home in France…
America's first space station, Skylab, is destroyed as it re-enters the Earth's atmosphere over the Indian Ocean.
The island nation of Kiribati becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
U.S. president Jimmy Carter gives his "malaise speech".
Iraqi President Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr resigns and is replaced by Saddam Hussein.
A landslide occurs on the Iliwerung volcano in Indonesia, triggering a tsunami that kills over 530 and leaves 700…
The Sandinista rebels overthrow the government of the Somoza family in Nicaragua.
The oil tanker SS Atlantic Empress collides with another oil tanker, causing the largest ever ship-borne oil spill.
Jay Silverheels, a Mohawk actor, becomes the first Native American to have a star commemorated in the Hollywood Walk…
In accord with the Egypt–Israel peace treaty, Israel begins its withdrawal from the Sinai Peninsula.
In Afghanistan, Maoists undertake the Bala Hissar uprising against the Leninist government.
Female workers of YH Trading in South Korea held a sit-in protest in response to the company's unilateral shutdown.
Two Aeroflot Tupolev Tu-134s collide over the Ukrainian city of Dniprodzerzhynsk and crash, killing all 178 aboard…
The Troubles: Eighteen British soldiers are killed at the Warrenpoint ambush by the Provisional Irish Republican Army…
The Chrysler Corporation asks the United States government for US$1.5 billion to avoid bankruptcy.
South Africa grants independence to the "homeland" of Venda (not recognised outside South Africa).
Afghan leader Nur Muhammad Taraki is assassinated upon the order of Hafizullah Amin, who becomes the new General…