Year 1979

14 June 1979

Carter and Brezhnev sign SALT II agreement

16 January 1979

Shah leaves Iran after year of turmoil; revolutionary forces under Muslim leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, take over (February 1 et seq.)

27 December 1979

Soviet invasion of Afghanistan stirs world protests

28 March 1979

An overheated reactor at the Three Mile Island nuclear facility in Pennsylvania threatens to melt down. It does not, but 144,000 residents of nearby Middletown are evacuated

3 May 1979

Conservatives win British election; Margaret Thatcher becomes new prime minister

4 November 1979

Iranian militants seize US embassy in Teheran and hold hostages

7 January 1979

Vietnam and Vietnam-backed Cambodian insurgents announce fall of Cambodian capital Phnom Penh and collapse of Pol Pot regime

1979

Colombia,Ecuador, - 800 deads - magnitudo 7,9

1979

Indonesia, 100 deads - magnitudo 8,1

1979

Nobel Prizes Physiology or Medicine: Alan M. Cormack, Godfrey N. Hounsfield

1979

Nobel Prizes Peace: Madre Teresa di Calcutta

1979

Nobel Prizes Economy: Arthur Lewis, Theodore W. Schultz

1979

Nobel Prizes Chemistry: Herbert C. Brown, Georg Wittig, per lo sviluppo dell'uso del boranio e dei composti contenenti fosforo, in importanti reagenti di sintesi organica

1979

Nobel Prizes Physics: Sheldon L. Glashow, Abdus Salam, Steven Weinberg

1979

Nobel Prizes Literature: Odysseus Elytis

1979

Tennis Wimbledon Men: Bjorn Borg d. R. Tanner (6-7 6-1 3-6 6-3 6-4)

1979

Tennis Wimbledon Women: Martina Navratilova d. C. Evert Lloyd (6-4 6-4)

1979

NBA, Basketball NBA Championship: Seattle d. Washington Bullets (4-1)

1979

Baseball World Series: Pittsburgh Pirates (NL) 4-3 Baltimore Orioles (AL)

1979

Football XXIII Super Bowl: Pittsburgh Steelers d. Dallas Cowboys (35-31)

1979

UEFA Champions League, UEFA Champions League: Nottingham Forest (England)

1979

1979 Playboy cover

1979 May 09

Europe , Group Taurus

1979 February 21

Jennifer Love Hewitt, actress (born at Waco, Texas, USA) Pisces

1979 November 23

Kelly Brook, model (born at Rochester,UK) Sagittarius

1979 April 18

Kourtney Kardashian, socialite and television personality (born at Los Angeles,California,USA) Aries

1979 November 13

Riccardo Scamarcio, actor (born at Trani,Puglia,Italy) Scorpio

1979 February 16

Valentino Rossi, motorcyclist (born at Urbino,Italy) Aquarius

1979 November 08

Adrian Mutu , soccer player Scorpio

1979 November 02

Alessandra Meloni , %Miss Italia% ~1994~ (born at Italy) Scorpio

1979 February 13

Anders Behring Breivik , terrorista norvegese (born at Oslo) Aquarius

1979 May 05

Beastie Boys , - Taurus

1979 March 14

Chris Klein , actor Pisces

1979 May 29

Claudia Trieste , %Miss Italia% ~1997~ Gemini

1979 November 05

David Suazo , soccer player Scorpio

1979 April 17

Giusy Ferreri , singer(Giuseppa Gaetana) (born at Palermo,Italy) Aries

1979 February 02

Gloria Bellicchi , %Miss Italia% ~1998~, top model Aquarius

1979 September 03

Julio César , soccer player Virgo

1979 October 08

Kristinna Loken , actress Libra

(1979)

Mauro Esposito , soccer player (born at Torre del Greco)

1979 February 09

Mena Suvari , actress Aquarius

1979 March 30

Norah Jones , PPP Aries

1979 September 08

Pink , singer Virgo

1979 May 13

Prince Carl Philip , WORK Taurus

1979 May 09

Rosario Dawson , actress Taurus

1979 June 11

John Wayne, actor (dead at Los Angeles, California, USA) (born 1907 May 26) Gemini

1979 July 21

Boris Giuliano , policeman (dead at Palermo,Italy) (born 1930 October 22) Libra

1979 September 16

Gio Ponti , architect,designer (born 1891 November 18) Scorpio

1979 July 11

Giorgio Ambrosoli , advocate (dead at Milano,Italy) (born 1933 October 17) Libra

1979 September 8.

Jean Seberg , actress (born 1938 November 13) Scorpio

1979 April 29

Lucio Mastronardi , writer (dead at Vigevano) (born 1930 June 28) Cancer

1979 August 06

Paul VI , Pope (~1963~-~78~)(Giovanni Montini)

1979 December 23

Peggy Guggenheim , Collezionista d'arte statunitense (born 1898 August 26) Virgo