What Events Happened in 1979

by Xie

  • USSR Invades Afghanistan
  • Margaret Thatcher elected Prime minister in UK
  • Severe Atlantic Storm hits Fastnet International Yacht Race and a number of boats and crew are lost
  • Following the Burgess, Mclean, Philby and Sir Anthony Blunt Spy Scandal he is stripped of his knighthood
  • SALT II arms limitation Talks signed by US and USSR
  • Eleven fans are killed and dozens are injured at a WHO Concert at the Riverfront Coliseum in Cincinnati, Ohio
  • Three Mile island Nuclear Accident after fire at reactor in Pennsylvania US
  • Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returns to Tehran, Iran after nearly 15 years of exile and takes over the Iranian law enforcement, courts and government administration and Khomeini seizes power in Iran
  • 63 Americans are taken hostage in the American Embassy in Tehran
  • Iran’s government becomes Islamic Republic when the Shah of Persia is forced to leave
  • The Soviets invadeAfghanistan
  • A mob attack destroys the US Embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan
  • The Sahara Desert experiences snow for 30 minutes.
  • A tornado hits in Wichita Falls, Texas killing 42 people
  • The first black-led government of Rhodesia in 90 years takes power and the countries name is changed to Zimbabwe,
  • Pope John Paul II visits his native Poland, becoming the first Pope to visit a Communist country
  • President Hasan al-Bakr resigns and Vice President Saddam Hussein replaces him in Iraq
  • The first British nudist beach is established in Brighton
  • Egypt’s Anwar Sadat and Israel’s Menachem Begin sign the first peace treaty between an Arab nation and the Jewish state
  • Lord Mountbatten and three others assassinated by the I.R.A.. He was a British admiral, statesman and an uncle of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.
  • 23 people die in Nice, France, when the coastal town is hit by a tsunami
  • 3000 Iranian radicals, mostly students, invade the United States embassy in Tehran and take 90 hostages
  • China institutes the one child per family rule to help control it’s exploding population
  • The worlds first anthrax epidemic begins in Ekaterinburg, Russia following a biological weapons plant accident
  • The price of oil reaches a new record of $24 per barrel