Here is what was happening in the world outside of Petaluma in 1979.
How many of these flashbacks are in your memory cells?
January-February
March-May
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March
14 - In
China, a
Hawker-Siddeley Trident crashes into a factory near
Beijing
killing at least 200.
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March
25 - The first fully functional
space shuttle orbiter,
Columbia, was delivered to the
John F. Kennedy Space Center to be prepared for its first launch.
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March
28 -
Nuclear power plant accident at
Three Mile Island, Pa., releases radiation
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March
29 -
Sultan Yahya Petra ibni Almarhum Sultan Ibrahim Petra, 6th
Yang di-Pertuan Agong of
Malaysia dies in office. He is replaced by
Sultan Haji Ahmad Shah Al-Mustain Billah ibni Almarhum Sultan Sir Abu
Bakar Riayatuddin Al-Muadzam Shah,
Sultan
of Pahang.
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April 1
- Iran's
government becomes
Islamic Republic by a 98% vote, overthrowing the
Shah
officially.
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April 6
- President
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto of
Pakistan is executed.
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April
10 - A tornado hits in
Wichita Falls, Texas killing 42 people. It was the most notable
tornado of twenty-six that hit that day.
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May 4 -
Conservatives win the
British
election;
Margaret Thatcher becomes the new prime minister.
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May 10
- The
Federated States of Micronesia becomes self-governing.
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May 25
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American Airlines flight 191: In
Chicago, Illinois, a
DC-10 crashes during takeoff at
O'Hare International Airport killing 271 on board on two people on
the ground.
June-October
November
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November 1 -
Iran hostage crisis:
Iranian
Ayatollah
Ruhollah Khomeini urged his people to demonstrate on
November 4 and to expand attacks on
United States and
Israeli
interest (on November 4 militants seized the US embassy in
Tehran
and took 63 Americans hostage).
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November 3 - In
Greensboro, North Carolina, five members of the
Communist Workers Party are shot to death and seven are wounded by a
group of
Klansmen and
neo-Nazis during a "Death to the Klan" rally.
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November 4 -
Iran hostage crisis begins:
Iranian
radicals, mostly students, invade the
United States embassy in
Tehran
and take 90 hostages (63 of whom are American). They demanded that the
United States send the former
shah back to
Iran to
stand trial.
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November 5 - The radio news program
Morning Edition premieres on
National Public Radio.
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November 12 -
Iran hostage crisis: In response to the hostage situation in
Tehran,
US President
Jimmy Carter orders a halt to all
oil imports
into the
United States from
Iran.
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November 14 - Iran hostage crisis: US President
Jimmy Carter issues
Executive Order 12170, freezing all
Iranian
assets in the
United States and US banks in response to the hostage crisis.
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November 16 -
Bucharest Metro Line 1 is opened, in
Bucharest,
Romania
(from Timpuri Noi to Semanatoarea stations, 8.63 km)
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November 17 -
Iran hostage crisis:
Iranian
leader
Ruhollah Khomeini orders the release of 13 female and black
American hostages being held at the US Embassy in
Tehran.
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November 21 - The
United States Embassy in
Islamabad,
Pakistan is attacked by a mob and set afire, killing four. (see:
Foreign relations of Pakistan)
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November 23 - In
Dublin,
Ireland,
Irish Republican Army member
Thomas McMahon is sentenced to life in prison for the assassination
of
Lord Mountbatten.
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November 28 - In
Antarctica, a
DC-10
carrying
Air New Zealand Flight 901 crashes into
Mount Erebus on a sightseeing trip, killing all 257 people on board.
December
unknown dates
Year in topic
Births
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January 16 -
Aaliyah,
singer (d. 2001)
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January 24 -
Tatyana Ali, actress
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February 9 -
Mena Suvari, actress
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February 11 -
Brandy Norwood, singer
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February 21 -
Jennifer Love Hewitt, actress, singer
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February 24 -
Iulia Popovici, peace volunteer activist
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March
30 -
Norah Jones, musician
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April 4
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Heath Ledger, actor
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April
10 -
Rachel Corrie, American activist, member of the
International Solidarity Movement (d.
2003)
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April
18 -
Michael Bradley,
NBA
basketball player
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April
19 -
Kate Hudson, actress (Almost
Famous,
How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days)
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May 24
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Tracy McGrady,
NBA star
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May 25
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Jonny Wilkinson,
English
rugby star
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July 10
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Shane West, actor
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November 6 -
Lamar Odom,
basketball player
Deaths
January-July
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January 3 -
Conrad Hilton, hotelier
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January 5 -
Charles Mingus,
American
jazz musician
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January 26 -
Nelson Rockefeller,
Governor of New York,
Vice President of the United States
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February 2 -
Sid Vicious of
Sex Pistols
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February 7 -
Josef Mengele,
Nazi
war
criminal
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February 12 -
Jean Renoir, Film Director
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February 23 -
W.A.C. Bennett,
British Columbia politician
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February 28 - "The famous
Mr. Ed",
the talking horse, dies.
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March 1
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Mustafa Barzani, Leader of
Kurdish Democratic Party
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March
28 -
Emmett Kelly,
clown
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March
29 -
Sultan Yahya Petra ibni Almarhum Sultan Ibrahim Petra,
Sultan
of
Kelantan and 6th
Yang di-Pertuan Agong of
Malaysia.
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April 4
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Ali Bhutto, President and Prime Minister of
Pakistan
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April
10 -
Nino
Rota, composer
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April 24th -
Clayton Robert Berg, director
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May 11
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Barbara Hutton, America's "Poor Little Rich Girl"
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May 29
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Mary Pickford, actress, studio founder
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June 11
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John Wayne, actor
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July 3
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Louis Durey, composer, member of
Les Six
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July 16
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Alfred Deller,
singer,
early modern
countertenor
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July 29
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Bill Todman,
game
show producer
August-December
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August
2 -
Thurman Munson,
baseball player
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August 27 -
Earl Mountbatten of
Burma,
79,
British
World War II hero, and three others are killed by a blast on a
fishing boat off the
Irish
coast; two
I.R.A. members are accused on
August 30.
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September -
Ismail Nasiruddin Shah ibni Almarhum Sultan Zainal Abidin III,
Sultan
of
Terengganu and former 4th
Yang di-Pertuan Agong of
Malaysia.
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September 8 -
Jean Seberg, actress
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September 10 -
Agostinho Neto,
Angolan
nationalist
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October 6 -
Elizabeth Bishop, poet
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October 10 -
Christopher Evans,
British psychologist and computer scientist
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October 13 -
Rebecca Clarke, composer and violist
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November 29 -
Zeppo Marx, actor, comedian (b.
1901)
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December 7 -
Prince Chahryar Shafik, nephew of the
Shah of Iran, murdered in
Paris, France
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December 23 -
Peggy Guggenheim, art collector
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December 27 -
Hafizullah Amin, president of
Afghanistan
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