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1979 was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1979th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 979th year of the 2nd millennium, the 79th year of the 20th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1970s decade.
October 14 – A major gay rights march in the United States takes place in Washington, D.C., involving many tens of thousands of people. October 15 – The 6.4 M w Imperial Valley earthquake affected Southern California and northern Baja California with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX ( Violent ), causing 91 injuries and $30 million in damage.
1979 – The Three Mile Island nuclear accident occurs, America's most catastrophic nuclear power plant accident in its history. 1979 – The Iran hostage crisis begins. In the aftermath, a second energy crisis develops, tripling the price of oil and sending U. S. gasoline prices over $1 per gallon for the first time.
On November 28, 1979, Air New Zealand Flight 901 crashed on the flanks of Mount Erebus in Antarctica, killing all 257 people on board. On March 28, 1979, there was a partial meltdown of the Three Mile Island Unit 2 reactor in Pennsylvania, United States. It is the most significant accident in U.S. commercial nuclear power plant history.
Thousands of Iranians gathered on the streets Saturday to mark the anniversary of the 1979 takeover of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, chanting “Death to America” and “Death to Israel.” About ...
1 February – Grave-diggers call off a strike in Liverpool which has delayed dozens of burials.; 2 February – Sid Vicious, the former Sex Pistols guitarist, is found dead in New York after apparently suffocating on his own vomit as a result of a heroin overdose. 21-year-old London-born Vicious was on bail for the second degree murder of his girlfriend Nancy Spungen, who was found stabbed to ...
1979 in the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands (4 C, 1 P) Pages in category "1979 in the United States" The following 26 pages are in this category, out of 26 total.
January 1979 events in the United States (1 C, 10 P) February 1979 events in the United States (1 C, 4 P) March 1979 events in the United States (1 C, 5 P)