This page refers to the year 1979. For the Smashing Pumpkins song, see 1979 (song). 1979 (MCMLXXIX) is a common year starting on Monday. 1979 - Events. 1979 energy crisis - occurred in the wake of the Iranian Revolution January 1 - United Nations Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim heralds the start of the "International Year of the Child." Many musicians donate to the "Music for UNICEF" fund. January 1 - Sino-American relations: United States and ...

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Khalq, Khalq - Early Political History, Khalq - Khalq - Parcham division of the PDPA, Khalq - Khalq during the Republican Revolution, Khalq - PDPA-Khalq and The Saur Revolution April 1979 - April 1992, Khalq - Khalq as Government April 1979 - December 1979, Khalq - Khalq during the Parcham Government and Soviet invasion December 1979 - April 1992, Khalq - PDPA - Khalq from 1989 to our days, Khalq - President Najibullah's Administration 1986 - 1992, Khalq - Afghan Civil War 1992 - 2001, Khalq - President Karzai's Administration 2002 - To our days, Khalq - Prominent members of the Khalq faction

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On April 19, 1978 a prominent leftist, Mir Akbar Khyber, was killed by the government of Mohammed Daoud Khan. His death served as a rallying point for the Afghan communists. Fearing a communist coup d'etat, Daud ordered the arrest of certain PDPA leaders, including Taraki and Babrak Karmal, while placing others such as Hafizullah Amin under house arrest. On April 27, 1978 the coup was initiated, reportedly by Hafizullah Amin while still under house arrest. Mohammed Daoud Khan was killed the next day along with most of hi ...

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Nur Muhammad Taraki, Nur Muhammad Taraki - Early Political Career, Nur Muhammad Taraki - President of the Republic April 1978 -- October 1979, Nur Muhammad Taraki - Assassination

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1979 in South Africa - January. 8 January - South Africa and Lesotho sign a monetary agreement 14 January - Police clash with Umkhonto we Sizwe guerrillas on a farm near Zeerust, one is arrested while 6 escape over the Botswana border 23 January - A bomb explodes near the New Canada railway station in Soweto 24 January - Large quantity of explosives are found and defused on the railway between Fort Beaufort and King Williamstown 1979 in South Africa - April. Explosives discovered ...

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The UK general election, 1979 was held on May 3, 1979 and is regarded as a pivotal point in 20th century British politics. The Conservatives and their leader Margaret Thatcher won and replaced the Labour government. Labour had been in power from February 1974, with James Callaghan succeeding Harold Wilson after his surprise resignation in April 1976. The administration had been a minority government for most of its term, and from March 1977 to August 1978 the government had reached an agreement with the Liberal Party, in a so-c ...

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Asa Philip Randolph (April 15, 1889 – May 16, 1979) was a socialist in the labor movement and the US civil rights movement. He was born in Crescent City, Florida. His father was a minister of the A.M.E. Church who moved the family to Jacksonville, Florida in 1891. In 1911, Randolph moved to New York City's Harlem in hope of becoming an actor. Randolph's parents objected to his dramatic aspirations, so while at the City College of New York, he switched his studies to politics and economics. While at City College, he met his fu ...

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Bertil Ohlin (April 23, 1899 – August 3, 1979), was a Swedish economist and winner of the 1977 Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. His name lives on in the standard mathematical model of international free trade. Having received his B.A. from Lund University 1917, and his M.A. from Harvard University in 1923, Ohlin received his doctorate from Stockholm University in 1924. In 1925 he became a professor at the University of Copenhagen. In 1929 he debated with John Maynard Keynes, contradicting t ...

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The Church of the Province of West Africa is a province of the Anglican Communion, covering a number of sees in West Africa, specifically in Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone. The current primate of the province is Archbishop Justice Akrofi. It was established on 17 April 1953 by the bishops of five West African dioceses, with the consent of the Archbishop of Canterbury. In February 1979, the new Church of Nigeria was inaugurated, while the Dioceses of Accra, Kumasi, Liberia, Gambia and Guinea and Sierra Leone ...

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1979 in sports - January-March. January 2 - Hanna Ljungberg, Swedish soccer star January 3 - Brooke Morrison, Australian field hockey player January 9 - Kate Wilson-Smith, badminton player January 14 - Whynter Lamarre, water polo goalie January 15 - Marie-Helene Chisholm, judoka January 16 - Helen Grant, English field hockey player January 17 - Oleg Lisogor, Ukrainian swimmer January 21 - Brian O'Driscoll, Irish rugby player January 24 ...

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See also: 1979 in film 1980 1981 in film 1970s in film 1980s in film years in film film 1980 in film - Events. April 30 - The Roger Daltrey film, McVicar, opens in London. Sharon Stone makes her film debut in the Woody Allen movie Stardust Memories (released September 26 in USA) 1980 in film - Top three grossing films. North America St ...

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Sir Andrew John Wiles (born April 11, 1953) is a British mathematician living in the United States. He was educated at The Leys School Cambridge and in 1974 he graduated from the University of Oxford. He then completed his Ph.D. at the University of Cambridge in 1979 and is currently a Professor and the chair of the department of mathematics at Princeton University. In one of the great success stories in the history of mathematics, Wiles (with help from Richard Taylor) proved Fermat's Last Theorem in 1994. Andrew Wiles - ...

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James Augustus "Catfish" Hunter (April 8, 1946 – September 9, 1999) was a prolific Major League Baseball right-handed starting pitcher between 1965 and 1979. Hunter was known as a skilled control pitcher and was one of the best big game pitchers during the early 1970's. He won 21 or more games five years in a row (1971-1975) and tied for the major league lead in wins in 1974 (25) and 1975 (23). Hunter also led the major leagues in Earned Run Average in 1974 while while winning the American League Cy Young Award. Hunter earned ...

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Casey Kasem (born Kemal Amin Kasem on April 27, 1932, in Detroit, Michigan) is an American radio personality and voice actor of Druze Lebanese extraction. He has been married to actress/singer Jean Kasem since 1980 and they have one child together, daughter Liberty Kasem. He had three children with his first wife, Linda Myers Kasem (to whom he was married from 1969 to 1979). Their son, Mike Kasem, is also a voice-over actor. Their daughter is television host Kerri Kasem. Casey Kasem - Radio. Kasem is ...

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Consuelo de Saint-Exupéry (née Consuelo Suncin Sandoval Zeceña of Gómez; born:April 10, 1901-1979) was the wife of famous writer and aviator Antoine de Saint Exupéry, author of the The Little Prince, although she was an accomplished writer and artist in her own right. Born in a small village in El Salvador to wealthy landowners, she studied abroad in San Francisco, in Mexico City, and in France. While in France, she met and later married Enrique Gomez Carillo an Argentine diplomat and journalist. Following his d ...

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Crossroads was a British television soap opera set in a motel near Birmingham, England. It was first broadcast on ITV between 2 November 1964 and 4 April 1988. Crossroads soap opera - ATV series. Crossroads first aired five days a week, until the ITA decreed that it would go to four airings a week in 1967. In 1979, it moved to three times a week. The location of the Crossroads Motel was a fictional outskirt of Birmingham, "King's Oak" (there are real suburbs Kings Norton and Selly Oak). ...

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Zulfikar Ali Bhutto (January 5, 1928 – April 4, 1979) was a Pakistani politician, active in the early years of the Pakistani Government. He was the son of Sir Shah Nawaz Bhutto. Bhutto served in the position of President (from 1971 to 1973) and as Prime Minister, from 1973 to 1977, of Pakistan. He has the rare distinction of being a civilian Chief Martial Law Administrator. Deposed in a coup by General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, he was hanged on charges of authorizing the murder of a political opponent in 1974. Zulfik ...

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See also: 1977 in music, other events of 1978, 1979 in music, 1970s in music and the list of 'years in music' 1978 in music - Events. January 14 - The Sex Pistols played their final show (until a 1996 reunion) at San Francisco's Winterland Ballroom. April 22 - The Blues Brothers make their first appearance on Saturday Night Live. The duo of Jake & Elwood Blues (John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd) was introduced by Paul Shaffer (as Don Kirschner) and performed "Hey Bartender". Ap ...

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Men's Golf Grand Slam of golf results: May - The Masters - Fuzzy Zoeller June - US Open - Hale Irwin July 20 - British Open - Seve Ballesteros August - PGA Championship - David Graham PGA tour's leading money winner for the year: Tom Watson - $462,636 Ryder Cup: United States won 17-11 over Europe in the first Ryder Cup to feature a side representing all Europe. Women's Golf US Women's Open - Jerilyn Britz LPGA Championship - Donna Caponi Nancy Lopez: leading money winner on ...

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Khalq - President Najibullah's Administration 1986 - 1992 . Afther the 40th Soviet Army left the country, President Najibullah suffered, to a lesser degree, the same disadvantage that Karmal had when he was installed as General Secretary of the PDPA by the Soviets. This fact was shown by the fierceness of the resistance to Najibullah's appointment within the Parcham faction. This split persisted, forcing President Najibullah to straddle his politics between whatever Parchami support he could m ...

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Khalq, Khalq - Early Political History, Khalq - Khalq - Parcham division of the PDPA, Khalq - Khalq during the Republican Revolution, Khalq - PDPA-Khalq and The Saur Revolution April 1979 - April 1992, Khalq - Khalq as Government April 1979 - December 1979, Khalq - Khalq during the Parcham Government and Soviet invasion December 1979 - April 1992, Khalq - PDPA - Khalq from 1989 to our days, Khalq - President Najibullah's Administration 1986 - 1992, Khalq - Afghan Civil War 1992 - 2001, Khalq - President Karzai's Administration 2002 - To our days, Khalq - Prominent members of the Khalq faction

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