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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1979 - January-March. January 3 - Conrad Hilton, American hotelier (b. 1887) January 5 - Charles Mingus, American musician (b. 1922) January 13 - Donny Hathaway, American musician (b. 1945) January 26 - Nelson Rockefeller, Governor of New York, Vice President of the United States (b. 1908) February 2 - Sid Vicious, English musician (Sex Pistols) (drug overdose) (b. 1957) February 7 - Josef Mengele, Nazi war criminal (b. 1911) February 9 - Dennis Gabor, H ...

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1979 in aviation - January. January 12 - Pilatus Aircraft acquires Britten-Norman 1979 in aviation - February. February 26 - Production of the A-4 Skyhawk ends after 26 years, with the delivery of the 2,690th and final aircraft to the United States Marine Corps. 1979 in aviation - March. March 10 - The US Air Force sends E-3 Sentry aircraft to monitor the civil war in Yemen March 25 - QANTAS retires its last Boeing 707 and becomes the world's first airline wit ...

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1979 in rail transport - January events. January - An electrical fire erupts aboard a Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) train traveling in the transbay tube; the fire kills one firefighter and closes the system for more than two months. 1979 in rail transport - February events. February 1 - The Southern Railway's Southern Crescent becomes Amtrak's Crescent as Southern discont ...

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March March 9 - Dassault Mirage 4000 March 22 - CP-140 Aurora April April 10 - Westland WG.30 July July 24 - Bell XV-15 November November 30 - Piper Malibu December December 12 - SH-60 Seahawk December 14 - Edgley Optica December 21 - NASA/Ames AD-1See also:

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The fourth-generation model (Ke70) released in 1979 in Japan, was a boxy, rear-wheel-drive offering. Although most of the fourth generation was replaced by 1984, the station wagon and van versions soldiered on into 1987. Equally, there was a Daihatsu Charmant variant. The car were also avaliable in coupe versions (TE71 and TE72). This generation (apart from the wagon) got a new rear coil spring five-link rear end with panhard rod, and the wheelbase was longer at 94.5 in (2400 mm). A new 1.8 L (1770 cc/108 in³ ...

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Toyota Corolla, Toyota Corolla - Alternative versions, Toyota Corolla - First Generation - E10 series - October 1966, Toyota Corolla - Second Generation - E20 series - 1970, Toyota Corolla - Third Generation - E30 E40 E50 series - April 1974, Toyota Corolla - Fourth generation - E70 series - 1979, Toyota Corolla - Fifth generation - E80 series - 1983, Toyota Corolla - Sixth generation - E90 series - May 1987, Toyota Corolla - Seventh generation - E100 series - June 1991, Toyota Corolla - Eighth Generation - E110 series - May 1995, Toyota Corolla - Ninth generation - E120 series - August 2000

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Walter Gerlach (1 August 1889 - 10 August 1979) was a German physicist. He discovered the spin quantization together with Otto Stern in 1922. (Stern-Gerlach experiment) Suspected of making nuclear weapons for Germany, he was taken to the UK for questioning. ...

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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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Vincent John Cusano (born August 6, 1952, in Bridgeport, Connecticut), is a guitarist better known as Vinnie Vincent, and is most famous for his brief membership in the band KISS. Vinnie Vincent - Before KISS. Prior to joining KISS Vincent was in several bands, the most popular being Treasure (1978-1979). 1976 - Kid Cashmir & Winnie LeCoux 1976 - HITCHHIKERS 1977 - TREASURE 1978 - LAURA NYRO 1978 - DAN HARTMAN 1979 - FELIX CAVALIERE ...

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Alvin Karpis (August 10, 1907-August 26, 1979, born Alvin Karpowicz), nickname "Creepy" , was a noted criminal in the United States known for his alliance with the Barker gang in the 1930s. He was the last "Public Enemy Number 1" to be taken, a capture which elevated J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI to national prominence. His stay at Alcatraz, a little over 25 years, was longer than any other inmate interned there. Alvin Karpis - Early Life. Karpis was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, and was rai ...

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2017 (MMXVII) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. It corresponds to the years 5777-5778 in the Hebrew Calendar. 2017 - Events. Early to mid-February - 50th anniversary of the Superbowl to be observed (Superbowl LI) August 21 - From 16:50 to 20:02 UTC the first total solar eclipse of the 21st century for the United States, and the first visible in the continental US since February 26, 1979 takes place. Totality will occur along a p ...

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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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Catherine Hicks (born August 6, 1951 in Scottsdale, Arizona) is an American actress. After attending University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana, where she studied theology, Hicks began a career in acting. She first rose to prominence as Dr. Faith Coleridge on the soap opera Ryan's Hope, a role she played from 1976 to 1978. In 1979, she was one of the leads in the television version of The Bad News Bears and in 1982 she took the lead role in the comedy/detective series Tucker's Witch opposite Tim Mathes ...

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His Eminence Alfredo Cardinal Ottaviani (29 October 1890 - 3 August 1979) was Secretary of the Holy Office of the Roman Curia from 1959 to 1966 when that dicastery was reorganized as the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith, in which he served as Pro-Prefect, until 1968. He was the leader of the Curial conservatives during the Second Vatican Council. In September of 1969, together with Antionio Cardinal Bacci, wrote a letter to Pope Paul VI , espressing reservations to the proposed new Roman rite of the Mass, which

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Japan (1974-1981) The third-generation Toyota Corolla, built from 1974–81 (worldwide versions) (KE3x/KE5x), marked Toyota's greatest growth in the United States in the wake of the fuel crisis. In addition to the Sprinter, there was a rebodied version built by Toyota affiliate Daihatsu, called the Daihatsu Charmant. While there were certain fourth-generation models with a longer model life, this generation, when considered as a wh ...

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Toyota Corolla, Toyota Corolla - Alternative versions, Toyota Corolla - First Generation - E10 series - October 1966, Toyota Corolla - Second Generation - E20 series - 1970, Toyota Corolla - Third Generation - E30 E40 E50 series - April 1974, Toyota Corolla - Fourth generation - E70 series - 1979, Toyota Corolla - Fifth generation - E80 series - 1983, Toyota Corolla - Sixth generation - E90 series - May 1987, Toyota Corolla - Seventh generation - E100 series - June 1991, Toyota Corolla - Eighth Generation - E110 series - May 1995, Toyota Corolla - Ninth generation - E120 series - August 2000

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Aaliyah Dana Haughton (January 16, 1979 – August 25, 2001), better known simply as her stage name Aaliyah, was an American R&B singer, dancer, fashion model and actress. Introduced to audiences by R&B singer R. Kelly, Aaliyah became famous in her own right during the mid-1990s with several hit records from the songwriting/production team of Missy "Misdemeanor" Elliott and Timbaland, and their associate Steve "Static" Garrett. Notable for recording several hit records, including five number one R&B hits, one ...

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Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta, OM (August 27, 1910 – September 5, 1997) was an Indian Catholic nun of Albanian origin who founded the Missionaries of Charity. Her work among the poverty-stricken of Kolkata (Calcutta) made her one of the world's most famous people, and it is widely thought that she will be canonized shortly. Teresa was awarded the Templeton Prize in 1973, the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979, and India's highest civilian award, the Bharat Ratna in 1980. She was made an Honorary Citizen of the United States in 199 ...

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The ninth-generation Corolla (AE120/ZZE120) appeared in August 2000 with edgier styling and a longer 102.4 in (2600 mm) wheelbase. It is built on a shortened Toyota Vista platform—the Vista being a mid-sized, rather than compact, car. Like the Vista, the Corolla's width is limited to 67 in (1700 mm), to avoid being in a higher tax bracket in Japan, although most of its European rivals are now wider. This model made it to the United States in 2002. The torsion bar suspension and drum brakes in the rear are anachro ...

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Japan (1966-1969) The Corolla was launched in Japan in October 1966. Eiji Toyoda, chairman of the company, said it worked hard to create popular demand, and disputes that Toyota rode a wave of private car ownership that was taking off in the mid-1960s. The initial car, the KE1x series, was small, with a 90 in (2286 mm) wheelbase, and came in two- and four-door sedan (KE10 and KE11), two-door coupe (KE15), and three-door station wagon (KE16 and KE18) versions. Power came from either a 1.1 L (1077 cc/65 ...

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