Notable Historical Events - 1979
1979 Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 1 |
International Year of the Child begins |
Jan 1 |
Jura, 26th canton of Switzerland, established |
Jan 1 |
US & China (Peoples Republic) begin diplomatic relations |
Jan 2 |
30th Islander shut-out opponent-Glenn Resch 9-0 vs Vancouver |
Jan 2 |
Gavaskar gets twin tons for India for the third time (v WI) |
Jan 2 |
Sid Vicious' trial for murder of girlfriend Nancy Spungen begins |
Jan 6 |
The Village People's Y.M.C.A becomes their only UK No.1 single. At it's peak it sold over 150,000 copies a day |
Jan 7 |
Vietnamese forces capture Phnom Penh from Khmer Rouge |
Jan 8 |
512 die as oil tanker Bantry Bay blows up |
Jan 8 |
Argentina & Chile sign Beagle Canal accord |
Jan 8 |
Today Show gets a new theme song |
Jan 8 |
Vietnamese troops overtook Khmer Rouge & occupy Phnom Penh |
Jan 9 |
Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to WS Merwin |
Jan 9 |
High-school player Daryl Moreau makes 126th consecutive free throws |
Jan 9 |
K-Mart pulls Steve Martin's "Let's Get Small" for being in "bad taste" |
Jan 9 |
Supreme Court strikes down (6-3) PA law requiring doctors performing an abortion to try to preserve lives of potentially viable fetuses |
Jan 9 |
Bobby Orr's #4 jersey is retired by the Boston Bruins |
Jan 10 |
1st brother Billy Carter makes allegedly anti-Semitic remarks |
Jan 10 |
Entertainer of the Year Awards |
Jan 11 |
"Grand Tour" opens at Palace Theater NYC for 61 performances |
Jan 12 |
6th American Music Award: Barry Manilow, Linda Ronstadt win |
Jan 12 |
LA's Hillside Strangler, Kenneth Bianchi, arrested in Bellingham |
Jan 12 |
Record blizzard struck midwest killing over 100 |
Jan 13 |
Charlie Daniels hosts Volunteer Jam |
Jan 13 |
YMCA files libel suit against Village People's YMCA song |
Jan 14 |
Pres Carter proposes Martin Luther King's birthday be a holiday |
Jan 16 |
Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi flees Iran for Egypt during the Iranian Revolution |
Jan 16 |
Shah leaves Iran on vacation, never to return; Bakhtiar government established by the Shah to preside until unrest subsides |
Jan 17 |
NY Islanders didn't get a shot off in 1 period against NY Rangers |
Jan 17 |
USSR performs underground nuclear test |
Jan 18 |
Peter Jenkins finishes "A Walk Across America," Florence Oregon |
Jan 19 |
John N Mitchell (former AG) released on parole from federal prison |
Jan 20 |
1 million Iranians march in Tehran in a show of support for the exiled Ayatollah Khomeini, fundamentalist Muslim leader |
Jan 21 |
Neptune becomes outermost planet (Pluto moves closer) |
Jan 21 |
Price of gold increases to record $875 troy oz |
Jan 21 |
Super Bowl XIII: Pittsburgh Steelers beat Dallas Cowboys, 35-31 in Miami Super Bowl MVP: Terry Bradshaw, Pittsburgh, QB |
Jan 23 |
Willie Mays elected to Baseball Hall of Fame |
Jan 24 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Jan 25 |
22.2-km Oshimizu railroad tunnel holed through, central Honshu, Japan |
Jan 25 |
Pope John Paul II's 1st overseas trip as supreme pontiff |
Jan 25 |
1st documented case of a robot killing a human in US |
Jan 26 |
"Dukes of Hazzard" premieres on CBS's vast wasteland |
Jan 26 |
Music Center Vredenburg opens in Utrecht Neth |
Jan 27 |
36th Golden Globes: Midnight Express, Jon Voight & Jane Fonda |
Jan 27 |
Islanders ends 23 undefeated games at home streak (15-0-8) |
Jan 28 |
"Wiz" closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 1672 performances |
Jan 28 |
Arthur Kopit's "Wings," premieres in NYC |
Jan 29 |
9th AFC-NFC pro bowl, NFC wins 13-7 |
Jan 29 |
Brenda Spencer kills 2, inspires Boomtown Rats "I Don't Like Mondays" |
Jan 29 |
Chinese vice-premier Deng Xiaoping visits Washington, DC |
Jan 29 |
Emerson, Lake & Palmer disband after 10 years together |
Jan 29 |
NFL Pro Bowl: NFC beats AFC 13-7 |
Jan 29 |
Pres Carter commuted Patricia Hearst's 7 year sentence to 2 years |
Jan 30 |
Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) agrees to new constitution |
Jan 30 |
Varig 707-323C freighter, flown by the same commander as Flight 820, disappears over the Pacific Ocean 30 minutes after taking off from Tokyo. |
Feb 1 |
Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returns to Iran after 15 years in exile |
Feb 1 |
Patricia Hearst is released from a SF prison for bank robbery |
Feb 1 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
Feb 3 |
"YMCA" by Village People peaks at #2 on pop singles chart |
Feb 3 |
Minnesota Twins trade Rod Carew to California for 4 players |
Feb 3 |
US female Figure Skating championship won by Linda Fratianne |
Feb 3 |
US male Figure Skating championship won by Charles Tickner |
Feb 4 |
"Co-Ed Fever," TV Comedy, debut & cancelled that outing on CBS |
Feb 4 |
End of last 3+day D/N game for 15 yrs (WSC, SCG) |
Feb 4 |
Joanne Carner wins LPGA Colgate Triple Crown Golf Tournament |
Feb 5 |
Costliest single periodical ad, $3.2 million, Gulf + Western in Time |
Feb 5 |
Sears Radio Theater premieres on CBS |
Feb 6 |
Supreme court of Lahore affirms death sentence against premier Bhutto |
Feb 7 |
"Supertrain," TV Anthology, Superbomb of 1979, debuts on NBC |
Feb 7 |
Colonel Benjedid Chadli succeeds pres Boumedienne in Algeria |
Feb 7 |
Faoud Bacchus scores 250 for WI v India at Kanpur |
Feb 7 |
Pink Floyd premiered their live version of "The Wall" in Los Angeles |
Feb 8 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Feb 8 |
Denis Sassou-Nguesso became the President of the Republic of the Congo for the first time. |
Feb 9 |
21st Grammy Awards: Just the Way You Are, Taste of Honey |
Feb 9 |
ABC airs "Heroes of Rock N Roll" special |
Feb 9 |
Beginning of James Clavell's novel "Whirlwind" |
Feb 9 |
Nigeria amends constitution |
Feb 10 |
"Da Ya Think I'm Sexy?" by Rod Stewart peaks at #1 |
Feb 10 |
Border is named 12th man for Australia, only Test Cricket he missed |
Feb 11 |
"They're Playing Our Song" opens at Imperial NYC for 1082 perfs |
Feb 11 |
43 million watch "Elvis!" on ABC |
Feb 11 |
Emmy News & Documentaries Award presentation |
Feb 11 |
Iran's premier Bakhtiar resigns, Ayatollah Khomeini seizes power |
Feb 11 |
Musical "They're Playing Our Song," premieres in NYC |
Feb 12 |
Kosmos 1076, 1st Soviet oceanographic satellite, launched |
Feb 12 |
Bakhtiar resigns as prime minister of Iran after losing support of the military |
Feb 13 |
2nd Emmy Sports Award presentation |
Feb 13 |
Washington State's Hood Canal Bridge breaks up in windstorm |
Feb 14 |
"Whoopee!" opens at ANTA Theater NYC for 204 performances |
Feb 14 |
In Kabul, Muslims kidnap the American ambassador to Afghanistan, Adolph Dubs who is later killed during a gunfight between his kidnappers and police. |
Feb 15 |
21st Grammy Awards: Just the Way You Are, Taste of Honey wins |
Feb 15 |
Paul Shirley (21) of Australia, sucked a lifesaver for 4 hrs 40 mins |
Feb 15 |
Temple City Kazoo Orchestra appears on Mike Douglas Show |
Feb 15 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Feb 16 |
George Harrison releases "Blow Away" |
Feb 16 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk |
Feb 17 |
China invades Vietnam, marking the start of the Sino-Vietnamese War |
Feb 17 |
Eric Heiden equals skating world record 1000m (1:14.99) |
Feb 18 |
-52°F (-47°C), Old Forge, New York (state record) |
Feb 18 |
Amy Alcott wins LPGA Elizabeth Arden Golf Classic |
Feb 18 |
Miniseries "Roots: Next Generations" premieres on ABC TV |
Feb 18 |
NASA launches space vehicle S-202 |
Feb 18 |
Pres Zia ur-Rahmans National Party wins elections in Bangladesh |
Feb 18 |
Snow falls in Sahara Desert |
Feb 20 |
"Comin' Uptown" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 45 performances |
Feb 20 |
11 loyalists known as the "Shankill Butchers" are sentenced to life in prison for 19 murders; the gang was named for its late-night kidnapping, torture and murder (by throat slashing) of random Catholic civilians in Belfast |
Feb 21 |
Japan launches Hakucho x-ray satellite & Corsa-B (550/580 km) |
Feb 21 |
2 Iowa girls HS basketball teams play 4 scoreless quarters game was won 4-2 in 4th overtime period |
Feb 22 |
Billy Martin named manager of Oakland A's |
Feb 22 |
Cleveland Metroparks Zoo's Primate & Cat Building is dedicated |
Feb 22 |
St Lucia gains independence from Britain |
Feb 23 |
"Sarava" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 140 performances |
Feb 23 |
Frank Peterson Jr named 1st black general in Marine Corps |
Feb 23 |
George Harrison releases "George Harrison" album |
Feb 23 |
"The Deer Hunter", starring Robert De Niro and Christopher Walken, is released |
Feb 24 |
Highest price ever paid for a pig, $42,500, Stamford, Texas |
Feb 24 |
War between North & South Yemen begins |
Feb 25 |
Jane Blalock wins LPGA Orange Blossom Golf Classic |
Feb 25 |
Soyuz 32 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station is launched |
Feb 26 |
Last total eclipse of Sun in 20th century for continental US |
Feb 28 |
Ernest Thompson's "On Golden Pond," premieres in NYC |
Mar 1 |
"Sweeney Todd" opens at Uris Theater NYC for 557 performances |
Mar 4 |
"Grand Tour" closes at Palace Theater NYC after 61 performances |
Mar 4 |
200th episode of "All in the Family" |
Mar 4 |
Sally Little wins LPGA Bent Tree Golf Classic |
Mar 4 |
US Voyager I photo reveals Jupiter's rings |
Mar 5 |
Voyager I's closest approach to Jupiter (172,000 miles) |
Mar 5 |
Iran resumes petroleum exports |
Mar 7 |
Baseball exhibition season opens with semipro & amateur umpires |
Mar 7 |
Warren Giles & Hack Wilson selected to baseball Hall of Fame |
Mar 7 |
5th People's Choice Awards: Burt Reynolds & Olivia Newton-John win (Motion Picture) and Alan Alda, Mary Tyler Moore & Carol Burnett win (TV) |
Mar 8 |
1st extraterrestrial volcano discovered (Jupiter's satellite Io) |
Mar 8 |
China withdraws invasion troops from Vietnam |
Mar 8 |
Shuttle Columbia (OV-102) transported 38 miles overland from Palmdale |
Mar 9 |
Bowie Kuhn orders baseball to give equal access to female reporters |
Mar 9 |
France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
Mar 11 |
Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Sunstar Golf Classic |
Mar 11 |
Randy Hold receives 67 min in penalties in a 60 min NHL hockey game |
Mar 13 |
European Monetary System is established, ECU created |
Mar 13 |
Gairy dictatorship in Grenada overthrown by New Jewel Movement |
Mar 13 |
Isle's Mike Bossy's 5th career hat trick |
Mar 14 |
A Hawker Siddeley Trident crashes into a factory near Beijing, China, killing at least 200. |
Mar 15 |
Apparat releases Newdos + 2.1 for Radio Shack's TRS-80 |
Mar 15 |
Isle's Bryan Trottier's 5th career hat trick |
Mar 15 |
Sarfraz takes 9-86 at MCG as Australia lose 7-5 to lose the Test |
Mar 16 |
CBS-TV airs "Wings Over the World" with Paul McCartney |
Mar 17 |
Ice Dance Championship at Vienna won by N Linichuk & G Karponosov USSR |
Mar 17 |
Ice Pairs Championship at Vienna won by Tai Babilonia & R Gardner USA |
Mar 17 |
Men's Figure Skating Champ in Vienna won by Vladimir Kovalev (USSR) |
Mar 17 |
Worlds Ladies Figure Skating Champ in Vienna won by Linda Fratianne |
Mar 17 |
The Penmanshiel Tunnel collapses during engineering works, killing two workers |
Mar 18 |
"On the 20th Century" closes at St James Theater NYC after 460 perfs |
Mar 18 |
Battles between Kurds & Iranians break in Sananday Iran |
Mar 18 |
Joanne Carner wins LPGA Honda Civic Golf Classic |
Mar 19 |
House of Reps begins live TV broadcasts via C-SPAN |
Mar 20 |
Columbia flies on Shuttle carrier aircraft to Kennedy Space Center |
Mar 21 |
Egyptian Parliament unanimously approve peace treaty with Israel |
Mar 22 |
Israeli parliament approves peace treaty with Egypt |
Mar 22 |
NHL votes to accept 4 WHA teams (Oilers, Jets, Nordiques & Whalers) |
Mar 22 |
The Provisional Irish Republican Army assassinate Richard Sykes, the British ambassador to the Netherlands, in Den Haag |
Mar 22 |
The Provisional Irish Republican Army explode 24 bombs in various locations across Northern Ireland |
Mar 23 |
Larry Holmes TKOs Osvaldo Ocasio in 7 for heavyweight boxing title |
Mar 23 |
Wings release "Goodnight Tonight" |
Mar 24 |
"Ballroom" closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 116 performances |
Mar 24 |
1st appearance as Australian cricket captain for Kim Hughes |
Mar 24 |
Columbia flown on carrier aircraft lands at Kennedy Space Center |
Mar 24 |
10 rebounds & 10 assists, as the Spartans cruise to a 101-67 by Penn Mich State's Earvin "Magic" Johnson registers triple-double 29 pts |
Mar 25 |
Major riot at Bourda prevents day's play in WSC Supertest |
Mar 25 |
Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Sahara National Pro-Am Golf Tournament |
Mar 26 |
41st NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Mich State beats Indiana St 75-64 |
Mar 26 |
Camp David peace treaty between Israel & Egypt |
Mar 26 |
Michigan State Spartans snaps Indiana State's 33-game win streak |
Mar 26 |
Padres & Giants announce plans to play exhibition series in Tokyo but Giant players reject it |
Mar 26 |
OPEC makes full 14.5% oil price increase for 1979 effective on April 1 |
Mar 27 |
US Supreme Court rules 8-1 that cops can't randomly stop cars |
Mar 28 |
British government of Callaghan falls |
Mar 28 |
Lazarus & Vosburgh's "Day in Hollywood & night in Ukraine" premieres |
Mar 28 |
Major nuclear accident at 3 Mile Island, Middletown, Pa (no deaths) |
Mar 29 |
Andrew Hilditch given out handled the ball v Pakistan at WACA |
Mar 29 |
Caryl Churchill's "Cloud Nine" premieres in London |
Mar 29 |
Delhi beat Karnataka by 399 runs to win Cricket's Ranji Trophy |
Mar 29 |
Last day of Test cricket for Mushtaq Mohammad |
Mar 30 |
Airey Neave, a British politician, is killed by a car bomb as he exits the Palace of Westminster. The Irish National Liberation Army claims responsibility. |
Mar 31 |
The last British soldier leaves the Maltese Islands. Malta declares its Freedom Day (Jum il-Helsien). |
Apr 1 |
Iran proclaimed an Islamic Republic following fall of Shah |
Apr 1 |
Joanne Carner wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open |
Apr 2 |
Israeli PM Menachem Begin visits Cairo Egypt/meets pres Sadat |
Apr 3 |
Belgium's Martens government forms |
Apr 3 |
Jane M Byrne (D), elected 1st woman mayor of Chicago, Illinois |
Apr 4 |
Ex-President Zulfikar Ali Bhutto of Pakistan is executed. |
Apr 5 |
Balt manager Earl Weaver wins his 1,000th game as a skipper |
Apr 5 |
Ex-premier Pol Jar flees out of Cambodia |
Apr 7 |
Henri La Mothe dives 28' into 12 3/8" of water |
Apr 7 |
Houston Astro Ken Forsch no-hits Atlanta Braves, 6-0 |
Apr 7 |
Islander's Mike Bossy scores 4 goals against Flyers |
Apr 8 |
"Carmelina" opens at St James Theater NYC for 17 performances |
Apr 8 |
204th & final episode of "All in the Family" |
Apr 8 |
8th Colgate Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Sandra Post |
Apr 8 |
People's Republic of China joins IOC |
Apr 9 |
51st Academy Awards - "Deer Hunter", Jon Voight & Jane Fonda win |
Apr 10 |
J R Richard throws major league record 6 wild pitches in Astrodome |
Apr 10 |
Soyuz 33 launched with a Russian & a Bulgarian |
Apr 10 |
Red River Valley Tornado Outbreak: A tornado lands in Wichita Falls, Texas killing 42 people. |
Apr 11 |
Ugandan dictator Idi Amin overthrown; Tanzania takes Kampala |
Apr 12 |
Soyuz 33 returns to Earth |
Apr 13 |
Christian Turks occupy St Jansbasiliek |
Apr 13 |
Longest doubles ping-pong match ends after 101 hours |
Apr 13 |
Yusuf Lule becomes premier of Uganda |
Apr 14 |
Susan Horvath, of Penn, crowned America's Young Woman of the Year |
Apr 15 |
43rd Golf Masters Championship: Fuzzy Zoeller wins, shooting a 280 |
Apr 15 |
A disastrous earthquake (of M 7.1) on Montenegro coast. |
Apr 16 |
15th Mayor's Trophy Game, Yanks & Mets tie 1-1 |
Apr 16 |
83rd Boston Marathon won by Bill Rodgers of Mass in 2:09:27 |
Apr 16 |
8th Boston Women's Marathon won by Joan Benoit Samuelson in 2:35:15 |
Apr 16 |
Failed Palestinian attack on Zaventem Airport, Belgium |
Apr 16 |
Pulitzer prize awarded to Sam Shepard for "Buried child" |
Apr 17 |
Brian Clark's "Whose Life is it Anyway?" premieres in London |
Apr 17 |
Four Royal Ulster Constabulary officers are killed by a Provisional Irish Republican Army van bomb in Bessbrook, County Armagh; the bomb is believed to be the largest PIRA bomb used up to that point |
Apr 18 |
"Real People" premieres on NBC TV |
Apr 18 |
Major Haddad declares South-Lebanon independent |
Apr 19 |
FCC raids & shuts down pirate radio station WFAT (Brooklyn New York) |
Apr 19 |
Following a 6-3 loss to the Orioles, Yanks Goose Gossage & Cliff |
Apr 19 |
Johnson brawl, Gossage sustains a sprained ligament in his left thumb |
Apr 21 |
"Carmelina" closes at St James Theater NYC after 17 performances |
Apr 22 |
Jane Blalock wins LPGA Florida Lady Citrus Golf Tournament |
Apr 22 |
Mick Jagger & Keith Richards give a benefit concert in Canada |
Apr 23 |
Fighting in London between the Anti-Nazi League and the Metropolitan Police Special Patrol Group results in the death of protester Blair Peach. |
Apr 24 |
Rhodesian bishop Muzorewa wins general election |
Apr 25 |
"Rock 'n Roll High Schools" premieres |
Apr 25 |
Peace treaty between Israel & Egypt goes into effect |
Apr 27 |
George Harrison releases "Love Comes to Everyone" |
Apr 29 |
Jane Blalock wins LPGA Otey Crisman Golf Classic |
Apr 30 |
Mary Therese Friel, (New York), crowned 28th Miss USA |
May 1 |
Elton John becomes 1st pop star to perform in Israel |
May 1 |
Home rule introduced to Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland) |
May 1 |
Marshall Islands (in Pacific) become self-governing |
May 2 |
"Quadrophenia" premieres in London |
May 2 |
-May 10] Vivekananda (Sri Lanka) begins nonstop ride, cycling 187 hrs, 28 min, around Vihara Maha Devi Park, Colombo, Sri Lanka |
May 2 |
14th Academy of Country Music Awards: Kenny Rogers & Barbara Mandrell |
May 3 |
Bobby Bonds hits his 300th HR (2nd to have 300 HRs & 300 stolen bases) |
May 3 |
Martin Sherman's "Bent" premieres in London |
May 4 |
Jackie Mercer wins her 4th golf title 31 years after her 1st |
May 4 |
Margaret Thatcher 1st woman to be elected Prime Minister of the United Kingdom |
May 4 |
NASA launches Fltsatcom-2 |
May 5 |
105th Kentucky Derby: Ron Franklin on Spectacular Bid wins in 2:02.4 |
May 5 |
Masterpiece Radio Theater begins broadcasting |
May 5 |
Voyager 1 passes Jupiter |
May 6 |
Fred Markham set a bicycle speed record of 818 kph over 200 m |
May 6 |
Louis LaRusso II's "Knockout" premieres in NYC |
May 6 |
Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Women's International Golf Tournament |
May 6 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
May 7 |
5th UNCTAD-conference opens in Manila |
May 7 |
Gary Roenicke hits into Orioles 13th triple play (Oakland) |
May 8 |
Radio Shack releases TRSDOS 2.3 |
May 10 |
Federated States of Micronesia becomes self-governing |
May 10 |
John McMullen becomes CEO of Houston Astros |
May 10 |
Vivekananda (Sri Lanka) completes nonstop cycle ride of 187 hrs, 28 min, around Vihara Maha Devi Park, Colombo, Sri Lanka [From May 2] |
May 12 |
Chris Evert's 125-match winning streak on clay comes to an end |
May 13 |
"Utter Glory... Morrissey Hall" opens & closes at Mark Hellinger NYC |
May 13 |
Sandra Post wins LPGA Lady Michelob Golf Tournament |
May 13 |
Shah of Iran & family sentenced to death in Teheran |
May 16 |
FC Barcelona wins 19th Europe Cup II in Basel |
May 16 |
NL approves Astros sales from Ford Motors to John J McMullen for $19M |
May 17 |
-12°F (-11°C), on top of Mauna Kea, Hawaii (state record) |
May 17 |
Emmy 6th Daytime Award presentation |
May 17 |
Phillies beat Cubs, 23-22, on 50 hits with 11 HRs |
May 19 |
"In The Navy" by Village People hits #3 |
May 19 |
105th Preakness: Ron Franklin aboard Spectacular Bid wins in 1:54.2 |
May 20 |
"I Love My Wife" closes at Barrymore Theater NYC after 864 perfs |
May 20 |
1st western pop star to tour USSR-Elton John |
May 20 |
Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Coca-Cola Golf Classic |
May 21 |
Dan White convicted of manslaughter death of SF mayor Moscone |
May 21 |
National Volksraad installed in Namibia |
May 21 |
Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens beat NY Rangers, 4 games to 1 |
May 22 |
Canadians elect conservatives, Joseph Clark replaces Pierre Trudeau as the 16th Prime Minister of Canada |
May 22 |
Commencement of 1st ICC Trophy (PNG v E Afr & Singapore v Arg) |
May 22 |
1st ACE Cable Awards: "Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas" by Jim Henson and HBO |
May 23 |
"Kids Are All Right" premieres |
May 23 |
1st edition of "Wisden Cricket Monthly" |
May 23 |
Borussia Mönchengladbach wins 8th UEFA Cup at Düsseldorf |
May 23 |
Rocker Tom Petty files chapter 11 bankruptcy |
May 23 |
West-Germany elects Karl Carstens president |
May 24 |
Billy Martin issues a public apology to Reno sportswriter Ray Hagar |
May 24 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
May 25 |
American Airlines DC-10 crashes on takeoff from Chicago killing 273 including 2 on the ground |
May 25 |
Israel begins to return Sinai to Egypt |
May 25 |
Raul Gonzales of Mexico completes 50,000 m walk in record 3:41:38.4 |
May 25 |
"Alien", starring Sigourney Weaver as Ellen Ripley, is released |
May 26 |
Dancin' Fool by Frank Zappa hits #45 |
May 27 |
Penny Pulz wins LPGA Corning Golf Classic |
May 27 |
Pope John Paul II ordains John J O'Conner as a bishop |
May 27 |
Indianapolis 500: Rick Mears wins in 3:08:47.950 (255.723 km/h) |
May 28 |
European Market accepts Greece as member |
May 29 |
Bishop Abel Muzorewa is sworn in as Zimbabwe's 1st black PM |
May 29 |
Radio's 1st rock network "Source" premieres |
May 30 |
Nottingham Forrest wins 24th Europe Cup 1 at Munich |
May 30 |
Pat Underwood makes his pitching debut for Detroit beats brother Tom |
May 30 |
Percom Data Company Inc release Microdos for Radio Shack's TRS-80 |
May 30 |
Ted Coombs begins a 5,193 mile roller skate from LA to NYC |
May 31 |
"I Remember Mama" opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 108 performances |
May 31 |
Radio City Music Hall (NYC) reopens |
May 31 |
Zimbabwe proclaims independence |
Jun 1 |
33rd NBA Championship: Sea Supersonics beat Wash Bullets, 4 games to 1 |
Jun 1 |
Rhodesian bishop Able Muzorewa becomes premier |
Jun 1 |
Ted Coombs began a 5,193 mile roller skate from LA to NYC |
Jun 1 |
Wings release "Old Siam, Sir" |
Jun 1 |
Vizianagaram district is formed in Andhra Pradesh, India. |
Jun 1 |
The first black-led government of Rhodesia in 90 years takes power. |
Jun 2 |
John Paul II becomes 1st pope to visit a communist country (Poland) |
Jun 2 |
NASA launches space vehicle S-198 |
Jun 3 |
"Madwoman of Central Park West" opens on Broadway |
Jun 3 |
33rd Tony Awards: Elephant Man & Sweeny Todd win |
Jun 3 |
Ex-president Idi Amin of Uganda flees to Libya |
Jun 3 |
Ixtoc I rig in Gulf of Mexico blows; 3 million bbl of oil spilled in one of world's worst oil spills |
Jun 3 |
Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Golden Lights Golf Championship |
Jun 4 |
South-African pres Vorster resigns due to scandal |
Jun 4 |
Sri Lanka forfeit ICC Trophy game vs Israel for political reasons |
Jun 4 |
Joe Clark is sworn in as the youngest Prime Minister in Canadian history |
Jun 5 |
Seychelles adopts constitution |
Jun 6 |
200th running of horse's Derby in England |
Jun 6 |
Royal Air Force receives 1st F-16 |
Jun 6 |
Willie Horton becomes 43rd player to hit 300 HRs in the majors |
Jun 7 |
52nd National Spelling Bee: Katie Kerwin wins spelling maculature |
Jun 7 |
Bhaskara 1, Indian Earth resources/meteorology satellite, launched |
Jun 7 |
Portugal government of Mota Pinto resigns |
Jun 7 |
Rocker Chuck Berry is charged with tax evasion |
Jun 8 |
"The Source," 1st computer public information service, goes on-line |
Jun 8 |
Mariners draft Al Chambers #1 |
Jun 8 |
Wings release "Back to the Egg" album |
Jun 9 |
111th Belmont: Ruben Hernandez aboard Coastal wins in 2:28.6 |
Jun 9 |
49th French Womens Tennis: Chris Evert beats Wendy Turnbull (62 60) |
Jun 9 |
Michael Cairney topples a record row of 169,713 dominoes |
Jun 9 |
Phillies wear burgundy uniforms for 1st & last time |
Jun 9 |
Willie Horton is honored at Seattle's Kingdome |
Jun 10 |
25th LPGA Championship won by Donna Caponi Young |
Jun 10 |
49th French Mens Tennis: Bjorn Borg beats Victor Pecci (63 61 67 64) |
Jun 10 |
Balt Orioles pull their 8th triple play (5-4-3 vs Cleve) |
Jun 11 |
Chuck Berry pleads guilty to income tax evasion, sentenced to 4 months |
Jun 12 |
Kevin St Onge throws a playing card a record 185' |
Jun 12 |
Opening ceremony at Cambridge Buddhist Association meditation in Boston |
Jun 12 |
Sanista occupies parts of Managua |
Jun 12 |
Tigers fire manager Les Moss, hiring Sparky Anderson |
Jun 12 |
Bryan Allen flew man-powered Gossamer Albatross over English Channel in a human-powered aircraft; flight took 2 hrs, 49 min |
Jun 13 |
"Madwoman of Central Park West" opens at 22 Steps NYC for 86 perfs |
Jun 13 |
Sioux nation receives $100 million in compensation for Black Hills SD |
Jun 14 |
Canada all out 45 in Cricket World Cup v England, in 40 3 overs |
Jun 14 |
NY Giants Willie McCovey 513th HR is an NL lefty record |
Jun 14 |
Rock group "Little Feat" disbands |
Jun 15 |
1st space shuttle SRB qualification test firing; 122 seconds |
Jun 16 |
"Logical Song" by Supertramp peaks at #6 |
Jun 16 |
Carl Yastrzemski hits his 1,000th extra base hit |
Jun 16 |
Moslem Brotherhood kills 62 sheiks in Aleppo Syria |
Jun 17 |
"Sarava" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 140 performances |
Jun 17 |
79th US Golf Open: Hale Irwin shoots a 284 at Inverness Club in Toledo |
Jun 17 |
Jane Blalock wins LPGA Sarah Coventry Golf Tournament |
Jun 18 |
Billy Martin becomes Yankee manager (2nd time), replacing Bob Lemon |
Jun 18 |
Sri Lanka beat India by 47 runs in Cricket World Cup upset |
Jun 18 |
US Pres Carter & Soviet Pres Leonid Brezhnev sign SALT II treaty limiting nuclear wepons |
Jun 19 |
In NY 36,211 show up to witness return of Billy Martin as Yank mgr |
Jun 19 |
Mali's constitution goes into effect |
Jun 21 |
Sri Lanka beat Canada by 60 runs to win the 1st ICC Trophy |
Jun 22 |
Larry Holmes TKOs Mike Weaver in 12 for heavyweight boxing title |
Jun 22 |
Little Richard quits rock & roll for religious pursuit |
Jun 22 |
Pro Football Researchers Association forms (Canton Ohio) |
Jun 23 |
Charlie Daniels Band releases "Devil Went Down to Georgia" |
Jun 23 |
Rock group the Knack releases "My Sharona" |
Jun 23 |
West Indies beat England by 92 runs to win Cricket World Cup |
Jun 24 |
Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open |
Jun 24 |
Rickey Henderson debuts for Oakland & steals his 1st base |
Jun 25 |
"Got Tu Go Disco" opens at Minskoff Theater NYC for 8 performances |
Jun 25 |
Failed attack on NATO commander Haig in Obourg, Belgium |
Jun 26 |
Rocker Nigel Olsson runs a stop sign, crashes & kills a driver |
Jun 27 |
Heavyweight Muhammad Ali confirms that his 3rd retirement is final (it isn't) |
Jun 27 |
Supreme Court rules employers may use quotas to help minorities |
Jun 28 |
OPEC raises oil prices 24% |
Jun 29 |
"Moonraker" premieres in US |
Jun 29 |
San Diego Chicken reborn at Jack Murphy Stadium |
Jun 30 |
"Got To Go Disco" closes at Minskoff Theater NYC after 8 performances |
Jun 30 |
Johnny Rotten & Joan Collins appear together on BBC TV's Juke Box Jury |
Jul 1 |
Stampede Pass, Washington is covered with 6" of snow |
Jul 1 |
Vicki Fergon wins LPGA Lady Stroh's Golf Open |
Jul 1 |
Sony introduces the Walkman. |
Jul 2 |
Susan B. Anthony dollar is issued, 1st US coin to honor a woman |
Jul 4 |
Algerian ex-president Ben Bella freed |
Jul 6 |
86th Wimbledon Women's Tennis: M Navratilova beats Chris Evert (6-4 6-4) |
Jul 6 |
IRA bomb explodes in British consulate in Antwerp |
Jul 7 |
93rd Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Bjorn Borg beats R Tanner (67 61 36 63 64) |
Jul 7 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
Jul 8 |
Congo adopts constitution |
Jul 8 |
Don Martina's MAN party wins election in Dutch Antilles |
Jul 8 |
Hollis Stacy wins LPGA Mayflower Golf Classic |
Jul 8 |
Voyager 2 takes 1st ever photo of Jupiter's satellite Adrastea (J14) |
Jul 9 |
Dr Walter Massey named director of Argonne national Lab |
Jul 9 |
Voyager 2 flies past Jupiter |
Jul 9 |
A car bomb destroys a Renault owned by famed "Nazi hunters" Serge and Beate Klarsfeld at their home in France. A note purportedly from ODESSA claims responsibility. |
Jul 10 |
Chuck Berry sentenced to 4 months for $200,000 in tax evasion |
Jul 11 |
US Skylab enters atmosphere over Australia & disintegrates |
Jul 12 |
Ian Palce joins Whitesnake |
Jul 12 |
Kiribati (formerly Gilbert Islands) declares independence from UK |
Jul 12 |
"Disco Demolition Night" at Comiskey Park, causes fans to go wild & causes White Sox to forfeit 2nd game of a doubleheader to Tigers |
Jul 13 |
Calif's Nolan Ryan & Boston's Steve Renko each lose no-hitters in 9th |
Jul 13 |
George Harrison releases "Faster" |
Jul 14 |
USSR performs nuclear Test |
Jul 15 |
34th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Jerilyn Britz |
Jul 15 |
Morarji Desai resigns as premier of India |
Jul 16 |
Premier/pres al-Bakr of Iraq is succeeded by Saddam Hussein |
Jul 17 |
50th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 7-6 at Kingdome, Seattle |
Jul 17 |
All star MVP: Dave Parker (Pittsburgh Pirates) |
Jul 17 |
David Gower 200* in England score of 5-633 v India at Edgbaston |
Jul 17 |
Nicaraguan dictator Anastasio Somoza flees to Miami |
Jul 17 |
Sebastian Coe runs world record 3:49 mile in Oslo |
Jul 17 |
Simone Veil becomes chairman of European Parliament |
Jul 18 |
Gold hits record $303.85 an ounce in London |
Jul 18 |
USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
Jul 19 |
2 supertankers collide off Tobago-260,000 TONS of oil spill |
Jul 19 |
Maritza Sayalero, 18, of Venezuela, crowned 28th Miss Universe |
Jul 19 |
Nicaragua Liberation Day; Sandinistas take over from Somoza |
Jul 19 |
Patricia Harris, becomes sect of HEW |
Jul 20 |
44-kg Newfoundland dog pulls 2293-kg load, Bothell, Wash |
Jul 21 |
108th British Golf Open: Seve Ballesteros shoots a 283 at Royal Lytham |
Jul 21 |
National Women's Hall of Fame (Seneca Falls, NY) dedicated |
Jul 22 |
Pat Meyers wins LPGA Greater Baltimore Golf Classic |
Jul 23 |
George Brett gets his 1,000th hit |
Jul 24 |
Pres Carter names Paul Volcker, pres of Federal Reserves |
Jul 24 |
Red Sox Carl Yastrzemski hits his 400th HR |
Jul 25 |
109 cm rainfall at Alvin Texas (state record) |
Jul 26 |
Estimated 109 cm (43") of rain falls in Alvin, TX (national record) |
Jul 27 |
"Broadway Opry '79" opens at St James Theater NYC for 6 performances |
Jul 27 |
France performs nuclear Test |
Jul 28 |
Dave Kingman becomes 6th to have a 2nd 3 HR game |
Jul 28 |
France performs nuclear Test |
Jul 29 |
7th du Maurier Golf Classic (Peter Jackson Classic): Amy Alcott |
Jul 31 |
"But Never Jam Today" opens at Longacre Theater NYC for 7 performances |
Aug 1 |
Maria de Lurdes Pintasilgo forms government in Portugal |
Aug 2 |
"Broadway Opry '79" closes at St James Theater NYC after 6 perfs |
Aug 2 |
Gilda Radner Live From New York opens on Broadway |
Aug 3 |
Fastest jai-alai shot (188 mph), Jose Arieto at Newport Jai Alai, RI |
Aug 3 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Aug 4 |
Italian government of Cossiga begins |
Aug 4 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
Aug 5 |
"But Never Jam Today" closes at Longacre Theater NYC after 7 perfs |
Aug 5 |
Government of Mauretania signs peace treaty with Polisario |
Aug 5 |
Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Colgate European Golf Open |
Aug 5 |
Phillies Pete Rose collects NL record 2,427th career single |
Aug 5 |
Varetta Shankle (Miss), crowned 12th Miss Black America |
Aug 5 |
Willie Mays, Warren Giles, & Hack Wilson inducted in Hall of Fame |
Aug 6 |
61st PGA Championship: David Graham shoots a 272 at Oakland Hills Mich |
Aug 6 |
Marcus Hooper, 12, is youngest person to swim English Channel |
Aug 8 |
Iraqi President Saddam Hussein executes 22 political opponents |
Aug 9 |
English seaside resort Brighton gets 1st British nude beach |
Aug 10 |
Ecuador adopts its constitution |
Aug 10 |
Wings release "Getting Closer" & "Baby's Request" |
Aug 11 |
28°F in Embarrass Minnesota |
Aug 11 |
Phillies Tug McGraw gives up record 4th grand slam of year |
Aug 12 |
"Whoopee!" closes at ANTA Theater NYC after 204 performances |
Aug 12 |
Iran press censors start massive book burnings |
Aug 12 |
Judy wins LPGA WUI Golf Classic Rankin |
Aug 13 |
Lou Brock, is 14th to get 3,000 hits |
Aug 14 |
Rainbow seen in Northern Wales for a 3 hours duration |
Aug 15 |
Andrew Young resigns as US ambassador to the United Nations |
Aug 15 |
"Apocalypse Now", starring Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall, and Martin Sheen, is released |
Aug 17 |
2 Russian passenger planes collide above Ukraine, 173 killed |
Aug 17 |
Monty Python's "Life of Brian" premieres |
Aug 18 |
Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini demands Saint War against Kurds |
Aug 18 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
Aug 19 |
"My Sharonna" by the Knack hits #1 (stays for 42 days) |
Aug 19 |
Crew of Soyuz 32 returns to Earth aboard Soyuz 34 aft 175 d flight |
Aug 19 |
Sally wins LPGA Barth Golf Classic Little |
Aug 19 |
Soviet Cosmonauts Vladimir Lyakov & Valery Ryumin returned to Earth aboard Soyuz 34 after a record 175 days in space |
Aug 20 |
India premier Charan Singh resigns |
Aug 20 |
Singer Vikki Carr & Michael Nilsson wed |
Aug 20 |
The East Coast Main Line rail route between England and Scotland is restored when the Penmanshiel Diversion opens. |
Aug 21 |
Mets win a protested game against Astros, 5-0 |
Aug 22 |
200 black leaders meet in NY to support Andrew Young |
Aug 23 |
Bolshoi Ballet dancer Alexander Godunov defects in NYC |
Aug 23 |
Iranian army opens offensive against Kurds |
Aug 23 |
UN's Vienna office opens |
Aug 24 |
Cars play concert in NY Central Park |
Aug 24 |
NFL fans (60,916) choose old Patriots logo over new |
Aug 24 |
UN's Vienna office begins issuing postage stamps |
Aug 25 |
"Madwoman of Central Park West" closes at 22 Steps NYC after 86 perfs |
Aug 25 |
California Angels trounce Toronto Blue Jays, 24-2 |
Aug 25 |
Somali adopts constitution |
Aug 26 |
Beth Daniel wins LPGA Patty Berg Golf Classic |
Aug 27 |
Warrenpoint ambush: 18 British Army soldiers were killed when the Provisional Irish Republican Army explode two roadside bombs as a British convoy passed Narrow Water Castle near Warrenpoint |
Aug 28 |
IRA bomb explodes in Brussels' Great Market |
Aug 28 |
Train crash at Nijmegen, 7 die |
Aug 29 |
Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Aug 29 |
Sheridan Broadcasting Corp purchases Mutual Black Network |
Aug 30 |
-Sept 13] Hurricane David, kills 1200 in Florida, Domincana & Dom Rep |
Aug 30 |
1st recorded occurrence of a comet hitting the sun (energy=1 million hydrogen bombs) |
Aug 30 |
Ian Botham makes 1000 runs/100 wkts in Tests in his 21st match |
Aug 30 |
Kathy Horvath (14y5d) is youngest to play in US Tennis Open, she loses |
Aug 30 |
US President Jimmy Carter attacked by a rabbit on a canoe trip in Plains, Ga |
Aug 30 |
Wildest US Tennis Open match, McEnroe defeats Ilie Nastase 6-4, 4-6, 6-3, 6-2. Nastase was defaulted by the umpire then reinstated |
Aug 31 |
16 yr old Tracy Austin defeats 14 yr old Andrea Jaeger at US Open Tennis |
Aug 31 |
Comet Howard-Koomur-Michels collides with Sun |
Aug 31 |
Donald McHenry named to succeed Andrew Young as UN ambassador |
Aug 31 |
Phillies replaces manager Danny Ozark with Dallas Green |
Sep 1 |
Debbie Boone & Gabriel Ferrer wed in LA |
Sep 1 |
LA Court orders Clayton Moore to stop wearing Lone Ranger mask |
Sep 1 |
Pioneer 11 makes 1st fly-by of Saturn, discovers new moon, rings |
Sep 2 |
"I Remember Mama" closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 108 perfs |
Sep 2 |
79th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Mark O'Meara |
Sep 3 |
Hurricane David, a strong Atlantic storm kills over 1,000 |
Sep 3 |
Iran army conquerors Mahabad |
Sep 3 |
Jerry Lewis' 14th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $30,000,000 |
Sep 3 |
Jo Ann Washam wins LPGA Rail Charity Golf Classic |
Sep 4 |
India need 438 to win v England, game ends at 8-429 |
Sep 4 |
Iran army conquerors Baneh |
Sep 5 |
A's Matt Keough A's beats Brewers 6-1 for 1st win after 14 straight losses, ended 1978 with 4 loses (1 shy of the record 19) |
Sep 5 |
Canada puts its first gold bullion coin on sale |
Sep 5 |
Earl Mountbatten's funeral held in London |
Sep 5 |
Iran army occupies Piranshahr |
Sep 5 |
Roscoe Tanner fires 11 aces, breaks the net with his bullet serve & upsets top-seeded Bjorn Borg in US Tennis Open quarterfinals |
Sep 6 |
"Peter Pan" opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC for 578 performances |
Sep 7 |
5 day MUSE concert against nuclear energy opens at Madison Square Garden, NY |
Sep 7 |
The Entertainment and Sports Programming Network (ESPN) makes its debut. |
Sep 8 |
Cheryl Prewitt (Miss), 22, crowned 52nd Miss America 1980 |
Sep 8 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Sep 9 |
31st Emmy Awards: Taxi, Lou Grant, Ron Leibman & Ruth Gordon win |
Sep 9 |
93rd US Womens Tennis: Tracy Austin beats C E Lloyd Mills (64 63) |
Sep 9 |
99th US Mens Tennis: John McEnroe beats Vitas Gerulaitis (7-5 6-3 6-3) |
Sep 9 |
Sally Little wins LPGA Columbia Savings Golf Classic |
Sep 9 |
Sid Bernstein offers $½ billion for a Beatle reunion |
Sep 10 |
3 Puerto Rican nationalists who attempted to kill Truman are freed |
Sep 12 |
Carl Yastrzemski, is 15th to get 3,000 hits |
Sep 12 |
Hurricane Frederick hits Mobile Alabama; 5 die & $23 million damage |
Sep 12 |
Indiana Pacers cut Ann Meyers, 1st woman on an NBA club |
Sep 12 |
Red Carl Yastrzemski gets his 3,000th hit off Yankee Jim Beattie |
Sep 12 |
Indonesia is hit with an earthquake that measures 8.1 on the Richter scale. |
Sep 13 |
China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor, PRC |
Sep 13 |
South Africa grants Venda independence (Not recognized out of S Afr) |
Sep 14 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
Sep 14 |
Theodore Coombs completes 5,193 mile roller skate from LA to NYC & back to Yates Center, Ks |
Sep 15 |
Red Sox Bob Watson is 1st to hit for cycle in AL & NL (Astros) |
Sep 15 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
Sep 16 |
23rd Ryder Cup: US wins, 17-11 at The Greenbrier (White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, US) |
Sep 16 |
Catfish Hunter Day at Yankee Stadium |
Sep 16 |
Coup in Afghanistan under Hafizullah Amin |
Sep 16 |
KC's Willie Wilson hits 5th inside-the-park HR (most since 1925) |
Sep 16 |
Nancy Lopez/JoAnn Washam wins Portland- Ping Team Golf Championship |
Sep 16 |
USSR performs nuclear test |
Sep 17 |
Pietro Mennea runs world record 200 m (19.72") |
Sep 17 |
Royals' George Brett is 6th to have 20 doubles/triples/HRs in a season |
Sep 18 |
Bolshoi Ballet dancers Leonid & Valentina Kozlov defect |
Sep 18 |
Steven Lachs, appointed as California's first openly gay judge |
Sep 18 |
The Who opens NYC concerts at Madison Square Garden |
Sep 19 |
No Nukes Concert at Madison Square Garden includes Springsteen & Crosby, Stills & Nash |
Sep 20 |
Coup in Central African Rep: David Dacko overthrows emperor Bokassa I |
Sep 20 |
Jose E dod Santos becomes president of Angola |
Sep 20 |
NASA launches HEAO |
Sep 20 |
Lee Iacocca is elected president of the Chrysler Corporation. |
Sep 20 |
The Punjab wing of the Unity Centre of Communist Revolutionaries of India (Marxist-Leninist) formally splits and constitutes a parallel UCCRI(ML). |
Sep 20 |
Assassination of French left-wing militant Pierre Goldman. |
Sep 21 |
Two RAF Hawker Siddeley Harrier jump-jets from RAF Wittering collide over the UK. Both pilots ejected safely. One of the jets broke up in midair and fell harmlessly into a field but the other dropped onto the centre of Wisbech in Cambridgeshire, destroying two houses and a bungalow. Several people were injured in the accident and three people were killed. |
Sep 21 |
Stephen Jay Gould and Richard Lewontin publish their influential paper (cited more than 4,000 times) "The Spandrels of San Marco and the panglossian paradigm", introducing the term and idea of "spandrels" into evolutionary biology |
Sep 22 |
Israel performs nuclear test at Indian Ocean |
Sep 22 |
Larry Parrish (Expos) HRs off Rawly Eastwick (Phillies) in DH |
Sep 23 |
Jane Fonda & 200,000 attend anti-nuke rally in Battery Park, NYC |
Sep 23 |
Sandra Post wins LPGA ERA Real Estate Golf Classic |
Sep 23 |
Somali constitution approved by president |
Sep 23 |
St Louis legend Lou Brock steals 938th & final base of his career |
Sep 24 |
CompuServe began operation as 1st computer information service |
Sep 24 |
Ghana adopts constitution |
Sep 24 |
Pete Rose reaches 200 hits in a season for 10th time |
Sep 24 |
Russian ice skaters Protopopov & Beloussova ask for asylum in Switzerland |
Sep 24 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
Sep 25 |
"Evita" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 1568 performances |
Sep 25 |
California Angels win their 1st NL West pennant |
Sep 26 |
1984 summer LA Olympic coverage sold to ABC for $225 million |
Sep 26 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Sep 27 |
US Congress' final approval to create Dept of Education |
Sep 27 |
Elton John, sick with flu, collapse on Hollywood Universal Ampitheater |
Sep 27 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
Sep 28 |
Larry Holmes TKOs Earnie Shavers in 11 for heavyweight boxing title |
Sep 29 |
"Ain't That A Shame" by Cheap Trick peaks at #35 |
Sep 29 |
"Bad Case Of Loving You" by Robert Palmer peaks at #14 |
Sep 29 |
"Boom Boom (Out Go Lights)" by Pat Travers peaks at #56 |
Sep 29 |
"Born To Be Alive" by Patrick Hernandez peaks at #16 |
Sep 29 |
"Cruel To Be Kind" by Nick Lowe peaks at #12 |
Sep 29 |
"Different Worlds" by Maureen McGovern peaks at #18 |
Sep 29 |
"Driver's Seat" by Sniff 'n' the Tears peaks at #15 |
Sep 29 |
"Girls Talk" by Dave Edmunds peaks at #65 |
Sep 29 |
"Lonesome Loser" by Little River Band peaks at #6 |
Sep 29 |
"Message In A Bottle" by Police peaks at #1 in UK |
Sep 29 |
"What Cha Gonna Do With My Lovin'" by Stephanie Mills peaks at #22 |
Sep 29 |
Astros' J R Richard strikes out NL season righty record of 313 |
Sep 29 |
Gold hits record $400.20 an ounce in Hong Kong |
Sep 29 |
John Huston's "Wine Blood" premieres at NY Film Festival |
Sep 29 |
LA Dodger Manny Mota hits record 146th pinch hit |
Sep 29 |
Pope John Paul II becomes 1st pope to visit Ireland |
Sep 30 |
Milwaukee Brewers lose 5-0 ending 213 straight games without a shutout |
Sep 30 |
Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Mary Kay Golf Classic |
Oct 1 |
Nigeria adopts constitution, Alhaji Shagari becomes president |
Oct 1 |
Pope John Paul II begins visit to USA |
Oct 1 |
RKO radio network begins operation |
Oct 1 |
US returns Canal Zone (but not the canal) to Panama after 75 years |
Oct 4 |
Hugh Leonards "Life," premieres in Dublin |
Oct 4 |
USSR performs nuclear test |
Oct 6 |
Harry Drake set long distance footbow shot record of 2,006 yds 1'9" |
Oct 6 |
Pope John Paul II is 1st Pope to visit White House |
Oct 7 |
"1940's Radio Hour" opens at St James Theater NYC for 105 performances |
Oct 7 |
"Eubie!" closes at Ambassador Theater NYC after 439 performances |
Oct 7 |
Cleveland Browns' Dino Hall sets club records with 9 kickoff returns |
Oct 7 |
Debbie Massey wins LPGA Wheeling Golf Classic |
Oct 7 |
USSR performs underground nuclear test |
Oct 7 |
Frank Mahovlich formally retires from the NHL after a failed comeback attempt with the Detroit Red Wings |
Oct 8 |
"Sugar Babies" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 1208 perfs |
Oct 8 |
13th Country Music Association Award: Willie Nelson, Kenny Rogers & Barbara Mandrell wins |
Oct 8 |
J McHugh & A Malvin's musical "Sugar Babies" premieres in NYC |
Oct 9 |
Howard Stern begins broadcasting on WCCC in Hartford Conn |
Oct 10 |
Fleetwood Mac gets a star in Hollywood |
Oct 10 |
Nordiques' Real Cloutier sets NHL record of a hat trick in 1st game |
Oct 10 |
Panama assumes sovereignty over Canal Area (ie Canal Zone) |
Oct 10 |
Recorded trace of snow in Central Park NYC |
Oct 11 |
"Most Happy Fella" opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 53 performances |
Oct 11 |
German DR frees dissidents Rudolf Bahro & Nico Hubner |
Oct 11 |
Allan McLeod Cormack & Godfrey Newbold Hounsfield win Nobel Prize for medicine for developing CAT scan |
Oct 12 |
Pressure in nucleus of tropical cyclone at Guam hits record 870 hpa |
Oct 12 |
The lowest recorded non-tornadic atmospheric pressure, 87.0 kPa (870 mbar or 25.69 inHg), occurred in the Western Pacific during Typhoon Tip. |
Oct 14 |
100,000 demonstrate in Bonn against nuclear energy |
Oct 14 |
Amy Alcott wins LPGA United Virginia Bank Golf Classic |
Oct 14 |
Flyers start 35 game unbeaten streak beating Toronto 4-3 |
Oct 14 |
NHL's greatest scorer Wayne Gretzky scores his 1st NHL goal |
Oct 15 |
1st Monday night game from NYC, Jets beat Vikings 14-7 (Shea Stad) |
Oct 15 |
Chinese premier Hwa Kwofeng visits Paris |
Oct 15 |
Military coup in El Salvador: president/general Carlos Romero flees |
Oct 15 |
NY Knicks retire 2nd number, # 10, Walt Frazier |
Oct 17 |
"Beatlemania" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 920 perfs |
Oct 17 |
D Bautista of Mexico completes 20,000 m walk in record 1:20:06.8 |
Oct 17 |
Mother Teresa of India, awarded Nobel Peace Prize |
Oct 17 |
Pittsburgh Pirates beat Balt Orioles, 4 games to 3 in 76th World Series |
Oct 17 |
Pres Carter signs legislation creating Dept of Education |
Oct 18 |
"Beatlemania" opens in London |
Oct 18 |
Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini orders mass executions to stop |
Oct 18 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
Oct 18 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
Oct 20 |
Bob Dylan appears on Saturday Night Live |
Oct 20 |
John F Kennedy Library dedicated in Boston |
Oct 20 |
John Tate beats Gerrie Coetze in 15 for heavyweight boxing title |
Oct 21 |
10th NYC Marathon won by Bill Rodgers in 2:11:42 |
Oct 21 |
9th NYC Women's Marathon won by Grete Waitz in 2:27:33 |
Oct 21 |
Greta Weitz wins woman participation in NYC marathon (02:27:33) |
Oct 21 |
Israeli minister of Foreign affairs Moshe Dayan resigns |
Oct 21 |
Ozzie Newsome begins NFL streak of 150 consecutive game receptions |
Oct 22 |
"One Mo' Time" with Vernel Bagners premieres in NYC |
Oct 22 |
Deposed Shah of Iran arrives in NY for medical treatment |
Oct 22 |
Walt Disney World's 100-millionth guest |
Oct 23 |
Billy Martin is involved in a barroom altercation with Joseph Cooper, a Minn marshmallow salesman. Cooper requires 15 stitches |
Oct 24 |
Billy Martin punches a marshmallow salesman, puts job in jeopardy |
Oct 24 |
Guinness Book of Records presents Paul McCartney with a rhodium disc |
Oct 25 |
USSR performs underground nuclear test |
Oct 26 |
Park Chung-hee, President of South Korea is assassinated by KCIA head Kim Jae-kyu. Choi Kyu-ha becomes the acting President; Kim is executed the following May. |
Oct 27 |
Islanders score 2 goals within 6 seconds 3 goals within 44 seconds |
Oct 27 |
St Vincent & Grenadines becomes independent of UK (Natl Day) |
Oct 27 |
Voluntary Euthanasia Society publishes how-to-do-it suicide guide |
Oct 28 |
Dick Howser (best Yank mngr win-lost pct .636) replaces Billy Martin |
Oct 28 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
Oct 29 |
Billy Martin fired as Yankee manager (2nd time) |
Oct 29 |
Silvia Bertolaccini wins LPGA Colgate Far East Golf Open |
Oct 30 |
NASA launches space vehicle S-203 |
Oct 30 |
Richard Arrington, Jr. is elected the first African American mayor in Birmingham, Alabama |
Oct 31 |
Mike Flanagan, wins AL Cy Young Award |
Oct 31 |
US DC-10 crashes at Mexico-City, 74 killed |
Nov 1 |
Andrew Lloyd Webber & Tim Rice's musical "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat" premieres |
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