August 1979 calendar

Events

• 01 Aug 1979 Maria de Lurdes Pintasilgo forms government in Portugal
• 02 Aug 1979 Gilda Radner Live From New York opens on Broadway
• 03 Aug 1979 Fastest jai-alai shot (188 mph), Jose Arieto at Newport Jai Alai, Rhode Island.
• 04 Aug 1979 Italian government of Cossiga begins
• 05 Aug 1979 But Never Jam Today closes at Longacre Theater NYC after 7 performances
• 06 Aug 1979 61st PGA Championship: David Graham shoots a 272 at Oakland Hills, Michigan
• 07 Aug 1979 Several tornadoes struck the city of Woodstock, Ontario, Canada and the surrounding communities.
• 08 Aug 1979 Iraqi President Saddam Hussein executes 22 political opponents
• 09 Aug 1979 English seaside resort Brighton gets 1st British nude beach
• 10 Aug 1979 Ecuador adopts its constitution
• 11 Aug 1979 Phillies Tug McGraw gives up record 4th grand slam of year
• 12 Aug 1979 Whoopee! closes at ANTA Theater NYC after 204 performances
• 13 Aug 1979 Lou Brock, is 14th to get 3,000 hits
• 14 Aug 1979 Rainbow seen in Northern Wales for a three hour duration.
• 15 Aug 1979 Andrew Young resigns as United Nations ambassador.
• 17 Aug 1979 2 Russian passenger planes collide above Ukraine, 173 killed
• 18 Aug 1979 Iran Ayatollah Khomeini demands Saint War against Kurds
• 19 Aug 1979 My Sharonna by the Knack hits #1 (stays for 42 days)
• 20 Aug 1979 India Premier Charan Singh resigns
• 21 Aug 1979 Mets win a protested game against Astros, 5-0
• 22 Aug 1979 200 black leaders, meet in NY, to support Andrew Young
• 23 Aug 1979 Iran army opens offensive against Kurds
• 24 Aug 1979 Cars play concert in New York Central Park
• 25 Aug 1979 Madwoman of Central Park West closes at 22 Steps NYC after 86 performances
• 26 Aug 1979 Beth Daniel wins LPGA Patty Berg Golf Classic
• 27 Aug 1979 18 British militia die in ambush / bomb attack in Northern Ireland
• 28 Aug 1979 IRA bomb explodes on Brussels Great Market
• 29 Aug 1979 Sheridan Broadcasting Corp purchases Mutual Black Network
• 30 Aug 1979 1st recorded occurrance-comet hits sun (energy=1 mil hydrogen bombs)
• 31 Aug 1979 16 yr old Tracy Austin defeats 14 yr old Andrea Jaeger at US Open

Famous Birthday

• Jason Momoa

  American actor.

• Evangeline Lilly

  TV Actress.

• Kelis

  Pop Singer.

• Aaron Paul

  American actor.

• Fabienne Carat
• Dominique Fidanza
• Kimberly Stewart

  American noted family, the daughter of rock star Rod Stewart and his wife Alana.

• Jennifer Finnigan

  Canadian actress and producer.

• Rémy Martin

  French rugby union footballer.

• Jamie Cullum

  English singer-songwriter and pianist.

• Dana Hamm
• Paris Latsis

  Greek shipping heir.

• Katia Corriveau
• Vanessa Gleason
• Mickie James

  American professional wrestler.

• Élise Chassaing
• Beginning of slavery in North America
• Tony Meilhon

  French murderer, he killed Laëtitia Perrais in the night of 18 to 19 January 2011.

• Séverine Beltrame
• Cindy Klassen

  Canadian speed skater.

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Famous Deaths

• Mika Waltari

  Finnish novelist, playwright and short story writer, the best-known author of his country.

• Vivian Vance

  Actress (Ethel Mertz-I Love Lucy), dies of cancer at 67.

• Thurman Munson

  American hard-working, intense, competitive and, at one time, best all-around catcher in the American League.

• Stan Kenton

  American musician, composer and bandleader whose progressive influence in music made him a controversial figure in jazz for nearly 40 years.

• Giuseppe Meazza

  Italian footballer (Born 1910).

• Simonow

  Writer.

• Kurt Kasznar

  Actor (Cmdr Fitzhugh-Land of the Giants), dies at 65.

• Mary Marquet

  Actress (Landru, Paris Canaille), dies at 84.

• Allan Frank

  Actor (Charade Quiz), dies at 64.

• Thurmon Munson

  catcher for the New York Yankees, is killed in a plane crash at Akron, Ohio at age 32.

• Raymond Washington

  American gang leader, founder the Crips (Born 1953).

• Sir Ernst Boris Chain

  British biochemist, Nobel laureate (Born 1906).

• John C Allen

  American roller coaster designer (Born 1907).

• Joel Teitelbaum

  Great Rebbi and Talmudic scholar(Born 1887).

• Tiger Smith

  England cricketer (Born 1886).

• Nicholas Monsarrat

  English sailor and author (d. 1979).

• Walter Gerlach

  German physicist and academic (d. 1979).

• John Diefenbaker

  Canadian lawyer and politician 13th Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1979).

• Walter O'Malley

  American lawyer and businessman (d. 1979).

• Christian Dotremont

  Belgian painter and writer (Born 1922).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Donna Summer - Bad Girls
2. Chic - Good Times
3. The Knack - My Sharona
4. Anita Ward - Ring My Bell
5. Barbra Streisand - The Main Event & Fight

Top #5 songs in the UK

1. The Boomtown Rats - I Don't Like Mondays
2. Cliff Richard - We Don't Talk Anymore
3. Gary Numan - Cars
4. Abba - Angeleyes / Voulez Vous
5. BA Robertson - Bang Bang