January 1979 calendar

Events

• 01 Jan 1979 International Year of the Child begins
• 02 Jan 1979 Gavaskar gets twin tons for India for the third time (versus West Indies).
• 04 Jan 1979 The State of Ohio agrees to pay $675,000 to families of the dead and injured in the Kent State shootings.
• 07 Jan 1979 Vietnamese forces capture Phnom Penh from Khmer Rouge
• 08 Jan 1979 512 die as oil tanker Bantry Bay blows up
• 09 Jan 1979 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to WS Merwin.
• 10 Jan 1979 1st brother Billy Carter makes allegedly anti-Semitic remarks
• 11 Jan 1979 Grand Tour opens at Palace Theater NYC for 61 performances
• 12 Jan 1979 Record blizzard strikes American midwest killing over 100.
• 13 Jan 1979 Charlie Daniels hosts the Volunteer Jam.
• 14 Jan 1979 US President Jimmy Carter proposes Martin Luther King's birthday be a holiday.
• 16 Jan 1979 Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi of Iran flees Iran for Egypt
• 17 Jan 1979 Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi flees Iran
• 18 Jan 1979 Peter Jenkins finishes "A Walk Across America", in Florence, Oregon.
• 19 Jan 1979 John N Mitchell (former Attorney General) released on parole from federal prison.
• 21 Jan 1979 Neptune becomes outermost planet (Pluto moves closer)
• 23 Jan 1979 Willie Mays elected to Baseball Hall of Fame.
• 24 Jan 1979 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site.
• 25 Jan 1979 22.2-km Oshimizu railroad tunnel holed through, central Honshu, Japan.
• 26 Jan 1979 Music Center Vredenburg opens in Utrecht, Netherlands.
• 27 Jan 1979 36th Golden Globes: Midnight Express, Jon Voight and Jane Fonda.
• 28 Jan 1979 Wiz closes at Majestic Theater New York City, New York after 1672 performances.
• 29 Jan 1979 9th AFC-NFC pro bowl, NFC wins 13-7
• 30 Jan 1979 Rhodesia agrees to new constitution.

Famous Birthday

• Aaliyah

  American singer, dancer, actress, and model.

• Rosamund Pike

  British actress.

• Bipasha Basu

  Movie Actress.

• Karen Elson

  English singer-songwriter guitarist and model.

• Sarah Polley

  Actress (Sweet Hereafter).

• Siti Nurhaliza

  World Music Singer.

• Christine Lakin

  American actress and producer.

• Christine Lakin

  American actress and producer.

• Brody Dalle

  Australian-American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Distillers and Spinnerette).

• Soprano (rapper)
• Cash Warren

  Film Producer.

• Rob Bourdon

  Drummer.

• Elodie Navarre

  French-Austrian actress.

• Tatyana Ali

  American actress and singer.

• Brahim Asloum

  French boxer, who won the Light Flyweight Gold medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics.

• Daniela Freitas

  Brazilian exotic dancer, a blonde beauty with a large derrière.

• Jay Chou

  Taiwanese singer, producer, actor and director.

• François Gelez
• Daniel Tammet

  English autistic savant, writer (essayist and translator).

• Will Young

  English singer-songwriter and actor who shot to fame after winning the 2002 inaugural series of the British music contest Pop Idol, making...

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Famous Deaths

• Charles Mingus

  American jazz musician, bandleader, composer, genius and legend who elevated bass into a solo melodic instrument.

• Paul Meurisse

  French actor, and fiancé of singer Edith Piaf.

• Cyril Mockridge

  Composer, dies at 82.

• Zbigniew Turski

  Composer, dies at 70.

• J Robertson Hare

  Actor (Fighting Stock), dies at 87.

• Sara Carter

  vocalist/guitarist (Carter Family), dies at age 80.

• Ali Hassan Salameh [Abu Hassan]

  killed by car bomb; believed to have helped mastermind massacre of 1972 Munich Olympics athletes.

• Jerry Damon

  comedian (That Was The Week That Was), dies at age 51.

• Pier Luigi Nervi

  Italian engineer and architect (Born 1891).

• Marjorie Lawrence

  Australian soprano (Born 1907).

• Thomas DeSimone

  gangster associate of the Lucchese crime family (Born 1950).

• Fred Elizalde

  Composer, dies at 71.

• Conrad Hilton

  American socialite, hotel heir, businessman, and TWA director.

• August Heissmeyer

  German SS officer (Born 1897).

• Avery Claflin

  American banker and composer (d. 1979).

• Sara Carter

  American singer-songwriter (Carter Family) (d. 1979).

• Donny Hathaway

  American singer-songwriter pianist and producer (Earth Wind & Fire) (d. 1979).

• Gustav Winckler

  Danish singer-songwriter (d. 1979).

• Eileen Shanahan

  Irish poet (Born 1901).

• Jack Soo

  Actor (Nick Yemana-Barney Miller, Green Berets), dies at 63.

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Bee Gees - Too Much Heaven
2. Chic - Le Freak
3. Billy Joel - My Life
4. Village People - Y.M.C.A.
5. Barbra & Neil - You Don't Bring Me Flowers

Top #5 songs in the UK

1. The Village People - YMCA
2. Pink Floyd - Another Brick In The Wall
3. The Police - Walking On The Moon
4. Ian & The Blockheads - Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick
5. Racey - Lay Your Love On Me