July 1979 calendar

Events

• 01 Jul 1979 Stampede Pass, Washington is covered with 6 of snow
• 02 Jul 1979 Susan B Anthony dollar is issued, 1st US coin to honor a woman
• 03 Jul 1979 U.S. President Jimmy Carter signs the first directive for secret aid to the opponents of the pro-Soviet regime in Kabul.
• 04 Jul 1979 Algerian ex-President Ben Bella freed
• 06 Jul 1979 86th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: M Navratilova beats Chris Evert (64 64)
• 08 Jul 1979 Congo adopts constitution
• 09 Jul 1979 Dr Walter Massey is named director of Argonne national Lab.
• 10 Jul 1979 Chuck Berry sentenced to 4 months for $200,000 in tax evasion
• 11 Jul 1979 US Skylab enters atmosphere over Australia and disintegrates
• 12 Jul 1979 Disco Demolition Night at Comiskey Park, causes fans to go wild and causes White Sox to forfeit 2nd game of a doubleheader to Tigers
• 13 Jul 1979 George Harrison releases Faster
• 15 Jul 1979 Morarji Desai resigns as Premier of India
• 16 Jul 1979 Premier / President al-Bakr of Iraq is succeeded by Saddam Hussein
• 17 Jul 1979 50th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 7-6 at Kingdome, Seattle
• 18 Jul 1979 Gold hits record US$303.85 an ounce in London, England.
• 19 Jul 1979 2 supertankers collide off Tobago-260,000 TONS of oil spill
• 21 Jul 1979 108th British Golf Open: Seve Ballesteros shoots a 283 at Royal Lytham
• 22 Jul 1979 Pat Meyers wins LPGA Greater Baltimore Golf Classic
• 23 Jul 1979 George Brett gets his 1,000th hit
• 24 Jul 1979 President Carter names Paul Volcker, President of Federal Reserves
• 25 Jul 1979 109 cm rainfall at Alvin Texas
• 26 Jul 1979 Estimated 109 cm (43 inches) of rain falls in Alvin, Texas (national record).
• 28 Jul 1979 Dave Kingman becomes 6th to have a second three home run game.
• 29 Jul 1979 7th du Maurier Golf Classic (Peter Jackson Classic): Amy Alcott
• 31 Jul 1979 But Never Jam Today opens at Longacre Theater NYC for 7 performances

Famous Birthday

• Amélie Mauresmo

  French tennis pro, a two-time Grand-Slam title holder, she emerged on the world stage in 1999 at the Australian Open finals.

• Kevin Hart (actor)
• Rose Byrne

  Australian actress.

• Anaïs Baydemir
• Travis Fimmel

  Movie Actor.

• Ludivine Sagnier

  French actress and singer.

• Margarita Magaña
• Mike Vogel

  American actor.

• Jayma Mays

  American actress.

• Fat Man (atomic explosion)
• Mélina Robert-Michon

  French discus thrower.

• Sidney Govou

  French international footballer of Beninese descent, playing for Monts d'Or Azergues Foot since 2014 in the Championnat de France amateur.

• Anne-Gaëlle Sidot

  French tennis player who turned professional in 1994.

• Mélanie Maudran
• BJ Novak

  TV Actor.

• Patrice Bart-Williams
• Veruska Ramírez
• Laura Benanti

  American musical theatre actress.

• Ophélie Fontana
• Birgitta Haukdal

  Icelandic singer-songwriter and producer (Írafár).

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Famous Deaths

• Keith Godchaux

  rocker (Grateful Dead), dies in a car accident at age 32.

• Ettore Manni

  Italian film actor who appeared in 107 films between 1952 and 1979.

• Betty Evans Grayson

  Softball pitcher (Hall of Fame 1959), dies at 53.

• Kalervo Tuukkanen

  Composer, dies at 69.

• Corine Griffith

  Dies at 84.

• George De Witt

  TV host (Name that Tune), dies at 56.

• James F Mcintyre

  Archbishop of Los Angeles, dies at 93.

• Ludwig Renn

  Writer, dies at 90.

• Hope Summers

  Actress (Clara-Andy Griffith Show), dies at 78.

• Soschtschenko

  Writer, dies at 83.

• Tony "Two-Ton" Galento

  Boxer / actor (On the Waterfront), dies at 69.

• Archie Duncan

  Actor (Sherlock Holmes), dies at 65.

• Judson Laire

  actor/singer (Papa-Mama), dies at age 76.

• Lee Wai Tong

  Chinese footballer (Born 1905).

• Robert Burns Woodward

  American chemist, Nobel laureate (Born 1917).

• Gustavo Diaz Ordaz

  Mexican politician, 29th President of Mexico (Born 1911).

• Sandor Kocsis

  Hungarian footballer (Born 1929).

• Richard Ward

  Actor (Beacon Hill), dies at 64.

• Louis Durey

  French musician, a composer and member of "Les Six" for a time.

• Arthur Fiedler

  American conductor most noted for his series of free outdoor concerts, the beloved Boston Pops.

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Anita Ward - Ring My Bell
2. Donna Summer - Bad Girls
3. Donna Summer - Hot Stuff
4. Chic - Good Times
5. Sister Sledge - We Are Family

Top #5 songs in the UK

1. Tubeway Army - Are 'Friends' Electric
2. Janet Kay - Silly Games
3. The Sex Pistols - C'mon Everybody
4. The Boomtown Rats - I Don't Like Mondays
5. Dave Edmunds - Girls Talk