March 1979 calendar

Events

• 01 Mar 1979 Sweeney Todd opens at Uris Theater NYC for 557 performances
• 04 Mar 1979 Grand Tour closes at Palace Theater NYC after 61 performances
• 05 Mar 1979 Soviet probes Venera 11, Venera 12 and the American solar satellite Helios II all are hit by ''off the scale'' gamma rays leading to the discovery of soft gamma repeaters.
• 07 Mar 1979 Warren Giles and Hack Wilson selected to baseball Hall of Fame.
• 08 Mar 1979 Shuttle Columbia (OV-102) transported 38 miles overland from Palmdale.
• 09 Mar 1979 Bowie Kuhn orders Major League Baseball to give equal access to female reporters.
• 11 Mar 1979 Randy Hold receives 67 minutes in penalties in a 60 minute NHL hockey game.
• 13 Mar 1979 European Monetary System is established, ECU created.
• 14 Mar 1979 In China, a Hawker Siddeley Trident crashes into a factory near Beijing, killing at least 200.
• 15 Mar 1979 Sarfraz takes 9-86 at Melbourne Cricket Ground as Australia lose 7-5 to lose the Test.
• 16 Mar 1979 CBS-TV airs Wings Over the World with Paul McCartney
• 17 Mar 1979 Ice Dance Championship at Vienna won by N Linichuk and G Karponosov USSR
• 18 Mar 1979 On the 20th Century closes at St. James Theater NYC after 460 performances
• 19 Mar 1979 House of Reps begins live TV broadcasts via C-SPAN
• 20 Mar 1979 Columbia flies on Shuttle carrier aircraft to Kennedy Space Center.
• 21 Mar 1979 Egyptian Parliament unanimously approves peace treaty with Israel.
• 22 Mar 1979 NHL votes to accept four WHA teams (Edmonton Oilers, Winnipeg Jets, Quebec Nordiques, and Hartford Whalers).
• 23 Mar 1979 Wings release Goodnight Tonight
• 24 Mar 1979 Ballroom closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 116 performances
• 25 Mar 1979 Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Sahara National Pro-Am Golf Tournament.
• 26 Mar 1979 Camp David peace treaty between Israel and Egypt
• 27 Mar 1979 US Supreme Court rules 8-1 that police can't randomly stop cars.
• 28 Mar 1979 Major nuclear accident at 3 Mile Island, Middletown, Pa (no deaths)
• 29 Mar 1979 Andrew Hilditch given out handled the ball versus Pakistan at WACA.
• 30 Mar 1979 Airey Neave, World War II veteran and Conservative Northern Ireland spokesman, is killed by an Irish National Liberation Army bomb in the British House of Commons car park.
• 31 Mar 1979 The last British soldier leaves the Maltese Islands. Malta declares its Freedom Day (Jum il-Helsien).

Famous Birthday

• Adam Levine

  American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and actor.

• Norah Jones

  Jazz Singer.

• Pete Doherty

  Rock Singer.

• Lee Pace

  American actor.

• Tom Chaplin

  English singer (Keane).

• Nicolas Anelka

  French football (soccer) player, who played for various teams at senior level (1996-2014).

• Faustine Bollaert
• Oscar Isaac

  Movie Actor.

• Thallia (TV host)
• Benji Madden

  American guitarist (Good Charlotte).

• Coco Austin

  Model.

• Lake Bell

  American actress.

• Bianca Lawson

  American actress.

• Chris Klein

  American actor.

• Danneel Harris

  American actress.

• David Skrela
• Melina Perez

  American professional wrestler.

• Muriel Hurtis-Houairi

  French Guadeloupe athlete running the 200 and the 499m.

• Estelle Querard
• Bülent Polat
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Famous Deaths

• Jean Stafford

  American writer and Pulitzer Prize winning short-story writer in 1970, she also wrote novels, the first of which was published in 1944,...

• Al Hodge

  Actor (Captain Video), dies at 65.

• Edith Craig

  Actress (Harmony Lane, Smashing Rackets), dies at 71.

• Mollah Mustafa Barzani

  Kurdish leader, dies at 75.

• Barbara Mullen

  Actress (Talk of a Million), dies at 64.

• Philip Bourneuf

  Actor (Big Night, Frankenstein), dies at 71.

• Sykes

  British ambassador in The Hague, murdered.

• Ronald Adam

  Actor (Phantom Shot), dies at 82.

• Charles Wagenheim

  Actor (Halligan-Gunsmoke), dies at 83.

• Ted Anderson

  English footballer (Born 1911).

• Molla Mustafa Barzani

  Iranian Kurd leader (KDP), dies at age 75.

• Guiomar Novaes

  pianist (Brazilian Order of Merit), dies at age 84.

• Klaus Egge

  Norwegian composer (Fanitullen), dies at age 72.

• Mike Patto

  (Michael Thomas McCarthy), English vocalist and front man for The Bow Street Runners (Born 1942).

• Harry Hopkinson

  British yodeler (Born 1902).

• Robert John Sinclair

  1st Baron Sinclair of Cleeve, British businessman and public servant (Born 1893).

• Jean Monnet

  French international economist who was dedicated to international collaboration with France, Britain and the U.S.

• Emmett Kelly

  circus clown (Weary Willy), dies at age 80.

• Airey Neave

  a British Member of Parliament, is killed by a car bomb as he exits the Palace of Westminster.

• Mustafa Barzani

  Kurdish politician (Born 1903).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Rod Stewart - Do Ya Think I'm Sexy?
2. Gloria Gaynor - I Will Survive
3. Bee Gees - Tragedy
4. Pointer Sisters - Fire
5. The Doobie Brothers - What A Fool Believes

Top #5 songs in the UK

1. Gloria Gaynor - I Will Survive
2. Art Garfunkel - Bright Eyes
3. Elvis Costello & The Attractions - Oliver's Army
4. Racey - Some Girls
5. The Bee Gees - Tragedy