November 1979 calendar

November 1979
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Learn the most interesting events and historical facts that happened in November 1979.
The US president was Jimmy Carter (Democrat), the UK Prime Minister was Margaret Thatcher (Conservative), Pope St John Paul II was leading the Catholic Church.

But much more happened on November 1979: find out below

Historical Events

Which were the important events of November 1979?

Events

01 Nov 1979 A L Webber musical Joseph & Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, premieres
02 Nov 1979 Peter Shaffers musical Amadeus, premieres in London
03 Nov 1979 5 mortally wounded during anti-Ku Klux Klan demonstration in North Carolina
04 Nov 1979 500 Iranian students seize US embassy, take 90 hostages (444 days)
05 Nov 1979 Iran government of Bazargan resigns
06 Nov 1979 Ayatolla Khomeini takes over in Iran
07 Nov 1979 Cub reliever Bruce Sutter wins NL Cy Young Award
08 Nov 1979 ABC broadcasts Iran Crisis: American Held Hostage with Frank Reynolds (forerunner to Nightline)
09 Nov 1979 Cold War: Nuclear false alarm: The NORAD computers and the Alternate National Military Command Center in Fort Ritchie, Maryland detected purported massive Soviet nuclear strike. After reviewing the raw data from satellites and checking the early-warning radars, the alert is cancelled.
10 Nov 1979 A 106-car Canadian Pacific freight train carrying explosive and poisonous chemicals from Windsor, Ontario, Canada derails in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada just west of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, causing a massive explosion and the largest peacetime evacuation in Canadian history and one of the largest in North American history.
11 Nov 1979 Boston Court issues occupancy permit for Cambridge Buddhist Center
12 Nov 1979 President Carter announces immediate halt to all imports of Iranian oil
13 Nov 1979 British newspaper Times resumes publishing after 1 year
14 Nov 1979 Iran hostage crisis: US President Jimmy Carter issues Executive order 12170, freezing all Iranian assets in the United States in response to the hostage crisis.
15 Nov 1979 ABC-TV announces it would broadcast nightly specials on Iran hostage situation.
16 Nov 1979 Paul McCartney releases Wonderful Christmas
17 Nov 1979 Daniel Okrent sketches out 1st draft rules for Rotisserie Baseball
18 Nov 1979 Ayatollah Khomeini charges US ambassador / embassy espionage
19 Nov 1979 Astros sign Nolan Ryan, to record 4 year, $4.5 million contract
20 Nov 1979 Grand Mosque Seizure: About 200 Sunni Muslims revolt in Saudi Arabia at the site of the Kaaba in Mecca during the pilgrimage and take about 6000 hostages. The Saudi government receives help from French special forces to put down the uprising.
21 Nov 1979 Crowd at Islamabad, Pakistan attack US embassy, 1 dies
23 Nov 1979 In Dublin, Ireland, Provisional Irish Republican Army member Thomas McMahon is sentenced to life in prison for the assassination of Lord Mountbatten.
24 Nov 1979 US admits troops in Vietnam were exposed to the toxic Agent Orange
25 Nov 1979 Most Happy Fella closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 53 performances
26 Nov 1979 International Olympic Committee votes to readmit China after 21 years
28 Nov 1979 King of Schnorrers opens at Playhouse Theater NYC for 63 performances
30 Nov 1979 Ted Koppel becomes anchor of nightly news on Iranian Hostages (ABC)
01 Nov 1979 In Bolivia, Colonel Alberto Natusch executes a bloody coup d'état against the constitutional government of Wálter Guevara.