November 1979 calendar

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 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)

Famous Birthday

• Game (rapper)
• Kelly Brook

  English model, actress and television presenter best known for her role in the 2010 horror comedy remake, Piranha 3D.

• Lamar Odom

  American basketball player.

• Olga Kurylenko

  Ukrainian model and actress.

• Vincenzo Iaquinta

  Italian footballer.

• Riccardo Scamarcio
• Cote de Pablo

  Chilean actress.

• Michelle Vieth
• Radivoje Bukvic
• Anthony Réveillère

  French footballer who plays for English club Sunderland as a right back.

• Géraldine Lapalus
• Mavie Hörbiger

  German-Austrian actress.

• Daniel Henney

  Korean-American model-actor.

• Cory Hardrict
• Pablo Aimar

  Argentinian footballer.

• Joel Kinnaman

  TV Actor.

• Dania Ramírez
• Ron Artest

  American basketball player.

• Caroline Flack

  TV Show Host.

• Manuela Montebrun

  French hammer thrower who won two back-to-back World Championship bronze medals in 2003 and 2005.

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Famous Deaths

• Jacques Mesrine

  French criminal (Born 1936).

• Yvonne de Gaulle

  wife of Charles de Gaulle (Born 1900).

• Merle Oberon

  Eurasian-American actress who appeared in over 20 films including "The Private Life of Henry VIII," 1933, "Over The Moon," 1937, "The...

• Amedeo Nazzari

  Italian actor, the robust lead in a variety of Italian films from the mid-'30s following an active stage career.

• Joyce Grenfell

  British mime comedienne with a flexible face; popular on TV and films for her monologues.

• Anne Vondeling

  Male Dutch soc democratic party-minister, dies at 63.

• John Glascock

  English singer and bass player (Jethro Tull Carmen The Gods and Chicken Shack) (d. 1979).

• Frank O'Connor

  American actor and representationalist painter (Born 1897).

• Jacques Mesrine

  French bank robber and kidnapper.

• Dimitri Tiomkin

  Ukrainian-American composer and conductor (d. 1979).

• Freddie Fitzsimmons

  American baseball player coach and manager (d. 1979).

• Sydney Tafler

  Actor (Too Many Crooks), dies at 63.

• Judee Sill

  American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1979).

• Paolo Carlini

  Italian stage, television and film actor, who appeared in 45 films between 1940 and 1979.

• Al Capp

  American author and illustrator (d. 1979).

• Lewis Charles

  Actor (Feather & Father Gang), dies at 59.

• Friedrich Thorberg

  Writer, dies at 71.

• Dimitri Tiompkin

  Composer, dies at 85.

• John Glassock

  Bass (Jethro Tull), dies at 27 following heart surgery.

• Zeppo Marx [Herbert]

  US comic (Marx Brothers), dies at 78.

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. M - Pop Muzik
2. Eagles - Heartache Tonight
3. Commodores - Still
4. Barbra Streisand - No More Tears (Enough Is Enough)
5. Donna Summer - Dim All The Lights

Top #5 songs in the UK

1. Dr Hook - When You're In Love With A Beautiful Woman
2. Pink Floyd - Another Brick In The Wall
3. Lena Martell - One Day At A Time
4. The Police - Walking On The Moon
5. Queen - Crazy Little Thing Called Love