October 1979 calendar

Events

• 01 Oct 1979 Nigeria adopts constitution, Alhaji Shagari becomes President
• 03 Oct 1979 A EF4 Tornado hits Windsor Locks, CT causing extensive damage to the town.
• 04 Oct 1979 Hugh Leonards Life, premieres in Dublin
• 05 Oct 1979 Luke rapes Laura on General Hospital
• 06 Oct 1979 Pope John Paul II becomes the first pontiff to visit the White House.
• 07 Oct 1979 Eubie! closes at Ambassador Theater NYC after 439 performances
• 08 Oct 1979 Sugar Babies opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 1208 performances
• 09 Oct 1979 Howard Stern begins broadcasting on WCCC in Hartford Conn
• 10 Oct 1979 Fleetwood Mac gets a star in Hollywood
• 11 Oct 1979 Most Happy Fella opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 53 performances
• 12 Oct 1979 Pressure in nucleus of tropical cyclone at Guam hits record 870 hpa
• 14 Oct 1979 100,000 demonstrate in Bonn against nuclear energy
• 15 Oct 1979 1st Monday night game from NYC, Jets beat Vikings 14-7 (Shea Stadium)
• 16 Oct 1979 A tsunami in Nice, France kills 23 people.
• 17 Oct 1979 Beatlemania closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 920 performances
• 18 Oct 1979 Beatlemania opens in London
• 19 Oct 1979 13 Marines die in a fire at Camp Fuji, Japan as a result of Typhoon Tip. US Marine Corps
• 20 Oct 1979 Bob Dylan appears on SNL
• 21 Oct 1979 10th NYC Marathon won by Bill Rodgers in 2:11:42
• 22 Oct 1979 Walt Disney World welcomes its 100-millionth guest, Kurt Miller.
• 23 Oct 1979 Billy Martin is involved in a barroom altercation with Joseph Cooper, a Minn marshmallow salesman. Cooper requires 15 stitches
• 24 Oct 1979 Billy Martin punches a marshmallow salesman, puts job in jeopardy
• 27 Oct 1979 St. Vincent and Grenadines becomes independent of the UK
• 28 Oct 1979 Dick Howser (best Yank mngr win-lost pct .636) replaces Billy Martin
• 29 Oct 1979 Billy Martin fired as Yankee manager (2nd time)
• 30 Oct 1979 Richard Arrington elected Mayor of Birmingham
• 31 Oct 1979 Mike Flanagan, wins AL Cy Young Award

Famous Birthday

• John Krasinski

  American actor, director and screenwriter.

• Ne-Yo

  R&B Singer.

• Kimi Räikkönen

  Finnish race car driver.

• Stacy Keibler

  American actress and professional wrestler.

• Mýa

  American hip hop and R&B singer, record producer and actress.

• Léa Salamé
• Kristanna Loken

  American actress and producer.

• Brandon Routh

  American actor.

• Rachael Leigh Cook

  American actress.

• Karine Delgado

  French flamenco dancer and teacher who has a school in Narbonne.

• Caitriona Balfe
• Sputnik 1
• Shawn Ashmore

  Canadian actor.

• Titia (singer)
• Larusso (singer)
• Aki Hakala
• Sharon Leal
• Josh Klinghoffer

  American guitarist songwriter and producer (Red Hot Chili Peppers Dot Hacker Ataxia and The Bicycle Thief).

• Andrew-Lee Potts

  English actor director and producer.

• Mamadou Niang

  Senegalese footballer.

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Famous Deaths

• Elizabeth Bishop

  Poetess (North & South, Pulitzer 1956), dies at 68.

• Elizabeth Bishop

  Poetess (North & South, Pulitzer 1956), dies at 68.

• Charlie Smith

  Oldest American (137 year).

• Karel Reiner

  Composer, dies at 69.

• S J Perelman

  US humorist (Around the World in 80 Days), dies at 75.

• Clarence Muse

  Actor (Sam-Casablanca), dies at 90.

• June Nash

  Actress (Strange Cargo, Dynamite), dies at 68.

• Christopher Evans

  British psychologist and computer scientist (Born 1931).

• Charles White

  artist, dies at age 61 in Los Angeles, California.

• Jesse Bishop

  convicted murderer, dies in Nevada gas chamber.

• Rebecca Helferich Clarke

  English composer and violist (Born 1886).

• Sir Barnes Wallis

  British scientist, engineer and inventor (Born 1887).

• Nadia Boulanger

  French music teacher, composer and conductor who influenced a whole generation of musicians and composers, including A. Copeland, W. Piston...

• Rachele Mussolini

  Italian noted family, the wife of Benito Mussolini.

• Paul Paray

  French conductor, organist and composer.

• Park Chung-hee

  President of South Korea is assassinated by KCIA head Kim Jae-kyu.

• Claudia Jennings

  Playmate (Nov, 1969), dies in car crash at 29.

• Roy Harris

  US composer, dies at 81.

• John Stuart

  3rd Earl of Bute Scottish politician Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1792).

• Christina Spierenburg

  Dutch singer, dies at 56.

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Robert John - Sad Eyes
2. Michael Jackson - Don't Stop Til You Get Enough
3. Herb Alpert - Rise
4. M - Pop Muzik
5. The Knack - My Sharona

Top #5 songs in the UK

1. The Buggles - Video Killed The Radio Star
2. The Police - Message In A Bottle
3. Lena Martell - One Day At A Time
4. Blondie - Dreaming
5. Michael Jackson - Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough