September 1979 calendar

Events

• 01 Sep 1979 Debbie Boone and Gabriel Ferrer wed in LA
• 02 Sep 1979 I Remember Mama closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 108 performances
• 03 Sep 1979 Iran army conquerors Mahabad
• 04 Sep 1979 India need 438 to win vs. England, game ends at 8-429
• 05 Sep 1979 Canada puts its 1st gold bullion coin on sale
• 06 Sep 1979 Peter Pan opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC for 578 performances
• 07 Sep 1979 Five-day MUSE concert against nuclear energy opens at Madison Square Gardens, New York.
• 08 Sep 1979 Cheryl Prewitt (Miss), 22, crowned 52nd Miss America 1980
• 09 Sep 1979 31st Emmy Awards: Taxi, Lou Grant, Ron Leibman and Ruth Gordon
• 10 Sep 1979 Three Puerto Rican nationalists who attempted to kill US President Harry Truman are freed.
• 12 Sep 1979 Carl Yastrzemski, is 15th to get 3,000 hits
• 13 Sep 1979 China PR performs nuclear test
• 15 Sep 1979 Red Sox Bob Watson is 1st to hit for cycle in AL and NL (Astros)
• 16 Sep 1979 23rd Ryder Cup: US, 17-11 at Greenbrier
• 17 Sep 1979 Pietro Mennea runs world record 200 m (19.72)
• 18 Sep 1979 The Who opens NYC concerts at Madison Square Garden
• 19 Sep 1979 No Nukes Concert at Madison Square Garden includes Springsteen and Crosby, Stills and Nash
• 20 Sep 1979 Coup in Central African Republic: David Dacko overthrows Emperor Bokassa I
• 22 Sep 1979 Israel performs nuclear test at Indian Ocean
• 23 Sep 1979 Sandra Post wins LPGA ERA Real Estate Golf Classic
• 24 Sep 1979 CompuServe began operation as 1st computer information service
• 25 Sep 1979 Evita opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 1568 performances
• 26 Sep 1979 1984 summer Los Angeles Olympic coverage sold to ABC for US$225 million.
• 27 Sep 1979 Elton John, sick with flu, collapse on Hollywood Universal Ampitheater
• 28 Sep 1979 Larry Holmes (retaining championship) knocks out Earnie Shavers in 11 rounds.
• 29 Sep 1979 Bad Case Of Loving You by Robert Palmer peaks at #14
• 30 Sep 1979 Milwaukee Brewers lose 5-0 ending 213 straight games without a shutout

Famous Birthday

• Pink (singer)
• Bam Margera

  American skateboarder.

• Alison Lohman

  American actress.

• Noémie Lenoir

  French model and actress.

• Eric Abidal
• Amy Davidson

  American actress.

• Zita Görög

  Hungarian model and actress.

• Ariana Richards

  American actress.

• Loup-Denis Elion
• Jean-René Lisnard

  French tennis player.

• Jericho Rosales

  Filipino actor and singer.

• Chuck Comeau

  Canadian musician (Simple Plan).

• Emilie Autumn

  American singer-songwriter violinist and poet.

• Nikki Deloach
• Aileen Celeste

  Venezuelan actress.

• Lidia Avila
• Peter Leko
• Roberto Saviano
• Tomo Milicevic

  Bosnian-born American guitarist (30 Seconds to Mars).

• John Carew

  Norwegian footballer.

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Famous Deaths

• Jean Seberg

  American actress whose career was launched with her 1957 portrayal of Jean d'Arc in Otto Preminger's "Saint Joan.

• John Cromwell

  Actor / director (Of Human Bondage), dies at 91.

• Catherine Lacey

  Actress (October Man, Carnival), dies at 75.

• Jimmy McCulloch

  Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist (One in a Million Wings Small Faces The Dukes and Thunderclap Newman) (d. 1979).

• Miloslav Kabelac

  Composer, dies at 71.

• Ludvik Svoboda

  Czech General / politician, dies at 83.

• Seymour Shifrin

  Composer, dies at 53.

• Doris Kenyon

  Silent screen actress (Alexander Hamilton), dies at 81.

• Nur Mohammed Taraki

  President of Afghanistan (1978-79), killed.

• Raymond Loucheur

  Composer, dies at 80.

• John Herbert Chapman

  Canadian physicist (Born 1921).

• Jimmy McCullough

  guitarist (Wings), dies of a drug overdose at age 26.

• Otto P Weyland

  American military figure (Born 1903).

• Canuplin

  Filipino magician and bodabil entertainer (Born 1904).

• Gene Kelly

  American dancer, actor, director and choreographer.

• Arthur Hunnicutt

  Actor (Big Sky, Apache Uprising), dies at 68.

• Alberto di Jorio

  former head of the Vatican Bank and secretary of the 1958 conclave (Born 1884).

• Tommy Leonetti

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

• Agostinho Neto

  Angolan poet and politician 1st President of Angola (d. 1979).

• John McQuade

  Northern Irish soldier boxer and politician (d. 1984).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. The Knack - My Sharona
2. Chic - Good Times
3. Earth, Wind and Fire - After The Love Has Gone
4. Robert John - Sad Eyes
5. Barbra Streisand - The Main Event & Fight

Top #5 songs in the UK

1. Cliff Richard - We Don't Talk Anymore
2. The Police - Message In A Bottle
3. Gary Numan - Cars
4. The Buggles - Video Killed The Radio Star
5. BA Robertson - Bang Bang