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Hace 4 días · February 13 – The intense February 13, 1979 Windstorm strikes western Washington and sinks a 1/2-mile-long section of the Hood Canal Bridge. February 14 – In Kabul , Muslim extremists kidnap the American ambassador to Afghanistan , Adolph Dubs , who is later killed during a gunfight between his kidnappers and police.
- 1979 in music
Simple Minds make their first television appearance,...
- 1979 in music
Hace 1 día · The Iranian Revolution ( Persian: انقلاب ایران, Enqelâb-e Irân [ʔeɴɢeˌlɒːbe ʔiːɾɒːn] ), also known as the Islamic Revolution ( انقلاب اسلامی, Enqelâb-e Eslâmī ), [4] was a series of events that culminated in the overthrow of the Pahlavi dynasty in 1979.
- 7 January 1978 – 11 February 1979, (1 year, 1 month and 4 days)
- Iran
- Overthrow of the Pahlavi dynasty
Hace 6 días · Simple Minds make their first television appearance, performing the songs "Chelsea Girl" and "Life in a Day" on BBC's The Old Grey Whistle Test. [1] March 31 – The Eurovision Song Contest, the biggest music festival in the world, takes place for the first time in a country outside Europe – Israel.
Hace 1 día · In the US, the average annual inflation rate from 1900 to 1970 was approximately 2.5%. From 1970 to 1979, however, the average rate was 7.06%, and topped out at 13.29% in December 1979. [19] This period is also known for "stagflation", a phenomenon in which inflation and unemployment steadily increased.
Hace 2 días · Apocalypse Now is a 1979 American epic war film produced and directed by Francis Ford Coppola. The screenplay, co-written by Coppola, John Milius, and Michael Herr, is loosely based on the 1899 novella Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, with the setting changed from late 19th-century Congo to the Vietnam War.
- $100–150 million
- Francis Coppola
- $31 million
- Carmine Coppola, Francis Coppola
Hace 2 días · The Sino-Vietnamese War (also known by other names) was a brief conflict that occurred in early 1979 between China and Vietnam. China launched an offensive osternsibly in response to Vietnam's invasion and occupation of Cambodia in 1978, which ended the rule of the Chinese-backed Khmer Rouge.
- 17 February – 16 March 1979, (3 weeks and 6 days)
Hace 5 días · Illinois. United States. American Airlines flight 191, flight of a passenger airliner that crashed on May 25, 1979, near Chicago ’s O’Hare International Airport. A total of 273 people died: all 258 passengers and 13 crew members on the aircraft, as well as two individuals at the site of the crash.
