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    1979 January February March April May June July August September October November December The following events occurred in March 1979: Voters in Scotland...
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    1979 January February March April May June July August September October November December Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1979. 1979 (MCMLXXIX)...
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    referendum on creating an Islamic Republic was held in Iran on 30 and 31 March 1979. Ayatollah Khomeini did not allow an open referendum, insisting that the...
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    in a no-confidence motion on 28th March 1979, six months before the Parliament was due for dissolution in October 1979. The Conservative Party, led by Margaret...
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    (Persian: انقلاب ایران, Enqelâb-e Irân [ʔeɴɢeˌlɒːbe ʔiːɾɒːn]), also known as the 1979 Revolution and the Islamic Revolution (انقلاب اسلامی, Enqelâb-e Eslâmī),...
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  • January 1979 issue, which made her Playboy's 25th Anniversary Playmate. Her centerfold was photographed by Dwight Hooker. Lee Ann Michelle (born 17 March 1960)...
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    lasted for about a month, with China withdrawing its troops in March 1979. In February 1979, Chinese forces launched a surprise invasion of northern Vietnam...
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  • in the year 1979. 1979 in British music 1979 in Norwegian music 1979 in country music 1979 in heavy metal music 1979 in hip hop music 1979 in jazz January...
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    confidence in the British Labour government of James Callaghan occurred on 28 March 1979. The vote was brought by the Official Opposition leader Margaret Thatcher...
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    A post-legislative referendum was held in Scotland in 1979 to decide whether there was a sufficient support for a Scottish Assembly proposed in the Scotland...
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  • the Kannada version on 12 January 1979. It was dubbed and released in Telugu as Ajeyudu which released on 10 March 1979 and was also dubbed in Hindi as...
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  • When the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) withdrew from Vietnam in March 1979 after the war, China announced that they were not ambitious for "any square...
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  • A partial lunar eclipse took place on Tuesday, March 13, 1979, the first of two lunar eclipses in 1979. The Moon was strikingly shadowed in this deep...
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    The People's Revolutionary Government (PRG) was proclaimed on 13 March 1979 after the Marxist–Leninist New Jewel Movement overthrew the government of Grenada...
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  • The Visitor (Italian: Stridulum) is a 1979 science fiction horror film directed by Giulio Paradisi (credited as Michael J. Paradise) and based on a story...
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  • Richard Beckinsale (category 1979 deaths)
    Richard Arthur Beckinsale (6 July 1947 – 19 March 1979) was an English actor. He played Lennie Godber in the BBC sitcom Porridge (along with its sequel...
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  • ISBN 978-94-009-7793-8. "Iran Women March Against Restraints on Dress and Rights". The New York Times. 11 March 1979. "Ideas & Trends in Summary; It's All...
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    Tom Chaplin (category 1979 births)
    Thomas Oliver Chaplin (born 8 March 1979) is an English musician, best known as the co-founder and lead singer of the English pop/rock band Keane. Thomas...
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    (IBA), the contest was held at the International Convention Centre on 31 March 1979, and was hosted by Israeli television presenter Daniel Pe'er and singer...
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    to the eventual defeat of the government in a no-confidence motion in March 1979, six months before the mandatory dissolution of Parliament was set to...
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    fighting, which then in turn escalated into a full-blown war in February 1979. North Yemen appeared on the edge of a decisive defeat after a three-front...
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    Little Women (redirect from Jo March)
    in two volumes in 1868 and 1869. The story follows the lives of the four March sisters—Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy—and details their passage from childhood...
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    the House of Commons passed a Motion of No Confidence by one vote on 28 March 1979. The Conservatives, with advertising consultants Saatchi & Saatchi, ran...
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    Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. The reactor accident began at 4:00 a.m. on March 28, 1979, and released radioactive gases and radioactive iodine into the environment...
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    The 1979 Spanish general election was held on Thursday, 1 March 1979, to elect the 1st Cortes Generales of the Kingdom of Spain. All 350 seats in the Congress...
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    Compact disc (category Use American English from March 2021)
    Convention, held on 13–16 March 1979, in Brussels. Sony's AES technical paper was published on 1 March 1979. A week later, on 8 March, Philips publicly demonstrated...
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    Rufus Hound (category 1979 births)
    (born Robert James Blair Simpson 6 March 1979) is an English actor, comedian and presenter. Hound was born on 6 March 1979, in Essex and moved to Surrey at...
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    factions, and an escalation of the fighting, Malloum stepped down in March 1979. This paved the way for a new national government, known as "Transitional...
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    of Iran was adopted by referendum on 24 October 1979. Before it could come into force on 3 December 1979, however, the government resigned on 6 November...
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  • Kipchumba Murkomen (category 1979 births)
    Onesimus Kipchumba Murkomen (born 12 March 1979) is a Kenyan lawyer. He is a former corrupt Cabinet Secretary for Roads, Transport, and Public Works in...
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