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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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  • 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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    Enqelâb-e Irân [ʔeɴɢeˌlɒːbe ʔiːɾɒːn]), also known as the 1979 Revolution, or the Islamic Revolution of 1979 (انقلاب اسلامی, Enqelâb-e Eslâmī), was a series of...
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  • Box. 21 April 1979, p 48. 28 April 1979, p 51. Cash Box. 31 March 1979, p 75. 24 March 1979, p 54. 17 March 1979, p 46. 24 February 1979, p 46. Cash Box...
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    in a no-confidence motion on 28 March 1979, six months before the Parliament was due for dissolution in October 1979. The Conservative Party, led by Margaret...
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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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  • 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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    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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    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 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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    (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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  • 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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    Little Women (redirect from Jo March)
    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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    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 British alternative rock band Keane...
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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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    Pete Doherty (category 1979 births)
    Peter Doherty (born 12 March 1979) is an English musician. He is best known for being co-frontman of The Libertines, which he formed with Carl Barât in...
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  • nine series, between 24 March 1979 and 13 May 1988. Nine episodes. First broadcast: Saturdays on ITV – 24 March to 19 May 1979 Sixteen episodes. First...
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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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    won 2–0 on aggregate. 7 March 1979 City Ground, Nottingham Attendance: 31,949 Referee: Marjan Rauš (Yugoslavia) 6 March 1979 Müngersdorferstadion, Cologne...
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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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    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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    Egypt–Israel peace treaty was signed in Washington, D.C., United States, on 26 March 1979, following the 1978 Camp David Accords. The Egypt–Israel treaty was signed...
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  • The 1978–79 Scottish League Cup final was played on 31 March 1979 and was the final of the 33rd Scottish League Cup competition. It was contested by Rangers...
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  • off-Broadway from 14 January to 18 March 1979, at The Theatre of St. Peter's. The production's Broadway debut in 1979 at the Booth Theatre was produced...
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  • Live Killers (category 1979 live albums)
    released on 22 June 1979. The album was recorded live during the European leg of Queen's Jazz Tour, between 26 January and 1 March 1979. The album was self-produced...
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