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    1979 January February March April May June July August September October November December The following events occurred in July 1979: Sweden outlawed...
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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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    orchestrated on 22 July 1979 by then-president Saddam Hussein six days after his arrival to the presidency of the Iraqi Republic on 16 July 1979. Six days after...
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    murders of 1979–1981, sometimes called the Atlanta child murders, are a series of murders committed in Atlanta, Georgia, between July 1979 and May 1981...
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  • Dracula is a 1979 gothic horror film directed by John Badham. The film starred Frank Langella in the title role as well as Laurence Olivier, Donald Pleasence...
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  • The following is a list of Playboy Playmates of 1979, the 25th anniversary year of the publication. Playboy magazine names its Playmate of the Month each...
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    Miss Universe 1979 was the 28th Miss Universe pageant, held at the Perth Entertainment Centre in Perth, Australia, on 20 July 1979. Margaret Gardiner of...
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  • The July 1979 Madrid bombings were a series of bomb attacks carried out by ETA political-military (ETA-pm), a faction of the armed Basque separatist group...
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    held a celebration on the same town square. In 1979 Seward was designated "America's Official Fourth of July City-Small Town USA" by resolution of Congress...
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  • James Redmayne (category 1979 births)
    James Richard Studdert Redmayne (born 16 July 1979) is an English former first-class cricketer. The son of Richard Redmayne, who is a businessman in corporate...
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  • Miklós Fehér (category 1979 births)
    Miklós "Miki" Fehér (Hungarian pronunciation: [ˈmikloːʃ ˈfɛheːr]; 20 July 1979 – 25 January 2004) was a Hungarian professional footballer who played as...
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    Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr (category Use dmy dates from July 2023)
    al-Bakr (1 July 1914 – 4 October 1982) was an Iraqi politician who served as the fourth president of Iraq, from 17 July 1968 to 15 July 1979. He was a...
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    served as the fifth president of Iraq from 1979 to 2003. He also served as prime minister of Iraq from 1979 to 1991 and later from 1994 to 2003. He was...
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    the country in 1979. Urcuyo was the president of the lower chamber of National Congress of Nicaragua 1972–1973 and 1978–1979. In July 1979, when Somoza...
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  • Leandro Cesar de Sousa (born 6 July 1979) is a Brazilian football player. "Lé". Soccerway. Retrieved 2 December 2021. Lê at J.League (archive) (in Japanese)...
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    Government of New South Wales called for new tenders to operate the park on 31 July 1979. Before the fire, a Sydney design consultant stated that he had advised...
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    Luke Paul Young (born 19 July 1979) is an English former professional footballer who played as a defender. Young began his career at Tottenham Hotspur...
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    Travis Fimmel (category 1979 births)
    Travis Fimmel (born 15 July 1979) is an Australian actor. He is known for his role as Ragnar Lothbrok in the History Channel television series Vikings...
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    1957–1982, Springer Praxis, 2007 (ISBN 978-0-387-49326-8) Donahue, T. M. (6 July 1979). "Pioneer Venus Results: An Overview". Science. 205 (4401): 41–44. Bibcode:1979Sci...
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  • March 2022. "Bakr Quits in Iraq, Names Hussein". The New York Times. 17 July 1979. Retrieved 21 March 2022. Patrick Tyler (10 April 2003). "U.S. Forces...
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    sentenced to death in California for five murders committed between 1977 and 1979. He also pleaded guilty and received a sentence of 25 years to life for two...
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  • Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands (1976). Kalyanaraman was released on 6 July 1979 and became a commercial success, running in theatres for 140 days. It...
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    The 1979 Atlantic hurricane season was the first Atlantic hurricane season to include both male and female names on its list of tropical cyclone names...
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  • Times. 25 July 1978. "Miss Universe Hopefuls Hurt". Spokane Daily Chronicle. 20 July 1979. "Name Miss USA as Miss Universe". The Bryan Times. 9 July 1980....
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    Michael Wilding (category 1979 deaths)
    Michael Charles Gauntlet Wilding (23 July 1912 – 8 July 1979) was an English stage, television, and film actor. He is best known for a series of films...
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    61 Kommunara Shipbuilding Plant in Mykolaiv, Ukrainian SSR, launched in 1979, and commissioned into the Soviet Navy on 30 January 1983. Between 18 and...
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  • July 1 is the 182nd day of the year (183rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 183 days remain until the end of the year. 69 – Tiberius Julius Alexander...
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    Somoza government's international, political and military isolation. On 17 July 1979, Anastasio Somoza Debayle resigned as President of Nicaragua, marking...
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  • Shweta Konnur Menon (born 19 July 1979), known by her stage name Malavika, is an Indian actress who predominantly appears in Tamil films and a few Telugu...
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