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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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    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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  • The year 1979 in film involved many significant events. The top ten 1979 released films by North American gross are as follows: March 2 – Buena Vista...
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  • "1979" is a song by American alternative rock band the Smashing Pumpkins. It was released in 1996 as the second single from their third studio album, Mellon...
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  • Bauhaus 1979–1983 (sometimes referred to as simply 1979–1983) is a compilation album by English post-punk band Bauhaus, released in 1985 by record label...
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    The 1979 Formula One season was the 33rd season of FIA Formula One motor racing. It featured the 1979 World Championship of F1 Drivers and the 1979 International...
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    General elections were held in Japan on 7 October 1979 to elect the 511 members of the House of Representatives. Prime Minister Ōhira Masayoshi's announcement...
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  • released in 1979. The highest-grossing American films released in 1979, by domestic box office gross revenue, are as follows: List of 1979 box office number-one...
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    The 1979 Pacific typhoon season featured the largest and most intense tropical cyclone recorded globally, Typhoon Tip. The season also used both male and...
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  • and 30 specials of the version of the Japanese anime Doraemon that began airing in 1979 and stopped in 2005, when it was succeeded by the 2005 series....
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    The 1979 Canadian federal election was held on May 22, 1979, to elect members of the House of Commons of Canada of the 31st Parliament of Canada. It resulted...
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    January 1979 and Carter allowed him to be admitted to the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York on October 22, 1979. On November 4, 1979, a group...
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  • Animation, Asatsu-DK and TV Asahi, Doraemon premiered in Japan on April 2, 1979, and has been dubbed for broadcast in 60 countries worldwide. The series...
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    The 1979 Indiana Hoosiers football team represented the Indiana Hoosiers in the 1979 Big Ten Conference football season. The Hoosiers played their home...
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    The 1979–80 season of the European Cup football club tournament was won by holders Nottingham Forest in the final against Hamburg. The winning goal was...
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  • 1979. 1979 in British music 1979 in Japanese music 1979 in Norwegian music 1979 in country music 1979 in heavy metal music 1979 in hip hop music 1979...
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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 following is the 1979–80 network television schedule for the three major English language commercial broadcast networks in the United States. The schedule...
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    The 1979 Ballon d'Or, given to the best football player in Europe as judged by a panel of sports journalists from UEFA member countries, was awarded to...
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  • The 1979–80 season was the 81st completed season of The Football League. Bob Paisley's Liverpool retained their league championship trophy after fighting...
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    The 1979-80 NBA season was the Lakers' 32nd season in the NBA and the 20th season in Los Angeles. It featured a 20-year old rookie Magic Johnson leading...
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  • Alien is a 1979 science fiction horror film directed by Ridley Scott and written by Dan O'Bannon, based on a story by O'Bannon and Ronald Shusett. It follows...
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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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  • Salem's Lot: The Movie, Salem's Lot: The Miniseries and Blood Thirst) is a 1979 American two-part vampire miniseries based on the 1975 horror novel 'Salem's...
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  • (John Martyn) 1978 St. Kilda Wedding (Ossian) 1979 Scared to Dance (The Skids) 1979 Days in Europa (The Skids, issued twice) 1979 "Horrorshow" (Scars)...
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    The 1979 Ba'ath Party Purge (Arabic: تطهير حزب البعث), also called the Comrades Massacre (Arabic: مجزرة الرفاق), was a public purge of the Iraqi Ba'ath...
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    Death from Above 1979 (also known as Death from Above or DFA 1979) is a Canadian rock duo consisting of bassist Jesse F. Keeler and drummer and vocalist...
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    country, and Labour lost its majority in parliament. The general election in 1979 took Conservative Margaret Thatcher to power, effectively ending the postwar...
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    The 1979 European Parliament election was a series of parliamentary elections held across all 9 (at the time) European Community member states. They were...
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  • The 1979–80 Bundesliga was the 17th season of the Bundesliga, West Germany's premier football league. It began on 11 August 1979 and ended on 31 May 1980...
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