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昭和54年
8/9 木
3日に行方不明となった足利市の保育園児福島万弥ちゃんが、自宅から約1キロの渡良瀬川河川敷で、リュックサックにつめられた絞殺死体で発見される。後に菅家利和が犯行を自供するが、物証不十分で不起訴となる。
8/13 月
福永武彦、没。61歳(誕生:大正7(1918)/03/19)。作家。
8/20 月
第6回人工知能国際会議(IJCAI−79)が東京で開かれる。
8/21 火
第61回全国高校野球選手権大会は5日前に石川・星稜高校との延長18回の激闘を制した和歌山・箕島高校が大会初優勝。栃木・作新学院高校(1962年)、愛知・中京商業高校(1966年)に続き史上3度目の甲子園同一年度春夏連覇を達成。
8/24 金
中野重治、没。77歳(誕生:明治35(1902)/01/25)。作家。
8/29 水
竹鶴政孝、没。85歳(誕生:明治27(1894)/06/20)。ニッカウヰスキー。
8/29 水
13代・千宗左、没。78歳(誕生:明治34(1901)/01/27)。茶道表千家。
9/3 月
6代目・三遊亭円生、没。79歳(誕生:明治33(1900)/09/03)。落語家で落語協会会長をつとめた。
9/3 月
「昭和の名人」と称された落語家の六代目三遊亭圓生死去。奇しくも79歳の誕生日だった。
9/4 火
ランランが死亡する。上野動物園のパンダ。
see english history
1979
8/27 Mon
18 British soldiers die in ambush/bomb attack in Northern Ireland
8/28 Tue
IRA bomb explodes on Brussels Great Market
8/28 Tue
Train crash at Nijmegenp~ 7 die
8/29 Wed
Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
8/29 Wed
Sheridan Broadcasting Corp purchases Mutual Black Network
8/30 Thu
-Sept 13] Hurricane Davidp~ kills 1200 in Floridap~ Domincana & Dom Rep
8/30 Thu
1st recorded occurrance-comet hits sun (energy=1 mil hydrogen bombs)
8/30 Thu
Ian Botham makes 1000 runs/100 wkts in Tests in his 21st match
8/30 Thu
Kathy Horvath (14y5d) is youngest to play in US Tennis Openp~ she loses
8/30 Thu
Pres Carter attacked by a rabbit on a canoe trip in Plains Ga
1979
7/28 Sat
"Aerosmith and Ted Nugent headline the World Series of Rock at Municipal Stadium in Cleveland, Ohio. Also on the bill are Journey, Thin Lizzy, AC/DC and the Scorpions. Following the concert, Aerosmith guitarist Joe Perry quits the group after an argument
7/31 Tue
"250,000 turn out in Central Park for a free concert by James Taylor in a campaign to restore Sheep Meadow."
8/4 Sat
"~11 British rock band Led Zeppelin play what are to be their last British concerts (until 2007) at Knebworth in Hertfordshire. Total attendances for the two concerts approached 400,000.[citation needed]"
8/18 Sat
Nick Lowe and Carlene Carter are married at Carter's Los Angeles home.
8/25 Sat
"My Sharona by The Knack hits #1 on the Billboard charts. This is the first time in over a year that a song hits #1 that is not either a disco song or a ballad, signalling the potential resurgence of rock."
9/1 Sat
"INXS perform in public for the first time, at the Oceanview Hotel in Umina, New South Wales."
9/2 Sun
U2 enters the studio for the first time to record a locally released single.
9/13 Thu
"ABBA begins ABBA: The Tour in Edmonton, Alberta, leading off a month of dates in North America."
9/16 Sun
"The single ""Rapper's Delight"" by The Sugarhill Gang is released. Its success marks the commercial emergence of hip hop music."
9/17 Mon
"Ontario Court of Appeals rejects a government appeal against the previous year's sentencing of Keith Richards, which allowed him to avoid jail time for his 1977 arrest in Toronto for heroin possession."
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