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year	1979
month	1
day	10
event	Entertainer of the Year Awards
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1/1 - International Year of the Child begins

1/1 - Jurap~ 26th canton of Switzerlandp~ established

1/1 - US & China (Peoples Republic) begin diplomatic relations

1/2 - 30th Islander shut-out opponent-Glenn Resch 9-0 vs Vancouver

1/2 - Gavaskar gets twin tons for India for the third time (v WI)

1/2 - Sid Vicious' trial for murder of girlfriend Nancy Spungen begins

1/6 - The Village People's Y.M.C.A becomes their only UK No.1 single. At it's peak it sold over 150p~000 copies a day

1/7 - Vietnamese forces capture Phnom Penh from Khmer Rouge

1/8 - 512 die as oil tanker Bantry Bay blows up

1/8 - Argentina & Chile sign Beagle Canal accord

1/8 - Today Show gets a new theme song

1/8 - Vietnamese troops overtook Khmer Rouge & occupy Phnom Penh

1/9 - Supreme Court strikes down (6-3) PA law requiring doctors performing an abortion to try to preserve lives of potentially viable fetuses

1/9 - "K-Mart pulls Steve Martin's ""Let's Get Small"" for being in ""bad taste"""

1/9 - High-school player Daryl Moreau makes 126th consecutive free throws

1/9 - Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to WS Merwin

1/10 - 1st brother Billy Carter makes allegedly anti-Semitic remarks

1/10 - Entertainer of the Year Awards

1/11 - Grand Tour opens at Palace Theater NYC for 61 performances

1/12 - Record blizzard struck midwest killing over 100

1/12 - LA's Hillside Stranglerp~ Kenneth Bianchip~ arrested in Bellingham

1/13 - Charlie Daniels hosts Volunteer Jam

1/13 - YMCA files libel suit against Village People's YMCA song

1/14 - Pres Carter proposes Martin Luther King's birthday be a holiday

1/16 - Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi of Iran flees Iran for Egypt

1/17 - NY Islanders didn't get a shot off in 1 period against NY Rangers

1/17 - Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi flees Iran

1/17 - USSR performs underground nuclear test

1/18 - "Peter Jenkins finishes ""A Walk Across Americap~"" Florence Oregon"

1/19 - John N Mitchell (former AG) released on parole from federal prison

1/21 - Super Bowl XIII: Pittsburgh Steelers beat Dallas Cowboysp~ 35-31 in Miami Super Bowl MVP: Terry Bradshawp~ Pittsburghp~ QB

1/21 - Price of gold increases to record $875 troy oz

1/21 - Neptune becomes outermost planet (Pluto moves closer)

1/24 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

1/25 - 22.2-km Oshimizu railroad tunnel holed throughp~ central Honshup~ Japan

1/25 - Pope John Paul II's 1st overseas trip as supreme pontiff

1/26 - Music Center Vredenburg opens in Utrecht Neth

1/26 - Dukes of Hazzard premieres on CBS's vast wasteland

1/27 - 36th Golden Globes: Midnight Expressp~ Jon Voight & Jane Fonda

1/27 - Islanders ends 23 undefeated games at home streak (15-0-8)

1/28 - Wiz closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 1672 performances

1/28 - "Arthur Kopit's ""Wingsp~"" premieres in NYC"

1/29 - NFL Pro Bowl: NFC beats AFC 13-7

1/29 - Emersonp~ Lake & Palmer disband after 10 years together

1/29 - Chinese vice-premier Deng Xiaoping visits Washingtonp~ DC

1/29 - "Brenda Spencer kills 2p~ inspires Boomtown Rats ""I Don't Like Mondays"""

1/29 - 9th AFC-NFC pro bowlp~ NFC wins 13-7

1/30 - Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) agrees to new constitution

1/30 - Varig 707-323C freighterp~ flown by the same commander as Flight 820p~ disappears over the Pacific Ocean 30 minutes after taking off from Tokyo.

1979-1-10

Entertainer of the Year Awards