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yearmonthdayeventrank
1979 1 1 International Year of the Child begins 0
1979 1 1 Jurap~ 26th canton of Switzerlandp~ established 0
1979 1 1 US & China (Peoples Republic) begin diplomatic relations 0
1979 1 2 30th Islander shut-out opponent-Glenn Resch 9-0 vs Vancouver 0
1979 1 2 Gavaskar gets twin tons for India for the third time (v WI) 0
1979 1 2 Sid Vicious' trial for murder of girlfriend Nancy Spungen begins 0
1979 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 0
1979 1 7 Vietnamese forces capture Phnom Penh from Khmer Rouge 0
1979 1 8 512 die as oil tanker Bantry Bay blows up 0
1979 1 8 Argentina & Chile sign Beagle Canal accord 0
1979 1 8 Today Show gets a new theme song 0
1979 1 8 Vietnamese troops overtook Khmer Rouge & occupy Phnom Penh 0
1979 1 9 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to WS Merwin 0
1979 1 9 High-school player Daryl Moreau makes 126th consecutive free throws 0
1979 1 9 "K-Mart pulls Steve Martin's ""Let's Get Small"" for being in ""bad taste""" 0
1979 1 9 Supreme Court strikes down (6-3) PA law requiring doctors performing an abortion to try to preserve lives of potentially viable fetuses 0
1979 1 10 1st brother Billy Carter makes allegedly anti-Semitic remarks 0
1979 1 10 Entertainer of the Year Awards 0
1979 1 11 Grand Tour opens at Palace Theater NYC for 61 performances 0
1979 1 12 LA's Hillside Stranglerp~ Kenneth Bianchip~ arrested in Bellingham 0