reply to post by triplescorpio
Deny Ignorance
Well,let us just see if what you are saying may be true.
I assume since you mentioned your age that 1979 would be the year or close to it when you were born.
What happened in 1979?
January 1 – The United States and the People's Republic of China establish full diplomatic relations.
January 8 – The French tanker Betelgeuse explodes at the Gulf Oil terminal at Bantry, Ireland; 50 are killed.
January 16 – Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi of Iran flees Iran with his family, relocating to Egypt after a year of turmoil.
January 29 – Brenda Ann Spencer opens fire at a school in San Diego, California, killing 2 faculty members and wounding 8 students. Her response to
the action, "I don't like Mondays," inspired the Boomtown Rats to make a song of the same name.
February 1 – Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returns to Tehran, Iran after nearly 15 years of exile.
February 3 – Khomeini creates the Council of the Islamic Revolution.
February 7 – Supporters of Khomeini take over the Iranian law enforcement, courts and government administration; the final session of the Iranian
National Consultative Assembly is held.
February 12 – Prime Minister Hissène Habré starts the Battle of N'Djamena in an attempt to overthrow Chad's President Félix Malloum.
February 14 – In Kabul, Muslim extremists kidnap the American ambassador to Afghanistan, Adolph Dubs, who is later killed during a gunfight between
his kidnappers and police.
February 17 – The People's Republic of China invades northern Vietnam, launching the Sino-Vietnamese War.
March 17 – The Penmanshiel Tunnel in the U.K. collapses, killing 2 workers.
March 18 – Ten miners die in a methane gas explosion at Golborne Colliery near Wigan, Lancashire.
March 29 – America's most serious nuclear power plant accident, at Three Mile Island, Pennsylvania.
April 1 – Iran's government becomes an Islamic Republic by a 98% vote, overthrowing the Shah officially.
April 2 – Sverdlovsk Anthrax leak: A Soviet biowarfare laboratory at Sverdlovsk accidentally releases airborne anthrax spores, killing 66 plus an
unknown amount of livestock.
April 10 – A tornado hits Wichita Falls, Texas, killing 42 people (the most notable of 26 tornadoes that day).
April 15 – 1979 Montenegro Earthquake: A major earthquake (7.0 on the Richter scale) strikes Montenegro (then part of Yugoslavia) and parts of
Albania, causing extensive damage to coastal areas and taking 136 lives; the old town of Budva is devastated.
June 3 – A blowout at the Ixtoc I oil well in the southern Gulf of Mexico causes at least 600,000 tons (176,400,000 gallons) of oil to be spilled
into the waters, the worst oil spill to date. Some estimate the spill to be 428 million gallons, making it the largest unintentional oil spill
ever.
August 14 – A freak storm during the Fastnet Race results in the death of 15 sailors.
August 27 – Lord Mountbatten of Burma and 3 others are assassinated by the Provisional Irish Republican Army.
September 12 – Hurricane Frederic makes landfall at 10:00 p.m. on Alabama's Gulf Coast.
October 6 – Federal Reserve System changes from an interest rate target policy to a money supply target policy, causing interest rate fluctuations
and economic recession.
October 14 – A major gay rights march in the United States takes place in Washington, D.C., involving many tens of thousands of people.
October 16 – A tsunami in Nice, France kills 23 people.
15 October 1979- 6.6 earthquakes hits the Imperial Valley,California.
October 26 – Park Chung-hee, the President of South Korea, is assassinated by KCIA director Kim Jaegyu.
November 1 – Iran hostage crisis: Iranian Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini urges his people to demonstrate on November 4 and to expand attacks on United
States and Israeli interests.
November 3 – In Greensboro, North Carolina, 5 members of the Communist Workers Party are shot to death and 7 are wounded by a group of Klansmen and
neo-Nazis, during a "Death to the Klan" rally.
November 9 – Nuclear false alarm: the NORAD computers and the Alternate National Military Command Center in Fort Ritchie, Maryland detected
purported massive Soviet nuclear strike. After reviewing the raw data from satellites and checking the early warning radars, the alert was
cancelled.
November 28 – Air New Zealand Flight 901: an Air New Zealand DC-10 crashes into Mount Erebus (in Antarctica) on a sightseeing trip, killing all 257
people on board.
December 12 – A major 7.9 earthquake and tsunami kills 259 people in Colombia.
December 24 – The Soviet Union invades Afghanistan.
December 27 – The Soviet Union seizes control of Afghanistan, and Babrak Karmal replaces overthrown and executed President Hafizullah Amin.
The One Child Policy is implemented in China in this year.
Worldwide per capita oil production reaches an historic peak.
Chrysler receives government loan guarantees upon the request of CEO Lee Iacocca.
Does not seem to me that much has changed since when you were born.
I remember this time when I was young and wondering, with the shape the world was in, with all the turmoil with Iran and the other issues, that made
the headlines, if I would live to be a old man.
Well,I did and you probably will too,with luck.
But,it seems to have escalated quite a bit about the time YOU were born now doesn't it?
This was also the year,Mount Saint Helens started to act up and erupted the
in 1980.
Deny Ignorance
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