Date: May 25, 1979
White Night riots in San Francisco following the manslaughter conviction of Dan White for the assassinations of George Moscone and Harvey Milk. Date: May 21, 1979 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on May 21 📅 Events on this day in 1979 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1979Penmanshiel Tunnel Collapse…
A car bomb destroys a Renault motor car owned by "Nazi hunters" Serge and Beate Klarsfeld outside their home in France in an unsuccessful assassination attempt. Date: July 9, 1979 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on July 9 📅 Events on this day in 1979 📅 On This Day (Today) More events…
The Troubles: Eighteen British soldiers are killed at the Warrenpoint ambush by the Provisional Irish Republican Army near Warrenpoint, Northern Ireland, in the deadliest attack on British forces during Operation Banner. An IRA bomb also kills British royal family member Lord Mountbatten and three others on his boat at Mullaghmore, Republic of Ireland. Date: August…
Sony introduces the Walkman. Date: July 1, 1979 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on July 1 📅 Events on this day in 1979 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1979Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Executed in Pakistan, April 4, 1979Three Mile Island Nuclear Meltdown and Coolant Leak March 28, 1979Rhodesia’s First Black-Led…
Soviet probes Venera 11, Venera 12 and the German-American solar satellite Helios II all are hit by "off the scale" gamma rays leading to the discovery of soft gamma repeaters. Date: March 5, 1979 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on March 5 📅 Events on this day in 1979 📅 On This…
A Soviet bio-warfare laboratory at Sverdlovsk accidentally releases airborne anthrax spores, killing 66 plus an unknown amount of livestock. Date: April 2, 1979 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on April 2 📅 Events on this day in 1979 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1979ABC News Correspondent Bill Stewart Shot…