Interflug Il-18 Crashes at Quatro de Fevereiro Airport, March 26, 1979

Iranian Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returns to Tehran after nearly 15 years of exile. Date: February 1, 1979 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on February 1 📅 Events on this day in 1979 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1979First Ariane 1 Rocket Launch from Guiana Space Centre, December 24, 1979Malta…

Western Airlines Flight 2605 crashes on landing in Mexico City, killing 73 people. Date: October 31, 1979 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on October 31 📅 Events on this day in 1979 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1979Idi Amin Deposed in Uganda April 11, 1979Pope John Paul II Begins…

Images taken by Voyager 1 prove the existence of volcanoes on Io, a moon of Jupiter. Date: March 8, 1979 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on March 8 📅 Events on this day in 1979 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1979Iranian Revolution Establishes Islamic Theocracy Under Khomeini — February…

Third Indochina War: Cambodian–Vietnamese War: Phnom Penh falls to the advancing Vietnamese troops, driving out Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge. Date: January 7, 1979 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on January 7 📅 Events on this day in 1979 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1979First Ariane 1 Rocket…

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 1979Rhodesia’s First Black-Led…