Philips Demonstrates Compact Disc Publicly for First Time, March 8, 1979
Date: March 8, 1979
Date: March 8, 1979
Swissair Flight 316 crashes at Ellinikon International Airport in Athens, Greece, killing 14. Date: October 7, 1979 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on October 7 📅 Events on this day in 1979 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1979Sino-Vietnamese War Begins February 17, 1979Iranian Revolution Establishes Islamic Theocracy Under Khomeini…
Two Aeroflot Tupolev Tu-134s collide over the Ukrainian city of Dniprodzerzhynsk and crash, killing all 178 aboard both airliners. Date: August 11, 1979 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on August 11 📅 Events on this day in 1979 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1979Maoists Launch Bala Hissar Uprising Against…
Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto of Pakistan is executed. Date: April 4, 1979 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on April 4 📅 Events on this day in 1979 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1979Blair Peach Fatally Injured at Southall Anti-Nazi Protest, April 23, 1979Liberia Rice Price Protest Turns Deadly…
Pakistan International Airlines Flight 740 crashes near Taif in Mecca Province, Saudi Arabia, killing all 156 people on board. Date: November 26, 1979 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on November 26 📅 Events on this day in 1979 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1979Jimmy Carter Signs Secret Aid Directive…
Iran hostage crisis: A group of Iranian college students overruns the U.S. embassy in Tehran and takes 90 hostages. Date: November 4, 1979 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on November 4 📅 Events on this day in 1979 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1979Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Executed in Pakistan,…
Typhoon Tip becomes the largest and most intense tropical cyclone ever recorded. Date: October 12, 1979 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on October 12 📅 Events on this day in 1979 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1979Airey Neave Assassinated by Car Bomb at Westminster, March 30, 1979South Africa Grants…