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Downeast Airlines Flight 46 Crash in Rockland, Maine – May 30, 1979
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Dieng Plateau Earthquake Releases Poisonous Gas, Kills 149, February 20, 1979
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White Night Riots in San Francisco After Dan White Conviction, May 21, 1979
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Jerry Rawlings Takes Power in Ghana After Military Coup, June 4, 1979
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