1979 in the United States

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1979
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the United States

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Events from the year 1979 in the United States.

Incumbents[edit]

Federal government[edit]

Events[edit]

January[edit]

February[edit]

March[edit]

April[edit]

April 1: President Jimmy Carter leaving Three Mile Island for Middletown, Pennsylvania

May[edit]

June[edit]

July[edit]

  • July 2 – The Susan B. Anthony dollar is introduced in the U.S.
  • July 3 – President Jimmy Carter signs the first directive for secret aid to the opponents of the pro-Soviet regime in Kabul.
  • July 8 – Los Angeles passes its gay and lesbian civil rights bill.
  • July 11 – NASA's first orbiting space station Skylab begins its return to Earth, after being in orbit for 6 years and 2 months.
  • July 12 – A Disco Demolition Night publicity stunt goes awry at Comiskey Park, forcing the Chicago White Sox to forfeit their game against the Detroit Tigers. Local Rock Radio station WLUP attended the event
  • July 15 – President Carter speaks to Americans about ‘’a crisis of confidence.’’ The speech will come to be known as ‘’the malaise speech,’’ though Carter never used the word ‘’malaise.’’
  • July 17 – Nicaraguan dictator General Anastasio Somoza Debayle resigns and flees to Miami, Florida.
  • July 19 – The Sandinista National Liberation Front concludes a successful revolutionary campaign against the U.S.-backed Somoza dictatorship and assumes power in Nicaragua.

August[edit]

September[edit]

October[edit]

November[edit]

December[edit]

Undated[edit]

December 1, 1978 to February 28, 1979[edit]

  • This is the coldest winter over the contiguous US since at least 1895 with a mean temperature of 26.61 °F or −2.99 °C as against an 1895/1896 to 1973/1974 seasonal mean of 31.94 °F or −0.03 °C.[8] Except for normally frigid upstate Maine, all of the United States was below average for the winter, an occurrence previously seen only in 1898/1899 and 1909/1910.[9]
  • Both the contiguous US winter mean maximum temperature at 36.73 °F or 2.63 °C (1895/1896 to 1973/1974 mean 42.44 °F or 5.80 °C)[10] and the minimum temperature at 16.51 °F or −8.61 °C (1895/1896 to 1973/1974 mean 21.43 °F or −5.87 °C)[11] are the coldest since at least 1895

Ongoing[edit]

Births[edit]

January[edit]

Cristela Alonzo
Jake Shields
Aaliyah
Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick

February[edit]

Mena Suvari
Jennifer Love Hewitt
Jordan Peele

March[edit]

Riki Lindhome
Oscar Isaac
Chris Klein
Adam Levine
Norah Jones
Jose Pablo Cantillo

April[edit]

Keshia Knight Pulliam
Claire Danes
Kourtney Kardashian
Kate Hudson

May[edit]

Lance Bass
Rosario Dawson
Maggie Q
Frank Mir

June[edit]

Morena Baccarin
Pete Wentz
Pete Aguilar
Chris Pratt
Mindy Kaling
Ryan Tedder

July[edit]

Kevin Hart
Jayma Mays
Mike Vogel
Michelle Williams
B. J. Novak

August[edit]

Jason Momoa
Abigail Spanberger
Matt Pinnell
Aaron Paul

September[edit]

Pink
Dave Annable
Flo Rida
Rashad Evans
Bam Margera

October[edit]

Rachael Leigh Cook
Brandon Routh
Jordan Pundik
Ne-Yo
John Krasinski

November[edit]

Lamar Odom
Cote de Pablo
Joel Kinnaman
Chamillionaire
The Game

December[edit]

Sara Bareilles
Jennifer Carpenter
Adam Brody
Chris Daughtry
Zach Hill
Josh Hawley

Full date unknown[edit]

Kasey Anderson
Rob Laakso

Deaths[edit]

January[edit]

Nelson Rockefeller

February[edit]

Sid Vicious

March[edit]

Edgar Buchanan

April[edit]

May[edit]

Mary Pickford

June[edit]

John Wayne

July[edit]

Robert Burns Woodward

August[edit]

Jean Seberg

September[edit]

October[edit]

November[edit]

Mamie Eisenhower

December[edit]

Richard Rodgers

See also[edit]

Notes[edit]

  1. ^ For comparison the contiguous US has had only one month drier than February 1979 in Alaska from coast to coast, namely October 1952 with only 0.54 inches or 13.7 millimetres.

References[edit]

  1. ^ National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; Contiguous U.S. Average Temperature, January
  2. ^ National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; Contiguous U.S. Maximum Temperature, January
  3. ^ National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; Alaska Precipitation: February
  4. ^ Herman, Robin (1979-09-24). "Nearly 200,000 Rally to Protest Nuclear Energy". The New York Times. p. B1.
  5. ^ "NOVA Online - Russia's Nuclear Warriors - False Alarms on the Nuclear Front". www.pbs.org.
  6. ^ "1.5 billion in aid OK'd for Chrysler". Chicago Tribune. December 21, 1979.
  7. ^ "Railcar Management taps Kleifgen as chairman". Progressive Railroading. November 19, 2002. Retrieved August 24, 2021.
  8. ^ National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; Contiguous US Average Temperature: December to February
  9. ^ Wagner, A. James; ‘The Circulation and Weather of 1979 – Another Record Winter’; Weatherwise, 33(1) (January 1980); pp. 4-12
  10. ^ National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; Contiguous US Maximum Temperature: December to February
  11. ^ National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; Contiguous US Minimum Temperature: December to February
  12. ^ "Player Bio: Adam Peters". uclabruins.com. UCLA Bruins. Archived from the original on January 9, 2024. Retrieved January 9, 2024.
  13. ^ The Harley-Davidson Reader. Michael Dregni, Hunter S. Thompson, Sonny Barger, Evel Knievel, Jean Davidson, Arlen Ness. MotorBooks International, 7 Feb 2010
  14. ^ Greene, David (1986). Greene's Biographical Encyclopedia of Composers. London: Collins. p. 1164. ISBN 978-0-00434-363-1.
  15. ^ "Ann Dvorak". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 6 February 2020.
  16. ^ "Richard Rodgers | American composer | Britannica". www.britannica.com. Retrieved 9 April 2022.

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