1979 in the United States

Events from the year 1979 in the United States.

1979
in
the United States

Decades:
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Incumbents

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Federal government

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Events

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January

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February

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March

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April

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

June

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July

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  • 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

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September

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October

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November

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December

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December 1, 1978 to February 28, 1979

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  • This is the coldest winter over the contiguous US since at least 1895 with a mean temperature of 26.62 °F or −2.99 °C as against an 1895/1896 to 1973/1974 seasonal mean of 31.94 °F or −0.03 °C.[7] Except for normally frigid upstate Maine, all of the conterminous United States was below average for the winter, an occurrence previously seen only in 1898/1899 and 1909/1910.[8]
  • 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)[9] and the minimum temperature at 16.51 °F or −8.61 °C (1895/1896 to 1973/1974 mean 21.44 °F or −5.87 °C)[10] are the coldest since at least 1895.

Ongoing

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Births

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January

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Cristela Alonzo
 
Jake Shields
 
Aaliyah
 
Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick

February

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Mena Suvari
 
Jennifer Love Hewitt
 
Jordan Peele

March

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

April

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Keshia Knight Pulliam
 
Claire Danes
 
Kourtney Kardashian
 
Kate Hudson
 
Lance Bass
 
Rosario Dawson
 
Maggie Q
 
Frank Mir

June

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

July

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

August

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Jason Momoa
 
Abigail Spanberger
 
Matt Pinnell
 
Aaron Paul

September

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Pink
 
Dave Annable
 
Flo Rida
 
Rashad Evans
 
Bam Margera

October

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

November

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Lamar Odom
 
Cote de Pablo
 
Joel Kinnaman
 
Chamillionaire
 
The Game

December

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

Full date unknown

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Kasey Anderson
 
Rob Laakso

Deaths

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January

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Nelson Rockefeller

February

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Sid Vicious

March

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Edgar Buchanan

April

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Mary Pickford

June

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John Wayne

July

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Robert Burns Woodward

August

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Jean Seberg

September

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October

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November

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Mamie Eisenhower

December

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Richard Rodgers

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Notes

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  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

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  1. ^ "Contiguous U.S. Average Temperature, January". National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
  2. ^ "Contiguous U.S. Maximum Temperature, All Months". National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
  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". PBS.
  6. ^ "1.5 billion in aid OK'd for Chrysler". Chicago Tribune. December 21, 1979. Archived from the original on June 4, 2011.
  7. ^ "Contiguous US Average Temperature: December to February". National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
  8. ^ Wagner, A. James (January 1980). "The Circulation and Weather of 1979 – Another Record Winter". Weatherwise. 33 (1): 4–12.
  9. ^ "Contiguous US Maximum Temperature: December to February". National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
  10. ^ "Contiguous US Minimum Temperature: December to February". National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
  11. ^ "Player Bio: Adam Peters". uclabruins.com. UCLA Bruins. Archived from the original on January 9, 2024. Retrieved January 9, 2024.
  12. ^ The Harley-Davidson Reader. Michael Dregni, Hunter S. Thompson, Sonny Barger, Evel Knievel, Jean Davidson, Arlen Ness. MotorBooks International, 7 Feb 2010
  13. ^ Greene, David (1986). Greene's Biographical Encyclopedia of Composers. London: Collins. p. 1164. ISBN 978-0-00434-363-1.
  14. ^ "Ann Dvorak". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 6 February 2020.
  15. ^ "Richard Rodgers | American composer | Britannica". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 9 April 2022.
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