1979 in India

Events

National income - ₹1,235,622 million
1 January – President of India makes official the decision to set up the Mandal Commission
22 January – 12 Iranian students who claimed to be members of the Iranian Islamic Students Association laid siege to the Iranian consulate at Churchgate.^[1]
31 January – The police under direction of Jyoti Basu, Chief Minister of Communist Party of India (Marxist) -led government of West Bengal, surrounds and opens fire on unarmed refugee settlement of Morichjhapi island in Sunderbans, West Bengal. (Marichjhapi massacre)
13 May – a tropical cyclone hits Coastal Andhra and destroys 7 lakh homes and affects 40 lakh people.^[2]
1 June – Vizianagaram district is formed in Andhra Pradesh.
27 June – CISF conflict at Bokaro
2 July – Athi Varadhar came out after 40 years in Varadharaja Perumal Temple, Kanchipuram.^[3]
3 July – A cargo ship named MV Kairali owned by Kerala Shipping Corporation went missing on its journey carrying iron ore from Mormugao to Rostock.
28 July – Charan Singh of Bharatiya Lok Dal, coalition partner of Janata Party became Prime Minister of India with outside support of Congress (I).^[4]
11 August – Morvi dam burst, the worst flood disaster in independent India, happens in Gujarat, killing 1500-15000 people
12 October – C. H. Mohammed Koya sworn in as Chief minister of Kerala. He is the first Muslim League leader to become Chief Minister of an Indian state.^[5]
10 December – Mother Teresa was awarded Nobel Peace Prize at Oslo.^[6]

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Births

January to June

1 January – Vidya Balan, actress.
3 January – Gul Panag, actress
Bipasha Basu
7 January – Bipasha Basu, actress and model.
16 January – Climax Lawrence, footballer
2 February – Shamita Shetty, actress
26 February – Premgi Amaren, playback singer, composer, songwriter, actor and comedian.
28 February – Srikanth
24 March – Emraan Hashmi, actor.
8 April – Amit Trivedi, music director, singer, film scorer
28 April – Sharman Joshi, actor
Emraan Hashmi
23 May – Divya Palat, actress.
10 June – D. K. Ravi, late IAS officer. (d. 2015)
12 June – Tottempudi Gopichand, actor.
18 June – A. L. Vijay, film director.
20 June – Renedy Singh, footballer.

July to December

19 July – Malavika, actress.
27 July – Vamshi Paidipally, film director.
29 July – Hard Kaur, rapper
2 August – Devi Sri Prasad, music composer and singer.
10 August – Shabir Ahluwalia, television actor
31 August – Yuvan Shankar Raja, film composer and singer.
1 September – Aamir Ali, actor
11 September – Tulip Joshi, model and actress.

14 September – Kamya Panjabi, actress.
18 September – Vinay Rai, actor.
27 September – B Chandrakala, Indian Administrative Service officer.
7 October – Narain, actor.
23 October – Prabhas, actor.
4 November – Lazarus Barla, field hockey player.
7 November – Raima Sen, actress
18 November – Neeti Mohan, singer
20 November – Shalini, actress and child artist.
3 December – Konkona Sen Sharma, actress
14 December – Samit Basu, novelist.
30 December – Kausalya, actress.

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Deaths

9 February – Banaphool, author, playwright and poet (b. 1899).
19 May – Hazari Prasad Dwivedi, novelist, literary historian, essayist, critic and scholar (b. 1907).
18 August – Vasantrao Phulsing Naik, Politician, Former Chief Minister of Maharashtra (b. 1913)
3 December – Dhyan Chand, field hockey player (b. 1905).
8 October – Jayaprakash Narayan, political activist (b. 1902)
20 October – D.K.Sapru, character actor. (b. 1916).

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Incumbents

Governors

Events

Law

Births

January to June

July to December

Deaths

See also

References

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