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1979
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1979 (MCMLXXIX) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1979th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 979th year of the 2nd millennium, the 79th year of the 20th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1970s decade.

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Clockwise from top-left: the Soviet Union invades Afghanistan, starting the Soviet-Afghan War; Sony releases the Walkman; the SALT II treaties are signed; Iranian students storm the U.S. embassy in Tehran during the Iran hostage crisis; the oil tanker Betelgeuse explodes, killing 50 people; American Airlines Flight 191 crashes, leaving 273 people dead; Ixtoc 1 suffers a blowout, spilling 3.5 million barrels of oil; the Iranian Revolution culminates in the overthrow of the Pahlavi dynasty.
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Events

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22 February: Saint Lucia becomes independent
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Restored flag of Iran

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12 July: Kiribati becomes independent

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27 October: Saint Vincent and the Grenadines becomes independent

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Jagmeet Singh
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Kevin Kuske
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Sarah Polley
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Siti Nurhaliza
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Svetlana Khorkina

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Cerina Vincent
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Valentín Elizalde
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Tawakkol Karman
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Josh Keaton
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Irina Slutskaya
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Jesse Spencer
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Mena Suvari
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Jocelyn Quivrin
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Valentino Rossi
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Jennifer Love Hewitt
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Jordan Peele

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Ricardo Rosselló
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Melina Perez
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Tim Howard
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Oscar Isaac
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Danny Pudi
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Joel Madden
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Adam Levine
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Lee Pace
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Norah Jones

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Lindy Booth
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Jesse Carmichael
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Sophie Ellis-Bextor
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Claire Danes
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Jennifer Morrison
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Luke Evans
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Kourtney Kardashian
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Kate Hudson
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James McAvoy
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Jaime King

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Lance Bass
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Jon Montgomery
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Rosario Dawson
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Mickey Madden
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Maggie Q
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Ashley Massaro
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Elisabeth Harnois
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Jesse Bradford

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Morena Baccarin
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Pete Wentz
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Anna Torv
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Robyn
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Chris Pratt
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Mindy Kaling
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Busy Philipps
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Ryan Tedder
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Felicia Day
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Matisyahu

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Kevin Hart
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Scott Porter
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Laura Benanti
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Jayma Mays
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Mike Vogel
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Marielle Franco
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Rose Byrne
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Mageina Tovah
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Michelle Williams

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Jason Momoa
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Evangeline Lilly
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Maria Haukaas Mittet
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JoAnna Garcia Swisher
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Peter Browngardt
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Aaron Paul

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Júlio César
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Pink
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Dave Annable
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Amy Davidson
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Flo Rida
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Bam Margera

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Brianna Brown
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Rachael Leigh Cook
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Aaron Ashmore
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Shawn Ashmore
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Kristanna Loken
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Jawed Karim
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Chris O'Dowd
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Brandon Routh
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John Krasinski

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Lamar Odom
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Cote de Pablo
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Mpule Kwelagobe
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Neeti Mohan
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Kelly Brook
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Joel Kinnaman

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Sabina Babayeva
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Eric Bauza
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Sara Bareilles
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Adam Brody
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Zach Hill

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Deaths

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Nelson Rockefeller

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Sid Vicious

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José María Velasco Ibarra

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Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

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Mary Pickford

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Werner Forssmann
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John Wayne

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Shin'ichirō Tomonaga
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Gustavo Diaz Ordaz

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John Diefenbaker
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Mika Waltari
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Jean Seberg

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Agostinho Neto
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Gracie Fields
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Francisco Macías Nguema

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Park Chung Hee

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Merle Oberon
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Zeppo Marx

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Rafael Filiberto Bonnelly
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Richard Rodgers
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