Noteable Events From The 70s
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| 4-Jan-70 | Violence flares in Northern Ireland |
| 8-Jan-70 | 4000 estimated to have died due to asian flu outbreak in the UK |
| 22-Jan-70 | First PAN-AM 747 flight from New York to London Heathrow |
| 10-Feb-70 | 39 killed in avalance in French Alps |
| 21-Feb-70 | 47 killed in plane crash in Switzerland |
| 1-Mar-70 | Rhodesia breaks last links with Britain |
| 2-Mar-70 | Dr Timothy Leary who coined the phrase “Turn on, tune in and drop out” sentenced to 10 years in jail for smoking cannabis |
| 4-Mar-70 | 57 lives lost as French submarine sinks in Mediterranian |
| 28-Mar-70 | Earthquake in Turkey claims 600 lives |
| 4-Apr-70 | Gay Trip wins Grand National |
| 10-Apr-70 | Paul McCartney leaves the Beatles |
| 11-Apr-70 | Apollo 13 launched for 3rd moon trip. Mission abandoned after two days after oxygen supply problem |
| 4-May-70 | 4 students shot dead by National Guard during anti-war protest at Kent State University, Ohio, US |
| 12-May-70 | 6 shot dead at Rally in Georgia, US |
| 1-Jun-70 | Earthquake in Peru kills over 30,000 |
| 9-Jun-70 | Yassa Arafat becomes PLO leader |
| 14-Jun-70 | West Germany beat England 3-2 and knock them out of World Cup |
| 19-Jun-70 | Edward Heath new UK Prime Minister after Conservative election win |
| 29-Jun-70 | US Troops pull out of Camobodia |
| 3-Jul-70 | 112 die in plane crash in Spain |
| 4-Apr-70 | John Newcombe and Margaret Court Wimbledon tennis champions |
| 16-Jul-70 | Thousands of dockworkers strike in London |
| 30-Jul-70 | Thalidomide victims receive compensation in UK |
| 9-Aug-70 | Plane crash in Peru claims 99 lives |
| 19-Aug-70 | UK soap opera, Coronation Street celebrates 1000 episodes |
| 18-Sep-70 | Jimi Hendrix found dead |
| 4-Oct-70 | Janis Joplin dies |
| 8-Oct-70 | Aleksandr Solzhenitzyn wins Nobel Prize for Literature |
| 10-Oct-70 | Fiji gains independence |
| 1-Nov-70 | 142 killed in fire at French night club |
| 10-Nov-70 | Henry Cooper wins European Heavyweight Boxing Championship |
| 12-Nov-70 | French leader Charles DeGaulle dies |
| 19-Nov-70 | 150,000 lives lost in cyclone and tidal wave in Pakistan |
| 1-Dec-70 | Divorce becomes legal in Italy |
| 18-Dec-70 | Thousands evacuated in Nevada US after atomic leak |
| 11-Jan-71 | First divorce in UK on sole grounds of “Irretrievable Breakdown” granted |
| 12-Jan-71 | North Sea oil discoveries in UK |
| 25-Jan-71 | Charles Manson and three of his followers found guilty of the Helter Skelter murders |
| 25-Jan-71 | Idi Amin gains power in Uganda |
| 31-Jan-71 | Apollo 14 launched |
| 3-Feb-71 | 24 killed in explosion at arms factory in Georgia, US |
| 7-Feb-71 | Women gain right to vote in Switzerland |
| 10-Feb-71 | Earthquaake in Los Angeles, US kills 51 |
| 15-Feb-71 | Britain changes to decimal currency |
| 1-Mar-71 | Millions of workers strike in protest at new UK anti-union bill |
| 8-Mar-71 | Frazier beats Ali in World Heavyweight Boxing Championship |
| 8-Mar-71 | Silent film star Harold Lloyd dies |
| 19-Mar-71 | 250 killed in Peru avalanch |
| 16-May-71 | 32 miners killed in explosion in West Pakistan |
| 22-May-71 | 600 die in Turkey earthquake |
| 23-May-71 | Jackie Stewart wins Monaco Grand Prix |
| 8-Jun-71 | British Railways look at plans for new Advanced Passenger Train |
| 30-Jun-71 | 3 Russain Cosmonauts found dead when spacecraft returns |
| 2-Jul-71 | Evonne Goolagong wins Wimbledon Tennis Championship |
| 3-Jul-71 | Doors leader Jim Morrison dies |
| 6-Jul-71 | Jazz veteran Louis Armstrong dies |
| 9-Jul-71 | Earthquake kills 90 in Chile |
| 30-Jul-71 | 162 die in plane crash in Japan, the worst on record at this time |
| 25-Aug-71 | Three days of violence in Belfast leave 23 dead |
| 4-Sep-71 | 109 die in Alaskan plane crash |
| 11-Sep-71 | Fomrer Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev dies |
| 13-Sep-71 | Jazz ace Duke Ellington tours Soviet Union |
| 28-Oct-71 | British Parliament vote to join EEC |
| 2-Nov-71 | 6000 die in India tidal wave and hurricane |
| 13-Nov-71 | US spacecraft Marriner 9 orbits Mars |
| 15-Nov-71 | China joins United Nations |
| 26-Nov-71 | Education authority stops use of cane as punishment in London Schools |
| 4-Dec-71 | Explosion in Belfast pub kills 13 |
| 17-Dec-71 | Pakistan/India war ends |
| 25-Dec-71 | 156 die in hotel fire in Seoul |
| 9-Jan-72 | Fire destroys Queen Elizabeth liner (QE1) |
| 22-Jan-72 | Britain,Ireland, Denmark and Norway to join EEC |
| 30-Jan-72 | 13 killed and many wounded in Northern Ireland during a civil rights march – the day would later be referred to as Bloody Sunday. |
| 2-Feb-72 | Winter Olympics start in Tokyo |
| 4-Feb-72 | Britain recognises independence of Bangladesh |
| 9-Feb-72 | Industrial unrest in Britain leads to state of emergency being declared. Edward Heath imposes three day working week and country suffers power cuts as power stations are closed to conserve energy. |
| 22-Feb-72 | 7 killed in car bomb attack at Aldershot barracks |
| 2-Mar-72 | Pioneer 10 spacecraft launched to explore Jupiter |
| 24-Mar-72 | Edward Heath imposed direct rule on Northern Ireland |
| 11-Apr-72 | Paul McCartney fined for importing cannabis into Sweden |
| 17-Apr-72 | Film “The Godfather” makes 26 million dollars within first few days of premier |
| 20-Apr-72 | Apollo 16 lands on the moon |
| 22-May-72 | President Richard Nixon become first US President to visit Russia |
| 22-May-72 | Ceylon becomes Sri Lanka after independence |
| 25-May-72 | Joe Frazier retains Heavyweight boxing title after beating Ron Stander |
| 28-May-72 | Duke of Windsor who reigned briefly as King Edward VIIII, abdicating to marry Wallace Simpson, dies |
| 6-Jun-72 | 422 killed in underground mine explosion in Rhodesia |
| 18-Jun-72 | 118 die in UK plane crash |
| 9-Jul-72 | Stan Smith and Billie Jean King become Wimbledon tennis champions |
| 12-Aug-72 | US launch heavy air raids on North Vietnam |
| 14-Aug-72 | 156 die in Berlin plane crash |
| 15-Aug-72 | Ethiopia pulls out of Munich Olympics in protest at Rhodesia |
| 26-Aug-72 | Munich Olympics open |
| 31-Aug-72 | Mark Spitz wins five gold medals in Olympics |
| 5-Sep-72 | Terrorists kill 11 from Isreal olympic team |
| 12-Sep-72 | Icelandic gunboats sink two British Trawlers in fishing dispute know as the “Cod War” |
| 21-Sep-72 | Asians expelled from Uganda arrive in Britain |
| 6-Oct-72 | 147 die in Mexican train crash |
| 10-Oct-72 | John Betjeman becomes Poet Laureate |
| 14-Oct-72 | 170 killed in Russain plane crash |
| 23-Oct-72 | Access Credit cards launched in Britain |
| 25-Oct-72 | Cod War prompts Iceland to boycott British goods |
| 3-Nov-72 | East Germany releases 30,000 politcal prisoners |
| 6-Nov-72 | Wage freeze imposed in Britain in attempt to combat inflation |
| 8-Nov-72 | Nixon wins US election |
| 16-Nov-72 | Soviet Union agrees to sale of Pepsi Cola from next year |
| 3-Dec-72 | 155 die in Canary Islands plane crash |
| 11-Dec-72 | Apollo 17 lands on moon |
| 25-Dec-72 | 10,000 lives lost in Nicaraguan earthquake |
| 26-Dec-72 | Former US President Harry Truman dies |
| 22-Jan-73 | Former US President Lyndon B Johnson dies |
| 27-Jan-73 | US agrees to end to fighting in Vietnam |
| 14-Feb-73 | First US Prisoners of War fly home from Vietnam |
| 16-Mar-73 | Queen opens new London Bridge |
| 26-Mar-73 | Death of UK playwright & humourist Noel Coward |
| 8-Apr-73 | Artist Picasso dies |
| 29-May-73 | Thomas Bradley becomes first black Mayor of Los Angeles |
| 16-Jun-73 | Soviet President Breshnev visits USA |
| 7-Jul-73 | Jan Kodes and Billie Jean King become this years’ Wimbledon tennis champions |
| 10-Jul-73 | Bahamas gain independence |
| 11-Jul-73 | 122 die in Paris air crash |
| 14-Aug-73 | US ends bombing in Cambodia |
| 28-Aug-73 | Over 500 die in Mexican earthquake |
| 8-Oct-73 | UK Prime Minister Edward Heath imposes 7% pay increase limit |
| 11-Nov-73 | Egypt & Israel sign cease fire agreement |
| 5-Dec-73 | UK Government impose 50 miles per hour speed limit to reduce fuel consumption |
| 17-Dec-73 | Three day working week comes into force in Britain again, as industrial unrest deepens |
| 6-Jan-74 | First UK football matches played on Sunday due to power crisis |
| 25-Jan-74 | Dr Christiaan Barnard performs first heart transplant |
| 7-Feb-74 | Grenada gains independence |
| 15-Feb-74 | Russia expels author Aleksandr Solzhenityn |
| 3-Mar-74 | 345 killed in Paris air crash |
| 4-Mar-74 | Labour Party gain power in Britain. Harold Wilson is new Prime Minister |
| 8-Mar-74 | Britain returns to full working week |
| 30-Mar-74 | Red Rum wins Grand National |
| 1-Apr-74 | National Health Service offers free family planning advice in Britain |
| 10-Apr-74 | Israel Premier Golda Meir resigns |
| 4-May-74 | Liverpool beat Newcastle 3-0 in FA Cup Final |
| 11-May-74 | 20,000 lose lives in Chinese earthquake |
| 24-May-74 | Jazz musician Duke Ellington dies |
| 3-Jun-74 | Yitzhak Rabin becomes new Isreal Premier |
| 6-Jul-74 | Jimmy Connors and Chris Evert become Wimbledon tennis champions |
| 20-Jul-74 | Turkey invades Cyprus |
| 8-Aug-74 | President Richard Nixon resigns over Watergate |
| 9-Aug-74 | Gerald Ford becomes new US President |
| 14-Sep-74 | Pandas Chia-Chia and Ching-Ching arrive at London Zoo |
| 20-Sep-74 | 10,000 killed by Cyclone in Honduras |
| 29-Oct-74 | Muhammad Ali beats George Foreman and regains Heavyweight Boxing title |
| 19-Nov-74 | President Ford visits Japan |
| 21-Dec-74 | Top London store Harrods is bombed. No fatalities |
| 29-Dec-74 | Earthquake in Pakistan kills 4,700 |
| 11-Jan-75 | Soyuz 17, Russain spacecraft is launched which later links up with space lab. |
| 11-Feb-75 | Margaret Thatcher wins leadership battle over Edward Heath, making her first woman leader of Conservative Party |
| 21-Feb-75 | Three former aides to Richard Nixon are given prison sentences for their part in the Watergate scandal |
| 23-Mar-75 | Blockade of 200 miles of UK coastline in fishermen’s protest at cheap imports |
| 25-Mar-75 | King Faisal of Saudi Arabia assasinated |
| 30-Apr-75 | Saigon surrenders to Communists. Crowds surround US Embassy in hope of being airlifted out by US forces |
| 7-May-75 | President Ford announces end to Vietnam war |
| 26-May-75 | Stuntman Evil Knievel suffers serious injuries when attempt to jump 13 busses in a car fails |
| 4-Jun-75 | Drought in Ethiopia causes widespread famine |
| 5-Jun-75 | Suez Canal re-opens |
| 6-Jun-75 | UK referendum results in majority of Britons being in favour of staying in the Common Market |
| 19-Jun-75 | Ascot races disturbed by march of 100 striking stable boys |
| 24-Jun-75 | 109 die in New York plane crash at JFK airport |
| 26-Jun-75 | Indian Premier Indira Gandhi convicted of election fraud |
| 5-Jul-75 | Arthur Ashe and Billie Jean King become the years’ Wimbledon tennis champions |
| 19-Jul-75 | US Apollo and Soviet Union Soyuz spacecraft link up in space |
| 1-Aug-75 | Helsinki human rights agreement signed by 35 nations |
| 19-Aug-75 | Cricket test match in UK abandoned after pitch is dug up by protesters angry at jailing of George Davies |
| 27-Aug-75 | Haile Selassie, former Ethiopian Emperor dies |
| 6-Sep-75 | 1000 killed in Turkish earthquake |
| 22-Sep-75 | The second foiled attempt at assasination of President Ford in a month occurs |
| 30-Sep-75 | Muhammad Ali beats Joe Frazier and holds onto his Heavyweight Boxing title |
| 7-Oct-75 | John Lennon wins court battle to stay in the USA |
| 10-Oct-75 | Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor re-marry |
| 22-Oct-75 | Venera 9, Russain spacecraft, lands on Venus |
| 20-Nov-75 | Spanish leader Franco dies, sucessor is Juan Carlos |
| 27-Nov-75 | Ross McWhirter is shot dead on doorstep of his home by IRA gunman |
| 30-Nov-75 | UK motor racing champion Graham Hill dies after his plane crashes |
| 12-Dec-75 | Six day siege by IRA on a flat in London’s Balcolme Street ends without casualties |
| 27-Dec-75 | Mine blast in India kills 372 miners |
| 29-Dec-75 | Equal Pay and Sex Discrimination Act become law in the UK |
| 2-Jan-76 | 22 die as Hurricane winds rock Britain |
| 12-Jan-76 | Author Agatha Christie dies |
| 23-Jan-76 | Singer and racial equality campaigner Paul Robeson dies |
| 3-Feb-76 | George Thomas becomes speaker of UK House of Commons |
| 4-Feb-76 | Guatemala earthquake kills 12,000 |
| 18-Feb-76 | Race Relations bill in UK comes into force |
| 20-Feb-76 | Muhammad Ali beats Jean Pierre Coopman and holds on to Boxing title |
| 16-Mar-76 | Prime Minister Harold Wilson resigns |
| 26-Mar-76 | Argentine President Isabel de Peron is overthrown |
| 3-Apr-76 | Rag Trade wins Grand National |
| 5-Apr-76 | James Callaghan becomes new UK Prime Minister |
| 5-Apr-76 | Billionaire Howard Hughes dies |
| 30-Apr-76 | Muhammad Ali holds onto box title after defeating Jimmy Young |
| 10-May-76 | UK Liberal Party leader Jeremy Thorpe resigns after gay allegations |
| 24-May-76 | Muhammad Ali beats UK boxer Richard Dunn in title fight |
| 6-Jun-76 | Billionaire J Paul Getty dies |
| 19-Jun-76 | Violence flares in South Africa |
| 26-Jun-76 | London records record temperature of 95 degrees as Britain swelters in heatwave |
| 28-Jun-76 | Seychelles gain independence |
| 3-Jul-76 | Bjorn Borg and Chris Evert are this years’ Wimbledon tennis champions |
| 4-Apr-76 | Massive 200th birthday celebrations as USA celebrates bi-centenial |
| 8-Jul-76 | 9,000 die in New Guinea earthquake |
| 17-Jul-76 | Montreal Olympic Games open |
| 20-Jul-76 | Spacecraft Viking 1 lands on Mars |
| 17-Aug-76 | 8,000 die in Philippines earthquake |
| 3-Sep-76 | A 60 hour riot in Hull Prison ends after £1million damage is caused |
| 18-Sep-76 | Chairman Mao dies |
| 10-Sep-76 | 177 die after two planes collide over Yugoslavia |
| 28-Sep-76 | Muhammad Ali holds onto boxing title after defeating Ken Norton |
| 1-Oct-76 | 2,500 die in Mexican hurricane |
| 23-Oct-76 | Chairman Mao’s widow jailed for plotting coup |
| 2-Nov-76 | Jimmy Carter elected US President |
| 24-Nov-76 | 3,000 die in Turkish earthquake |
| 20-Jan-77 | Jimmy Carter sworn in as US President |
| 25-Jan-77 | 250 US hostages held by Uganda |
| 1-Mar-77 | US hostages freed by Uganda |
| 21-Mar-77 | Indira Gandhi resigns as Indian Premier |
| 26-Mar-77 | Moraji Desai becomes new Indian Premier |
| 28-Mar-77 | 574 die as US and Dutch jets collide at Los Rodeos airport in Tenerrife, the world’s worst air disaster to date |
| 23-Apr-77 | North Sea oil rig suffers blow out. Over 7 million gallons of oil leaks into North Sea |
| 5-May-77 | Conservative Party gains control of Greater London Council |
| 10-May-77 | Actress Joan Crawford dies |
| 15-May-77 | Liverpool become football League champions for tenth time |
| 16-May-77 | Muhammad Ali retains boxing title after beating Alfredo Evangelista |
| 18-May-77 | Menachem Begin becames Israel Premier |
| 21-May-77 | Manchester United beat Liverpool 2-1 in FA Cup final |
| 28-May-77 | 160 die in Kentucky night club fire |
| 1-Jun-77 | UK Derby winner Minstrel is ridden by Lester Piggot, making this Piggot’s 8th Derby victory |
| 5-Jun-77 | Britain celebrates Queen Elizabeth’s Silver Jubilee |
| 2-Jul-77 | Bjorn Borg and Virginnia Wade become Wimbledon Tennis Champions |
| 5-Jul-77 | Army seize power in Pakistan |
| 14-Jul-77 | 3,300 people arrested for looting during power cut and blackout in New York |
| 20-Jul-77 | Report to UK government suggests separating GPO postal and telephone services |
| 27-Jul-77 | Bush fire destroys over 180 homes in Santa Barbara |
| 3-Aug-77 | Cyprus’ Archbishop Makarios dies |
| 10-Aug-77 | Queen visits Northern Ireland after gap of 11 years |
| 11-Aug-77 | Cricketer Geoffrey Boycott scores his 100th hundred in match against Australia |
| 16-Aug-77 | Elvis Presley dies |
| 19-Aug-77 | Groucho Marx dies |
| 23-Aug-77 | Introduction of smaller size pound notes in UK |
| 31-Aug-77 | Ian Smith re-elected as Rhodesian President |
| 12-Sep-77 | South African civil rights leader Steve Biko dies |
| 16-Sep-77 | Opera star Maria Callas dies |
| 30-Sep-77 | EEC bans Soviet Union from fishing in North Sea |
| 14-Oct-77 | Bing Crosby dies |
| 19-Oct-77 | 220 killed in strike riots in Ecuador |
| 20-Oct-77 | Military seize power in Thailand |
| 8-Nov-77 | Edward Koch elected Mayor of New York |
| 9-Nov-77 | 60 killed during bombing raids in Beirut |
| 20-Nov-77 | Cyclone kills 10,000 in India |
| 3-Dec-77 | USA agrees to admit Vietnamese Boat People refugees |
| 19-Dec-77 | Canada cuts trade links with South Africa over apartheid |
| 25-Dec-77 | Charlie Chaplin dies |
| 31-Dec-77 | Cambodia ceases relations with Vietnam |
| 1-Jan-78 | 213 die in explosion on Indian plane over Arabian sea |
| 16-Jan-78 | UK fireman return to work after strike |
| 13-Feb-78 | Anna Ford becomes first woman newsreader for UK TV news provider ITN |
| 15-Feb-78 | Leon Spinks takes Boxing title from Muhammad Ali |
| 20-Feb-78 | Blizzards hit Southern England |
| 2-Mar-78 | Charlie Chaplin’s coffin is stolen in Switzerland |
| 19-Mar-78 | Oil tanker Amoco Cadiz grounds off French coast leaking 100,000 gallons of crude oil into sea |
| 25-Mar-78 | Cambridge boat sinks during University Boat Race |
| 31-Mar-78 | Retirement of Red Rum, champion Grand National horse announced |
| 1-Apr-78 | Lucius wins UK Grand National |
| 3-Apr-78 | Woody Allen’s film Annie Hall wins 4 Oscars |
| 19-Apr-78 | Yitzhak Navon becomes new Isreal Premier |
| 9-May-78 | Leading Italian statesman Aldo Moro’s body found in car in Rome after kidnapping |
| 16-May-78 | Riots and protests build against Shah of Iran |
| 17-May-78 | Charlie Chaplin’s coffin found |
| 18-May-78 | Abortion legalised in Italy |
| 24-May-78 | Princess Margaret and Lord Snowden divorce |
| 27-May-78 | Princess Caroline of Monaco married Phillipe Junot |
| 14-Jun-78 | Vote of confidence narrowly won for UK government |
| 21-Jun-78 | Rice and Lloyd-Webber musical Evita opens in London |
| 25-Jun-78 | Argentina football team win World Cup, beating Netherlands 3-1 |
| 7-Jul-78 | Solomon Islands gain independence |
| 8-Jul-78 | Bjorn Borg and Martina Navratilova become Wimbledon tennis champions |
| 8-Jul-78 | Allesandro Pertini becomes Italian President |
| 10-Jul-78 | Military seize power in Mauritania |
| 11-Jul-78 | 200 killed when truck carrying liquid gas explodes on campsite in Spain |
| 21-Jul-78 | Unions reject UK government limit of 5% on pay rises |
| 25-Jul-78 | Louise Brown, world’s first test tube baby is born |
| 6-Aug-78 | Pope Paul VI dies |
| 19-Aug-78 | 3 US men become first to make transatlantic balloon crossing |
| 26-Aug-78 | John Paul I announced as new Pope |
| 8-Sep-78 | Martial law in Iran leads to death of 2,000 during protests |
| 16-Sep-78 | 25,000 killed in Iranian earthquake |
| 17-Sep-78 | Muhammad Ali wins back Boxing title from Leon Spinks |
| 30-Sep-78 | Pope John Paul I dies after just one month as Pope |
| 6-Oct-78 | France grants refuge to Ayatollah Khomeini |
| 13-Oct-78 | Sex Pistols member Sid Vicious charged with murder of girfriend in New York hotel |
| 17-Oct-78 | Polish born Pope John Paul II becomes Pope |
| 4-Nov-78 | Bakers strike in the UK leads to panic buying of bread |
| 26-Nov-78 | 900 followers of Rev Jim Jones commit suicide in Guyana |
| 8-Dec-78 | Golda Meir, Israel’s first woman Prime Minister dies |
| 10-Dec-78 | Israel’s Prime Minister Begin and Egypt’s President Sadat win Nobel Peace Prize |
| 11-Dec-78 | Millions march in Tehran against Shah |
| 15-Dec-78 | US announces that relations with China will recommence on New Year’s Day 1979 |
| 5-Jan-79 | Death of Charlie Mingus, jazz musician |
| 16-Jan-79 | Shah leaves Iran |
| 20-Jan-79 | Ayatollah Khomeini announces his intention to return to Iran |
| 31-Jan-79 | UK government resists declaring state of emergency due to widespread strikes. Hospitals affected and rubbish piles up in the streets as public service workers dispute takes hold |
| 1-Feb-79 | Millions greet Ayatollah Khomeini as he returns to Iran after exile |
| 2-Feb-79 | Sid Vicious, awaiting trial for Girlfriend’s murder found dead from overdose |
| 7-Feb-79 | Floods in Brazil leave 200 dead and over 200,000 homeless |
| 8-Feb-79 | USA ceases ties with Nicaragua |
| 14-Feb-79 | Army attacks US embassy in Iran |
| 17-Mar-79 | Nottingham Forrest beat Southampton 3-2 in League Cup final |
| 26-Mar-79 | Israel and Eqypt sign peace treaty |
| 28-Mar-79 | UK Labour Government loses in no confidence vote |
| 28-Mar-79 | Accident at Pennsylvania’s Three Mile Island nuclear plant releases radiation |
| 29-Mar-79 | President Idi Amin flees Uganda |
| 30-Mar-79 | Airey Neave MP killed by car bomb as he enters House Of Commons grounds |
| 2-Apr-79 | Prime Minister Begin becomes first Isreali Premier to visit Egypt |
| 3-May-79 | Conservative Margaret Thatcher wins UK general election making her first woman Prime Minister |
| 12-May-79 | Arsenal beat Manchester United 3-2 in FA Cup Final |
| 22-May-79 | Elton John gives successful concert in Leningrad |
| 25-May-79 | 273 die in Chicago air crash |
| 29-May-79 | Actress Mary Pickford dies |
| 31-May-79 | New government takes power in Rhodesia |
| 11-Jun-79 | Actor John Wayne dies |
| 18-Jun-79 | Soviet President Breshnev and US President Carter sign Salt II arms limitation treaty |
| 26-Jun-79 | Muhammad Ali announces retirement |
| 5-Jul-79 | Isle of Man celebrates 1,000 years of Manz parliament |
| 7-Jul-79 | Bjorn Borg and Martina Navratilova become Wimbledon tennis champions |
| 17-Jul-79 | General Somoza overthrown in Nicaragua |
| 14-Aug-79 | 18 die after storm during yaucht race |
| 27-Aug-79 | Lord Mountbatten killed by bomb placed on his boat |
| 29-Aug-79 | Vatican announce that Pope will not visit Northern Ireland due to violence on his planned tour next month |
| 2-Sep-79 | 400 die in Domician Republic earthquake |
| 29-Sep-79 | Pope addresses crowd of 2 million in Southern Ireland |
| 28-Oct-79 | New Zealand plane crash in Antarctica kills 257 |
| 4-Nov-79 | Iranian students seize US embassy in Iran and hold 49 hostage |
| 10-Dec-79 | Mother Theresa wins Nobel peace prize |
| 31-Dec-79 | US and UK goverments criticise Soviet Union for intervention in Afghanistan |