1979

Israelis and Egyptians sign peace treaty
Margaret Thatcher elected as the 1st woman Prime Minister of Great Britain
Mother Teresa awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
7-year long civil war ends in Rhodesia
Cambodian insurgents announce fall of Phnom Penh, Cambodian capital, and collapse of Pol Pot regime
Shah leaves Iran after year of turmoil; revolutionary forces under Ayatollah Khomeini, take over
Idi Amin Dada driven out of Uganda
Iranian militants seize U.S. Embassy in Teheran and hold hostages
Soviet invasion of Afghanistan stirs world protests
Jerry Falwell forms "Moral Majority"
Nuclear power plant accident at Three Mile Island, Pa.
Carter and Brezhnev sign SALT (Strategic Arms Limitation Talks) II agreement
Surgeon General's Report on the dangers of smoking
Pope John Paul II becomes the 1st Pope to visit the White House
Lee Iacocca named CEO of Chrysler Corp. (can fine Corinthian leather be far behind?)
US government bails out a bankrupt Chrysler Corp.
"Rubic's Cube" craze
William Styron's Sophie's Choice
David Attenborough's Life on Earth
1st artificial blood
Songs- "What a Fool Believes", "52nd Street", "I'll Never Love This Way Again", "My Sharona"
Broadway - "Sweeney Todd"
Films - "Apocalypse Now", "Kramer vs Kramer", "Norma Rae", "Alien", remake of "Nosferatu", "10"
Jaycie Phelps, Jennifer Love Hewitt, and Brandy born
Conrad Hilton, A. Phillip Randolph, Nelson Rockefeller, Sid Vicious, Mary Pickford, John Wayne, Arthur Fiedler, Richard Rodgers, and Al Capp die