<< October 1979 >>
Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa
01 02 03 04 05 06
07 08 09 10 11 12 13
14 15 16 17 18 19 20
21 22 23 24 25 26 27
28 29 30 31  

The following events occurred in October 1979:

October 26, 1979: South Korean President Park Chung Hee assassinated

October 1, 1979 (Monday)

edit
 
Nigeria's President Shagari
  • Nigeria terminated military rule, and the Second Nigerian Republic was established, ending 13 years of military rule. Shehu Shagari, a former Finance Minister who had won a presidential election in 1978, succeeded Nigerian General Olusegun Obasanjo. After being sworn in, Shagari surprised observers by asking his political opponents to submit nominations for his Cabinet. On the same day, an "American-style" Senate and House of Representatives was inaugurated, and a federal system of governors for the African nation's 19 states took office.[1]
  • The Panama Canal Zone ceased to exist as a United States territory and reverted to control of the Republic of Panama after more than 75 years. From its creation on May 4, 1904, until its termination, the territory of 553 square miles (1,430 km2) was part of the U.S.[2]
  • Pope John Paul II arrived in Boston, described by one reporter as the "keystone city of American Roman Catholicism"[3] for his first visit to the United States as part of an eight-day tour of the U.S., and held a Mass at Boston Common before 100,000 worshipers.[3]
  • U.S. President Jimmy Carter announced in a televised speech that he would order a moderate response to the discovery of a presence of Soviet Union troops in Cuba, backing away from a previous statement that the presence of Red Army soldiers in the Western Hemisphere was unacceptable. "My fellow Americans," Carter said, "the greatest danger to American security tonight is certainly not the two or three thousand Soviet troops in Cuba. The greatest danger to all nations of the world... is the breakdown of a common effort to preserve the peace and the ultimate threat of nuclear war." Carter stated that the U.S. response would be to increase surveillance of Cuba, establish a "Caribbean Task Force" in Key West, Florida, and conduct a landing exercise of 1,500 U.S. Marines at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba that had been under a perpetual lease for decades.[4]
  • The MTR, the rapid transit railway system in Hong Kong, opened.
  • The new United States Bankruptcy Code went to effect, superseding the first Code that had been created in 1898.
  • Market Daily, the official economic newspaper of the People's Republic of China, published its first issue after having received approval from the Chinese Communist Party.
  • James Eppolito, a gangster in the Gambino crime family, was murdered along with his son, shot and killed by Gambino enforcers Roy DeMeo and Anthony Gaggi with the approval of Gambino boss Paul Castellano. Gaggi was wounded and then arrested, while fleeing the scene, by an off-duty NYPD officer who had been alerted to the killings by a witness.
  • Died:

October 2, 1979 (Tuesday)

edit
  • The use of home video recorders to record television broadcasts was ruled lawful by U.S. District Judge Warren J. Ferguson in Los Angeles, who declared that the "such recording is permissible under the copyright acts of 1909 and 1976" and rejected a request by Universal Studios and Walt Disney Productions seeking to stop the Sony and RCA corporations to stop selling VCRs.[5] Ferguson's ruling would be reversed by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, but reinstated by the U.S. Supreme Court in its ruling in Sony Corp. of America v. Universal City Studios, Inc. on January 17, 1984.
 
The Pope at Yankee Stadium

October 3, 1979 (Wednesday)

edit
  • Dith Pran, whose experience during the aftermath of the Khmer Rouge takeover of Cambodia would be dramatized in the film The Killing Fields, was able to escape to Thailand and reunite with his colleague Sydney Schanberg, whom he served as a translator.[9]
  • Pope John Paul II concluded his tour of New York City with a Mass at Shea Stadium and at Madison Square Garden, then traveled to Philadelphia.[10]
  • The Cardenal Caro Province was created in central Chile from the southern portion of the San Antonio Province.
  • A ban against serving alcohol in airplanes flying over the U.S. state of Kansas was reversed after six years by the state's Attorney General, Robert Stephan. The ban had been in place since 1973 based on an opinion by Stephan's predecessor, Vern Miller, that the sale of alcohol on flights taking off from or landing in the state of Kansas violated state liquor laws if the sale took place in Kansas airspace. The ban did not affect airliners flying over Kansas from one state to another. Stephan concluded that federal aviation laws pre-empted Kansas state regulation of navigable airspace.[11]
  • The National Stoolball Association was founded in the town of Haywards Heath, West Sussex England to oversee the game of stoolball a cricket-like sport.
  • Born:

October 4, 1979 (Thursday)

edit
 
Kim Young-sam[12]

October 5, 1979 (Friday)

edit

October 6, 1979 (Saturday)

edit
  • The Federal Reserve System changed from an interest rate target policy to a money supply target policy. The announcement was made in a news conference by Fed Chairman Paul A. Volcker and came in conjunction with a statement that the Federal Reserve Board had voted, 7 to 0, to raise the "discount rate" (the interest rate for banks to borrow from the Fed) from 11% to a record-high of 12%. In addition, banks would be required to maintain a reserve of 8% on future borrowings from the Fed by requiring the banks to purchase certificates of deposit.[15]
  • The constitution of the Muscogee Nation (also known as the Creek Nation), located on the American Indian reservation in east central Oklahoma, was ratified by Muscogee tribal citizens in 12 Oklahoma counties, with a capital at Okmulgee, Oklahoma.
  • Pope John Paul II was received as a guest of U.S. President Jimmy Carter at the White House on the last day of his first visit to the United States.[16]
  • Died:

October 7, 1979 (Sunday)

edit
 
Premier Ohira
 
Former KCIA Director Kim

October 8, 1979 (Monday)

edit

October 9, 1979 (Tuesday)

edit

October 10, 1979 (Wednesday)

edit
 
French President Giscard[31]

October 11, 1979 (Thursday)

edit
  • The U.S. Senate voted, 81 to 15, to censure longtime incumbent Senator Herman Talmadge (D.-Georgia) for improper financial conduct for more than five years before he had been caught.[36] The vote took place after an investigation by the Senate of allegations that he had diverted more than $43,000 of campaign funds to his personal use for reimbursement of expenses that he had never incurred. Talmadge, in his fourth six-year term in the Senate, was defeated for re-election in 1980.
  • The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to British electronics engineer Godfrey Hounsfield and South African-born physicist Allan MacLeod Cormack of the United States for their invention (each independently of the other) of computed axial tomography, the basis for the CT scan. The award by the Nobel Assembly of the Karolinska Institute was described as "one of the most unusual in the 78-year history of the prizes" because neither Hounsfield or Cormack had "a doctoral degree in medicine or any field of science."[37]
  • Sclerocactus wrightiae, known as Wright's fishhook cactus, was added to the federal endangered species list.

October 12, 1979 (Friday)

edit
  • Near Guam, Typhoon Tip, also known as Typhoon Warling became the most powerful tropical cyclone in recorded history as measured by the lowest barometric pressure ever noted, 870 millibars (hPa) (25.69 inches mercury or inHg). Tip was also the largest cyclone on record, with a diameter of 1,380 miles (2,220 km) at its greatest size, and its winds reached 190 miles per hour (310 km/h). It caused 99 deaths as it swept over Japan.
 
Sweden's PM Fälldin
 
  • After 26 years of construction, Interstate 5 of the United States interstate highway system was completed with the opening of the final section of the 1,380 mi (2,220 km) long four-lane road that runs from the U.S. border with Canada to the U.S. border with Mexico. The final 4.6 mile span of highway, north of Stockton, California, was opened in ceremonies and described by California's Transportation Secretary Adriana Gianturco as "comparable to the driving of the golden spike in the Transcontinental Railway." Gianturco and the consuls of Canada and Mexico cut a gold-colored chain to signal the opening of I-5.[39]
  • Died: Katharine Burr Blodgett, 81, American physicist and chemist known for her invention of non-reflective "invisible" glass and the color gauge

October 13, 1979 (Saturday)

edit
  • In the wake of the expulsion of Kim Young-sam from South Korea's National Assembly, all 66 members of Kim's New Democratic Party, and three members of the other opposition party, resigned in protest, marking the first time in the history of South Korea that all members of the opposition had resigned from the nation's parliament.[40]
  • Born: Mamadou Niang, Senegalese professional soccer football striker; in Matam
  • Died: Archibald Roosevelt, 85, U.S. stockbroker, conservative activist and author, son of U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt, and founder of the Veritas Foundation.

October 14, 1979 (Sunday)

edit

October 15, 1979 (Monday)

edit

October 16, 1979 (Tuesday)

edit

October 17, 1979 (Wednesday)

edit
 
Mother Teresa[49]

October 18, 1979 (Thursday)

edit
 
An early home satellite dish[51]

October 19, 1979 (Friday)

edit
  • A tripartite agreement on the Itaipu Dam was signed between representatives of Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina and established the allowed river levels and how much they could change as a result of the various hydroelectrical undertakings in the watershed that was shared by the three countries.
  • A fire at the U.S. Marine Corps' Camp Fuji in Japan killed 13 servicemen after a 5,000 gallon storage tank of gasoline "inexplicably ruptured and ignited".[55] The flames were spread quickly by winds from Typhoon Tip.[56] Another 29 injured survivors were transferred to the burn center at the Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio, Texas.[55]

October 20, 1979 (Saturday)

edit

October 21, 1979 (Sunday)

edit
  • Elections were held in Switzerland for the 200 seats of the National Council and the 46 seats of the Council of States.
  • Huber Matos, who had fought alongside Fidel Castro in 1959 but was imprisoned later in the year on charges of sedition, was released from prison after completing the entirety of his 20-year sentence. He was then allowed to leave and moved to Costa Rica, then to the United States.[65]
  • Norway's soccer football championship, the Norgesmesterskapet i fotball, was won in Oslo by Viking FK of Stavanger, which beat SK Haugar of Haugesund, 2 to 1.
  • In an effort to minimize black market trading and to nullify the effect of bank notes taken by its former dictator and his followers, the government of Uganda announced that it would require the exchange of the African nation's currency (the Ugandan shilling with newly minted shillings. Uganda closed its borders with its five neighbors, restricted entry and exit, and declared that after October 27, the old shillings (which bore the image of deposed president Idi Amin) would no longer be legal tender if not exchanged for new versions before the deadline. When Amin and other members of the old regime had fled in April, they had taken millions of old shilling notes with them, all of which were made worthless by the changeover.[66]

October 22, 1979 (Monday)

edit
  • U.S. President Jimmy Carter and the U.S. Department of State permitted the deposed Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, to enter the United States for treatment for suspected cancer at Cornell Medical Center in New York City. The Shah arrived at LaGuardia Airport at 10:00 p.m. after a flight from Mexico.,[67] a decision which would outrage Iran and prompt the seizure of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran and the taking of its employees as hostages.
  • Died: Jesse Bishop, 46, became the first U.S. prison inmate to be put to death in the gas chamber in the U.S. since 1967, and only the third person to be legally executed in the U.S. since 1976. Bishop, who had shot and killed David Ballard in 1977 during the robbery of a Las Vegas casino, died at the Nevada State Prison in Carson City. Before being put to death, Bishop told detectives that he had committed 18 "murders for hire".[68]

October 23, 1979 (Tuesday)

edit

October 24, 1979 (Wednesday)

edit
  • The long-running BBC sitcom Terry and June, starring the English comedy team of Terry Scott and June Whitfield as a husband and wife, Terry and June Medford, broadcast its first episode. The series, which would run until 1987, came after their sitcom Happy Ever After (in which they played a husband and wife, Terry and June Fletcher) had gone off the air on April 25 after five years.
  • Died: Eleanor Robson Belmont, 99, English-born American actress and philanthropist[74]

October 25, 1979 (Thursday)

edit
 
Catalonian flag
 
Basque flag[75]

October 26, 1979 (Friday)

edit
 
KCIA Director and assassin Kim Jae-gyu
  • South Korea's President Park Chung Hee was assassinated at a dinner party by the Director of his Korean Central Intelligence Agency, Kim Jae-gyu.[79] At 7:35 in the evening in Seoul, Kim Jae-gyu's first shot killed Park's bodyguard, Cha Chi-choi, because of Cha's reputation as "a superb marksman" and "a tough former paratrooper detested by a section of the military and by top men in the K.C.I.A."[80][81] Park, who had been President of an oppressive government since 1961, was shot to death along with four of his bodyguards and his chauffeur during an argument that started after Park had berated Kim for being ineffective in suppressing student uprisings. In an emergency meeting three hours after the incident, the Cabinet of Ministers named Prime Minister Choi Kyu Hah as the acting president and imposed martial law over most of the nation and closed all airports under its jurisdiction.

October 27, 1979 (Saturday)

edit
 
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines flag

October 28, 1979 (Sunday)

edit
  • Ten people were killed during a prisoner exchange program when a Mexican government plane, a twin-engine Otter turboprop, crashed in the United States as it approached the airport in San Diego. The dead include four American prisoners who were being transported back to the U.S. under a 1977 agreement between the U.S. and Mexico.[85]
  • The first annual "Tbilisoba", an October festival to celebrate the history of the Eastern European nation of Georgia, was held it Tbilisi, capital of the Soviet Union's Georgian SSR, at the initiative of Eduard Shevardnadze, the First Secretary of the Georgian SSR's Communist Party.
  • Allegheny Airlines, originally a regional airline in the eastern United States from Pittsburgh, changed its name to USAir and expanded its itinerary. Rebranded in 1997 as US Airways, it would be acquired by American Airlines in 2013.
  • Born:

October 29, 1979 (Monday)

edit
  • Robert Boulin, 59, French Minister of Labor, disappeared after having had lunch with his son. Boulin, who had recently been accused of corruption, was found dead the next day in a pond near the forest of Rambouillet, and an empty bottle of barbiturates was found in his car, along with several suicide notes.[86][87]

October 30, 1979 (Tuesday)

edit
  • Fifty people were killed and 30 injured in the derailment of a train that was traveling to Addis Ababa in Ethiopia from Djibouti (in the northeast African nation of the same name). The accident occurred as the train was approaching Djibouti's second largest city, Ali Sabieh.[88]
  • An Air France Concorde jetliner came within 10 feet (3.0 m) of colliding with a formation of five United States Air Force F-15 fighters at an altitude of 28,000 feet (8,500 m) after F-15 jets had descended into its path.[89] The Concorde had taken off from Washington's Dulles International Airport with 16 passengers and a crew of five and was over the Atlantic Ocean about 50 miles (80 km) southeast of New Jersey when the near-collision happened at 2:30 in the afternoon. Information about the close call was not publicly released until five weeks later on December 7.
  • Magsat, the Magnetic Field Satellite, was launched by the United States from Vandenberg Air Force base in California in order to map Earth's magnetic field.
  • A mob of 300 leftist protesters in San Salvador attacked the U.S. Embassy to El Salvador, firing guns and attempting to break into the building before being turned back by guards of the U.S. Marines, who were supplemented shortly afterward by the Salvadoran Army.[90]
  • The U.S. city of Birmingham, Alabama, at one time newsworthy for its racial segregation, elected its first African-American Mayor, as Richard Arrington defeated white challenger Frank Parsons.[91]
  • Born: Yukie Nakama, Japanese idol and actress; in Urasoe, Okinawa
  • Died:

October 31, 1979 (Wednesday)

edit

References

edit
  1. ^ "Civilian President Installed in Nigeria", by Pranay B. Gupte, The New York Times, October 2, 1979, p. A7
  2. ^ "Panama Takes Control of Canal Zone", by Alan Riding, The New York Times, October 2, 1979, p. A1
  3. ^ a b "Pontiff Brings U.S. a Plea for Rededication", The New York Times, October 2, 1979, p. A1
  4. ^ "Carter Plans Latin Command and Steps Up Watch on Cuba; Opposes 'Return to Cold War'", The New York Times, October 2, 1979, p. A1
  5. ^ "Home Video Recorders Ruled Lawful by Judge", by Robert Lindsey, The New York Times, October 3, 1979, p. D1
  6. ^ "Throngs Acclaim Pope as He Tours New York; He Visits the Powerful and Talks With the Poor— Tells U.N. That 'Only Safeguarding Rights Can Insure Peace'", by Bernard D. Nossiter, The New York Times, October 3, 1979, p. A1
  7. ^ "Closes First of 2 Days at a Mass for 80,000 in Yankee Stadium", by Francis X. Clines, The New York Times, October 3, 1979, p. A1
  8. ^ "American and West German Died During Everest Descent", The New York Times, October 8, 1979, p. A7
  9. ^ Cambodian Reporter Who Fled 'True Hell' Tells of 4-Year Ordeal", by Sydney H. Schanberg, The New York Times, October 12, 1979, p. A1
  10. ^ "Pope, in Farewell, Tells New Yorkers 'A City Needs a Soul", by Francis X. Clines, The New York Times, October 4, 1979, p. A1
  11. ^ "1973 Liquor Ban on Flights Above Kansas Is Reversed", The New York Times, October 4, 1979, p. A16
  12. ^ Attribution: 대한민국 국가기록원
  13. ^ "Seoul Opposition Leader Is Expelled From Parliament", by Henry Scott Stokes, The New York Times, October 4, 1979, p. A13
  14. ^ "Brezhnev Says Soviet Will Cut Forces in East Germany", by John Vinocur, The New York Times, October 7, 1979, p. A1
  15. ^ "Anti-Inflation Plan by Federal Reserve Increases Key Rate— Discount Level a Record 12%— Package Will Also Alter Monetary Policy and Bank Reserve Rule", by Steven Rattner, The New York Times, October 7, 1979, p. A1
  16. ^ "President and Pontiff Issue a Plea At White House for World Peace", by Francis X. Clines, The New York Times, October 4, 1979, p. A1
  17. ^ "Elizabeth Bishop, Won a Pulitzer for Poetry and Taught at Harvard", The New York Times, October 8, 1979, p. B13
  18. ^ "Ohira's Party Leads With Bare Majority in Japanese Voting". The New York Times. October 8, 1979. p. A1.
  19. ^ Trumbull, Robert (October 9, 1979). "Ohira Set Back In Japan Voting But Keeps Reins". The New York Times. p. A1.
  20. ^ "Kurds Almost Wipe Out Column of Iranian Troops". The New York Times. October 11, 1979. p. A7.
  21. ^ "Deaths Are Put at 14 in Jetliner Fire in Athens". The New York Times. October 9, 1979. p. A11.
  22. ^ "Greek Prosecutor Accuse Pilot Of Negligence in Swissair Crash". The New York Times. October 10, 1979. p. A4.
  23. ^ Halloran, Richard (October 25, 1979). "U.S. Looking Into Disappearance of Korean Ex-Intelligence Director". The New York Times. p. A12.
  24. ^ "Simona Amânar". Olympedia. OlyMADMen. Retrieved 22 September 2022.
  25. ^ "Stage: 'Sugar Babies,' Burlesque Is Back", by Walter Kerr, The New York Times, October 9, 1979, p. C5
  26. ^ "For Mickey Rooney, Happiness Is Broadway", The New York Times, October 10, 1979, p. C19
  27. ^ "8 Die as Commuter Plane Crashes Near Cincinnati", The New York Times, October 9, 1979, p. A16
  28. ^ NTSB brief DCA80AA002 Archived January 20, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
  29. ^ "J. P. Narayan, a Revolutionary Hero in India, Dies", The New York Times, October 8, 1979, p. B13
  30. ^ "Afghans Said to Confirm Death of Ex-President", The New York Times, October 10, 1979, p. A6
  31. ^ Attribution: European Communities, 1975
  32. ^ "Bokassa Order Sending Diamonds to Giscard Reported", by Flora Lewis, The New York Times, October 11, 1979, p. A8
  33. ^ "Indonesia Frees 2,000 Prisoners Held Since Coup Attempt in 1965", The New York Times, October 11, 1979, p. A2
  34. ^ "Suharto's Gulag / The Buru Island 'Humanitarian Project': Former Prisoners Look Back on a Remote Tropical Hell", by Thomas Fuller, The New York Times, March 15, 2000
  35. ^ "TVO 1". International Nuclear Safety Center. Archived from the original on 3 December 2017. Retrieved 13 March 2011.
  36. ^ "Senate Denounces Talmadge, 81 to 15, Over His Finances— A Rare Rebuke for a Member", The New York Times, October 12, 1979, p. A1
  37. ^ "American and Briton Get Nobel Prize for X-Ray Advance", by Lawrence K. Altman, The New York Times, October 12, 1979, p. A1
  38. ^ "Falldin Is Asked to Form New Government in Sweden", The New York Times, October 10, 1979, p. A6
  39. ^ "Mexico, U.S. and Canada Linked By 4.6-Mile Road Completing I-5", The New York Times, October 13, 1979, p. A6
  40. ^ "All 70 in the Seoul Opposition Quit Parliament Over Leader's Removal", by Henry Scott Stokes, The New York Times, October 13, 1979, p. A1
  41. ^ "75,000 March in Capital in Drive To Support Homosexual Rights", The New York Times, October 15, 1979, p. A14
  42. ^ "Ecevit Party Loses Majority in Turkey as Right Wing Gains", by Marvin Howe, The New York Times, October 15, 1979, p. A1
  43. ^ "100,000 Flock to Bonn In Atom-Power Protest", The New York Times, October 15, 1979, p. A2
  44. ^ "Salvador Military Deposes President to 'Restore Order'", The New York Times, October 16, 1979, p. A1
  45. ^ "2 Big Waves Hit Riviera, Killing at Least 9 People", The New York Times, October 17, 1979, p. A6
  46. ^ "Pakistan President Calls Off Elections", The New York Times, October 17, 1979, p. A7
  47. ^ Turkish Government to Quit After Election Defeat", by Marvin Howe, The New York Times, October 16, 1979, p. A9
  48. ^ "Pirates Capture World Series With 4—1 Triumph; Stargell Hits 2-Run Clout in 6th", The New York Times, October 18, 1979, p. D17
  49. ^ Attribution: Manfredo Ferrari
  50. ^ "Mother Teresa of Calcutta Wins Peace Prize", by Frank J. Prial, The New York Times, October 18, 1979, p. A1
  51. ^ attribution:U183658
  52. ^ "The 'Glory Days' of Satellite", DMS International
  53. ^ "Satellite receiving stations no longer need FCC license", by Randolph E. Schmid, Associated Press, in Arizona Republic (Phoenix), October 19, 1979, p. D18
  54. ^ Wagner, Guy Norris Mark (1999). Douglas Jetliners. Zenith Imprint. ISBN 978-1-61060-716-2.
  55. ^ a b "Texas Burn Center Strives to Heal Injured Marines", by William K. Stevens, The New York Times, November 19, 1979, p. A1, A23
  56. ^ "US Marine Corps". Archived from the original on 2008-02-25. Retrieved 2016-03-03.
  57. ^ "Carter and Kennedy Share Stage at Library Dedication", by Terence Smith, The New York Times, October 21, 1979, p. A1
  58. ^ "U.S. Decision to Admit the Shah; Key Events in 8 Months of Debate", by Bernard Gwertzman, The New York Times, November 18, 1979, p. A1
  59. ^ "Tate Outpoints Coetzee in South Africa for W.B.A. Title", by Red Smith, The New York Times, October 21, 1979, p. 5-1
  60. ^ "Fight Fans Accept Integrated Seating", The New York Times, October 21, 1979, p. 5-6
  61. ^ "U.S. fast food hits Singapore". The Telegraph. 1980-10-08. Retrieved 2014-11-13.
  62. ^ "Singapore's Orchard Road: You Can Shop Until You Drop". Daily News. 1990-04-11. Retrieved 2014-11-13.
  63. ^ "Botswana Holds Elections; Incumbent Seen Sure Victor", The New York Times, October 21, 1979, p. A15
  64. ^ "21 Die as Train Hits Bus At Crossing Near Lourdes", The New York Times, October 21, 1979, p. A15
  65. ^ "Matos, Freed by Cuba, Says 'Case Was Not Unique", by Jo Thomas, The New York Times, October 23, 1979, p. A3
  66. ^ "Uganda Closes Its Borders; It Will Replace Currency", The New York Times, October 22, 1979, p. A13
  67. ^ "Deposed Shah of Iran Reported Ill And Flown to New York for Tests", The New York Times, October 23, 1979, p. A5
  68. ^ "Murderer in Casino Executed in Nevada— Prisoner, Rejecting Offers of Aid, Told Officials of 18 Slayings", by Wallace Turner, The New York Times, October 23, 1979, p. A1
  69. ^ "Center Parties Gain in Danish Election", by Robert D. Hershey Jr., The New York Times, October 24, 1979, p. A6
  70. ^ "Danish Premier Begins Talks on New Cabinet After Election Victory", by Robert D. Hershey, Jr., The New York Times, October 25, 1979, p. A10
  71. ^ "At least 30 Feared Dead in Chile As Village is Buried by Mudflow", The New York Times, October 24, 1979, p. A16
  72. ^ "30 missing in landslide", Montreal Gazette, October 26, 1979, p. 75
  73. ^ "Czechoslovakia Convicts Six Dissidents of 'Subversion", The New York Times, October 24, 1979, p. A1
  74. ^ "Eleanor R. Belmont Dies at 100; Leader in Charities and Arts", by Deirdre Carmody, The New York Times, October 25, 1979, p. A1
  75. ^ Attribution:Daniele Schirmo
  76. ^ "Votes by the Basques and Catalans Seem to Favor Home-Rule Statutes", The New York Times, October 26, 1979, p. A12
  77. ^ "Soviet and South Yemen Sign 20-Year Friendship Pact", The New York Times, October 26, 1979, p. A11
  78. ^ "Guyanese Cabinet Member Shot to Death in Ambush", The New York Times, October 26, 1979, p. A5
  79. ^ "President Park Is Slain in Korea by Intelligence Chief, Seoul Says; Premier Takes Over, G.I.'s Alerted", The New York Times, October 27, 1979, p. A1
  80. ^ "Park's Bodyguard Was Hated by Korean Officials", The New York Times, October 29, 1979, p. A12
  81. ^ "Seoul Leaders Say K.C.I.A. Chief Killed Park in Policy Rift— Account Is Altered; Shooting Allegedly Began After a Bitter Dispute With Head of Guard", by Fox Butterfield, The New York Times, October 29, 1979, p. A1
  82. ^ "St. Vincent, Grenadines gain independence today", El Paso (TX) Times, October 27, 1979, p. 3
  83. ^ "42 Dead, 85 saved in S. Korea mine", Daily News (New York), October 29, 1979, p. 22
  84. ^ "Charles Coughlin, 30's 'Radio Priest,' Dies", The New York Times, October 28, 1979, p. 44
  85. ^ "10 Die as Mexican Plane With U.S. Prisoners Crashes", The New York Times, October 29, 1979, p. A16
  86. ^ "French Labor Minister Kills Himself After Scandal", The New York Times, October 31, 1979, p. A7
  87. ^ "French Minister's Suicide Note Accuses 2 Officials", The New York Times, November 1, 1979, p. A5
  88. ^ "Train Crash in Djibouti Kills 50 and Injures 30", The New York Times, November 1, 1979, p. A8
  89. ^ "Concorde and Air Force Fighters Came Within 10 Feet Near Jersey", by Richard Witkin, The New York Times, December 8, 1979, p. A1
  90. ^ "300 Raid U.S. Embassy in Salvador but Are Repulsed", The New York Times, October 31, 1979, p. A3
  91. ^ "Birmingham, Once a Citadel of Segregation, Elects Its First Black Mayor", by Howell Raines, The New York Times, October 31, 1979, p. A18
  92. ^ "Plane Crash Kills 72 in Mexico City", by Marlise Simons, The Washington Post, November 1, 1979, p. 1
  93. ^ "74 Die in a DC-10 Crash in Mexico As Pilot Lands on Closed Runway", The New York Times, November 1, 1979, p. A1