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* 1979 – A Provisional Irish Republican Army bomb kills British World War II admiral Louis Mountbatten and three others while they are boating on holiday in Sligo, Republic of Ireland.
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* 1979 – Sam Atwell, Australian actor
* 1979 – Christine Smith, American model and actress
* 1979 – Lord Frederick Windsor, British financial analyst
* 1907 – Hardie Gramatky, American author and animator ( d. 1979 )
* 1979 – Claire Danes, American actress
* 1979 – Jordan De Jong, American baseball player
* 1979 – Elena Grosheva, Russian gymnast
* 1979 – Mateja Kežman, Serbian footballer
* 1979 – Jennifer Morrison, American actress and model
* 1979 – Paul Nicholls, English actor
* 1979 – Cristian Ranalli, Italian footballer
* 1979 – Gerardo Torrado, Mexican footballer
* 1886 – Rebecca Clarke, English composer and violist ( d. 1979 )
* 1979 – Giovanni Capitello, American actor and producer
* 1979 – Tian Liang, Chinese diver
* 1979 – Sarah Neufeld, Canadian violinist ( Arcade Fire and Bell Orchestre )
* 1979 – Aaron Paul, American actor
* 1979 – Rusty Smith, American speed skater
* 1979 – Francesco Bellotti, Italian cyclist
* 1979 – Megumi Okina, Japanese actress and singer
* 1929 – Abdi İpekçi, Turkish journalist ( d. 1979 )
* 1979 – Michael Kingma, Australian basketball player
* 1979 – Tony Stewart, American football player
1979 and Provisional
In 1979 Mountbatten was assassinated by the Provisional Irish Republican Army ( IRA ), who planted a bomb in his yacht, the Shadow V, at Mullaghmore, County Sligo, in the Republic of Ireland.
* 1979 – In Dublin, Ireland, Provisional Irish Republican Army member Thomas McMahon is sentenced to life in prison for the assassination of Lord Mountbatten.
On 27 August 1979 the Provisional IRA assassinated Earl Mountbatten of Burma in County Sligo.
On 27 August 1979, during " the Troubles ", the Provisional Irish Republican Army ambushed a British Army convoy at nearby Narrow Water Castle.
The issue of risk was again highlighted in an attack by the Provisional Irish Republican Army in January 1979 on a storage tank at the island's Texaco oil terminal.
* The last Grand Master of the Order, Admiral of the Fleet Earl Mountbatten of Burma ( 1900 – 1979 ), was killed by the Provisional IRA on 27 August 1979.
In 1978 and 1979, he returned to Armagh as a newly promoted Lance Corporal, and claimed to have killed for the first time during a firefight with the Provisional Irish Republican Army.
On 27 August 1979, 18 British Army soldiers were killed by a Provisional IRA ambush at Narrow Water Castle ( see Narrow Water ambush ).
On 19 April 1979, Agnes Wallace ( 40 ), a prison officer, was shot dead and three colleagues were injured in a Provisional Irish Republican Army ( IRA ) gun and grenade attack outside the prison.
On 12 May 1979 An Phoblacht published extracts from a secret British Ministry of Defence intelligence document which contained a detailed analysis of the Provisional IRA and the situation in Northern Ireland.
Dariush Forouhar () ( August 1928-November 1998 ) was a founder and leader of the Hezb-e Mellat-e Iran ( Nation of Iran Party ), a pan-Iranist opposition party in Iran and served as Minister of Labor in the Provisional Revolutionary Government of Mehdi Bazargan in 1979.
Nicholas Knatchbull and local teenager Paul Maxwell, were killed by a bomb planted by the Provisional IRA in August 1979.
José María Pinilla Fábrega ( November 28, 1919 – August 10, 1979 ) was Chairman Provisional Junta of Panama from October 12, 1968 to December 18, 1969.
Nicholas Timothy Charles Knatchbull ( 18 November 1964 – 27 August 1979 ), killed, aged 14, by a Provisional Irish Republican Army ( IRA ) bomb.
His widow, The Dowager Lady Brabourne, was murdered in the 1979 bombing by the Provisional Irish Republican Army bombing of Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma's boat.
1979 and Irish
* 1979 – Bernadette Flynn, Irish dancer
* 1979 – Gareth McAuley, Irish footballer
* 1979 – Henry Shefflin, Irish hurler
* 1979 – Shane Filan, Irish singer-songwriter ( Westlife )
* 1979 – Graeme McDowell, Irish golfer
* 1979 – Nikki Hayes, Irish radio host
* 1979 – Damien Duff, Irish footballer
* 1979 – Chris Doran, Irish singer
* 1979 – Aaron Hughes, Northern Irish footballer
* 1979 – Chris O ' Dowd, Irish actor and former Gaelic footballer
* Ruby Walsh ( born 1979 ), Irish jockey
* 1979 – James O ' Connor, Irish footballer
* 1979 – Richard Dunne, Irish footballer
* 1979 – George O ' Callaghan, Irish footballer
* 1979 – Pope John Paul II becomes the first pope to set foot on Irish soil with his pastoral visit to the Republic of Ireland.
It occurred in September 1979, when the international press corps, travelling to Ireland for the visit of Pope John Paul II, told their Irish colleagues that Europe was " awash " with rumours that Hillery had a mistress living with him in Áras an Uachtaráin ( the presidential residence ), that he and his wife were divorcing and he was resigning the presidency.
* Allied Irish Banks settled a million-pound overdraft with Haughey soon after he became Taoiseach in 1979 ; the tribunal found that the lenience shown by the bank in this case amounted to an indirect payment by the bank to Haughey.
* Listen Irish People ( published by Todd & Honeywell, Inc., 1979 ) ISBN 0-89962-007-8
A new phase in her career began after Pope John Paul II came to Ireland in September 1979, inspiring her to write with her husband the Irish chart-topper " Totus Tuus ".
Bob Carolgees made his debut in early 1979, having been told to go on the programme by Irish comic Frank Carson.
* Paddy Wallace ( born 1979 ), Irish rugby union footballer
When Dad's Army run ended in 1977, Lowe remained much in demand taking starring roles in television comedies such as Bless Me Father with Daniel Abineri ( 1978 – 81 ) as the mischievous Irish priest Father Charles Clement Duddleswell – quite a departure from the pompous characters that Lowe usually portrayed – and Potter ( 1979 – 80 ), as busybody Redvers Potter.
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