* 1911 – Feodor Felix Konrad Lynen, German biochemist, Nobel laureate ( d. 1979 )

* 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

* 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.

* 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

Kaohsiung was upgraded to a special municipality on July 1, 1979, by the Executive Yuan, which approved this proposal on November 19, 1978.

The Kaohsiung Incident took place in Kaohsiung on December 10, 1979.

The city of Taipei was split off to become a province-level municipality in 1967, and the city of Kaohsiung was split off in 1979 to become another province-level municipality.

* Kaohsiung City, formerly a provincial city of Taiwan Province, was elevated as a special municipality in 1979.

The Kaohsiung Incident also known as the Formosa Incident, the Meilidao Incident or the Formosa Magazine incident was the result of pro-democracy demonstrations that occurred in Kaohsiung, Taiwan on December 10, 1979.

The magazine's Kaohsiung service center applied for a permit to hold a human rights forum on December 10, 1979 at an indoor stadium, and after that it was denied to applied for a permit to hold the event at the Fu Lun Park ( 扶輪公園 ), which was also denied.

On December 9, 1979, the Kaohsiung branch of Formosa Magazine dispatched two campaign wagons to broadcast the “ Human Rights Forum ,” and the wagons were held up by the police and resulted in the conflict.

However, Tangwai members including Shih Ming-teh and Lin Yi-hsiung were often harassed or imprisoned by the government, especially in the wake of the 1979 Kaohsiung Incident.

Events such as the Kaohsiung Incident in 1979 highlighted the need for change and groups like Amnesty International were mobilizing a campaign against the government and President Chiang Ching-kuo.

In 1979 she delivered a 20-minute speech criticizing the government at an International Human Rights Day rally that later became known as the " Kaohsiung Incident.

A police raid of the Formosa Press caused the Kaohsiung Incident in December 1979.

After playing a part in organizing the December 10, 1979 pro-democracy rally subsequently known as the Kaohsiung Incident, ( also known as the Formosa Incident or Meilitao Incident ), an arrest warrant was issued charging Shih with treason, and following 26 days on the run he was again arrested and sentenced to life in prison.

Deeply involved in the Kaohsiung Incident, during which opposition politicians held a demonstration commemorating Human Rights Day, Hsu was forced into exile in the United States in 1979.

Siaogang was annexed by Kaohsiung City and become " Siaogang District " on July 1, 1979, when Kaohsiung City became a Central Municipality.

The 1979 Kaohsiung Incident was a major blow to hopes for democratic reform, but Chiang Ching-kuo pushed for reform of the Nationalist Party and opening it to Taiwanese.

* 1979 – The Vela Incident ( also known as the South Atlantic Flash ) is observed near Bouvet Island, thought to be a nuclear weapons test.

" The unsolved case of a mysterious object impacting a county sheriff's car on August 27, 1979 was featured ( see Val Johnson Incident ).

Of these, the only one taken seriously as a possible nuclear test is the Vela Incident, a possible detection of a nuclear explosion in the Indian Ocean in 1979.

On September 22, 1979, the Vela Incident occured.

The Jesus Incident ( 1979 ) is the second science fiction novel set in the Destination: Void universe by the American author Frank Herbert and poet Bill Ransom.

* Vela Incident, suspected 1979 Israeli-South African nuclear test allegedly codenamed " Operation Phenix "

Among these are the 1979 takeover of the Egyptian embassy in Ankara, Turkey ( although http :// www. tkb. org / Incident. jsp? incID = 2491 attributed to Fatah ) and a kidnapping of Jews emigrating by train through Austria from the Soviet Union to Israel.

The Vela Incident ( sometimes referred to as the South Atlantic Flash ) was an unidentified " double flash " of light that was detected by an American Vela Hotel satellite on September 22, 1979 near the Prince Edward Islands or Antarctica.

* Report on the 1979 Vela Incident September 1, 2001

Cases of questioned text include the Great Leap Forward which caused 30 million Chinese deaths (" the People suffered major losses "), China's 1979 invasion of Vietnam, the Cultural Revolution (" lots of appalling events happened ") and the Tiananmen Square " Incident " of 1989, in which hundreds of protesters may have been killed.