The first Masorti communities in the State of Israel were founded in 1979 by North American olim.

Life of Brian opened on 17 August 1979 in five North American theatres, and grossed $ 140, 034 USD ($ 28, 007 per screen ) in its opening weekend.

* 1979 – Aaron North, American musician ( Jubilee and The Icarus Line )

In 1979, North Korea renegotiated much of its international debt, but in 1980 it defaulted on all of its loans except those from Japan.

By the end of 1979 per capita GNP in North Korea was about one-third of that in the South.

* 1979 – A 106-car Canadian Pacific freight train carrying explosive and poisonous chemicals from Windsor, Ontario, Canada derails in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada just west of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, causing a massive explosion and the largest peacetime evacuation in Canadian history and one of the largest in North American history.

* 1979 – Greensboro massacre: Five members of the Communist Workers Party are shot dead and seven are wounded by a group of Klansmen and neo-Nazis during a " Death to the Klan " rally in Greensboro, North Carolina, United States.

As a result of this journey, which formed a section of the three-year Transglobe Expedition 1979 – 1982, Fiennes and Burton became the first people to complete a circumnavigation of the world via both North and South Poles, by surface travel alone.

Oral History: An Introduction for Students U of North Carolina Press, 1979. online edition

Porsche introduced a refreshed 928 S into the European market in 1979 model year, although it was summer of 1982 and MY 1983 before the model reached North America.

( 1979 ) The Norman Conquest of the North: the Region and its Transformation, 1000-1135.

Due to the huge success of Space Invaders, Taito opened in 1979 an American division called Taito America Corporation in order to release games in North America.

Also in 1979, she played the title role of Dana Lee, a North Dakota transfer student to L. A .' s San Fernando Valley in CBS's Survival of Dana.

Trees of North America and Europe, Random House, Inc., New York ISBN 0-394-50259-0, 1979.

Trees of North America and Europe, Random House, Inc., New York ISBN 0-394-50259-0, 1979.

The Minnesota Supreme Court ruled that a name change to 1069 could be denied, but that Ten Sixty-Nine was acceptable ( Application of Dengler, 1979 ); the North Dakota Supreme Court had denied the same request several years before ( Petition of Dengler, 1976 ).

However North Vietnam was largely independent from the Soviet Union and China, in 1979 Vietnam fought against China in a brief war.

Trees of North America and Europe, Random House, Inc., New York ISBN 0-394-50259-0, 1979.

Manhattan opened in 29 North American theaters on April 25, 1979.

He followed this with Who'll Stop the Rain in 1978 and North Dallas Forty, based on the Peter Gent novel, in 1979.

Norma Rae is a 1979 American drama film that tells the story of a factory worker from a small town in North Carolina, who becomes involved in the labor union activities at the textile factory where she works.

Other golf resorts are the Tamarisk, Mission Hills, the Springs, Sunrise, KSL Resorts ' Rancho Las Palmas hotel ( opened in 1979 to replace the Desert Air golf and private airport from 1954 – 1978 ), Rancho Mirage, Morningside, Mission Hills North Course, Westin Hotels Mission Hills resort, and Tuscania by Sunrise Company opened in 2006.

* Johnathan S. Cheshire, a 19th century Sarepta physician featured in Rupert Peyton's " A Webster Parish Country Doctor's Record " of the North Louisiana Historical Association Journal, Summer 1979.

* 1979 – Sung Si Kyung, Korean singer

* 1979 – Lee Na-young, South Korean actress

* 1979 – Eric Mun, Korean rapper ( Shinhwa )

* 1979 – Lee Si-yeon, South Korean actress

* 1979 – Seol Ki-Hyeon, South Korean footballer

* 1979 – Ahn Chil-Hyun ( Kangta ), lead singer of the former South Korean group H. O. T.

* 1979 – Park Chung-hee, President of South Korea is assassinated by Korean Central Intelligence Agency head Kim Jae-kyu.

* 1979 – Bae Doona, South Korean model and actress

* 1917 – Park Chung-hee, South Korean general and politician, 3rd President of South Korea ( d. 1979 )

* 1979 – Kim Jong-min, South Korean singer ( Koyote )

* Maya ( Korean singer ) ( born 1979 ), K-Pop singer

* Edward Mallory " Ned " Almond ( 12 December 1892 – 11 June 1979 ) was a controversial United States Army general best known as the commander of the Army's X Corps during the Korean War.

On October 17, 1979, a meeting of 22 Kuomintang security agencies adopted a proposal to ban the magazine after a protest from the Korean Embassy over an article in the 2nd issue titled " Unveil the Myth of the Korean Economic Miracle " ( 揭發韓國經濟奇蹟的神話 ).

The most tense involved the Berlin Blockade ( 1948 – 1949 ), the Korean War ( 1950 – 1953 ), the Suez Crisis ( 1956 ), the Berlin Crisis of 1961, the Cuban Missile Crisis ( 1962 ), the Vietnam War ( 1959 – 1975 ), the Yom Kippur War ( 1973 ), the Soviet war in Afghanistan ( 1979 – 1989 ), the Soviet downing of Korean Air Lines Flight 007 ( 1983 ), and the “ Able Archer ” NATO military exercises ( 1983 ).

* October 1979: Three North Korean agents attempting to infiltrate the eastern sector of the DMZ were intercepted, killing one of the agents.

* December 6, 1979: US patrol in the DMZ accidentally crosses the MDL into a North Korean minefield.

The Korean wall is a concrete barrier that was allegedly built along the length of the DMZ in South Korea between 1977 and 1979.

* Noh Hong-cheol ( 盧弘喆 ; born 1979 ), South Korean comedian, entertainer and entrepreneur

According to the controversial Korean history book Hwandan Gogi, complied by Uncho Gye Yeon-su in 1911, and later published in 1979, Chi You was also an ancestor of the Koreans.

He assassinated South Korean President Park Chung-hee, who had been one of his closest friends for a long time, on October 26, 1979.

* Haha ( entertainer ) ( born 1979 ), Korean entertainer