Events 601 - 705 of 705
Sports History
Nov 5 Oakland Raider's John Madden becomes 13th coach to win 100 NFL games
Historic Event
Nov 6 Shah of Iran Mohammad Reza Pahlavi places the country under military rule; General Gholām Reza Azhāri forms government
- Nov 7 Boston Red Sox Jim Rice wins AL MVP
- Nov 7 CDA-chairman W Aantjes resigns due to his war past
- Nov 7 Marion Barry Jr. elected as Washington, D.C.'s first African American mayor
Theater Premiere
Nov 8 Tom Stoppard's play "Night & Day" premieres in London
Boxing Title Fight
Nov 10 Larry Holmes KOs Alfredo Evangelist in 7 for heavyweight boxing title
- Nov 10 NY Yankees trade Lyle, Rajsich, McCall, Heath and Ramos to Texas for Righetti, Mirabella, Beniquez, Jemison and Griffin
- Nov 11 Maumoon Abdul Gayoom becomes president of Maldives
- Nov 12 Gary William Friedman and Will Holt's musical "Platinum" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater, NYC; runs for 33 performances
- Nov 13 NASA launches HEAO 2
- Nov 15 183 die as Icelandic Airlines DC-8 crashes in Colombo, Sri Lanka
Theater Premiere
Nov 15 Harold Pinter's play "Betrayal" premieres in London
- Nov 18 Leo J Ryan, American politician, and 4 others, killed in Jonestown, Guyana by members of Peoples Temple, followed by ritual mass suicide of 914 members of the religious cult
- Nov 19 "The Miracle at the Meadowlands", Eagles Herman Edwards returns a fumble for a touchdown with 31 seconds left to give Philadelphia a 19-17 victory over the rival New York Giants
Sports History
Nov 19 28th NASCAR Sprint Cup: Cale Yarborough wins
- Nov 21 Bob Horner of Braves wins NL Rookie of Year Award
Election of Interest
Nov 25 New Zealand general election won by ruling Prime Minister Robert Muldoon and the National Party
- Nov 26 10 die as fire erupts at Holiday Inn in Rochester, NY
- Nov 26 1st lesbian theme TV movie - "A Question of Love"
- Nov 26 CFL Grey Cup, CNE Stadium, Toronto: Edmonton Eskimos first of 5 straight titles; beat Montreal Alouettes, 20-13
- Nov 26 Christina Crawford autobiography "Mommie Dearest" reaches best-seller status
Assassination
Nov 27 San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk assassinated by former Supervisor Dan White at City Hall
- Nov 28 44th Heisman Trophy Award: Billy Sims, Oklahoma (RB)
Album Release
Nov 28 Atlantic Records releases "Briefcase Full of Blues", the debut album by The Blues Brothers (Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi); album tops the chart and becomes best-selling blues record of all-time
Sports History
Nov 28 Reds fire manager Sparky Anderson after 9 years
Cricket Debut
Dec 1 Australian cricket fast bowler Rodney Hogg debuts in 1st Test v England in Brisbane; after Australia all out 116, Hogg makes instant impact by dismissing both high profile England openers Graham Gooch (2) and Geoff Boycott (13)
- Dec 1 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
Historic Event
Dec 1 US President Jimmy Carter more than doubles national park system size
- Dec 2 43rd Iron Bowl: Alabama beats Auburn 34-16 in Birmingham, Alabama
#1 in the Charts
Dec 2 Neil Diamond & Barbra Streisand's duet single "You Don't Bring Me Flowers" hits #1
- Dec 2 Protesters chant "Allah is great" at an Anti-Shah protest in Tehran, Iran
Cricket History
Dec 2 Sunil Gavaskar scores his second double century (205) in Test cricket (as well as 73 on the final day) to guide India to a draw against the West Indies in the 1st Test in Bombay
Historic Event
Dec 4 Dutch war criminal Pieter Menten freed
- Dec 4 Pioneer Venus 1 goes into orbit around Venus
- Dec 5 Islanders took 28 shots in 1 period vs Penguins, Penguins' Ross Lonsberry failed on 7th penalty shot against Islanders
- Dec 5 Pioneer Venus 1 begins orbiting Venus
- Dec 5 Sam Shepard's "Buried Child" premieres in NYC
- Dec 6 Spain adopts constitution
NHL Record
Dec 7 Islander's Mike Bossy's 1st career hat trick
Film Premiere
Dec 8 "The Deer Hunter", directed by Michael Cimino and starring Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken and Meryl Streep, premieres in Los Angeles (Academy Awards Best Picture 1979)
- Dec 8 Commencement of the 1st day/night World Series Cricket supertest at VFL Park, Melbourne
- Dec 9 1st game of Women's Pro Basketball League (WBL), Chicago Hustle vs Milwaukee Does
- Dec 9 Pioneer Venus 2 drops 5 probes into atmosphere of Venus
- Dec 10 67th Davis Cup: USA beats Great Britain in Rancho Mirage (4-1)
- Dec 10 Gary William Friedman and Will Holt's musical "Platinum" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater, NYC, after 33 performances
- Dec 10 Islanders ends 15 game undefeated streak (12-0-3) to Canadians
Nobel Prize
Dec 10 Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat accept the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo
Film Premiere
Dec 10 Superman: The Movie, directed by Richard Donner and starring Christopher Reeve, Marlon Brando, Gene Hackman and Margot Kidder premieres at the Uptown Theater in Washington, D.C.
- Dec 11 6 masked men bound 10 employees at Lufthansa cargo area at NYC Kennedy Airport & made off with $5.8m in cash & jewelry
- Dec 11 NBC premiere of "A Woman Called Moses"
- Dec 13 CBS' premiere of "Lovey: A Circle of Children Part II", sequel to "A Circle of Children", which is also based on Mary Mac Cracken
- Dec 14 "Ballroom" opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 116 performances
- Dec 14 China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor, PRC
- Dec 14 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
Album Release
Dec 15 German label Ariola Records releases eponymous debut album "Rosanne Cash", produced by future husband Rodney Crowell
- Dec 15 Saint Maarten Patriotic Movement (SPM) forms under W. James
- Dec 15 Test Cricket debut of Malcolm Marshall, v India at Bangalore
- Dec 16 Cleveland, Ohio becomes the first post-Depression era city to default on its loans, owing $14,000,000 to local banks.
Historic Event
Dec 16 Ronald Reagan denounces President Jimmy Carter's recognition of People's Republic of China
- Dec 17 OPEC raises oil prices by 18% and agrees on a 14.5% petroleum price increase for 1979, to be implemented quarterly
- Dec 17 Referendum approves new constitution of Rwanda
- Dec 17 The Workers' Party of Jamaica is founded by Trevor Munroe
- Dec 18 France performs nuclear test at Mururoa atoll
- Dec 18 USSR performs underground nuclear test
- Dec 19 France performs nuclear test
Historic Event
Dec 19 Indira Gandhi ambushed in India
Historic Event
Dec 20 H. R. Haldeman, Nixon's White House Chief of Staff released from jail
- Dec 21 Charles Strouse and Lee Adams' musical "A Broadway Musical" opens and closes at Lunt Fontanne Theater, NYC, after 1 performance
Murder of Interest
Dec 21 Police in Des Plaines, Illinois, arrest John Wayne Gacy for murder
Music History
Dec 22 Kenney Jones becomes The Who's new drummer, replacing the deceased Keith Moon
- Dec 22 Thailand adopts constitution
NHL Record
Dec 23 NY Islanders center Bryan Trottier sets NHL record scoring 6 points - 4 goals & 2 assists - in 2nd period of 9-4 win over rival NY Rangers; adds goal & assist for game total 8 points; Islanders undefeated home streak stands at 16 games
- Dec 25 8th Fiesta Bowl: #8 Arkansas ties #15 UCLA, 10-10
- Dec 26 India's former Prime Minister, Indira Gandhi is released from jail
- Dec 27 Ballon d'Or: Hamburg's English forward Kevin Keegan wins his 1st of 2 consecutive trophies as best football player in Europe; beats Barcelona striker Hans Krankl and Anderlecht winger Rob Rensenbrink
Television Premiere
Dec 27 CBS Television's premiere of its version of "Les Miserables", starring Richard Jordan and Anthony Perkins
- Dec 27 Spain becomes a democracy after 40 years of dictatorship as King Juan Carlos ratifies Spain's 1st democratic constitution
- Dec 28 30th hat trick in Islander history (Mike Bossy)
- Dec 29 Shah of Iran Mohammad Reza Pahlavi asks Shapour Bahktiar to form a civilian government
- Dec 29 Spain constitution goes into effect
- Dec 29 Test Cricket debut of Allan Robert Border, v England at the MCG
- Dec 30 Ohio State dismisses Woody Hayes as its football coach
- Dec 30 Revival of Rodgers and Hammerstein's musical "The King & I" closes at Uris Theater, NYC after 719 performances
- Dec 31 "Magic Show" closes at Cort Theater NYC after 1859 performances
- Dec 31 "Runaways" closes at Plymouth Theater NYC after 199 performances
- Dec 31 CIA director, Admiral Stansfield Turner retires from the Navy
- Dec 31 Iran shah names Chapour Bakhtiar premier
- Dec 31 Taiwan's final day of diplomatic relations with US
- Dec 31 The Runaways' band's last ever concert at the Cow Plalce in Daly City, California
- Dec 31 Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco, California closes after 556 concerts; Final show is the Grateful Dead, New Riders of the Purple Sage, and The Blues Brothers; program lasts for over 8 hours, with the Grateful Dead playing for nearly 6 hours; concert broadcast on local PBS TV station KQED, and simulcast by radio station KSAN-FM, after the show, the crowd was treated to a hot, buffet-style breakfast.