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March 19, 1979Born on Tuesday March 20, 1979
- Dineke de Jong, Hoogblokland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 2024)
- Barbara VAN DE HAAR, Veenendaal, Utrecht, Nederland († 1996)
Died on Tuesday March 20, 1979
- Adrianus Hoek (67), Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
- Arend Jan Klomp (85)
- Catharina Lommerse (83), Arnhem
- Bartholomeus Hoogwerf Eikelenboom (65), Leiden, Zuid Holland, Netherlands
- Alida Bosse (91), Amstelveen, Noord-Holland, Nederland
- Albertus Flavianus Kleine Staarman (84)
- Arend Mulder (63)
- Alida Bosse (91), Amstelveen
- Agnes F. Catherine Howard Leffler (78), Baltimore City, Baltimore, Maryland, Verenigde Staten
- Albertus Flavianus Kleine Staarman (84), Slagharen
Source: Delpher (KB | national library) Newspapers from March 20, 1979 at Delpher
Born on March 20
- 1976 » Chester Bennington, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor († 2017)
- 1978 » Brent Sherwin, Australian rugby league player
- 1978 » Kevin Betsy, English born Seychelles international footballer, midfielder and manager
- 1979 » Freema Agyeman, English actress
- 1979 » Keven Mealamu, New Zealand rugby player
- 1979 » Shinnosuke Abe, Japanese baseball player
- 1980 » Jamal Crawford, American basketball player
- 1980 » Robertas Javtokas, Lithuanian basketball player
- 1981 » Carl Webb, Australian rugby league player
- 1981 » Ian Murray, Scottish footballer
Died on March 20
- 1968 » Carl Theodor Dreyer, Danish director and screenwriter (b. 1889)
- 1969 » Henri Longchambon, French politician (b. 1896)
- 1971 » Falih Rıfkı Atay, Turkish journalist and politician (b. 1894)
- 1972 » Marilyn Maxwell, American actress (b. 1921)
- 1974 » Chet Huntley, American journalist (b. 1911)
- 1977 » Charles Lyttelton, 10th Viscount Cobham, English politician, 9th Governor-General of New Zealand (b. 1909)
- 1977 » Terukuni Manzō, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 38th Yokozuna (b. 1919)
- 1978 » Jacques Brugnon, French tennis player (b. 1895)
- 1981 » Gerry Bertier, American football player (b. 1953)
- 1983 » Ivan Matveyevich Vinogradov, Russian mathematician and academic (b. 1891)
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Source: Wikipedia Historical events 1979
- Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
- In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, December 19, 1977 to Friday, September 11, 1981 the cabinet Van Agt I, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA/KVP) as prime minister.
- The Netherlands had about 14.0 million citizens.
- February 18 » Richard Petty wins a then-record sixth Daytona 500 after leaders Donnie Allison and Cale Yarborough crash on the final lap of the first NASCAR race televised live flag-to-flag.
- March 8 » Philips demonstrates the compact disc publicly for the first time.
- March 17 » The Penmanshiel Tunnel collapses during engineering works, killing two workers.
- July 16 » Iraqi President Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr resigns and is replaced by Saddam Hussein.
- November 15 » A package from Unabomber Ted Kaczynski begins smoking in the cargo hold of a flight from Chicago to Washington, D.C., forcing the plane to make an emergency landing.
- December 4 » The Hastie fire in Hull kills three schoolboys and eventually leads police to arrest Bruce George Peter Lee.
Weather March 20, 1979
The temperature on March 20, 1979 was between -1.0 °C and 10.8 °C and averaged 3.8 °C. There was 1.8 mm of rain during 0.6 hours. There was 4.1 hours of sunshine (34%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south east.