February 1 » Shinhan Bank, the oldest bank in South Korea, opens in Seoul.
February 28 » Queen Ranavalona III, the last monarch of Madagascar, is deposed by a French military force.
May 26 » The original manuscript of William Bradford's history, "Of Plymouth Plantation" is returned to the Governor of Massachusetts by the Bishop of London after being taken during the American Revolutionary War.
July 11 » Salomon August Andrée leaves Spitsbergen to attempt to reach the North Pole by balloon. He later crashes and dies.
September 11 » After months of pursuit, generals of Menelik II of Ethiopia capture Gaki Sherocho, the last king of Kaffa, bringing an end to that ancient kingdom.
December 30 » The British Colony of Natal annexes Zululand.
Day of death May 7, 1979
The temperature on May 7, 1979 was between -0.8 °C and 12.7 °C and averaged 7.7 °C. There was 7.3 hours of sunshine (48%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
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.
January 1 » Normal diplomatic relations are established between the People's Republic of China and the United States.
January 7 » Third Indochina War: Cambodian–Vietnamese War: Phnom Penh falls to the advancing Vietnamese troops, driving out Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge.
September 14 » Afghan President Nur Muhammad Taraki is assassinated upon the order of Hafizullah Amin, who becomes the new president.
September 16 » The Sugarhill Gang were formed and rappers delight was released.
November 4 » Iran hostage crisis: A group of Iranian college students overruns the U.S. embassy in Tehran and takes 90 hostages.
December 4 » The Hastie fire in Hull kills three schoolboys and eventually leads police to arrest Bruce George Peter Lee.
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