February 7 » A Chinese immigrant in San Francisco falls ill to bubonic plague in the first plague epidemic in the continental United States.
April 5 » Archaeologists in Knossos, Crete, discover a large cache of clay tablets with hieroglyphic writing in a script they call Linear B.
June 14 » Hawaii becomes a United States territory.
July 29 » In Italy, King Umberto I of Italy is assassinated by the anarchist Gaetano Bresci.
September 13 » Filipino insurgents defeat a small American column in the Battle of Pulang Lupa, during the Philippine–American War.
October 19 » Max Planck discovers Planck's law of black-body radiation.
Day of death March 4, 1979
The temperature on March 4, 1979 was between -0.9 °C and 9.9 °C and averaged 5.2 °C. There was 8.5 mm of rain during 9.0 hours. There was 3.6 hours of sunshine (33%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. 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.
February 7 » Pluto moves inside Neptune's orbit for the first time since either was discovered.
March 13 » The New Jewel Movement, headed by Maurice Bishop, ousts the Prime Minister of Grenada, Eric Gairy, in a coup d'état.
July 12 » The island nation of Kiribati becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
October 31 » Western Airlines Flight 2605 crashes on landing in Mexico City, killing 73 people.
November 12 » Iran hostage crisis: In response to the hostage situation in Tehran, US President Jimmy Carter orders a halt to all petroleum imports into the United States from Iran.
December 23 » Soviet–Afghan War: Soviet Union forces occupy Kabul, the Afghan capital.
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