January 4 » Topsy, an elephant, is electrocuted by the owners of Luna Park, Coney Island. The Edison film company records the film Electrocuting an Elephant of Topsy's death.
April 29 » A landslide kills 70 people in Frank, in the District of Alberta, Canada.
July 1 » Start of first Tour de France bicycle race.
July 20 » The Ford Motor Company ships its first automobile.
August 18 » German engineer Karl Jatho allegedly flies his self-made, motored gliding airplane four months before the first flight of the Wright brothers.
November 17 » The Russian Social Democratic Labour Party splits into two groups: The Bolsheviks (Russian for "majority") and Mensheviks (Russian for "minority").
Day of death July 3, 1979
The temperature on July 3, 1979 was between 8.9 °C and 21.0 °C and averaged 15.7 °C. There was 11.7 hours of sunshine (70%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest. 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 16 » The last Iranian Shah flees Iran with his family for good and relocates to Egypt.
March 16 » Sino-Vietnamese War: The People's Liberation Army crosses the border back into China, ends the war.
July 9 » A car bomb destroys a Renault motor car owned by "Nazi hunters" Serge and Beate Klarsfeld outside their home in France in an unsuccessful assassination attempt.
July 11 » America's first space station, Skylab, is destroyed as it re-enters the Earth's atmosphere over the Indian Ocean.
July 25 » In accord with the Egypt–Israel Peace Treaty, Israel begins its withdrawal from the Sinai Peninsula.
October 31 » Western Airlines Flight 2605 crashes on landing in Mexico City, killing 73 people.
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