February 23 » Second Boer War: During the Battle of the Tugela Heights, the first British attempt to take Hart's Hill fails.
March 13 » British forces occupy Bloemfontein, Orange Free State, during the Second Boer War.
April 14 » The Exposition Universelle begins.
May 18 » The United Kingdom proclaims a protectorate over Tonga.
August 16 » The Battle of Elands River during the Second Boer War ends after a 13-day siege is lifted by the British. The battle had begun when a force of between 2,000 and 3,000 Boers had surrounded a force of 500 Australians, Rhodesians, Canadians and British soldiers at a supply dump at Brakfontein Drift.
November 7 » The People's Party is founded in Cuba.
Day of death November 8, 1979
The temperature on November 8, 1979 was between 4.5 °C and 12.2 °C and averaged 7.3 °C. There was 2.5 mm of rain during 2.5 hours. There was 1.6 hours of sunshine (17%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) 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.
March 25 » The first fully functional Space Shuttle orbiter, Columbia, is delivered to the John F. Kennedy Space Center to be prepared for its first launch.
May 9 » Iranian Jewish businessman Habib Elghanian is executed by firing squad in Tehran, prompting the mass exodus of the once 100,000-strong Jewish community of Iran.
July 1 » Sony introduces the Walkman.
October 1 » The MTR, the rapid transit railway system in Hong Kong, opens.
October 14 » The first National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights draws approximately 100,000 people.
November 16 » The first line of Bucharest Metro (Line M1) is opened from Timpuri Noi to Semănătoarea in Bucharest, Romania.
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