WHAT ALL HAPPENED JANUARY TO APRIL 1979
Find out what all happened January to April 1979

Pope John Paul II starts his first official papal visits outside Italy to the Bahamas, Dominican Republic and Mexico. (25. January 1979)

Sino-Vietnamese War: The People's Liberation Army crosses the border back into China, ends the war. (16. March 1979)

A Varig 707-323C freighter, flown by the same commander as Flight 820, disappears over the Pacific Ocean 30 minutes after taking off from Tokyo. (30. January 1979)

The Sino-Vietnamese War begins. (17. February 1979)

Red River Valley tornado outbreak: A tornado lands in Wichita Falls, Texas killing 42 people. (10. April 1979)

The last Iranian Shah flees Iran with his family for good and relocates to Egypt. (16. January 1979)

Anwar al-Sadat, Menachem Begin and Jimmy Carter sign the Israel-Egypt Peace Treaty in Washington, D.C.. (26. March 1979)

Snow falls in the Sahara Desert in southern Algeria for the only time in recorded history. (18. February 1979)

America's Voyager 1 spacecraft has its closest approach to Jupiter, 172,000 miles. (5. March 1979)

The Penmanshiel Tunnel collapses during engineering works, killing two workers. (17. March 1979)

Airey Neave, a British Member of Parliament, is killed by a car bomb as he exits the Palace of Westminster. The Irish National Liberation Army claims responsibility. (30. March 1979)

Formal diplomatic relations are established between China and the United States. (1. January 1979)

President Zulfikar Ali Bhutto of Pakistan is executed. (4. April 1979)

The United States House of Representatives begins broadcasting its day-to-day business via the cable television network C-SPAN. (19. March 1979)

The Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returns to Tehran, Iran after nearly 15 years of exile. (1. February 1979)

CBS News Sunday Morning debuts with original host and cocreator Charles Kuralt. (28. January 1979)

A coolant leak at the Three Mile Island's Unit 2 nuclear reactor outside Harrisburg, Pennsylvania leads to the core overheating and a partial melt down. (28. March 1979)

Pope John Paul II starts his first pastoral visit to Mexico. (28. January 1979)

The first fully functional space shuttle orbiter, Columbia, is delivered to the John F. Kennedy Space Center to be prepared for its first launch. (25. March 1979)

An intense windstorm strikes western Washington and sinks a 1/2-mile-long section of the Hood Canal Bridge. (13. February 1979)