WHAT ALL HAPPENED MAY TO OCTOBER 1979
Find out what all happened May to October 1979

Another section of the Sinai Peninsula is peacefully returned by Israel to Egypt. (25. July 1979)

Park Chung-hee, President of South Korea is assassinated by Korean Central Intelligence Agency head Kim Jae-kyu. Choi Kyu-ha becomes the acting President; Kim is executed the following May. (26. October 1979)

SALT II is signed by the United States and the Soviet Union. (18. June 1979)

In Afghanistan, Maoists undertake an attempted military uprising. (5. August 1979)

The Chrysler Corporation asks the United States government for USD $1.5 billion to avoid bankruptcy. (7. September 1979)

Bryan Allen wins the second Kremer prize for a man powered flight across the English Channel in the Gossamer Albatross. (12. June 1979)

Afghan President Nur Muhammad Taraki is assassinated upon the order of Hafizullah Amin, who becomes the new president. (14. September 1979)

Soviet dancer Alexander Godunov defects to the United States. (21. August 1979)

The first black-led government of Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) in 90 years takes power. (1. June 1979)

The first Gay Rights March on Washington, D.C., the National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights, demands "an end to all social, economic, judicial, and legal oppression of lesbian and gay people", and draws 200,000 people. (14. October 1979)

The island nation of Kiribati becomes independent from United Kingdom. (12. July 1979)

The MTR, the rapid transit railway system in Hong Kong, opens. (1. October 1979)

Several tornadoes strike the city of Woodstock, Ontario, Canada and the surrounding communities. (7. August 1979)

A car bomb destroys a Renault motor car owned by the famed "Nazi hunters" Serge and Beate Klarsfeld at their home in France. A note purportedly from ODESSA claims responsibility. (9. July 1979)

Sony introduces the Walkman. (1. July 1979)

The Federated States of Micronesia become self-governing. (10. May 1979)

Etan Patz, who is six years old, disappears from the street just two blocks away from his home in New York City, prompting an international search for the child, and causing the U.S. President Ronald Reagan to designate May 25 as National Missing Children's Day (in 1983). (25. May 1979)

The Sandinista rebels overthrow the government of the Somoza family in Nicaragua. (19. July 1979)

Mother Teresa awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. (17. October 1979)

American Airlines Flight 191: In Chicago, a McDonnell Douglas DC-10 crashes during takeoff at O'Hare International Airport killing all 271 on board and two people on the ground. (25. May 1979)