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1975 ABA Playoffs The 1975 ABA Playoffs was the postseason tournament of the American Basketball Association's 1974-1975 season. The tournament concluded with the Eastern Division champion Kentucky Colonels defeating the Western Division champion Indiana Pacers, four games to one in the ABA Finals.
1975 AIA building hostage crisis The AIA building hostage crisis was a major events which took placed in AIA Building, Jalan Ampang Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on August 1975. The Japanese Red Army took more than 50 hostages at the AIA building housing several embassies in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
1975 American League Championship Series The 1975 American League Championship Series faced the Boston Red Sox and the 3-time defending world champion Oakland Athletics for the right to advance to the 1975 World Series. During the regular season, the Red Sox posted a 95-65 record and won the AL East division title, while the Athletics went 98-64 to win the AL West.
1975 Atlantic hurricane season The 1975 Atlantic hurricane season officially began on June 1, 1975, and lasted until November 30, 1975. These dates conventionally delimit the period of each year when most tropical cyclones form in the Atlantic basin.
1975 Canada Games The 1975 Canada Winter Games were hosted in Lethbridge, Alberta from 11–23 February 1975. Depite being hosted by Lethbridge, the games were held in 12 communities in southern Alberta spread out over 34,000 km² (13,127 sq mi).
1975 Memorial Cup The 1975 Memorial Cup occurred May 3-May 11 at the Kitchener Memorial Auditorium Complex in Kitchener, Ontario. Participating teams were the winners of the Ontario Major Junior Hockey League, Quebec Major Junior Hockey League and Western Hockey League which were the Toronto Marlboros, Sherbrooke Castors and New Westminster Bruins.
1975 National League Championship Series The 1975 National League Championship Series was a best-of-five match-up between the Eastern Division champion Pittsburgh Pirates and the Western Division champion Cincinnati Reds. The Red swept the Pirates 3 games to none and went on to win the World Series against the Boston Red Sox.
1975 NBA Draft The 1975 NBA Draft saw more notables drafted in the first round, including current Los Angeles Sparks head coach Joe Bryant, whose son Kobe, was born three years later. Also, David Thompson, Marvin Webster, Alvan Adams, and Darryl Dawkins.
1975 NBA Playoffs The 1975 NBA Playoffs was the postseason tournament of the National Basketball Association's 1974-1975 season. The tournament concluded with the Western Conference champion Golden State Warriors defeating the Eastern Conference champion Washington Bullets, four games to none in the NBA Finals.
1975 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament The 1975 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament involved 32 schools playing in single-elimination play to determine the national champion of men's NCAA Division I college basketball. It began on March 15, 1975, and ended with the championship game on March 31 in San Diego, California.
1975 Occupation of the West German embassy The 1975 Occupation of the West German embassy in Stockholm, Sweden was carried out by the SPK/Red Army Faction (Baader-Meinhof Group) on 24 April 1975. Collectively, they referred to themselves as Kommando Holger Meins, named after their comrade Holger Meins who had died on hunger strike in Wittlich prison on November 9 of the previous year.
1975 Pacific hurricane season The 1975 Pacific hurricane season officially started May 15, 1975 in the eastern Pacific, and June 1, 1975 in the central Pacific, and lasted until November 30, 1975. These dates conventionally delimit the period of each year when most tropical cyclones form in the northeast Pacific Ocean.
1975 Pacific typhoon season The 1975 Pacific typhoon season has no official bounds; it ran year-round in 1975, but most tropical cyclones tend to form in the northwestern Pacific Ocean between June and December. These dates conventionally delimit the period of each year when most tropical cyclones form in the northwestern Pacific Ocean.
1975 Pan American Games The 7th Pan American Games were held in Mexico City, Mexico, from October 12 to October 26, 1975, exactly twenty years after the 2nd Pan American Games were held there. It was the third major sporting event held in the Mexican capital in seven years, after the 1968 Summer Olympics and the 1970 Football World Cup.
1975 PBA season The 1975 PBA Season was the inaugural season of the Philippine Basketball Association. The first game was held on April 9, 1975 at the Araneta Coliseum with Marisawa-Noritake beating Concepcion-Carrier 101-98 in the opening game and Toyota edging out UTex, 105-101.
1975 Pulitzer Prize The Pulitzer Prizes for 1975, the 59th annual prizes, were ratified by the Pulitzer Prize advisory board on April 11, 1975 and by the trustees of Columbia University on May 5.Coverage of the 1975 Pulitzer Prizes from The New York Times For the first time, the role of accepting or rejecting recommendations of the advisory board was delegated by the trustees to the university's president, William J.
1975 Rugby League World Cup The seventh Rugby League World Cup was held in 1975. The format differed radically from that employed in previous competitions; no one country hosted the matches, which were spread out around the world over a period of just over 8 months.
1975 Southeast Asian Peninsular Games The 8th and last Southeast Asian Peninsular Games were held in Bangkok, Thailand from 9 December - 16 December 1975. South Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos, which only sent token squads made up of military personnel to previous games, declined to participate due to internal political problems.
1975 Swedish Grand Prix Niki Lauda often refers to 1975 as "the unbelievable year". In his second year with the Ramping Horse the team provided him with the Ferrari 312T - a car that was technically far superior to any of the competition.
1975-76 NBA season The 1975-76 NBA Season was the 300th season of the National Basketball Association. The season ended with the Boston Celtics winning the NBA Championship, beating the Phoenix Suns 4 games to 2 in the NBA Finals.
1975-76 United States network television schedule This was the television schedule on all three United States commercial television networks for the fall season beginning in September 1975. All times are Eastern and Pacific, with a few exceptions, such as Monday Night Football.
1975-76 United States network television schedule (Saturday morning) This was the United States broadcast television schedule on all three commercial television networks on Saturday mornings for the season beginning in the fall of 1975 and ending in the spring of 1976. All times are Eastern and Pacific.
1975-76 USSR Red Army ice hockey tour of North America A "clash of hockey titans" occurred in December 1975 through the early 1976. HC CSKA Moscow, also called "The Red Army Club" in English and Krylya Sovetov Moscow (Soviet Wings) faced some of the most famous clubs of the NHL.
1975-76 WHA season The 1975-76 WHA season was the fourth season of the now defunct World Hockey Association. Theoretically, fourteen teams would play 80 games each, but four of five Canadian Division teams played 81, due to the WHA's tiebreaker rule, while two teams (Minnesota and Denver/Ottawa) folded mid-season.
1976 ABA Playoffs The 1976 ABA Playoffs was the postseason tournament of the American Basketball Association's 1975-1976 season. The tournament concluded with the New York Nets defeating the Denver Nuggets four games to two in the ABA Finals.
1976 Atlantic hurricane season The 1976 Atlantic hurricane season officially began on June 1, 1976, and lasted until November 30, 1976. These dates conventionally delimit the period of each year when most tropical cyclones form in the Atlantic basin.
1976 Canada Cup After the Summit Series of 1972 and 1974, the NHL and NHLPA decided to broaden the scope of the competition, inviting to the tournament a number of hockey countries and allowing each invited country to send the best possible team they could muster. To live up to this ideal, the Canada Cup (unlike the 1972 Summit Series) would allow players from the WHA to participate.
1976 English cricket season The 1976 English cricket season saw Clive Lloyd's new approach to Test cricket as a battery of pace bowlers was used to intimidate the England batsmen. Lloyd adopted the tactic after his own team's experiences against Jeff Thomson and Dennis Lillee the previous year.
1976 Memorial Cup The 1976 Memorial Cup occurred May 9-May 16 at the Montreal Forum in Montreal, Quebec. Participating teams were the winners of the Ontario Major Junior Hockey League, Quebec Major Junior Hockey League and Western Hockey League which were the Hamilton Fincups, Quebec Remparts and New Westminster Bruins.
1976 National League Championship Series The 1976 National League Championship Series faced off the Cincinnati Reds (known for their nickname at the time, The Big Red Machine) and the Philadelphia Phillies. The Reds swept the three games of the best-of-five series, winning easily in the first two games, and in their last at bat in Game 3.
1976 NBA Playoffs The 1976 NBA Playoffs was the postseason tournament of the National Basketball Association's 1975-1976 season. The tournament concluded with the Eastern Conference champion Boston Celtics defeating the Western Conference champion Phoenix Suns, four games to two in the NBA Finals.
1976 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament The 1976 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament involved 32 schools playing in single-elimination play to determine the national champion of men's NCAA Division I college basketball. It began on March 13, 1976, and ended with the championship game on March 29 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1976 Pacific typhoon season The 1976 Pacific typhoon season has no official bounds; it ran year-round in 1976, but most tropical cyclones tend to form in the northwestern Pacific Ocean between June and December. These dates conventionally delimit the period of each year when most tropical cyclones form in the northwestern Pacific Ocean.
1976 PBA season The 1976 PBA Season was the second season of the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA). The season was memorable for it capped the first Grand Slam in the PBA, where the Crispa Redmanizers won all three conferences.
1976 Republican National Convention The 1976 National Convention of the Republican Party of the United States met at Kemper Arena in Kansas City, Missouri, from August 16 to August 19 1976. The convention nominated incumbent Gerald Ford for President, but only after narrowly defeating a strong challenge from former California governor Ronald Reagan.
1976 Tangshan earthquake The Tangshan earthquake () of July 28, 1976 is one of the largest earthquakes to hit the modern world, in terms of the loss of life. The epicentre of the earthquake was near Tangshan in Hebei, China, an industrial city with approximately one million inhabitants.
1976 Tehran UFO incident The 1976 Tehran UFO Incident was a radar and visual sighting of an unidentified flying object (UFO) over Tehran, the capital of Iran. The incident is particularly notable for the electromagnetic interference effects on aircraft near the UFO.
1976 Wincrest Nursing Home Fire The 1976 Wincrest Nursing Home Fire took place on Friday, January 30,1976 in the city of Chicago. The fire occurred when an arsonist set a wardrobe closet on fire at the Wincrest Nursing Home building which is located at 6326 N.
1976 Winter Olympics The 1976 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XII Olympic Winter Games, were celebrated in 1976 in Innsbruck, Austria. The games were originally awarded to Denver, Colorado, United States in May, 1970 but a 300 percent rise in costs and worries about environmental impact led to voters' rejection of a $5 million bond issue to finance the games in 1972, so the IOC offered the games to Whistler, British Columbia (Canada), who had bid on the games, but they too declined due to a change of government there.
1976 World Surrealist Exhibition The World Surrealist Exhibition was held at Gallery Black Swan in Chicago in 1976. As the name suggests, broader in scope than previous "international" exhibitions, it featured hundreds of works almost exclusively from contemporary participants in surrealism from thirty-onecountries.
1976 Zagreb mid-air collision British Airways Flight 476, registration G-AWZT, was a Trident 3B en route from London's Heathrow Airport to Istanbul, Turkey on September 10, 1976. Inex-Adria Aviopromet Flight 550, registration YU-AJR, was a Douglas DC-9 en route from Split, Croatia to Cologne, West Germany.
1976-77 NBA season The 1976-77 NBA Season was the 31st season of the National Basketball Association. The season ended with the Portland Trail Blazers winning the NBA Championship, beating the Philadelphia 76ers 4 games to 2 in the NBA Finals.
1976-77 United States network television schedule This was the television schedule on all three United States television networks for the fall season beginning in September 1976. All times are Eastern and Pacific, with a few exceptions, such as Monday Night Football.
1976-77 United States network television schedule (Saturday morning) This was the United States broadcast television schedule on all three commercial television networks on Saturday mornings for the season beginning in the fall of 1976 and ending in the spring of 1977. All times are Eastern and Pacific.
1977 Aeroflot Ilyushin 62 airplane crash The 1977 Aeroflot Ilyushin 62 airplane crash was an Ilyushin 62M aircraft operated by Aeroflot as an international scheduled passenger that crashed near Havana, Cuba on May 27, killing 68 of the 70 on-board and one person on the ground. At the time the accident was the worst aviation accident in Cuba's history.
1977 American League Championship Series The 1977 American League Championship Series was a 5-game series played between October 5 and October 9, 1977, at Yankee Stadium (Games 1-2), and Royals Stadium (3-5). The Yankees took the series 3-2, and would later go on to beat the Los Angeles Dodgers in the 1977 World Series to take the title.
1977 Atlantic hurricane season The 1977 Atlantic hurricane season officially began on June 1, 1977, and lasted until November 30, 1977. These dates conventionally delimit the period of each year when most tropical cyclones form in the Atlantic basin.
1977 English cricket season The 1977 English cricket season was played out in the aftermath of the Kerry Packer affair. Geoff Boycott returned to Test cricket and managed to time things so that he scored his 100th career century in the Headingley Test.
1977 Chicago Bears season The 1977 Chicago Bears season was their 58th regular season and 13th postseason completed in the National Football League. The club posted a 9-5 record earning them a wild card spot against the Dallas Cowboys, who eventually beat the Bears enroute to a Super Bowl victory.
1977 Chicago Loop derailment The 1977 Chicago Loop derailment occurred on February 4, 1977 at approximately 5:25PM local time, when a Chicago Transit Authority elevated train rear ended another on a corner of the Loop during the evening rush hour. The collision forced the first four cars of the rear train off the elevated tracks, killing eleven people and injuring over 180 as the cars fell onto the street below.
1977 IAS Cargo Boeing 707 airplane crash The 1977 IAS Cargo Boeing 707 airplane crash was a fatal accident involving a Boeing 707-321C cargo aircraft under the operation of IAS Cargo that crashed during aproach to Lusaka Airport, serving Lusaka, Zambia, on May 14, 1977. All 6 occupants of the aircraft were killed.
1977 Massacre of Atocha The 1977 Massacre of Atocha was a neo-fascist attack during the Spanish transition to democracy after Franco's death in 1975, killing five and injuring four. It was committed on January 24, 1977 in an office located on 77 Atocha Street near Atocha railway station in Madrid, where specialists of labor law, members of the Workers' Commissions trade union (CCOO), and of the then clandestine Communist Party of Spain (PCE), had gathered.
1977 Memorial Cup The 1977 Memorial Cup occurred May 8-May 14 at the Pacific Coliseum in Vancouver, British Columbia. Participating teams were the winners of the Ontario Major Junior Hockey League, Quebec Major Junior Hockey League and Western Hockey League which were the Ottawa 67's, Sherbrooke Castors and New Westminster Bruins.
1977 National League Championship Series The 1977 National League Championship Series was a best-of-five matchup between the Western Division champion Los Angeles Dodgers and the Eastern Division champion Philadelphia Phillies. The Dodgers beat the Phillies 3 games to 1 and would go on lose the 1977 World Series to the New York Yankees.
1977 NBA Finals The 1977 NBA Finals was the championship round of the 1976-77 NBA season. The Portland Trail Blazers of the Western Conference played against the Philadelphia 76ers of the Eastern Conference, with the 76ers holding home-court advantage.
1977 NBA Playoffs The 1977 NBA Playoffs was the postseason tournament of the National Basketball Association's 1976-1977 season. The tournament concluded with the Western Conference champion Portland TrailBlazers defeating the Eastern Conference champion Philadelphia 76ers four games to two in the Finals.
1977 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament The 1977 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament involved 32 schools playing in single-elimination play to determine the National Champion of Men's NCAA Division I college basketball. It began on March 12, 1977, and ended with the championship game on March 28 in Atlanta, Georgia.
1977 Pacific hurricane season The 1977 Pacific hurricane season officially started May 15, 1977 in the eastern Pacific, and June 1, 1977 in the central Pacific, and lasted until November 30, 1977. These dates conventionally delimit the period of each year when most tropical cyclones form in the northeastern Pacific Ocean.
1977 Pacific typhoon season The 1977 Pacific typhoon season has no official bounds; it ran year-round in 1977, but most tropical cyclones tend to form in the northwestern Pacific Ocean between June and December. These dates conventionally delimit the period of each year when most tropical cyclones form in the northwestern Pacific Ocean.
1977 Southeast Asian Games The 9th Southeast Asian Games were held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia from 19 December - 26 December 1977. Brunei, Indonesia, and the Philippines were finally admitted into the SEAP Games Federation in February that year.
1977 Soviet Constitution At the Seventh (Special) Session of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR Ninth Convocation on October 7, 1977, the fourth and last Soviet Constitution, also known as the "Brezhnev" Constitution, was unanimously adopted. The official name of the Constitution was "Constitution (Fundamental Law) of
1977 Swedish Grand Prix At Anderstorp, Jacques Laffite in his Gitanes sponsored Ligier-Matra put in a commanding display, romping to victory in the 1977 Swedish GP. France had been put back on the map: that was the first time that a French car with a French engine, backed by a French company, and driven by a French driver had won a Grand Prix.
1977-78 Cuban National Series The 1977-78 Cuban National Series was a watershed in that it coincided with Cuba's administrative restructuring of 1977, which created fourteen provinces. Pinar del RĂ­o's Vegueros won the title, with a slim victory over Havana's Industriales.
1977-78 NBA season The 1977-78 NBA Season was the 32nd season of the National Basketball Association. The season ended with the Washington Bullets winning the NBA Championship, beating the Seattle SuperSonics 4 games to 3 in the NBA Finals.
1977-78 United States network television schedule (Saturday morning) This was the United States broadcast television schedule on all three commercial television networks on Saturday mornings for the season beginning in the fall of 1977 and ending in the spring of 1978. All times are Eastern and Pacific.
1978 American League Championship Series The 1978 American League Championship Series was held between the New York Yankees and the Kansas City Royals for the third consecutive year. The Royals won 92 games that year and won the Western Division title by 5 games over the Texas Rangers.
1978 Atlantic hurricane season The 1978 Atlantic hurricane season officially began on June 1, 1978, and lasted until November 30, 1978. These dates conventionally delimit the period of each year when most tropical cyclones form in the Atlantic basin.
1978 BDO World Darts Championship The 1978 Embassy World Darts Championship was the very first World Professional Championships. The tournament was organised by the British Darts Organisation who had already set up the WDF World Cup and Winmau World Masters in its five years since formation.
1978 Cleveland Recall Election The 1978 Cleveland Recall Election was a recall election that determined whether or not Cleveland, Ohio's 53rd mayor, Dennis Kucinich would be removed from office. It was the first mayoral recall election in the city's history.
1978 English cricket season The 1978 English cricket season was played amidst growing concerns about the impact of World Series Cricket. On the domestic front, Kent was the most outstanding county team despite Alan Knott and Derek Underwood having joined WSC.
1978 FIFA World Cup qualification A total of 107 teams entered the 1978 FIFA World Cup qualification rounds, competing for a total of 16 spots in the final tournament. Argentina, as the hosts, and West Germany, as the defending champions, qualified automatically, leaving 14 spots open for competition.
1978 FIFA World Cup qualification (AFC and OFC) Listed below are the dates and results for the 1978 FIFA World Cup qualification rounds for the Asian and Oceanian zone (AFC and OFC). For an overview of the qualification rounds, see the article 1978 FIFA World Cup qualification.
1978 FIFA World Cup qualification (CAF) Listed below are the dates and results for the 1978 FIFA World Cup qualification rounds for the African zone (CAF). For an overview of the qualification rounds, see the article 1978 FIFA World Cup qualification.
1978 FIFA World Cup qualification (CONCACAF) Listed below are the dates and results for the 1978 FIFA World Cup qualification rounds for the North, Central American and Caribbean zone (CONCACAF). For an overview of the qualification rounds, see the article 1978 FIFA World Cup qualification.
1978 FIFA World Cup qualification (CONMEBOL) Listed below are the dates and results for the 1978 FIFA World Cup qualification rounds for the South American Zone (CONMEBOL). For an overview of the qualification rounds, see the article 1978 FIFA World Cup qualification.
1978 FIFA World Cup qualification (UEFA) Listed below are the dates and results for the 1978 FIFA World Cup qualification rounds for the European zone (UEFA). For an overview of the qualification rounds, see the article 1978 FIFA World Cup qualification.
1978 Hawaii State Constitutional Convention The 1978 Hawaii State Constitutional Convention is regarded to be the watershed political event in the modern State of Hawaii. The convention established term limits for state office holders, provided a requirement for an annual balanced budget, laid the groundwork for the return of federal land such as the island of Kahoolawe, and most importantly created the Office of Hawaiian Affairs in an effort to right the wrongs done towards native Hawaiians since the overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawaii in 1893.
1978 Icelandic Airlines Crash The 1978 Icelandic Airlines crash occurred on November 15 1978 at the international airport in Colombo, Sri Lanka when Icelandic Airlines jet TF-FLA crashed on approach just short of the runway. The crash took the lives of 8 Icelandic crew members and 179 Muslim pilgrims on their way to Mecca, out of a total of 286 passengers and crew.
1978 National League Championship Series The 1978 National League Championship Series was a best-of-five matchup for the second straight year between the Western Division champion Los Angeles Dodgers and the Eastern Division champion Philadelphia Phillies. The Dodgers beat the Phillies 3 games to 1 once again and would go on to lose the World Series to the New York Yankees, as they had the year before.
1978 NBA Playoffs The 1978 NBA Playoffs was the postseason tournament of the National Basketball Association's 1977-1978 season. The tournament concluded with the Eastern Conference champion Washington Bullets defeating the Western Conference champion Seattle SuperSonics four games to three in the Finals.
1978 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament The 1978 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament involved 32 schools playing in single-elimination play to determine the national champion of men's NCAA Division I college basketball. It began on March 11, 1978, and ended with the championship game on March 27 in St.
1978 Pacific hurricane season The 1978 Pacific hurricane season officially began May 15, 1978, in the eastern Pacific, June 1, 1978 in the central Pacific, and officially ended 30 November, 1978. These dates conventionally delimit the period of time when tropical cyclones form in the eastern north Pacific Ocean.
1978 Pacific typhoon season The 1978 Pacific typhoon season has no official bounds; it ran year-round in 1978, but most tropical cyclones tend to form in the northwestern Pacific Ocean between June and December. These dates conventionally delimit the period of each year when most tropical cyclones form in the northwestern Pacific Ocean.
1978 South Lebanon conflict The 1978 South Lebanon conflict (code-named Operation Litani by Israel) was the name of the Israel Defense Forces 1978 invasion of Lebanon up to the Litani River. It was a military success, as PLO forces were pushed north of the river.
1978 Southern Cross Games The I Southern Cross Games (Spanish: Juegos Cruz del Sur) were a multi-sport event held in 1978 in La Paz, Bolivia, with some events in Cochabamba and Santa Cruz de la Sierra. This was the first edition of what would be later be the South American Games, organized by the South American Sports Organization (ODESUR).
1978 world oil market chronology *January: Student protests against government of Reza Pahlavi, Shah of Iran, begin, touching off a wave of political unrest and violent clashes between police and demonstrators. Throughout the year increasing anti-Shah activities are led by Muslim fundamentalists seeking to establish a Muslim state.
1978 Whippoorwill Tornado The 1978 Whippoorwill Tornado also known as the Whippoorwill Disaster was a tornado that struck on June 17,1978. The tornado struck a tourist boat the Whippoorwill causing it to capsize drowning sixteen out of the 58 passengers and crew.
1978 World Amateur Boxing Championships The Men's 1978 World Amateur Boxing Championships were held in Belgrade, Yugoslavia from May 6 to 20. The second edition of this competition, held two years before the Summer Olympics in Moscow, Soviet Union was organised by the world governing body for amateur boxing AIBA.
1978-79 NBA season The 1978-79 NBA season was the 33rd season of the National Basketball Association. The season ended with the Seattle SuperSonics winning the NBA Championship, beating the Washington Bullets 4 games to 1 in the NBA Finals, a rematch of the previous year's Finals.
1978-79 United States network television schedule (Saturday morning) This was the United States broadcast television schedule on all three commercial television networks on Saturday mornings for the season beginning in the fall of 1978 and ending in the spring of 1979. All times are Eastern and Pacific.
1979 American League Championship Series The 1979 American League Championship Series was a best-of-five series that pitted the Eastern Division champion Baltimore Orioles against the Western Division champion California Angels, who were making their first postseason appearance. The Orioles won the Series 3 games to 1 and would go on to lose to the Pittsburgh Pirates in the 1979 World Series.
1979 Atlantic hurricane season The 1979 Atlantic hurricane season officially began on June 1, 1979, and lasted until November 30, 1979. These dates conventionally delimit the period of each year when most tropical cyclones form in the Atlantic basin.
1979 BDO World Darts Championship The 1979 Embassy World Darts Championship was the second World Professional Championships. Having been held the previous year at the Heart of the Midlands Club in Nottingham, the event moved to Jollees Cabaret Club in Stoke-on-Trent where it was to remain until 1985.
1979 energy crisis The 1979 (or second) oil crisis occurred in the wake of the Iranian Revolution. Amid massive protests, the Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, fled his country in early 1979, allowing Ayatollah Khomeini to gain control.
1979 Fastnet race Storms during the 1979 Fastnet race wrought havoc on over 306 yachts taking part in the biennial race, resulting in 19 fatalities. Emergency services and civilian vessels from around the west side of the English Channel were summoned to aid what was the largest rescue operation in peace-time.
1979 Governor General's Awards Each winner of the 1979 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit was selected by a panel of judges administered by the Canada Council for the Arts. The 1979 awards were the first in which a list of finalists was released a month before the presentation of the awards.
1979 Challenge Cup 1979 Challenge Cup was an ice hockey exhibition series between the Soviet national ice hockey team and a team of all-stars from the National Hockey League, held in New York City. It replaced the NHL's all-star festivities for the 1978-79 NHL season.
1979 Chicago Bears season The 1979 Chicago Bears season was their 60th regular season and 14th postseason completed in the National Football League. The club posted a 10-6 record under first year coach Neill Armstrong but lost the the Philadelphia Eagles in the opening round of the playoffs.
1979 ICC Trophy The 1979 ICC Trophy was a limited-overs cricket tournament held in England between 22 May and 21 June 1979. It was the first ICC Trophy tournament to be staged, with matches between the 15 participating teams played over 60 overs a side and with white clothing and red balls.
1979 Masters Snooker The 1979 Benson and Hedges Masters took place in January 1979 and was held in the Wembley Conference Centre which would host the tournament until the venue's demolition in 2006. 10 players who were invited took part.

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