What is 1979?
{{Year nav|1979}} {{Year in various calendars|1979}} '''1979''' ([[Roman numerals|MCMLXXIX]]) was a [[common year starting on Monday]] in the [[Gregorian calendar]], the 1979th year of the [[Common Era]] (CE) and ''[[Anno Domini]]'' (AD) designations, {{Year article header/year number|1979}} == Events == [[File:Ring around Jupiter.jpg|thumb|Picture of [[Jupiter]] taken by [[Voyager 1]]]] * [[January 4]] &ndash; The State of [[Ohio]] agrees to pay $675,000 to families of the dead and injured in the [[Kent State shootings]] * [[February 1]] &ndash; [[Ayatollah]] [[Ruhollah Khomeini]] returns to [[Tehran]], [[Iran]] after nearly 15 years of [[exile]] * [[March 4]] &ndash; The U.S. ''[[Voyager 1]]'' spaceprobe photos show [[Jupiter's rings]] * [[April 1]] &ndash; [[Iran]]'s government becomes an [[Islamic Republic]] by a 98% vote, overthrowing the [[Shah]] officially * [[May 1]] &ndash; [[Greenland]] is given limited [[autonomy]] from [[Denmark]]. The new [[Parliament of Greenland]] will meet in [[Nuuk]]. * [[June 18]] &ndash; [[Jimmy Carter]] and [[Leonid Brezhnev]] sign the [[SALT II]] agreement in [[Vienna]] * [[July 12]] &ndash; [[Kiribati]] gains independence from the [[United Kingdom]] * [[July 16]] &ndash; [[Iraq]]i President [[Hasan al-Bakr]] resigns and Vice President [[Saddam al-Tikriti]] replaces him * [[August 3]] &ndash; Dictator [[Francisco Macías Nguema]] of [[Equatorial Guinea]] is overthrown in a bloody [[coup d'état]] led by [[Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo]] * [[September 1]] – The American [[Pioneer 11]] becomes the first spacecraft to visit [[Saturn (planet)|Saturn]] when it passes the [[planet]] at a distance of 21,000&nbsp;km * [[September 7]] – The [[Chrysler Corporation]] asks the [[United States]] government for $1 billion to avoid [[bankruptcy]] * [[September 7]] – [[ESPN]] starts broadcasting * [[September 16]] – Three families flee from [[German Democratic Republic|East Germany]] by balloon * [[September 20]] – French [[paratrooper]]s help [[David Dacko]] to overthrow [[Jean-Bedel Bokassa