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March 29, 1979 (Thursday) Eleven people were killed in the crash of Quebecair Flight 255, a turboprop Fairchild F-27, at the Quebec City airport. The plane, with 24 people on board, fell after taking off on a flight to Montreal. British Prime Minister James Callaghan announced that elections for the House of Commons would be held on May 3.
The Three Mile Island accident was a partial nuclear meltdown of the Unit 2 reactor (TMI-2) of the Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station on the Susquehanna River in Londonderry Township, near Harrisburg, the capital city of Pennsylvania, United States. The reactor accident began at 4:00 a.m. on March 28, 1979, and released radioactive ...
The United States House of Representatives Select Committee on Assassinations ( HSCA) was established in 1976 to investigate the assassinations of John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. in 1963 and 1968, respectively. The HSCA completed its investigation in 1978 and issued its final report the following year, which concluded that Kennedy ...
1. January 3, 1979. Superman. $4,859,936. Superman grossed $13,135,498 nationally from all markets for the 4-day weekend ended January 1, a record weekend gross. Its 3-day gross of $10,364,384 beat the record $10.2 million set by Star Wars in its 1978 reissue. [1] [2] [3] 2. January 10, 1979.
March 28 – President Carter issues Proclamation 4650, a declaration of the week beginning on May 4, 1979, as "Asian/Pacific American Heritage Week." [107] March 29 – President Carter issues Proclamation 4651, a designation of May 28, 1979, "as a day of prayer for permanent peace".
Quebecair Flight 255. Quebecair Flight 255 was a scheduled flight from Quebec City to Montreal. On March 29, 1979, the Fairchild F-27, registered CF-QBL, that was operating the flight crashed minutes after takeoff when an engine exploded. All three crew and 14 of the 21 passengers died.
February 13 – The intense February 13, 1979 Windstorm strikes western Washington and sinks a 1/2-mile-long section of the Hood Canal Bridge. February 14 – In Kabul, Muslim extremists kidnap the American ambassador to Afghanistan, Adolph Dubs, who is later killed during a gunfight between his kidnappers and police.
1979 was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1979th ... March 29. Yahya Petra of Kelantan, Sultan of Kelantan and 6th King of Malaysia (b.