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List of events
Events in the year 1979 in the Republic of India.
Incumbents
Governors
Events
- National income - ₹1,235,622 million
- 1 January – President of India makes official the decision to set up the
Mandal Commission
- 22 January – 12 Iranian students who claimed to be members of the
Iranian Islamic Students Association laid siege to the Iranian consulate at
Churchgate.
[1]
- 31 January – The police under direction of
Jyoti Basu, Chief Minister of
Communist Party of India (Marxist) -led government of
West Bengal, surrounds and opens fire on unarmed refugee settlement of
Morichjhapi island in
Sunderbans,
West Bengal. (
Marichjhapi massacre)
- 13 May – a tropical cyclone hits
Coastal Andhra and destroys 7 lakh homes and affects 40 lakh people.
[2]
- 1 June –
Vizianagaram district is formed in
Andhra Pradesh.
- 27 June –
CISF conflict at Bokaro
- 2 July – Athi Varadhar came out after 40 years in
Varadharaja Perumal Temple, Kanchipuram.
[3]
- 3 July – A cargo ship named
MV Kairali owned by
Kerala Shipping Corporation went missing on its journey carrying iron ore from
Mormugao to
Rostock.
- 28 July –
Charan Singh of
Bharatiya Lok Dal, coalition partner of
Janata Party became
Prime Minister of India with outside support of
Congress (I).
[4]
- 11 August –
Morvi dam burst, the worst flood disaster in independent India, happens in Gujarat, killing 1500-15000 people
- 12 October –
C. H. Mohammed Koya sworn in as
Chief minister of Kerala. He is the first
Muslim League leader to become Chief Minister of an Indian state.
[5]
- 10 December –
Mother Teresa was awarded
Nobel Peace Prize at Oslo.
[6]
Law
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Births
January to June
- 1 January –
Vidya Balan, actress.
- 3 January –
Gul Panag, actress
- 7 January –
Bipasha Basu, actress and model.
- 16 January –
Climax Lawrence, footballer
- 2 February –
Shamita Shetty, actress
- 26 February –
Premgi Amaren, playback singer, composer, songwriter, actor and comedian.
- 28 February –
Srikanth
- 24 March –
Emraan Hashmi, actor.
- 8 April –
Amit Trivedi, music director, singer, film scorer
- 28 April –
Sharman Joshi, actor
- 23 May –
Divya Palat, actress.
- 10 June –
D. K. Ravi, late IAS officer. (d. 2015)
- 12 June –
Tottempudi Gopichand, actor.
- 18 June –
A. L. Vijay, film director.
- 20 June –
Renedy Singh, footballer.
July to December
- 18 September –
Vinay Rai, actor.
- 27 September –
B Chandrakala, Indian Administrative Service officer.
- 7 October –
Narain, actor.
- 23 October –
Prabhas, actor.
- 4 November –
Lazarus Barla, field hockey player.
- 7 November –
Raima Sen, actress
- 18 November –
Neeti Mohan, singer
- 20 November –
Shalini, actress and child artist.
- 3 December –
Konkona Sen Sharma, actress
- 14 December –
Samit Basu, novelist.
- 30 December –
Kausalya, actress.
Deaths
- 9 February –
Banaphool, author, playwright and poet (b. 1899).
- 19 May –
Hazari Prasad Dwivedi, novelist, literary historian, essayist, critic and scholar (b. 1907).
- 18 August –
Vasantrao Phulsing Naik, Politician, Former
Chief Minister of Maharashtra (b. 1913)
- 3 December –
Dhyan Chand, field hockey player (b. 1905).
- 8 October –
Jayaprakash Narayan, political activist (b. 1902)
- 20 October –
D.K.Sapru, character actor. (b. 1916).
See also
References