✦ History

Explore December 15, 1979

« 5 yrs
» 5 yrs

Events

Cold War 1947-03-12 - 1991-12-26
Apartheid 1948-05-26 - 1994-04-27
Guatemalan Civil War 1960-11-13 - 1996-12-29
South African Border War 1966-08-26 - 1990-03-21
The Troubles 1968-10-05 - 1998-04-10
Lebanese Civil War 1975-04-13 - 1990-10-13
Spanish transition to democracy 1975-11-20 - 1982-10-28
Islamist uprising in Syria 1976-05-31 - 1982-02-28
Cambodian–Vietnamese War 1978-12-21 - 1989-09-26
Iran hostage crisis 1979-11-04 - 1981-01-20

People

Matthew Ridgway age 84
Manlio Brosio age 82
Franco Maria Malfatti age 52
David Malpass age 23
David Blunkett age 32
Amin al-Hafiz age 58
J. Lawton Collins age 83
John W. Snow age 40
John Healey age 19
Li Yuanchao age 29
Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio age 61
Elliot Richardson age 59
Abd al-Aziz Bilkhadim age 34
Lester Bird age 41
Ramón Puerta age 28
Bill Hayden age 46
Sam Mostyn age 14
Fakhruddin Ahmed age 39
Froyla Tzalam age 8
Colville Young age 47
Stefan Janev age 19
Mario Echandi Jiménez age 64
Matata Ponyo Mapon Augustin age 15
Ilunga Ilunkamba Sylvestre age 32
Osvaldo Hurtado age 40
Galo Plaza age 73
Joseph Urusemal age 27
Teuvo Aura age 67
Keijo Liinamaa age 50
Johan Wilhelm Rangell age 85
Ioannis Grivas age 56
Tzannis Tzannetakis age 52
Óscar Humberto Mejía Víctores age 49
Vinicio Cerezo age 36
Desmond Hoyte age 50
Henri Namphy age 47
Claudette Werleigh age 33
Péter Boross age 51
Károly Grósz age 49
Geir Hallgrímsson age 54
Sabah Al-Khalid Al-Sabah age 26
Nouhak Phoumsavanh age 65
Moses Blah age 32
Litokwa Tomeing age 40
Alexandru Munteanu age 15
Daniel Chapo age 2
David Adeang age 10
Khil Raj Regmi age 30
Salou Djibo age 14
Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani age 19
Terrance Drew age 3
Cuthbert Sebastian age 58
Mahammed Dionne age 20
Zoran Živković age 18
Flavio Cotti age 40
Chen Chien-jen age 28
Sanya Dharmasakti age 72
Chatchai Chunhawan age 59
Arthur Foulkes age 51
Marguerite Pindling age 47
Elyes Fakhfakh age 7
Ahmed Hachani age 23
Rafael Addiego Bruno age 56
Charlot Salwai age 16
Germán Suárez Flamerich age 72
Julius Chan age 40
Kim Boo-kyum age 21
Dingiri Banda Wijetunga age 63
Zoran Tegeltija age 18
Vjekoslav Bevanda age 23
Denis Zvizdić age 15
Ahmed Awad Ibn Auf age 23
Edem Kodjo age 41
Masayoshi Ito age 66
Dirk Stikker age 82
James Wolfensohn age 46
Eric Shinseki age 37
Frank Carlucci age 49
Rab Butler age 77
Michael Mullen age 33
Lien Chan age 43
Rabah Bitat age 54
Alfredo Oscar Saint Jean age 53
William Deane age 48
Clifford Husbands age 53
Jeffrey Bostic age 19
Reneta Indzhova age 26
Rafael Ángel Calderón age 30
Nikica Valentić age 29
Hipólito Mejía age 38
Atef Ebeid age 47
Jacob Nena age 38
Raymond Ndong Sima age 24
Panagiotis Kanellopoulos age 77
Dickon Mitchell age 1
Ramiro de León Carpio age 37
Jorge Serrano Elías age 34
Veríssimo Correia Seabra age 32
Gyula Kállai age 69
Gunnar Thoroddsen age 69
Hamed Bakayoko age 14
Awn Shawkat Al-Khasawneh age 29
Fayez al-Tarawneh age 30
Imanghali Tasmaghambetov age 23
Baqytzhan Saghyntaev age 16
Jan Eduard de Quay age 78
Djoomart Otorbaev age 24
Rashid Karami age 57
Sam Matekane age 21
Zigmantas Balčytis age 26
Modibo Sidibé age 27
Mohamed Ould Bilal age 16
Ely Ould Mohamed Vall age 26
Aureliu Ciocoi age 11
Abdellatif Filali age 51
René Harris age 32
Lokendra Bahadur Chand age 39
Jerry Mateparae age 25
Ali Lamine Zeine age 14
Mohammad Mustafa age 25
Clément Mouamba age 36
Cătălin Predoiu age 11
Ousmane Sonko age 5
David Vunagi age 29
Cho Jung-tai age 20
Prawit Wongsuwon age 34
Francisco Xavier do Amaral age 42
Feleti Sevele age 35
Pōhiva Tuʻiʻonetoa age 28
Ali Laarayedh age 24
Mohamed Mzali age 54
Ruhakana Rugunda age 32
Yukhym Zvyahilskyi age 46
Serhii Arbuzov age 3
Diosdado Cabello age 16
Ali Mahdi Muhammad age 40
Choi Sang-mok age 19
Torcuato Fernández-Miranda age 64
Abdel Rahman Swar al-Dahab age 45
Alan Johnson age 29
John J. Sullivan age 20
Robert Rubin age 41
Abdul Rahim Hatif age 53
Nadir al-Arbawi age 30
Hartwig Löger age 14
Edmond Leburton age 64
Jean Van Houtte age 72
Philip Dimitrov age 24
Andrey Lukanov age 41
Dimitar Glavchev age 16
Paul Kaba Thieba age 19
Son Sann age 68
Said Mohamed Djohar age 61
Luis Alberto Monge age 53
Vlatko Pavletić age 49
Fidel Sánchez Hernández age 62
Francisco Pascual Obama Asue age 30
Leo Falcam age 44
Wesley Simina age 18
Laisenia Qarase age 38
Miguel Ydígoras Fuentes age 84
Jean-Max Bellerive age 21
Rafael Leonardo Callejas Romero age 36
José Azcona del Hoyo age 52
Ólafur Jóhannesson age 66
Abdul Aziz al-Hakim age 26
Nurlan Balgimbayev age 32
Akylbek Japarov age 15
Suleiman Frangieh age 69
Amos Sawyer age 34
Norbert Ratsirahonana age 41
Cheick Modibo Diarra age 27
Alfred Sant age 31
Paul Xuereb age 56
Monique Ohsan Bellepeau age 37
Sükhbaataryn Batbold age 16
Pascoal Mocumbi age 38
Aires Ali age 24
Soe Win age 32
Pak Song-chol age 66
Shujaat Hussain age 39
Kuniwo Nakamura age 36
Tapley Seaton age 29
John Compton age 54
Adolf Ogi age 37
Nazim al-Kudsi age 73
Muhammad Naji al-Otari age 35
Mohammad Ghazi al-Jalali age 10
Frank Hsieh age 33
Cornelius A. Smith age 42
Jean-Lucien Savi de Tové age 40
Patrick Manning age 33
Habib Essid age 30
Bülent Ulusu age 56
Kausea Natano age 22
Enele Sopoaga age 23
Yusuf Lule age 67
Ham Lini age 28
Kazimierz Sabbat age 66
Michael Ogio age 37