Movies set in 1979
10th David Duke visits Colorado
11th Jacques Mesrine is killed
1st the 1979 Cannonball Run race
4th Margaret Thatcher becomes the UK's first female Prime Minister
30th Jean Seberg commits suicide
4th the US embassy staff in Tehran are taken hostage
9th Malcolm Muggeridge and Mervyn Stockwood discuss Monty Python's Life of Brian on TV with John Cleese and Michael Palin
28th a sightseeing plane crashes into Mt Erebus
23rd the Germs play as "Germs Incognito" at the Whisky a Go Go