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| 1978 |
| | | There are so many strikes in Britain this winter that it becomes known as the 'winter of discontent' | |
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| 1979 |
| | | An Islamic revolution forces the Shah, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, to flee from Iran | |
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| 1979 |
| | | Morocco annexes the Mauritanian part of the Western Sahara, thus taking control of the entire region | |
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| 1979 |
| | | Ayatollah Khomeini receives a rapturous welcome on his return to Iran to head the Islamic Revolutionary Committee | |
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| 1979 |
| | | Francis Ford Coppola directs Marlon Brando and Martin Sheen in Apocalypse Now | |
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| 1979 |
| | | Idi Amin flees from Uganda as Tanzanian troops reach his capital, Kampala | |
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| 1979 |
| | | Partial meltdown of a US nuclear power station at Three Mile Island, near Harrisburg, spreads radioactive steam over a large surrounding area | |
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| 1979 |
| | | Ex-president Zulfikar Ali Bhutto is executed in Pakistan for allegedly authorizing the murder of a political opponent | |
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| 1979 |
| | | The first multiracial elections held in Rhodesia are won by bishop Abel Muzorewa | |
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| 1979 |
| | | Communist measures in Afghanistan provoke a Muslim jihad and the murder of more than 100 Russians in Herat | |
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