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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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| 1979 April 29 |
| | | The first flight by a solar-powered piloted aircraft is achieved when Larry Mauro's Solar Riser is able to climb to about 40 feet and glide for half a mile | |
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| 1979 |
| | | The Conservative party wins the general election and Margaret Thatcher becomes Britain's first female prime minister | |
|  | Margaret Thatcher's election returns and writs in 1979
National Archives, Kew
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| 1979 |
| | | The emergency measures underpinning military rule are repealed in Brazil, and an amnesty restores political rights | |
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| 1979 |
| | | John Paul II makes an emotional and influential return to Poland, the country of his birth | |
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| 1979 |
| | | Young officers, led by flight lieutenant Jerry Rawlings, take power in a coup in Ghana | |
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| 1979 |
| | | Peter Shaffer's play about Mozart, Amadeus, has its premiere in London | |
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| 1979 |
| | | A Sandinista junta, headed by Daniel Ortega, takes power in Nicaragua – bringing to an end four decades of brutal rule by the Somoza dynasty | |
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