Born in November 1979 - Zodiac Signs, Personality and Horoscopes

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What happened in November 1979

• November 1, 1979: A military coup takes place in Bolivia, resulting in a change of government.
• November 2, 1979: French police kill notorious gangster Jacques Mesrine in a shootout in Paris.
• November 3, 1979: Five members of the Communist Workers Party are killed, and seven are injured in a shooting by Klansmen and neo-Nazis during a rally in Greensboro, North Carolina.
• November 4, 1979: The Iran hostage crisis begins as Iranian radicals seize the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, taking 90 hostages, demanding the return of the former Shah of Iran for trial.
• November 5, 1979: The military junta in Bolivia launches a violent crackdown on its opponents, known as the All Saints' Massacre.
• November 6, 1979: The International Olympic Committee decides that Taiwan Olympic and sports teams will participate in future events under the name Chinese Taipei.
• November 7, 1979: U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy announces his challenge to President Jimmy Carter for the 1980 Democratic presidential nomination.
• November 9, 1979: The Carl Bridgewater murder trial in England concludes with guilty verdicts for all four defendants, leading to varying sentences, including life imprisonment.
• November 10, 1979: A Canadian Pacific freight train carrying hazardous chemicals derails in Mississauga, Ontario, causing a massive explosion and evacuation, becoming one of the largest peacetime evacuations in North American history.
• November 12, 1979: In response to the Iran hostage crisis, U.S. President Jimmy Carter orders a halt to oil imports from Iran.
• November 14, 1979: U.S. President Jimmy Carter issues Executive Order 12170, freezing Iranian assets in the United States and U.S. banks in response to the hostage crisis.
• November 15, 1979: British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher reveals the role of art historian Anthony Blunt as the "fourth man" of the Cambridge Five double agents for the Soviet NKVD during World War II.
• November 16, 1979: Bucharest Metro Line One opens in Romania, connecting Timpuri Noi and Semanatoarea stations.
• November 17, 1979: Iranian leader Ruhollah Khomeini orders the release of 13 female and African American hostages held at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran.
• November 20, 1979: Juhayman al-Otaybi militants seize Mecca's Masjid al-Haram, leading to a bloody conflict with Saudi military forces, resulting in casualties.
• November 21, 1979: A mob attacks and sets fire to the United States Embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan, following false reports of American involvement in the Grand Mosque seizure in Mecca, straining Pakistan–United States relations.
• November 23, 1979: Provisional Irish Republican Army member Thomas McMahon receives a life sentence for assassinating Lord Mountbatten of Burma in Dublin, Ireland. He was later released under the Good Friday Agreement in 1998.
• November 25, 1979: The last cargo of phosphate is shipped from Banaba Island in Kiribati, marking the end of the island's primary industry.
• November 28, 1979: Air New Zealand Flight 901, a DC-10, crashes into Mount Erebus in Antarctica during a sightseeing trip, killing all 257 people on board.
• November 29, 1979: After environmental controversies and legal challenges, the Tennessee Valley Authority's Tellico Dam project is completed, becoming the last dam built by the agency as of 2023.
• November 30, 1979: Pink Floyd releases their rock opera concept album, The Wall.