Born in December 1979 - Zodiac Signs, Personality and Horoscopes

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December 1979 Tropical Ephemeris

What happened in December 1979

• December 3, 1979: Eleven fans died during a crowd crush for unreserved seats before The Who rock concert at the Riverfront Coliseum in Cincinnati.
• December 4, 1979: The Hastie fire in Kingston upon Hull, England, caused the deaths of 3 boys and initiated the hunt for Bruce George Peter Lee, the UK's most prolific killer.
• December 5, 1979: Jack Lynch resigned as Taoiseach of Ireland and was succeeded by Charles Haughey.
• December 6, 1979: The world premiere of Star Trek: The Motion Picture was held at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.
• December 12, 1979: NATO's Double-Track Decision offered the Warsaw Pact a mutual limitation of missiles combined with the threat of deploying more nuclear weapons in Western Europe.
• December 13, 1979: The Canadian government fell in a non-confidence motion.
• December 15, 1979: Hayao Miyazaki's directorial debut, The Castle of Cagliostro, based on the manga series Lupin III, was released in Japan.
• December 23, 1979: The highest aerial tramway in Europe, the Klein Matterhorn, opened.
• December 24, 1979: PDPA general secretary Hafizullah Amin was executed in Operation Storm-333, leading to Babrak Karmal's succession and the beginning of the war.
• December 26, 1979: In Rhodesia, 96 Patriotic Front guerrillas entered the capital Salisbury to monitor a ceasefire that began on December 28.