1979 in India

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Events in the year 1979 in the Republic of India.

Incumbents

• President of India – Neelam Sanjiva Reddy
• Prime Minister of India – Morarji Desai until 28 July, Charan Singh
• Vice President of India – B.D. Jatti until 30 August; Mohammad Hidayatullah
• Chief Justice of India – Yeshwant Vishnu Chandrachud

Governors

• Andhra Pradesh – K.C. Abraham
• Assam – L. P. Singh
• Bihar –
  • until 31 January: Jagannath Kaushal
  • 31 January-20 September: K.B.N. Singh
  • starting 20 September: Akhlaqur Rahman Kidwai
• Gujarat – Sharda Mukherjee
• Haryana – Harcharan Singh Brar (until 9 December), Surjit Singh Sandhawalia (starting 10 December)
• Himachal Pradesh – Amin ud-din Ahmad Khan
• Jammu and Kashmir – L. K. Jha
• Karnataka – Govind Narain
• Kerala – Jothi Venkatachalam
• Madhya Pradesh – C. M. Poonacha
• Maharashtra – Sri Sadiq Ali
• Manipur – L.P. Singh
• Meghalaya – L.P. Singh
• Nagaland – L.P. Singh
• Odisha – Bhagwat Dayal Sharma
• Punjab – Jaisukh Lal Hathi
• Rajasthan – Raghukul Tilak
• Sikkim – B. B. Lal
• Tamil Nadu – Prabhudas Patwari
• Tripura – L. P. Singh
• Uttar Pradesh – Ganpatrao Devji Tapase
• West Bengal – Anthony Lancelot Dias (until 6 November), Tribhuvana Narayana Singh (starting 6 November)

Events

• National income - ₹1,235,622 million
• 1 January – President of India makes official the decision to set up the Mandal Commission
• 22 January – 12 Iranian students who claimed to be members of the Iranian Islamic Students Association laid siege to the Iranian consulate at Churchgate. ^[1]
• 31 January – The police under direction of Jyoti Basu, Chief Minister of Communist Party of India (Marxist) -led government of West Bengal, surrounds and opens fire on unarmed refugee settlement of Morichjhapi island in Sunderbans, West Bengal. (Marichjhapi massacre)
• 13 May – a tropical cyclone hits Coastal Andhra and destroys 7 lakh homes and affects 40 lakh people. ^[2]
• 1 June – Vizianagaram district is formed in Andhra Pradesh.
• 27 June – CISF conflict at Bokaro
• 2 July – Athi Varadhar came out after 40 years in Varadharaja Perumal Temple, Kanchipuram. ^[3]
• 3 July – A cargo ship named MV Kairali owned by Kerala Shipping Corporation went missing on its journey carrying iron ore from Mormugao to Rostock.
• 28 July – Charan Singh of Bharatiya Lok Dal, coalition partner of Janata Party became Prime Minister of India with outside support of Congress (I). ^[4]
• 11 August – Morvi dam burst, the worst flood disaster in independent India, happens in Gujarat, killing 1500-15000 people
• 12 October – C. H. Mohammed Koya sworn in as Chief minister of Kerala. He is the first Muslim League leader to become Chief Minister of an Indian state. ^[5]
• 10 December – Mother Teresa was awarded Nobel Peace Prize at Oslo. ^[6]

Births

January to June

• 1 January – Vidya Balan, actress.
• 3 January – Gul Panag, actress

• 

  Bipasha Basu

  7 January – Bipasha Basu, actress and model.
• 16 January – Climax Lawrence, footballer
• 2 February – Shamita Shetty, actress
• 26 February – Premgi Amaren, playback singer, composer, songwriter, actor and comedian.
• 28 February – Srikanth
• 24 March – Emraan Hashmi, actor.
• 8 April – Amit Trivedi, music director, singer, film scorer
• 28 April – Sharman Joshi, actor

  

  Emraan Hashmi

• 23 May – Divya Palat, actress.
• 10 June – D. K. Ravi, late IAS officer. (d. 2015)
• 12 June – Tottempudi Gopichand, actor.
• 18 June – A. L. Vijay, film director.
• 20 June – Renedy Singh, footballer.

July to December

• 19 July – Malavika, actress.
• 27 July – Vamshi Paidipally, film director.
• 29 July – Hard Kaur, rapper
• 2 August – Devi Sri Prasad, music composer and singer.
• 31 August – Yuvan Shankar Raja, film composer and singer.
• 1 September – Aamir Ali, actor
• 11 September – Tulip Joshi, model and actress.

Kamya Punjabi

• 14 September – Kamya Panjabi, actress.

• 18 September – Vinay Rai, actor.
• 27 September – B Chandrakala, Indian Administrative Service officer.
• 7 October – Narain, actor.
• 23 October – Prabhas, actor.
• 4 November – Lazarus Barla, field hockey player.
• 7 November – Raima Sen, actress
• 18 November – Neeti Mohan, singer
• 20 November – Shalini, actress and child artist.
• 3 December – Konkona Sen Sharma, actress
• 14 December – Samit Basu, novelist.
• 30 December – Kausalya, actress.

Deaths

• 9 February – Banaphool, author, playwright and poet (b. 1899).
• 19 May – Hazari Prasad Dwivedi, novelist, literary historian, essayist, critic and scholar (b. 1907).
• 18 August – Vasantrao Phulsing Naik, Politician, Former Chief Minister of Maharashtra (b. 1913)
• 3 December – Dhyan Chand, field hockey player (b. 1905).
• 8 October – Jayaprakash Narayan, political activist (b. 1902)
• 20 October – D.K.Sapru, character actor. (b. 1916).

See also

• List of Bollywood films of 1979

References

1. Rebello, Joeanna (30 November 2008). "Bombay's Iran hostage crisis of 1979". The Times of India. Retrieved 12 January 2022.
2. Menon, Amarnath K. (15 June 1979). "Coastal Andhra Pradesh gets battered by cyclone, second time in less than 18 months". India Today. Retrieved 12 January 2022.
3. Narasimhan, T.a (27 June 2019). "Retrieval of Kanchi Athivaradar: a deity's tryst with history". The Hindu. ISSN   0971-751X . Retrieved 12 January 2022.
4. "Chaudhary Charan Singh – prime minister for 23 days and champion of India's farmers". ThePrint. 23 December 2019. Retrieved 12 January 2022.
5. "Forty Years Ago, November 29, 1979: Kerala drama". The Indian Express. 29 November 2019. Retrieved 12 January 2022.
6. "The Nobel Peace Prize 1979". NobelPrize.org. Retrieved 12 January 2022.