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![]() High School Richfield, Minnesota - USA Class of 1979 |
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The Year 1979:
- Shah leaves Iran and revolutionary forces under Muslim leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini take control.
- Sandinistas take over the Nicaraguan government.
- Margaret Thatcher becomes the new British prime minister.
- Iranian militants seize US embassy in Teheran and hold hostages.
- Soviet invasion of Afghanistan stirs world protests.
- Nuclear power plant accident at Three Mile Island, PA releases radiation.
- The accidental release of anthrax spores at a Soviet bioweapons facility in Sverdlovsk kills several hundred.
- John Wayne, Nelson Rockefeller, and Arthur Fiedler die.
- The Sugar Hill Gang releases the first commercial rap hit, Rapper's Delight.
- 1992 graduates enter kindergarten.
- 1997/1998 graduates are born.
- More 1979 events
Greetings RHS Class of 1979! | ||
In addition to this site, your class has a "sandbox" on the classreport.com RHS site at http://www.classreport.com/usa/mn/richfield/rhs/1979/ that still needs an administrator. |
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