1979

Three Mile Island nuclear plant accident
U.S.-Iran hostage crisis begins
Nicaraguan dictator Somoza deposed
Margaret Thatcher becomes Britain's first woman prime minister
French philosopher Lyotard writes "The Postmodern Condition"
"Buried Child" by Sam Shepard
"The Ghost Writer" by Philip Roth
"The Executioner's Song" by Norman Mailer
"Being There," directed by Hal Ashby
"Apocalypse Now," directed by Francis Ford Coppola
"Skylab by Minicam" by Roger Brown