The milestones of 1979 are very faintly present in the memory of your poor Alig. That was the time when this sinner was becoming barely aware of the social, cultural and political environment and events. But it was a momentous year in the history of the world, Islam and India:
(1) Collapse of Pol Pot regime in Combodia
(2) Iranian Revolution
(3) Sino-Vietnamese War
(4) Independence of Saint Lucia
(5) Discovery of Jupiter's Rings
by Voyager
(6) Space Shuttle Program
(7) Egypt-Israel Treaty Signed by A.Sadat and M.Begin at White House
(8) Three Mile Island Nuclear Accident
(9) Idi Amin of Uganda Escapes Kampala
(10) Home Rule for Greenland
(11) SALT II Agreement Between Jimmy Carter and Leonid Brezhnev
(12) USA Begins Secret Afghanistan Aid Against Pro USSR Regime
(13) Saddam Hussein is Iraq President
(14) Sandinista National Liberation Front Finishes the U.S. Backed Somoza Regime in Nicaragua
(15) Lord Mountbatten Assassinated by IRA
(16) Iran Hostage Crisis:
(17) Small Pox Crushed
(18) USSR in Afghanistan
(19) Physics Nobel Prize for Sheldon Lee Glashow, Abdus Salam, Steven Weinberg
(20) Peace Nobel Prize for Mother Teresa
(21) Chaudhary Charan Singh is Prime Minister of India
(22) Margaret Thatcher is British Prime Minister
(23) President of India N.Sanjiva Reddy Sets up Mandal Commision
(24) Hockey Player Dhyan Chand No More
(25) Hazari Prasad Dwivedi (An Era of Hindi Literature is Named After Him) No More
(1) Collapse of Pol Pot regime in Combodia
(2) Iranian Revolution
(3) Sino-Vietnamese War
(4) Independence of Saint Lucia
(5) Discovery of Jupiter's Rings
by Voyager
(6) Space Shuttle Program
(7) Egypt-Israel Treaty Signed by A.Sadat and M.Begin at White House
(8) Three Mile Island Nuclear Accident
(9) Idi Amin of Uganda Escapes Kampala
(10) Home Rule for Greenland
(11) SALT II Agreement Between Jimmy Carter and Leonid Brezhnev
(12) USA Begins Secret Afghanistan Aid Against Pro USSR Regime
(13) Saddam Hussein is Iraq President
(14) Sandinista National Liberation Front Finishes the U.S. Backed Somoza Regime in Nicaragua
(15) Lord Mountbatten Assassinated by IRA
(16) Iran Hostage Crisis:
(17) Small Pox Crushed
(18) USSR in Afghanistan
(19) Physics Nobel Prize for Sheldon Lee Glashow, Abdus Salam, Steven Weinberg
(20) Peace Nobel Prize for Mother Teresa
(21) Chaudhary Charan Singh is Prime Minister of India
(22) Margaret Thatcher is British Prime Minister
(23) President of India N.Sanjiva Reddy Sets up Mandal Commision
(24) Hockey Player Dhyan Chand No More
(25) Hazari Prasad Dwivedi (An Era of Hindi Literature is Named After Him) No More