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Events in the year 1979 in the Republic of India .

Incumbents [ edit ]

• 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 [ edit ]

• 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 [ edit ]

• 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]

Law [ edit ]

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Births [ edit ]

January to June [ edit ]

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

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  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

  

• 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 [ edit ]

• 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.

• 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 [ edit ]

• 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 [ edit ]

• List of Bollywood films of 1979

References [ edit ]