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
• 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[]

• 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[]

• 

  Bipasha Basu
  7 January – Bipasha Basu, actress and model.
• 28 February – Srikanth
• 

  Emraan Hashmi
  24 March – Emraan Hashmi, actor.
• 23 May – Divya Palat, actress.
• 10 June – D. K. Ravi, late IAS officer. (d. 2015)
• 12 June – Tottempudi Gopichand, actor.

July to December[]

• 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.
• 27 September – B Chandrakala, Indian Administrative Service officer.
• 7 October – Narain, actor.
• 23 October – Prabhas, actor.
• 4 November – Lazarus Barla, field hockey player.
• 14 December – Samit Basu, novelist.

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[]