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 Vice President of India – B.D. Jatti until 30 August; Mohammad Hidayatullah 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 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. 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. 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 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). 11 August – Morvi dam burst, the worst flood disaster in independent India, happens in Gujarat, killing 1500-15000 people 1 September - Biju Patnaik mediates for an unsuccessful merger attempt between Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam and All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam. 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. 10 December – Mother Teresa was awarded Nobel Peace Prize at Oslo. Births
January to June 1 January Vidya Balan, actress. 3 January Gul Panag, actress 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 19 July Malavika, actress. 27 July Vamshi Paidipally, film director. 29 July Hard Kaur, rapper 2 August Devi Sri Prasad, music composer and singer. 10 August Shabir Ahluwalia, television actor 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 9 February – Banaphool, author, playwright and poet (b. 1899). 11 February – Mayavaram V. R. Govindaraja Pillai, Carnatic violinist (b. 1912) 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