1979 in Chile

none February 2024 1979 The following lists events that happened during 1979 in Chile. Incumbents President of Chile: Augusto Pinochethttps://www.britannica.com/biography/Augusto-Pinochet Augusto Pinochet Encyclopædia Britannica 8 February 2024 Events January 9 January – The 1979 Treaty of Montevideo is signed. February February 3 - The XX International Song Festival of Viña del Mar is held, conducted by Antonio Vodanovic and María Graciela Gómez. March April April 18 - Relatives of disappeared detainees are chained in the building of the former National Congress, where the Ministry of Justice worked. Again they get no response. May May 3 - The newspaper La Estrella del Loa is founded, edited in Calama. May 5 - The Cobresal soccer team of El Salvador is founded. June June 3 - The minor Rodrigo Anfruns is kidnapped. The fact causes great commotion in the country. His body appears eleven days later, sowing doubt about the culprits. June 5 - The Center-Left Social Democratic Movement between 1979 and 1985 is founded. June 29 - Finance Minister Sergio de Castro announces that the exchange rate of the peso against the dollar will be fixed, establishing it at 39 pesos. July July 1 - The first personal stereo arrives in Chile. August August 22 - The Fausto nightclub opens its doors, the first venue of its kind for the LGBT public in Chile. September September 18 - General Augusto Pinochet signs the decree declaring the cueca "national dance of Chile". October October 23 - Coihuín tragedy: intense rains cause the collapse of a hill in the coastal town of Coihuín, in the commune of Puerto Montt, crushing ten people, all algae collectors. October 26 - Decree Laws 2867 and 2868 are published in the Official Gazette, redrawing provincial and communal boundaries throughout Chile. New communes are created such as Ollagüe in the province of El Loa, Antofagasta Region, and Hualaihué in the Los Lagos Region. November November 13 - The Vicaría de la Solidaridad denounces the burial of nearly 3,000 corpses in Patio 29 of the General Cemetery of Santiago, corresponding mostly to disappeared detainees. November 29 - The latest edition of El Tarapacá de Iquique circulates. 30 November-1 December – 1979 Chilean telethon Births 12 February – Patricio Ormazábal 27 July – Rodolfo Moya 30 July – Roberto Bruce (d. 2011) 9 August – Matías Bize 25 August – Cristián Reynero 11 September – David Pizarro 12 September – Denisse van Lamoen 6 October – Gonzalo Miranda 10 October – Nicolás Massú 14 October – Rodrigo Tello Deaths 21 July – Juan Guzmán Cruchaga (b. 1895) References 1979 in Category:Years of the 20th century in Chile Chile