1979 in India

none January 2022 March 2022 1979 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.30 November 2008 Joeanna Rebello Bombay's Iran hostage crisis of 1979 https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mumbai/bombays-iran-hostage-crisis-of-1979/articleshow/3774422.cms 2022-01-12 The Times of India en 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.15 June 1979 Amarnath K. Menon Coastal Andhra Pradesh gets battered by cyclone, second time in less than 18 months https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/indiascope/story/19790615-coastal-andhra-pradesh-gets-battered-by-cyclone-second-time-in-less-than-18-months-822134-2014-02-27 2022-01-12 India Today en 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.Narasimhan T.a 2019-06-27 Retrieval of Kanchi Athivaradar: a deity's tryst with history en-IN The Hindu https://www.thehindu.com/society/history-and-culture/retrieval-of-kanchi-athivaradar-a-deitys-tryst-with-history/article28182955.ece 2022-01-12 0971-751X 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).2019-12-23 Chaudhary Charan Singh – prime minister for 23 days and champion of India's farmers en-US ThePrint https://theprint.in/theprint-profile/chaudhary-charan-singh-prime-minister-for-23-days-and-champion-of-indias-farmers/339598/ 2022-01-12 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.Staff T. N. M. 2016-04-20 How Biju Patnaik nearly pulled off a DMK and AIADMK merger https://www.thenewsminute.com/tamil-nadu/how-biju-patnaik-nearly-pulled-dmk-and-aiadmk-merger-41911 2026-05-12 The News Minute enRamakrishnan T. 2025-01-28 When Odisha’s towering leader Biju Patnaik tried his best to bring DMK, AIADMK together https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/when-odishas-towering-leader-tried-his-best-to-bring-dmk-aiadmk-together/article69150139.ece 2026-05-12 The Hindu en-IN 0971-751X 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.2019-11-29 Forty Years Ago, November 29, 1979: Kerala drama https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/forty-years-ago-november-29-1979-kerala-drama-6141736/ 2022-01-12 The Indian Express en 10 December – Mother Teresa was awarded Nobel Peace Prize at Oslo.The Nobel Peace Prize 1979 https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/1979/teresa/acceptance-speech/ 2022-01-12 NobelPrize.org en-US Births January to June 1 January Vidya Balan, actress. 3 January Gul Panag, actress thumb|180x180px|Bipasha Basu7 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, actorthumb|119x119px|Emraan Hashmi 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. thumb|180x180px|Kamya Punjabi 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 1979 India Category:Years of the 20th century in India Category:1970s in India Category:1979 in Asia