Being born under the Chinese Zodiac Sign Sheep people have elegance and great talent in the arts. At first glance the Sheep zodiacs seem to be better off than other signs. But if you take into consideration that Sheep are shy, pessimistic and having a hard time figuring life out. Timid by nature usually Sheep are very religious people. Introvert mostly they can be clumsy doing speeches. Having great passion towards their beliefs and passions. Sheep are very good at what they do professionally, that is also why they have no worries about material things. Wise yet gentle Sheep are compassionate people.
Astrology character and traits of Sheep sign: Elegant, artistic, gentle, compassionate, honest, creative, genuine, dependent on material comforts and pessimistic.
1979 Zodiac Sign Goat Compatibility
Chinese Zodiac Signs are based upon a twelve year lunar cycle. Your zodiac animal sign is determined by your birthday year. If you were born in 1979 then your astrological sign is Goat. There are twelve animal signs. Each animal has it's own attributes and personality traits the Chinese believe comprise the nature of each particular animal.
Best matches for Zodiac Sign Goat are: Horse, Rabbit, Pig, Dragon
Bad matches for Zodiac Sign Goat are: Ox
Historical Events for the Year 1979
1st January Star Sign » Formal diplomacy or diplomatic relations are established between China and the United States.
7th January Star Sign » Sino-Vietnamese War or Third Indochina War Cambodian–Vietnamese War: Phnom Penh falls to the advancing Vietnamese troops, driving out Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge.
8th January Star Sign » The Whiddy Island Disaster known as tanker 'Betelgeuse' explodes in Bantry Bay, Ireland.
16th January Star Sign » The Mohammad Reza Pahlavi e.g last Iranian Shah flees Iran with his family for good and relocates to Egypt.
25th January Star Sign » Pope John Paul II starts his first official papal visits outside Italy to the Bahamas, Dominican Republic and Mexico.
28th January Star Sign » CBS News Sunday Morning debuts with original host and cocreator Charles Kuralt.
28th January » Pope John Paul II starts his first pastoral visit to Mexico.
30th January Star Sign » A Varig Boeing 707 707-323C freighter, flown by the same commander as Varig Flight 820 Flight 820, 1979 Boeing 707-323C disappearance disappears over the Pacific Ocean 30 minutes after taking off from Tokyo.
1st February Star Sign » Convicted bank robber Patty Hearst is released from prison after her sentence is commuted by President of the United States known as President Jimmy Carter.
1st February » The Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returns to Tehran, Iran after nearly 15 years of exile.
11th February Star Sign » The Iranian Revolution establishes an Islamic theocracy under the leadership of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.
13th February Star Sign » An intense February 13, 1979 Windstorm or windstorm strikes western Washington (state) e.g Washington and sinks a 1/2-mile-long section of the Hood Canal Bridge.
14th February Star Sign » In Kabul, Setami Milli militants kidnap the American ambassador to Afghanistan, Adolph Dubs who is later killed during a gunfight between his kidnappers and police.
15th February Star Sign » Don Dunstan resigns as Premier of South Australia, ending a decade of sweeping social liberalisation.
5th March Star Sign » Soviet probes Venera 11, Venera 12 and the American solar satellite Helios probes named Helios II all are hit by Gamma-ray burst called "off the scale" gamma rays leading to the discovery of soft gamma repeaters.
8th March Star Sign » Philips demonstrates the Compact Disc publicly for the first time.
14th March Star Sign » In China, a Hawker Siddeley Trident crashes into a factory near Beijing, killing at least 200.
17th March Star Sign » The Penmanshiel Tunnel collapses during engineering works, killing two workers.
19th March Star Sign » The United States House of Representatives begins broadcasting its day-to-day business via the cable television network C-SPAN.
25th March Star Sign » The first fully functional space shuttle orbiter, 'Space Shuttle Columbia known as Columbia', is delivered to the John F. Kennedy Space Center to be prepared for its first launch.
26th March Star Sign » Anwar al-Sadat, Menachem Begin and Jimmy Carter sign the Israel-Egypt Peace Treaty in Washington, D.C..
30th March Star Sign » Airey Neave, a British Member of Parliament United Kingdom called Member of Parliament, is killed by a car bomb as he exits the Palace of Westminster. The Irish National Liberation Army claims responsibility.
31st March Star Sign » The last British soldier leaves the Malta known as Maltese Islands. Malta declares its Freedom Day (Jum il-Helsien).
1st April Star Sign » Iran becomes an Islamic republic Iranian Islamic Republic referendum, March 1979 named by a 99% vote, officially overthrowing the Mohammad Reza Pahlavi called Shah.
4th April Star Sign » Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto of Pakistan is executed.
10th April Star Sign » 1979 Red River Valley tornado outbreak e.g Red River Valley tornado outbreak: A tornado lands in Wichita Falls, Texas killing 42 people.
3rd May Star Sign » After the United Kingdom general election, 1979 e.g general election, Margaret Thatcher forms her first government as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
4th May Star Sign » Margaret Thatcher becomes the first female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
9th May Star Sign » Persian Jews or Iranian Jewish businessman Habib Elghanian is executed by firing squad in Tehran, prompting the mass exodus of the once 100,000 member strong Jewish community of Iran.
10th May Star Sign » The Federated States of Micronesia become self-governing.
21st May Star Sign » White Night riots in San Francisco following the manslaughter conviction of Dan White for the assassinations of George Moscone and Harvey Milk.
28th May Star Sign » Konstantinos Karamanlis signs the full treaty of the accession of Greece with the European Economic Community.
1st June Star Sign » The first black-led government of Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) in 90 years takes power.
2nd June Star Sign » Pope John Paul II starts his first official visit to his native Poland, becoming the first Pope to visit a Communist country.
3rd June Star Sign » A blowout at the Ixtoc I oil well in the southern Gulf of Mexico causes at least convert 3000000 oilbbl m3 of oil to be spilled into the waters, the second-worst accidental oil spill ever recorded.
9th June Star Sign » The 1979 Sydney Ghost Train fire known as Ghost Train fire at Luna Park Sydney (Australia) kills seven.
12th June Star Sign » Bryan Allen (cyclist) named Bryan Allen wins the second Kremer prize for a man powered flight across the English Channel in the Gossamer Albatross.
18th June Star Sign » SALT II is signed by the United States and the Soviet Union.
20th June Star Sign » ABC News correspondent Bill Stewart (journalist) named Bill Stewart is shot dead by a Nicaraguan soldier under the regime of Anastasio Somoza Debayle. The murder is caught on tape and sparks an international outcry against the regime.
3rd July Star Sign » U.S. President Jimmy Carter signs the first directive for Operation Cyclone called secret aid to the opponents of the pro-Soviet regime in Kabul.
9th July Star Sign » A car bomb destroys a Renault motor car owned by the famed "Nazi hunters" Serge and Beate Klarsfeld at their home in France. A note purportedly from ODESSA claims responsibility.
12th July Star Sign » The island nation of Kiribati becomes independent from United Kingdom.
15th July Star Sign » United States called U.S. President of the United States called President Jimmy Carter gives his so-called malaise speech, where he characterizes the greatest threat to the country as "this crisis in the growing doubt about the meaning of our own lives an
16th July Star Sign » President of Iraq called Iraqi President Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr resigns and is replaced by Saddam Hussein.
17th July Star Sign » Nicaraguan dictator General Anastasio Somoza Debayle resigns and flees to Miami, Florida.
19th July Star Sign » The Sandinista National Liberation Front named Sandinista rebels overthrow the government of the Anastasio Somoza Debayle called Somoza family in Nicaragua.
25th July Star Sign » Another section of the Sinai Peninsula is peacefully returned by Israel to Egypt.
5th August Star Sign » In Afghanistan, Afghanistan Liberation Organization called Maoists undertake an attempted military uprising.
7th August Star Sign » 1979 Woodstock, Ontario tornado or Several tornadoes strike the city of Woodstock, Ontario, Canada and the surrounding communities.
11th August Star Sign » Two Aeroflot Tupolev Tu-134s collide over the Ukraine called Ukrainian city of Dniprodzerzhynsk and crash, killing all 178 aboard both airliners.
13th August Star Sign » The roof of the uncompleted Allstate Arena named Rosemont Horizon in Rosemont, Illinois, collapses, killing five workers and injuring 16.
21st August Star Sign » Soviet dancer Alexander Godunov defects to the United States.
27th August Star Sign » A Provisional Irish Republican Army bomb kills British retired admiral Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma or Lord Mountbatten and three others while they are boating on holiday in Sligo, Republic of Ireland. Shortly after, 18 British Army so
28th August Star Sign » An Provisional Irish Republican Army e.g IRA bomb explodes at the Grote Markt (Brussels) named Grote Markt in Brussels.
1st September Star Sign » The American space probe 'Pioneer 11' becomes the first spacecraft to visit Saturn when it passes the planet at a distance of convert 21000 km mi.
7th September Star Sign » The Chrysler Corporation asks the United States government for US$1.5 billion to avoid bankruptcy.
12th September Star Sign » Indonesia is hit with an earthquake that measures 8.1 on the Richter magnitude scale e.g Richter scale.
13th September Star Sign » South Africa grants independence to the "homeland" of Venda (not recognised outside South Africa).
14th September Star Sign » President of Afghanistan named Afghan President Nur Muhammad Taraki is assassinated upon the order of Hafizullah Amin, who becomes the new president.
22nd September Star Sign » The Vela Incident (also known as the South Atlantic Flash) is observed near Bouvet Island, thought to be a nuclear weapons test.
24th September Star Sign » CompuServe launches the first consumer internet service, which features the first public electronic mail service.
27th September Star Sign » The United States Department of Education receives final approval from the Congress of the United States e.g U.S. Congress to become the 13th US Cabinet (government) or Cabinet agency.
29th September Star Sign » Pope John Paul II becomes the first pope to visit Republic of Ireland called Ireland.
30th September Star Sign » The Hong Kong MTR commences service with the opening of its Kwun Tong Line called Modified Initial System (aka. Kwun Tong Line).
1st October Star Sign » Pope John Paul II begins his first pastoral visit to the United States.
1st October » The MTR, the rapid transit railway system in Hong Kong, opens.
1st October » The United States returns sovereignty of the Panama Canal to Panama.
2nd October Star Sign » Pope John Paul II denounces all forms of concentration camps and torture while speaking at the U.N. in New York City.
6th October Star Sign » Pope John Paul II becomes the first pontiff to visit the White House.
12th October Star Sign » The lowest recorded non-tornadic atmospheric pressure, 87.0 kPa (870 mbar or 25.69 inHg), occurred in the Western Pacific during Typhoon Tip.
14th October Star Sign » The first Gay Rights March on Washington, D.C., the National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights, demands "an end to all social, economic, judicial, and legal oppression of lesbian and gay people", and draws 200,000 people.
15th October Star Sign » Black Monday (Malta) named Black Monday in Malta. The Building of the Times of Malta, the residence of the opposition leader Eddie Fenech Adami and several Nationalist Party (Malta) e.g Nationalist Party clubs are ransacked and destroyed by supporters of
17th October » The Department of Education Organization Act is signed into law creating the US Department of Education and US Department of Health and Human Services.
21st October Star Sign » Moshe Dayan resigns from the Israeli government because of strong disagreements with Prime Minister Menachem Begin over policy towards the Arabs.
26th October Star Sign » Park Chung-hee, President of South Korea is Park Chung-hee assassination e.g assassinated by Korean Central Intelligence Agency head Kim Jae-kyu. Choi Kyu-ha becomes the acting President; Kim is executed the following May.
27th October Star Sign » Saint Vincent and the Grenadines gains its independence from the United Kingdom.
4th November Star Sign » Iran hostage crisis: a mob of Iranians, mostly students, overruns the United States called US embassy in Tehran and takes 90 hostages (53 of whom are American).
9th November Star Sign » North American Aerospace Defense Command False alarms e.g Nuclear false alarm: the NORAD computers and the Alternate National Military Command Center in Fort Ritchie, Maryland detected purported massive Soviet Union named Soviet nuclear strike. After revi
10th November Star Sign » A 106-car Canadian Pacific freight train carrying explosive and poisonous chemicals from Windsor, Ontario, Canada 1979 Mississauga train derailment or derails in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada just west of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, causing a massive explosi
12th November Star Sign » Iran hostage crisis: In response to the hostage situation in Tehran, US President Jimmy Carter orders a halt to all petroleum imports into the United States from Iran.
14th November Star Sign » Iran hostage crisis: US President Jimmy Carter issues Executive order 12170, freezing all Iranian assets in the United States in response to the Iran hostage crisis e.g hostage crisis.
15th November Star Sign » A package from Unabomber Ted Kaczynski begins smoking in the cargo hold of a flight from Chicago to Washington, D.C., forcing the plane to make an emergency landing.
16th November Star Sign » The first line of Bucharest Metro (Line M1) is opened from Timpuri Noi metro station known as Timpuri Noi to Petrache Poenaru metro station called Semănătoarea in Bucharest, Romania.
17th November Star Sign » Brisbane Suburban Railway Electrification. The first stage from Ferny Grove, Queensland known as Ferny Grove to Darra, Queensland or Darra is commissioned.
19th November Star Sign » Iran hostage crisis: Iranian leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini orders the release of 13 female and black United States e.g American hostages being held at the US Embassy in Tehran.
20th November Star Sign » Grand Mosque Seizure: About 200 Sunni Muslims revolt in Saudi Arabia at the site of the Kaaba in Mecca during the pilgrimage and take about 6000 hostages. The Saudi government receives help from Pakistani special forces to put down the uprising.
21st November Star Sign » The United States Embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan, is attacked by a mob and 1979 U.S. Embassy Burning in Islamabad called set on fire, killing four.
23rd November Star Sign » In Dublin, Ireland, Provisional Irish Republican Army member Thomas McMahon (Irish republican) known as Thomas McMahon is sentenced to life in prison for the assassination of Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma e.g Lord Mountbatten.
28th November Star Sign » Air New Zealand Flight 901, a McDonnell Douglas DC-10 or DC-10 sightseeing flight over Antarctica, crashes into Mount Erebus, killing all 257 people on board.
3rd December Star Sign » In Cincinnati, Ohio, 11 fans are suffocated in 1979 The Who concert disaster a crush for seats on the concourse outside U.S. Bank Arena Riverfront Coliseum before a The Who Who concert.
3rd December » Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini becomes the first Supreme Leader of Iran.
4th December Star Sign » The Hastie fire in Kingston upon Hull e.g Hull kills three schoolboys and eventually leads police to arrest Bruce George Peter Lee.
9th December Star Sign » The eradication of the smallpox virus is certified, making smallpox the first and to date only human disease driven to extinction.
10th December Star Sign » Kaohsiung Incident: Taiwanese pro-democracy demonstrations are suppressed by the KMT dictatorship, and organizers are arrested.
12th December Star Sign » President of Pakistan Zia-ul-Haq confers 'Nishan-e-Imtiaz' on Nobel laureate Dr Abdus Salam.
12th December » The unrecognised state of Zimbabwe Rhodesia returns to British control and resumes using the name Southern Rhodesia.
13th December Star Sign » The Politics of Canada Canadian Government of Prime Minister of Canada Prime Minister Joe Clark is defeated in the House of Commons of Canada House of Commons, prompting the Canadian federal election, 1980 1980 Canadian election.
19th December Star Sign » Geoffrey Boycott became the first cricketer to be stranded at 99 not out against Australia at Perth.
21st December Star Sign » Lancaster House Agreement: An independence agreement for Rhodesia is signed in London London, England, United Kingdom by Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington Lord Peter Carrington, Sir Ian Gilmour, Baron Gilmour of Craigmillar Ian Gilmour, Robert Mugabe,
23rd December Star Sign » Soviet war in Afghanistan: Soviet Union forces occupy Kabul, the Afghanistan named Afghan capital.
24th December Star Sign » The first European Ariane (rocket family) known as Ariane rocket is launched.
27th December Star Sign » The Soviet Union Soviet war in Afghanistan or invades the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan.