1979

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The following events occured in the year 1979:

Contents 1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Muggle events 5 See also 6 Notes and references

[edit] Events

• Sybill Trelawney makes the prophecy about a person who will have the power to defeat Lord Voldemort.
• Sybill Trelawney becomes the Divination professor at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
• Newt Scamander is awarded the Order of Merlin, Second Class.
• September 1 — Gwenog Jones starts at Hogwarts and becomes a favourite of Horace Slughorn.

[edit] Births

• Katie Bell (presumed^[1])
• Eddie Carmichael (presumed)
• Cho Chang (presumed)
• Cormac McLaggen (presumed)
• September 19 — Hermione Granger to Mr. and Mrs. Granger, Muggle dentists.

[edit] Deaths

• Orion Black
• Cygnus Black III
• Regulus Black

[edit] Muggle events

• American embassy in Iran seized and held hostage.
• Shah overthrown in Iranian revolution.
• The Three Mile Island nuclear accident in Pennsylvania, USA occurs.
• Soviet forces invade Afghanistan.
• Sex Pistols bassist Sid Vicious dies of a heroin overdose in New York.

[edit] See also

• Dating conventions

[edit] Notes and references

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1970s 1976 1977 1978 - 1979