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9 February – The England international striker Trevor Francis signs for Nottingham Forest from Birmingham City in British football's first £1 million deal. [3] 12 February – Over 1,000 schools close due to the heating oil shortage caused by the lorry drivers' strike.
Find out what happened in 1979 in the UK and the world, from the Winter of Discontent to the Iranian Revolution. See the timeline of significant events, prices, movies, music and more.
Here are events from 1979 that have shaped Britain and its peoples and affected its history.
The general election that made Margaret Thatcher prime minister might seem to be the most important event of 1979 to Britons who lived through the subsequent decade, but it is just one of many important political events that marked that year.
5 days ago · United Kingdom - Thatcher, Politics, Economy: In the subsequent election, in May 1979, the Conservatives under the leadership of Margaret Thatcher were swept into power with the largest electoral swing since 1945, securing a 43-seat majority.
The Winter of Discontent was the period between November 1978 and February 1979 in the United Kingdom characterised by widespread strikes by private, and later public, sector trade unions demanding pay rises greater than the limits Prime Minister James Callaghan and his Labour Party government had been imposing, against Trades Union Congress ...
1979: the election of Margaret Thatcher as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom; the Iranian Revolution and foundation of the Islamic Republic of Iran under Ayatollah Khomeini; the invasion of Afghanistan by the Soviet Union and commencement of the Soviet-Afghan War; economic reform in the People's Republic of China under Paramount Leader Deng X...
