100,000 Iranian women March against the hijab law, tehran 1979 (1600×1066)

A beach in Iran a few months before the Islamic Revolution, 1979

16-year-old Brenda Spencer leaves court in Santa Ana, California, after pleading guilty to two counts of murder in a sniper attack. She killed two people and wounded nine others. 1979

March Madness: Michigan State's Magic Johnson squares off against Indiana State's Larry Bird in the 1979 NCAA Title Game...

leftist revolutionary woman cleaning her gun. Tehran, iran, 1979

Margaret Trudeau, estranged wife of Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, dances at New York City's Studio 54, May 23, 1979. A few hours earlier her husband conceded defeat in the Canadian elections.

Iranian women before Islamic Revolution in 1979

Leonid Brezhnev kissing East German leader Erich Honecker, 1979

Holland, March 1979: In a collaboration with Sony, Joop Sinjou of Philips introduces the compact disc to the world,

President Jimmy Carter personally inspecting the Three Mile Island facility just days after the initial accident occured. April 1st, 1979.

Moondog - East 51st Street, New York (1970-1979).

Archeologists excavate and examine ancient terracotta warrior sculptures in Xi’an, People’s Republic of China, 1979.

1979: The last confirmed grizzly bear in Colorado, killed in self-defense mid-attack.

Revolutionary, freedom-fighting, woman reloads her weapon: Tehran, 1979. (485×745)

Prince Charles visits a milk factory in Zurich, January 1979 .

Iranian women during the revolution celebrating the news of the Shah leaving Iran into exile, 1979.

The Aftermath of the Deadliest Attack on the British Army by the IRA During the Troubles, 1979

100,000 Iranian women protesting days after the Iranian Revolution, 1979 - colorized by me

Brenda Ann Spencer (16 y.o) in Santa Ana, Ca, after pleading guilty to two counts of murder in a sniper attack, 1979. Colorized.

A Vietnamese soldier holding a flower with his rifle during the march to the frontline, The Sino-Vietnamese war, 1979

Jimmy Carter awards legendary theoretical physicist Richard Feynman the National Medal of Science in 1979

c. 1970s: Primatologist Dian Fossey and Digit, her favorite among the gorillas. Digit was killed by poachers while defending his family on New Year's Eve, 1979, causing Fossey to become more militant towards poachers.

Afghan mujahideen during soviet invasion of Afghanistan, 1979

100,000 Iranian Women marched in protest against the new Hijab Law (1979)

1979 - President Jimmy Carter, flanked by nervous Secret Service agents, climbed onto the roof of the presidential limousine during a 1979 visit to Bardstown, Kentucky.

Sadeq Ghotbzadeh, Western-educated anti-Shah politician responsible for Islamification policies of Iranian state media, serving as personal aide to Ayatollah Khomeini and accompanying him on his AirFrance flight to Iran. 3 years later, Khomeini had him executed. France, 1979

Iranian women throwing their veils outside the prime Minister office in protest to hijab law, Tehran 1979 (1024×683)

A young Iranian communist holding two books about Russian revolution in her hands, one titled “History of the Russian revolution” and the other is titled “Young Lenin”. Tehran, 1979 (600×842)

A hairdressers in Iran in 1977. It became compulsory to wear hijab after the Iranian Revolution in 1979.

"Tragedy on Sanatoga Road" (Pottstown Mercury, Pennsylvania, May, 1978) - Richard Greist evades police after murdering his wife and unborn child. Photographer, Thomas J. Kelly won the Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography in 1979.

Senator and future President Joe Biden and then President Jimmy Carter, taken on 19 October 1979

Today in 1979, Jimmy Carter and Leonid Brezhnev Sign the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT II) in Vienna.

Rubbish piles up in London's Soho during a strike by sanitation workers Feb. 1, 1979

Hostages inside the U.S. Embassy celebrating Christmas. Tehran, 1979

President Jimmy Carter in a boat in Plains, Georgia, chasing away an approaching swamp rabbit. 1979

Bob Marley juggling a soccer ball backstage at the San Diego Arena, 1979. The gentleman on the right who is often mistaken for Jimi Hendrix is actually trumpet player Glen Dacosta from the Jamaican band Zap Pow.

A captured Chinese tank crewman under guard by a Vietnamese soldier, during the Sino-Vietnamese War - 1979

Muhammad Ali sparring with two teenagers during a promotional tour of New Zealand, 1979

Lord Mountbatten's body is carried ashore by sailors after he was assassinated by the Irish Republican Army in County Sligo, Ireland, 1979.

Rally for the Whales - Trafalgar Square, London. Sunday 8th July 1979

Hergé, the creator of The Adventures of Tintin, celebrating the 50th anniversary of the character as he stands next to a bronze statue of Tintin and Snowy. Belgium, 1979

Iranian women taking part in a march on international women's day through the capital Tehran to protest new rules making the Hijab compulsory. 8th March 1979

Car Entering the Longest Covered Bridge in the world Hartland NB Canada 1979

Artoria Gibbons - 1920 and 1979. She was one of the last Tattooed Ladies to perform as she was doing it more for the love of the performance art than the money.

Boris Johnson at Eaton College Pillow fight, 1979.

Robert C. Mackenzie served in Vietnam with the 101st Airborne(66-67), the Rhodesian SAS as a Squadron Commander(70-80),Transkei Special Forces(80-81), South African Recce(81-85) & as an mercenary in Sierra Leone, Bosnia, & Nigeria, Rhodesia 1979

Flight 191, the worst plane crash in American history. Chicago, O'hare, May 25, 1979.

Paul Bocuse, one of the best chef in France who later on inspired chef Gusteau in Ratatouille, he got this tatoo in 1944 after he was wounded in Alsace he decided to tatoo a red rooster on his left arm, Lyon 1979.

Paul Newman, 24hours of Le Mans, finished second overall and winner of his class with his Porsche 935 in 1979

Officers of the West German "Bundesgrenzschutz" (Federal Border Patrol) together with US-Army Soldiers on patrol duty on the inner german border with communist east germany, 1979.