TV show host Larry Bundy Jr.

Events in 1979 and 9-5

Events in the world in the birth year of Larry Bundy Jr.

• Vietnam and Vietnam-backed Cambodian insurgents announce fall of Cambodian capital Phnom Penh and collapse of Pol Pot regime (Jan. 7).
• Shah leaves Iran after year of turmoil (Jan. 16); revolutionary forces under Muslim leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, take over (Feb. 1 et seq.).
• Conservatives win British election; Margaret Thatcher becomes new prime minister (May 3).
• Carter and Brezhnev sign SALT II agreement (June 14).
• Nicaraguan President General Anastasio Somoza Debayle resigns and flees to Miami (July 17); Sandinistas form government (July 19).
• Iranian militants seize US embassy in Teheran and hold hostages (Nov. 4).
• Soviet invasion of Afghanistan stirs world protests (Dec. 27).

Birthday Larry Bundy Jr. (9-5) in history

• Day 9-5 year 1914: Mother's Day became a public holiday.
• Day 9-5 year 1926: Explorers Richard E. Byrd and Floyd Bennett flew over the North Pole.
• Day 9-5 year 1936: Fascist Italy annexed Ethiopia.
• Day 9-5 year 1962: The Beatles signed their first recording contract and hired George Martin to be their producer.
• Day 9-5 year 1978: The body of slain former Italian prime minister Aldo Moro was found in an automobile in Rome.
• Day 9-5 year 1984: It took the Chicago White Sox 25 innings, eight hours, and six minutes, over two days, to finally defeat the Milwaukee Brewers, 7-6. It was the longest game (in elapsed time) in major-league history.
• Day 9-5 year 1994: The South African parliament chose Nelson Mandela as president.
• Day 9-5 year 2004: Chechnya's Moscow-backed leader, Akhmad Kadyrov, was killed in a bombing. Six others were killed and another 60 wounded.