No Heartaches in November 1979!
A number one hit on the Cash Box Top 100 list in November 1979 was 'Heartache Tonight' by the Eagles.
November 1 – Iran hostage crisis: Iranian Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini urges his people to demonstrate on November 4 and to expand attacks on United States and Israeli interests.
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November 2 – Assata Shakur (ne' Joanne Chesimard), a former member of Black Panther Party and Black Liberation Army, is liberated from a Clinton, New Jersey prison and soon shuttled off to Cuba.
November 2 - Quadrophenia and Running movies premiere.
November 3 – In Greensboro, North Carolina, five members of the Communist Workers Party are shot to death and seven are wounded by a group of Klansmen and neo-Nazis, during a "Death to the Klan" rally.
November 4 – Iran hostage crisis begins: 3,000 Iranian radicals, mostly students, invade the U.S. Embassy in Tehran and take 90 hostages (53 of whom are American). They demand that the United States send the former Shah of Iran back to stand trial.
November 5 – Al Capp, cartoonist, dies. (b. 1909)
November 7 – U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy announces that he will challenge President Jimmy Carter for the 1980 Democratic presidential nomination.
November 7 - The Rose movie premieres.
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November 9 – Nuclear false alarm: the NORAD computers and the Alternate National Military Command Center in Fort Ritchie, Maryland detected purported massive Soviet nuclear strike. After reviewing the raw data from satellites and checking the early warning radars, the alert was cancelled.
November 12 – Iran hostage crisis: In response to the hostage situation in Tehran, U.S. President Jimmy Carter orders a halt to all oil imports into the United States from Iran.
November 14 – Iran hostage crisis: U.S. President Jimmy Carter issues Executive Order 12170, freezing all Iranian assets in the United States and U.S. banks in response to the hostage crisis.
November 17 – Iran hostage crisis: Iranian leader Ruhollah Khomeini orders the release of 13 female and African American hostages being held at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran.
November 21 – After false radio reports from the Ayatollah Khomeini that Americans had occupied the Grand Mosque in Mecca, the United States Embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan is attacked by a mob and set afire, killing 4.
November 21 - Mountain Family Robinson movie premieres.
November 23 – Judee Sill, singer and songwriter, dies. (b. 1944)
November 25 - Pat Summerall calls his first NFL telecast (Minnesota Vikings–Tampa Bay Buccaneers) with John Madden.
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November 30 – Zeppo Marx, actor and comedian, dies. (b. 1901)
1979 Mercury Bobcat:
Creepy comic for November:
Rocket Tubes playset (released 1979):
Dustbuster was a new product introduced in 1979:
Playboy playmate of the month, Sylvie Garant, and Playgirl man for November, Greg Scott:
Albums released in November (album / artist):
Freedom at Point Zero / Jefferson Starship
Machine Gun Etiquette / The Damned
Night in the Ruts / Aerosmith
Setting Sons / The Jam
The Wall / Pink Floyd
Nielsen top shows for the week ending November 18th: 1 60 Minutes CBS; 2 Alice CBS; 3 The Jeffersons CBS; 4 Three's Company ABC; 5 Dallas CBS; 6 Archie Bunker's Place CBS; 7 Taxi ABC; 8 Happy Days ABC; 9 Trapper John, M.D. CBS; 10 Silver Streak CBS; 11 Eight Is Enough ABC; 12
MASH CBS; 13 Laverne and Shirley ABC; 14 Charlie's Angels ABC; 15 Little House on the Prairie NBC.
'The Establishment' by Howard Fast is at the top of the New York Times Fiction Best Seller list. Set in 1948, this novel is about an author and foreign correspondent starting a new life after WW II with her husband and son. After her husband leaves on a secret mission, she's thrust into Congressional confrontations, jail, and eventually tragedy.
National Lampoon for November:
New Yorker magazine for November 26th:
Newsweek magazine for November 19th:
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