Editing 1979 (section)

===November===
{{main|November 1979}}
* [[November 1]]
** Military coup in [[Bolivia]].
** [[Iran hostage crisis]]: [[Iran]]ian Ayatollah [[Ruhollah Khomeini]] urges his people to demonstrate on [[November 4]] and to expand attacks on United States and [[Israel]]i interests.
* [[November 2]]
** French police shoot gangster [[Jacques Mesrine]] in Paris.
** [[Assata Shakur]] (née Joanne Chesimard), a former member of the Black Panther Party and Black Liberation Army, escapes from a New York prison to Cuba, where she remains under political asylum.
* [[November 3]] – In [[Greensboro, North Carolina]], five members of the [[Communist Workers' Party (United States)|Communist Workers Party]] are shot to death and seven are wounded by a group of [[Ku Klux Klan|Klansmen]] and [[neo-Nazis]], during a "Death to the Klan" rally.
* [[November 4]] – [[Iran hostage crisis]] begins: 500 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 [[Mohammad Reza Pahlavi|Shah of Iran]] back to stand trial.
* [[November 5]]
** [[All Saints' Massacre]]: The military junta in [[Bolivia]] initiates a violent crack-down on its opponents.
** The radio news program ''[[Morning Edition]]'' premieres on [[National Public Radio]] in the United States.
* [[November 6]] – At [[Montevideo]], [[Uruguay]], the [[International Olympic Committee]] adopts a resolution, whereby [[Taiwan]] Olympic and sports teams will participate with the name [[Chinese Taipei]] in future [[Olympic Games]] and international sports tournaments and championships.
* [[November 7]] – U.S. Senator [[Ted Kennedy]] announces that he will challenge President [[Jimmy Carter]] for the 1980 [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]] presidential nomination.
* [[November 9]]
** The [[Carl Bridgewater]] murder trial ends in England with all four men found guilty. James Robinson, 45, and 25-year-old Vincent Hickey are sentenced to life imprisonment with a recommended 25-year minimum for murder. 18-year-old Michael Hickey is also found guilty of murder and sentenced to indefinite detention. Patrick Molloy, 53, is found guilty on a lesser charge of manslaughter and sentenced to 12 years in prison.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/november/9/newsid_2516000/2516015.stm|title=1979: Paperboy's killers convicted|publisher=BBC|work=On This Day|access-date=2013-03-18}}</ref>
** Nuclear [[false alarm]]: the [[NORAD]] computers and the Alternate National Military Command Center in [[Fort Ritchie, Maryland]], detect an apparent massive [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] [[Nuclear warfare|nuclear strike]]. After reviewing the raw data from satellites and checking the [[early-warning radar]]s, the alert is cancelled.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/missileers/falsealarms.html |title=False Alarms on the Nuclear Front |publisher=PBS |date=2001-05-03 |access-date=2014-04-29}}</ref>
* [[November 10]] – [[1979 Mississauga train derailment]]: A 106-car Canadian Pacific freight train carrying explosive and poisonous chemicals from Windsor, Ontario, Canada derails in Mississauga, just west of Toronto, causing a massive explosion and the largest peacetime evacuation in Canadian history and one of the largest in North American history.
* [[November 12]]
** [[Iran hostage crisis]]: In response to the hostage situation in [[Tehran]], U.S. President Jimmy Carter orders a halt to all [[Petroleum|oil]] imports into the United States from Iran.
** [[Süleyman Demirel]], of the [[Justice Party (Turkey)|Justice Party]] (AP) forms the new government of [[Turkey]] (43rd government, a minority government).
* November 13 – [[Ronald Reagan]] announces his candidacy for President of the United States, 9 days after the beginning of the Iran hostage crisis.
* [[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 15]] – British art historian and former [[Surveyor of the Queen's Pictures]] [[Anthony Blunt]]'s role as the "fourth man" of the '[[Cambridge Five]]' [[double agent]]s for the [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] [[NKVD]] during [[World War II]] is revealed by [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom|Prime Minister]] [[Margaret Thatcher]] in the [[House of Commons of the United Kingdom]];<ref>{{cite news|title=Professor Blunt named as spy|first1=Stewart|last1=Tendler|first2=Ian|last2=Bradley|newspaper=[[The Times]]|location=London|date=1979-11-16|page=1|issue=60476}}</ref> she gives further details on November 21.<ref>[https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1979/nov/21/mr-anthony-blunt Mr. Anthony Blunt]. ''[[Hansard]]'' HC Deb (November 21, 1979) '''974'''/402-520.</ref>
* [[November 16]] – [[Bucharest Metro]] Line One is opened, in [[Bucharest]], [[Romania]] (from Timpuri Noi to Semanatoarea stations, {{convert|8.63|km|mi}}).
* [[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 20]] – [[Grand Mosque seizure]]: A group of 200 [[Juhayman al-Otaybi]] militants occupy [[Mecca]]'s [[Masjid al-Haram]], the holiest place in Islam. They are driven out by Saudi military forces after bloody fighting that leaves 250 people dead and 600 wounded.
* [[November 21]] – After false radio reports from the Ayatollah Khomeini that the Americans had occupied the Grand Mosque in Mecca, the United States Embassy in [[Islamabad]], Pakistan is attacked by a mob and set afire, killing four, and disturbing [[Pakistan–United States relations]].
* [[November 23]] – [[The Troubles]]: In [[Dublin]], Ireland, [[Provisional Irish Republican Army]] member [[Thomas McMahon (Irish republican)|Thomas McMahon]] is sentenced to life in prison for the assassination of [[Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma|Lord Mountbatten of Burma]] in August. He was released in 1998 under the terms of the [[Good Friday Agreement]].
* [[November 25]] – The last cargo of [[phosphate]] was shipped from [[Banaba Island]] in [[Kiribati]] in the South Pacific Ocean, bringing an end to the island's chief industry.
* [[November 28]] – [[Air New Zealand Flight 901]]: an [[Air New Zealand]] [[McDonnell Douglas DC-10|DC-10]] crashes into [[Mount Erebus]] in Antarctica on a sightseeing trip, killing all 257 people on board.
* [[November 29]] – After 12 years of environmental controversy and legal action, the [[Tennessee Valley Authority]]'s [[Tellico Dam]] project is completed.<ref name="watery">{{cite news |title=A watery end: Tellico Dam fueled debate, lawsuits, tears |url=https://archive.knoxnews.com/news/local/a-watery-end-tellico-dam-fueled-debate-lawsuits-tears-ep-360218761-356724041.html/ |access-date=July 26, 2022 |work=[[Knoxville News Sentinel]] |date=August 26, 2012 |archive-date=July 27, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220727011257/https://archive.knoxnews.com/news/local/a-watery-end-tellico-dam-fueled-debate-lawsuits-tears-ep-360218761-356724041.html/ |url-status=live }}</ref> It remains the last dam to be built by the agency as of 2023.<ref name="udtrs">{{cite web |title=Building a Better Life for the Tennessee Valley |url=https://www.tva.com/About-TVA/Our-History/Built-for-the-People/Building-a-Better-Life-for-the-Tennessee-Valley |website=[[Tennessee Valley Authority]] |access-date=July 25, 2022 |archive-date=July 26, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220726011354/https://www.tva.com/About-TVA/Our-History/Built-for-the-People/Building-a-Better-Life-for-the-Tennessee-Valley |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[November 30]] – ''[[The Wall]]'', a [[rock opera]] [[concept album]] by [[Pink Floyd]], is first released.