Editing 1979 (section)

===April===
{{Main|April 1979}}
* [[April 1]]
** [[Iran]]'s government becomes an [[Islamic Republic]] by a 98% vote, overthrowing the [[Shah]] officially.
** [[Nickelodeon]] launches from [[QUBE]]'s [[Pinwheel (TV series)|Pinwheel]] experiment and begins airing on various Warner Cable systems beginning in Buffalo, New York, expanding its audience reach.
**[[Dale Earnhardt|Dale Earnhardt Sr.]] wins his first career [[NASCAR]] race at the [[1979 Southeastern 500]] at [[Bristol Motor Speedway]]. He would go on to win 76 races and seven championships during his career.
* [[April 1]]–[[April 18|18]] – Police lock [[Andreas Mihavecz]] in a holding cell in [[Bregenz]], Austria and forget about him, leaving him there without food or drink.
* [[April 2]] – [[Sverdlovsk anthrax leak]]: A [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] [[biowarfare]] laboratory at [[Yekaterinburg|Sverdlovsk]] accidentally releases airborne [[anthrax]] spores, killing 66 plus an unknown amount of [[livestock]]. It is a violation of the [[Biological Weapons Convention]] of [[1972]].
* [[April 2]] – In [[Japan]], the channel of [[TV Asahi]] premieres ''[[Doraemon]]''.
* [[April 4]] – [[Prime Minister of Pakistan|Pakistani Prime Minister]] [[Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto]] is executed by hanging for the murder of a political opponent.
* [[April 6]] – [[1979 Nepalese student protests|Student protests]] break out in [[Nepal]].
* [[April 7]] – In Japan, [[Yoshiyuki Tomino]] directs ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam]]'', the first series of the metaseries of the same name.
* [[April 10]] – A tornado hits [[Wichita Falls, Texas]], killing 42 people (the most notable of [[1979 Red River Valley tornado outbreak|26 tornadoes that day]]).
* [[April 11]] – Uganda–Tanzania War: [[Fall of Kampala]]: Tanzanian troops take [[Kampala]], the capital of Uganda; [[Idi Amin]] flees.
* [[April 13]] – The [[La Soufrière (volcano)|La Soufrière]] volcano erupts in [[St. Vincent and the Grenadines]].
* [[April 14]] – The [[Progressive Alliance of Liberia]] stages a protest, without a permit, against an increase in rice prices proposed by the government, with clashes between protestors and the police resulting over 70 deaths and over 500 injured.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Dunn|first1= Elwood D.|last2=Beyan|first2=Amos J.|last3=Burrowes|first3=Carl Patrick|date=2000|title=Historical Dictionary of Liberia |trans-title=|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qt0_RrW8ghkC|isbn=9781461659310|pages=23–24|publisher= Scarecrow Press}}</ref>
* [[April 15]] – [[1979 Montenegro earthquake]]: A 6.9 {{M|w|link=y}} shock affects [[Montenegro]] (then part of [[Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia|Yugoslavia]]) and parts of [[Albania]], causing extensive damage to coastal areas and taking 136 lives; the old town of [[Budva]] is devastated.
* [[April 17]] – Schoolchildren in the [[Central African Republic]] are arrested (and around 100 killed) for protesting against compulsory [[school uniform]]s. An African judicial commission later determines that Emperor [[Jean-Bédel Bokassa]] "almost certainly" took part in the massacre.
* [[April 22]] – The [[Albert Einstein Memorial]] is unveiled at the [[National Academy of Sciences]] in Washington, D.C.
* [[April 23]] – Fighting breaks out in London between the [[Anti-Nazi League]] and the [[Metropolitan Police]]'s [[Special Patrol Group]]; protester [[Blair Peach]] receives fatal injuries during the incident, now officially attributed to the SPG.