Mother Teresa awarded Nobel Peace Prize
1979 · Event
Albanian-born Indian missionary honoured for work with the poor of Calcutta.
On these timelines: Master, India
Around 1979
- Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody (1975)
- Apollo 11 moon landing (1969)
- Invention of the World Wide Web (1989)
- Another Brick in the Wall (Part II) (Pink Floyd) (1979)
- Pop music: the 1980s (1980)
- Pop music: the 1970s (1970)
- Fall of the Berlin Wall (1989)
- Iranian Revolution (1978)
- Dancing Queen (ABBA) (1976)
- Imagine (John Lennon) (1971)