News Summary; International
Date: 09 November 1979
Dania Ramirez (born November 8, 1979) is a Dominican actress. Her credits include the roles of Maya Herrera in the NBC series Heroes, Alex in the HBO series Entourage, and Blanca during the last season of the HBO crime drama The Sopranos on television. Her film roles include Alex Guerrero in She Hate Me and Callisto in the feature film X-Men: The Last Stand. She portrayed Rosie Falta on Lifetime's Devious Maids from June 2013, until its cancellation in 2016. In July 2017, Ramirez joined the ABC series Once Upon a Time for its softly-rebooted seventh season in a starring role as Cinderella. In 2023, she began the starring role of Captain Nikki Batista in the Fox crime drama Alert: Missing Persons Unit.
Read more...The November 8, 1979 was a Thursday under the star sign of ♏. It was the 311 day of the year. President of the United States was Jimmy Carter.
If you were born on this day, you are 45 years old. Your last birthday was on the Friday, November 8, 2024, 360 days ago. Your next birthday is on Saturday, November 8, 2025, in 4 days. You have lived for 16,797 days, or about 403,148 hours, or about 24,188,900 minutes, or about 1,451,334,000 seconds.
Date: 08 November 1979
says it has negotiated $250 million of standby revolving credits with foreign banks to replace $200 million of existing foreign credits (S)
Date: 08 November 1979
Robert Baudin, author who buzzed NYC offices of publisher Harcourt Brace Jovanovich and UN headquarters in small plane to protest their handling of his autobiography, is indicted on charges of attempted extortion (S)
Date: 08 November 1979
National Party loses its 1st parliamentary seat in decade when antiapartheid Progressive Federal Party wins by-election in Johannesburg suburb of Edenvale; results will have little effect in Parliament (S)
Date: 09 November 1979
Air Florida buys 4.8% of Piedmont Aviation stock (S)
Date: 08 November 1979
By ADAM CLYMER
Adam CLYMER
analysis of election (S)
Date: 09 November 1979
USSR names Fikryat A Tabeyev to replace Aleksandr M Puzanov as Ambassador to Afghanistan, apparently because of strains between both countries since violent takeover of power in Kabul by Hafizullah Amin in Sept; Puzanov was reportedly close to ousted President Noor Mohammad Taraki (S)
Date: 09 November 1979
By RICHARD BURT Special to The New York Times
Richard Special
Analysis of US efforts to achieve working relationship with revolutionary forces in Iran says policy is based on view that regardless of policies of new regime, Western dependence on Iran as major oil supplier requires strong cohesive central government in Teheran (S)
Date: 09 November 1979
By JOYCE H. PURNICK
Joyce PURNICK
Municipal Broadcasting System director Mary Perot Nichols says WNYC may discontinue broadcasting names of men convicted of patronizing prostitutes (M)