The June 28, 1979 was a Thursday under the star sign of ♋. It was the 178 day of the year. President of the United States was Jimmy Carter.
If you were born on this day, you are 46 years old. Your last birthday was on the Saturday, June 28, 2025, 78 days ago. Your next birthday is on Sunday, June 28, 2026, in 286 days. You have lived for 16,880 days, or about 405,128 hours, or about 24,307,691 minutes, or about 1,458,461,460 seconds.
Date: 28 June 1979
Special to The New York Times
Lord Thomson, publisher of strike-bound London Times and Sunday Times, says he has no intention of disposing of newspapers, shareholders meeting of International Thomson Organization; says papers have lost $40 million since their closing (S)
Date: 29 June 1979
Memorial service for ABC News correspondent Bill Stewart to be held June 29, Society for Ethical Culture, NYC: speakers to include ABC News anchorman Frank Reynolds, CBS anchorman Walter Cronkite and Andrew Young, US representative to UN (S)
Date: 28 June 1979
By JOAN COOK
Joan COOK
Carlton Beals, longtime dean of Latin American correspondents, dies; was 85
Date: 29 June 1979
Editorial on question of whether Federal Government has become too open for its own good; holds no other democracy has ventured so far in assuring access to secret documents; notes freedoms implicit under Freedom of Information Act; says it was by tapping files that English journalist William Shawcross could write 'Sideshow,' which relies on cable traffic of highest security classification to describe cover-up of 1969-70 bombing raids in Cambodia; holds that if open Government has its excesses, they are incidental footnote to new chapter of freedom
Date: 29 June 1979
By James Reston
James Reston
James Reston comment on London, England, without newspaper The Times (M)
Date: 29 June 1979
Text of communique issued in English by Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries at end of its ministerial meeting in Geneva; conference has given general support to idea of establishing international news agency, OPECNEWS (S)