The November 12, 1979 was a Monday under the star sign of ♏. It was the 315 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 Tuesday, November 12, 2024, 335 days ago. Your next birthday is on Wednesday, November 12, 2025, in 29 days. You have lived for 16,772 days, or about 402,547 hours, or about 24,152,855 minutes, or about 1,449,171,300 seconds.
Date: 13 November 1979
Special to The New York Times
London Times resumes publication; front page noted; Times prints 600,000 copies, compared to normal daily circulation of 350,000; editor William Rees-Mogg and union chief Barry Fitzpatrick comment (S)
Date: 13 November 1979
BY LESLIE MAITLAND
Leslie MAITLAND
Article on Federal investigation of newspaper and magazine disribution business in NYC metropolitan area to determine whether Newspaper and Mail Deliverers Union and organized crime is extorting illegal payoffs from wholesalers; Federal grand jury is hearing testimony on allegations that deliverers union president Douglas LaChance demanded payoffs from wholesalers; LaChance denies charges; says union is not controlled by racketeers; investigation is spurred by accusations at racketeering trial of International Longshoremen's Assn president Anthony M Scotto and co-defendant Anthony Anastasio; allegations against union discussed; LaChance illus (M)
Date: 13 November 1979
By FOX BUTTERFIELD Special to The New York Times
Fox Special
Liu Qing, editor of The April 5 Forum, is apparently arrested by authorities after voluntarily reporting to Peking Public Security Bureau in effort to assist 4 detained colleagues (M)
Date: 13 November 1979
Special to The New York Times
Haitian journalist is seriously injured in brawl at human-rights meeting in Port-au-Prince (S)
Date: 13 November 1979
Distribution of newspapers and magazines to retail news dealers throughout NYC metropolitan area described (S)
Date: 13 November 1979
By HEDRICK SMITH Special to The New York Times
Hedrick Special
Article on mounting pressure on Pres Carter by news media to act to release American hostages being held captive by Iranian revolutionaries at US Embassy in Teheran; notes criticisms that past American action is responsible for crisis (M)
Date: 12 November 1979
Texas 250 Auto Race: Bobby Allison wins (S)
Date: 13 November 1979
political observers say Puerto Rico Governor Carlos Romero Barcelo will probably ignore request from commonwealth's bar association for extradition of Knight to serve sentence for assault (S)