The August 30, 1979 was a Thursday under the star sign of ♍. It was the 241 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, August 30, 2025, 41 days ago. Your next birthday is on Sunday, August 30, 2026, in 323 days. You have lived for 16,843 days, or about 404,234 hours, or about 24,254,076 minutes, or about 1,455,244,560 seconds.
Date: 30 August 1979
Samuel I Newhouse, newspaper magnate, dies at age of 84; por (M)
Date: 31 August 1979
Topics editorial on news events during last week in August; notes reporting of burglary at Presidential campaign headquarters of Repr John Anderson and 'killer rabbit' attack on Pres Carter
Date: 30 August 1979
Thatcher visits Belfast to demonstrate her concern over recent killings by terrorists; denounces terrorist actions; refers to murder of Earl Mountbatten; Thatcher illus (M)
Date: 31 August 1979
company reaches accord with largest bank creditors that will settle 1 of largest bankruptcy cases ever; was in default on $508 million in bank loans and delinquent on $43.5 million in senior long-term debt when it filed for reorganization in '76; owed $10.5 million to Bank of America, $6.7 million to Morgan Guaranty Trust Co and $21.8 million to Crocker National Bank (S)
Date: 30 August 1979
By PHILIP TAUBMAN Special to The New York Times
Philip Special
Philip Taubman analysis of probe into charges that Hamilton Jordan used cocaine; notes contradictory accounts of what occurred, and fact that cocaine charge was made by 2 men under indictment for tax evasion and perhaps seeking way to get charges against themselves reduced; notes their credibility and Landau's have come under question; Landau illus (M)
Date: 30 August 1979
US Navy plane sights about 10 people believed to be Vietnamese refugees clinging to pieces of wood in South China Sea and drops them food, water and rubber raft; also aides boatload of 25 Vietnamese refugees; Danish merchant ship Anna Maersk rescues 76 refugees near Vietnam (S)
Date: 31 August 1979
Danish ship Anna Maersk, with 65 Vietnamese refugees rescued from South China Sea, is expected to arrive in Hong Kong on August 31 (S)
Date: 30 August 1979
predicts lower-than-anticipated revenues for 2d half of 1979 because of shortage of semiconductor components; reports it is experiencing manufacturing difficulties in production of integrated circuits and it has been unsuccessful in obtaining components from outside suppliers (M)