The February 2, 1979 was a Friday under the star sign of ♒. It was the 32 day of the year. President of the United States was Jimmy Carter.
If you were born on this day, you are 47 years old. Your last birthday was on the Monday, February 2, 2026, 148 days ago. Your next birthday is on Tuesday, February 2, 2027, in 216 days. You have lived for 17,315 days, or about 415,570 hours, or about 24,934,217 minutes, or about 1,496,053,020 seconds.
Date: 03 February 1979
Judge Robert W Sweet reserves decision after hearing motion by NY Times for preliminary injunction to bar Newspaper and Mail Deliverers Union from continuing limited work stoppage at Carlstadt plant (S)
Date: 03 February 1979
Judge Edward Day orders Denver Post reporter Howard Pankratz, who allegedly recd secret grand jury information from former Colo official, to disclose that information in 2 wks or possibly be cited for contempt; rejects arguments by Denver Post attys that forcing Pankratz to testify would have chilling effect on news gathering; Pankratz has admitted meeting with Robert Ozer, former dir of Colo Medicaid Fraud Control Unit, in Dec, but has said contents of that meeting were confidential and involved reporter-source relationship that should be protected by const guarantees of free press (S)
Date: 03 February 1979
FBI says it is investigating possibility that Gulf Shores police violated civil rights of Sacramento Bee sportswriter Bob Padecky, who was escorted out of town after he was apparently set up for cocaine arrest (S)
Date: 02 February 1979
Gunman shoots Abdi Ipekci, editor of daily Milliyet, as he stops at traffic light in his car; Prime Min Bulent Ecevit orders search for killer (S)
Date: 03 February 1979
Cross Co and Kearney & Trecker decline Justice Dept request to delay merger until antitrust examination is completed (S)
Date: 03 February 1979
India protests incident in which Indian woman was reptdly subjected to virginity test by London immigration authorities to establish that she was legally entering as fiancee of man already in GB (S)
Date: 02 February 1979
By MARVINE HOWE Special to The New York Times
Marvine Special
biog sketch Chadli; was born in '29 in eastern Algeria; por (M)