Events of this year in the Illustrated London News

• The Shah is deposed in Iran, Ayatollah Khomeini takes over
• General Election was victory for the Conservatives and Britains first woman Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher (and husband Dennis)
• Siege of US Embassy in Teheran, 52 hostages are held
• Afghanistan invaded by Soviet troops
• Lord Mountbatten killed in the Republic of Ireland by the IRA by a bomb in his boat
• Airey Neave killed by IRA bomb in his car in the House of Commons car park
• Idi Amin was ousted from Uganda
• Anthony Blunt, keeper of the Queens pictures, named as soviet spy
• Sebastian Coe breaks the 800m, one mile and 1,500m world records

The magazine was only monthly now

February

• Heavy Horse Power
• Cook`s Last Voyage

June

• The Parade In Honour Of The Queen`s Birthday, Held On Horse Guards Parade On 16th June 1979 With The Units Taking Part:The Household Cavalry ( The Life Guards & The Blues & Royals ) & The Grenadier,Scots,Irish,Welsh & Coldstream Guards.It Also Shows Household Division Units Serving In Germany,Northern Ireland,Gambia,Etc
• also an Article About The Household Division.The Second Battalion Of The Scots Guards who Were Trooping Their Colour This Year

October

• Life and Death of Lord Mountbatten.
• Ursula Robertshaw:
• When the metal crisis loom;
• Belgravia prize-winner;
• Jupiter and its satellites;
• Preludes to the cinema
• A Place for Londons insects
  Witley Cout in danger
  Profile of Michael Montague
  Saving the Vicuna
  Wainwrights fashion
  Columba's island sanctuary

December

• The Savage 70s - A Review Of The Decade. 164 Pages
• 1970-79 The Wasted Years - A Review Of The 70s By Des Wilson
• Rugby - The Varsity Match By Nigel Starmer-Smith
  Stevenson In California
  The China-Clay Industry
  New York Revisited
  New Chatelaine At Brancepeth

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