1979: Big Bang of the Present (2019)

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Deng Xiaoping's economic and political opening in China. Margaret Thatcher's extreme economic measures in the United Kingdom. Ayatollah Khomeini's Islamic Revolution in Iran. Pope John Paul II's visit to Poland. Saddam Hussein's rise to power in Iraq. The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. The nuclear accident at the Harrisburg power plant and the birth of ecological activism. The year 1979, the beginning of the future.

1979: Big Bang of the Present

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Leszek Balcerowicz
Leszek Balcerowicz as Self - Economist (1979) Lipno, Poland Leszek Henryk Balcerowicz (pronounced [ˈlɛʂɛk balt͡sɛˈrɔvit͡ʂ]; born 19 January 1947) is a Polish economist, statesman, and Professor at Warsaw School of Economics. He served as Chairman of the Nation...
Charles Moore
Charles Moore as Self - Political Journalist (1979) Age 69 · Hastings, Sussex, England Charles Hilary Moore is an English journalist and a former editor of The Daily Telegraph, The Sunday Telegraph and The Spectator. He still writes for the first and last of these publications. The firs...
Michael Heseltine
Michael Heseltine as Self - Politician (1979) Age 93 · Swansea, Wales, UK Michael Ray Dibdin Heseltine, Baron Heseltine, CH, PC is a British Conservative politician and businessman. Having begun his career as a property developer, he became one of the founders of the publis...
Roy Hattersley
Roy Hattersley as Self - Politician (1979) Age 93 · Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England, UK Roy Sydney George Hattersley, Baron Hattersley, PC, FRSL, is a British Labour politician, author and journalist from Sheffield. He was MP for Birmingham Sparkbrook for 33 years from 1964 to 1997. He s...
David Owen
David Owen as Self - Politician (1979) Age 87 · Plympton, Devon, England, UK David Anthony Llewellyn Owen, Baron Owen, CH, PC, FRCP is a British politician and physician. He served as Foreign Secretary as a Labour Party MP under James Callaghan from 1977 to 1979, and later led...
Lech Wałęsa
Lech Wałęsa as Self - Shipyard Worker (1979) Age 82 · Popowo, kujawsko-pomorskie, Polska Lech Wałęsa (born 29 September 1943) is a Polish statesman, dissident, and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, who served as the President of Poland between 1990 and 1995. After winning the 1990 election, Wał...

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