Timeline Monday 1 January 1979

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• 1979 1979: Jody Scheckter Ferrari South African Scheckter won the title with Ferrari, partnered by the young Gilles Villeneuve. It would be Ferrari's last Drivers' Championship for 21 years.
• 1979 Chicago Jazz Festival Founded Her annual Grant Park tribute evolved into the first official Chicago Jazz Festival in 1979, which became one of the largest free jazz festivals in the world.
• 1979 Hear the Wind Sing Published his debut novel Hear the Wind Sing, written in spare late-night sessions after closing Peter Cat. To find a fresh style, he drafted passages in English on his old typewriter — forcing short sentences and limited vocabulary — then translated them back into Japanese. The book won the Gunzou Prize for new writers.
• 1979 – 1984 Imprisoned After the Revolution Following the 1979 Islamic Revolution, imprisoned for four and a half years without ever being formally charged with a crime.
• 1979 Rehab and Hiatus Entered rehabilitation for substance abuse, leading to a three-year hiatus for the band. 'In the late '70s, I entered rehab,' Beard later told CBS. The break allowed him to get clean and would ultimately extend his career by decades.
• 1979 The Book of Laughter and Forgetting Published The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, which brought him international literary fame and led to his Czechoslovak citizenship being revoked.
• 1979 The Jura Question Creation of Canton Jura The newest Swiss canton was created following a series of plebiscites and a long-standing separatist movement.