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Jean Dubuffet, Situation LXXVII (1979)

1979

Judy Chicago's Dinner Party is first displayed at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

The Castellani Art Museum receives its first gift from the Carborundum Company and its first grant from the Institute of Museum Services.

Margaret Thatcher becomes the British Prime Minister, and thus the first woman to hold such a high office in Europe.

The first Gay and Lesbian Civil Rights March is held in Washington.

A major nuclear accident occurs at Three Mile Island.