The following events occurred in May 1979:

May 1, 1979 (Tuesday)

May 2, 1979 (Wednesday)

May 3, 1979 (Thursday)

May 4, 1979 (Friday)

May 5, 1979 (Saturday)

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May 7, 1979 (Monday)

May 8, 1979 (Tuesday)

**Died: **Talcott Parsons, 76, American sociologist at Harvard University, known for his 1937 book The Structure of Social Action and the social action theory approach to the study of group behavior, died during a trip to Heidelberg University in West Germany, the day after delivering a lecture.

May 9, 1979 (Wednesday)

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