17. мај 1979. је био четвртак под знаком звездице ♉. Био је 136 дан у години. Председник Сједињених Држава је био Jimmy Carter.
Ако сте рођени на данашњи дан, имате 47 година. Ваш последњи рођендан је био недеља, 17. мај 2026., пре 58 дана. Ваш следећи рођендан је понедељак, 17. мај 2027., за 306 дана. Живели сте 17.225 дана, или око 413.410 сати, или око 24.804.636 минута, или око 1.488.278.160 секунди.
Date: 18 May 1979
Nevada Supreme Court, 3-2, upholds contempt-of-court judgment against Las Vegas Sun reporter Dan Newburn for refusing to answer questions about will of late Howard Hughes (S)
Date: 17 May 1979
Special to The New York Times
Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini hails printers and other newspaper workers who obstructed 20 reporters, deemed to be 'counterrevolutionary,' from entering offices of Kayhan; in offices of Writers Syndicate, striking Kayhan reporters glumly listened to broadcast of Ayatollah's meeting with workers, who went to see him in city of Qom; Islamic Assn of Employees prepares list of 20 journalists to be ousted (M)
Date: 17 May 1979
West German TV camerman Herbert Altmann says that he and reporter Robert Stengl are being expelled; expulsions follow article in Izvestia accusing men of 'pathological hatred toward all things Russian and Soviet' (S)
Date: 18 May 1979
Government publishes long-expected bill clamping down on press publication of allegations of state corruption and maladministration; bill forbids publication of reports of misuse of state money until they have been investigated by specially appointed government official (S)
Date: 17 May 1979
By DEIRDRE CARMODY
Deirdre CARMODY
Sen John H Glenn says he will reopen his investigation of Energy Dept's practices for guarding nuclear weapons secrets as a result of department's disclosure that a classified document on nuclear weapons has erroneously been placed on public shelves at Los Alamos (NM) Scientific Laboratory and marked declassified; department made its disclosure after 2 researchers for ACLU examined document in connection with appeal of The Progressive magazine from a Federal court order not to publish detailed article about hydrogen bomb (M)
Date: 18 May 1979
By DEIRDRE CARMODY
Deirdre CARMODY
US Energy Dept is trying to round up copies of a classified document; Washington Star says it has obtained a copy of report entitled Weapon Development During June 1956, which was prepared by University of California Radiation Laboratory (M)
Date: 18 May 1979
Rita Reif
Rita Reif
Sotheby Parke Bernet to hold auction of ancient Egyptian art and Greco-Roman antiquities; some items noted; illus (M)
Date: 17 May 1979
plans to build new plant in Stockton, Calif (S)