First direct elections for the European Parliament. The Social Democrats/Socialists receive 112 seats, Christian Democrats and Conservatives together 169 seats, Communists 44 seats, Liberals 40 seats, and other groups together 45 seats.
18 June
1979
In Vienna, US President Jimmy Carter and the Soviet party and state leader Leonid I. Brezhnev sign the SALT II agreement on the limitation of strategic weapons.
20 June
1979
The dissident Professor Robert Havemann is fined 10,000 marks for alleged "currency offences".
Robert Havemann in front of his house in Grünheide, Berlin, a few days after his house arrest was lifted (1979) (Photo: Schmitt/Matthias Domaschk Archiv (FO 09836))
RIAS report on the proceedings against Robert Havemann for currency offences, 20 June 1979 (in German) (Source: Archiv Deutschlandradio, Broadcast: Rundschau am Mittag, Moderator/Reporter: Jürgen Schiller, Wolfgang Nette)
