Fatto generale: 4979 is a number for which we're missing a fact (submit one to numbersapi at google mail!).
Fatto matematico: 4979 is a centered tetrahedral number.
Trivia: 4979 is an uninteresting number.
Data storica: August 18th is the day in 1587 that Virginia Dare, granddaughter of governor John White of the Colony of Roanoke, becomes the first English child born in the Americas.