Fatto generale: 979 is a number for which we're missing a fact (submit one to numbersapi at google mail!).
Fatto matematico: 979 is the sum of the first five 4^{th} powers.
Trivia: 979 is a boring number.
Data storica: September 5th is the day in 1991 that the current international treaty defending indigenous peoples, Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989, came into force.