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** Atari kicks off the first generation of video games with the release of their seminal arcade version of Pong, the first game to achieve commercial success.
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** Gali Atari and Milk and Honey win the Eurovision Song Contest 1979 for Israel, with the song Hallelujah.
** Yamaha YM2149, used in the Atari ST, MSX, Intellivision, Amstrad CPC, and ZX Spectrum computers ( same as General Instrument AY-3-8910 )
** Audio formats: MIDI, AIFF, WAV / WAVE, AIFF, MP2, MP3, AAC, AACplus ( AAC +), Vorbis, AC3, DTS, ALAC, AMR, FLAC, Monkey's Audio ( APE ), RealAudio, SHN, WavPack, MPC / Musepack / Mpeg +, Shorten, Speex, WMA, IT, S3M, MOD ( Amiga Module ), XM, NSF ( NES Sound Format ), SPC ( SNES ), GYM ( Genesis ), SID ( Commodore 64 ), Adlib, YM ( Atari ST ), ADPCM ( Nintendo GameCube ), and CDDA.
** and kicks
** The 6th World Festival of Youth and Students, a high point of the Khruschev Thaw, kicks off in Moscow.
** Major League Soccer kicks off in front of an overflow crowd of 31, 683 packed in Spartan Stadium, to witness the historic first game.
** Trudgen crawl: similar to the trudgen, but with the use of a flutter kick ( up and down leg kick ) between the scissor kicks
** Maximo Elimination ( Multiple high kicks and low kicks finished with a double knockout superkick )
** Violence Party ( Multiple backhand chops and elbow smashes to a cornered opponent followed by headbutts, football kicks, knee strikes, shoot kicks and then finished with a lariat or a scissors kick )
** Glacier Breaker ( Two kicks to the leg followed by two kicks to the midsection and finished with a spinning back kick to the chest )
** and off
** If a team is penalized in the final minute of a half and the penalty causes the clock to stop, the opposing team now has the right to have 10 seconds run off the clock in addition to the yardage penalty.
He remains continuously optimistic ; even his being told to " p ** s off " by Victor is laughed off.
** The family observed pots and pans being thrown around the kitchen, blinds moving up and down, lights going on and off, doors locking themselves, chairs flying across the room, and cupboard doors opening and banging shut before being ripped off their hinges among other phenomena.
** Major League Baseball-Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig called off games for one day, extending cancellations for three days, then all games through September 16 were postponed.
** The Greek ferry Express Samina sinks off the coast of the island of Paros ; 80 out of a total of over 500 passengers perish in one of Greece's worst sea disasters.
** WWI: is torpedoed and sunk off the east coast of Ireland by German submarine U-55 ; 218 of the 223 on board are rescued.
** British battleship HMS Britannia is sunk by German submarine U-50 off Trafalgar with the loss of around fifty lives, the last major naval engagement of WWI.
** WWI: Action of 17 November 1917: United States Navy destroyers USS Fanning and USS Nicholson capture Imperial German Navy U-boat SM U-58 off the south-west coast of Ireland, the first combat action in which U. S. ships take a submarine ( which is then scuttled ).
** M / V Braer, a Liberian oil tanker, runs aground off the Scottish island of Mainland, causing a massive oil spill.
** All members of the Zambia national football team die in a plane crash off Libreville, Gabon in route to Dakar, Senegal.
** Fourteen black athletes are kicked off the University of Wyoming football team for wearing black armbands into their coach's office.
** In a response to Georges Bonnet's speech of January 26, German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop, referring to Bonnet's alleged statement of December 6, 1938 accepting Eastern Europe as being in Germany's exclusive sphere of influence, protests that all French security commitments in that region are " now off limits ".
** The steamer Danae () carrying 350 Cretan Jews and 250 Cretans on the first leg of their way to Auschwitz was sunk without survivors off the shore of Santorini.
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