* 1911 – Feodor Felix Konrad Lynen, German biochemist, Nobel laureate ( d. 1979 )

* 1979 – Sam Atwell, Australian actor

* 1979 – Christine Smith, American model and actress

* 1979 – Lord Frederick Windsor, British financial analyst

* 1907 – Hardie Gramatky, American author and animator ( d. 1979 )

* 1979 – Claire Danes, American actress

* 1979 – Jordan De Jong, American baseball player

* 1979 – Elena Grosheva, Russian gymnast

* 1979 – Mateja Kežman, Serbian footballer

* 1979 – Jennifer Morrison, American actress and model

* 1979 – Paul Nicholls, English actor

* 1979 – Cristian Ranalli, Italian footballer

* 1979 – Gerardo Torrado, Mexican footballer

* 1979 – A Provisional Irish Republican Army bomb kills British World War II admiral Louis Mountbatten and three others while they are boating on holiday in Sligo, Republic of Ireland.

* 1886 – Rebecca Clarke, English composer and violist ( d. 1979 )

* 1979 – Giovanni Capitello, American actor and producer

* 1979 – Tian Liang, Chinese diver

* 1979 – Sarah Neufeld, Canadian violinist ( Arcade Fire and Bell Orchestre )

* 1979 – Aaron Paul, American actor

* 1979 – Rusty Smith, American speed skater

* 1979 – Francesco Bellotti, Italian cyclist

* 1979 – Megumi Okina, Japanese actress and singer

* 1929 – Abdi İpekçi, Turkish journalist ( d. 1979 )

* 1979 – Michael Kingma, Australian basketball player

* 1979 – Tony Stewart, American football player

* February 13 – The intense February 13, 1979 Windstorm strikes western Washington and sinks a 1 / 2-mile-long section of the Hood Canal Bridge.

In May 1979, Kim Young Sam was elected as the chairman of New Democratic Party ( NDP ) despite intense behind-the-scene manueverings by KCIA to back a more pliable candidate Yi Chul-seung.

In 1979, Shearman & Sterling lawyers represented Citibank during the intense negotiations that ensued during the Iranian Hostage Crisis, after the US government froze all Iranian assets in US banks.

Moreover, their lack of protection rendered them highly vulnerable to improvised explosive devices ( IEDs ) or small-arms fire, and many were lost together with their crews in 1979 due to intense street fighting and ambushes in rural areas.

Both teams were members of the competitive AFC Central Division, and thus played three times in both 1978 and 1979, fueling an intense rivalry.

In 1979, after several years of intense pressure from the larger American Brewers Miller and Anheuser-Busch, Carling-National was bought out by the Heileman Brewing Co. of LaCrosse, Wisconsin.

He got a degree in chemical engineering in 1979 at the University of Rochester, beginning his writing career with four intense years at the school's daily newspaper.

During the early morning of February 13, 1979, an intense wave cyclone moved across southern Vancouver Island, British Columbia.

It runs parallel to an intense television and radio: Chat pocket of Georges Feydeau as part of the theater tonight ( released 24 October 1975 ), a number of Maritie and Gilbert Carpentier ( March 1976 and June 1979 ) This is the show ( 1, 980-1981 ), etc .. From 1978 to 1979, he hosted a weekly show, The Parasites of the antenna, on France Inter including Deerhunter, Lawrence Riesner, Bernard Mabille and Evelyne Grandjean as columnists.

" A fuller understanding of Aquin's intense life can be gained from Jacques Godbout's biographical documentary, Deux épisodes dans la vie d ' Hubert Aquin ( 1979 ) and from HA!

** This bridge broke apart in the February 13, 1979 windstorm.

After a two-day delay caused by a windstorm at the launch site, Soyuz 33 was launched 10 April 1979 with the fourth international crew in the Soviet Intercosmos program.

The February 13, 1979 windstorm is a natural phenomenon that took place on February 13, 1979 in Pacific Canada and the United States.

However, the election of the Conservative Party led by Margaret Thatcher at the general election in May 1979, at the expense of Labour's James Callaghan, saw substantial trade union reform which saw the level of strikes fall, but also the level of trade union membership fall.

At the height of the strikes, nearly 30, 000, 000 working days were lost in Britain during 1979, but that had fallen dramatically to some 5, 000, 000 during 1981 as a result of the Thatcher government's union reform policies.

* April 15 – 1979 Montenegro Earthquake: A major earthquake ( 7. 0 on the Richter scale ) strikes Montenegro ( then part of Yugoslavia ) and parts of Albania, causing extensive damage to coastal areas and taking 136 lives ; the old town of Budva is devastated.

Industrial disputes and widespread strikes in the " Winter of Discontent " of 1978 – 79, made Callaghan's government unpopular and the defeat of the referendum on devolution for Scotland led to the passage of a motion of no confidence on 28 March 1979.

While the strikes were largely over by February 1979, the government's inability to contain the strikes earlier helped lead to Margaret Thatcher's Conservative victory in the 1979 general election and legislation to restrict unions.

Category: 1979 labor disputes and strikes

Labour lost the general election to the Conservatives ( led by Margaret Thatcher ) in May 1979, following the Winter of Discontent in which Britain had been brought to a virtual standstill by endless public sector strikes.

The party emerged as a result of the approach between the labor movements in the ABC Region – such as the Conferência das Classes Trabalhadoras ( Conclat ), which later developed into the Central Única dos Trabalhadores ( CUT ) – which carried major strikes from 1978 to 1980, and the old Brazilian left-wing, whose militants were returning from exile with the 1979 Amnesty law.

In 1979, Fianna Fáil's economic policies were derailed due to strikes, higher wage demands, and the 1979 energy crisis.

In early 1979, he collapsed and there were fears that his treatment would be hindered by the strikes in the " Winter of Discontent ".

The last section to be built was the Trent viaduct, opened in October 1979 by Kenneth Clarke, despite being 43 weeks late on account of strikes and bad weather.

In January 1979, a series of strikes began to unfold as part of the " Winter of Discontent ".

By 1979 CS was part of a growing campaign for a new Workers ' Party and played an important role in the metal working strikes that took place in the ABC region that year.

The most significant were the 1979 strikes when the Saudi armed forces were called in.

On 27 April 1979, " the 25 " proclaimed the first of a series of general strikes against the dictatorship.

Wright argues that Warren's inspiration of terror through a distorted representation of the uterus strikes a chord with the 1979 film The Brood, in which a woman produces deformed children through asexual reproduction.

Following the formation of the National H-Block / Armagh Committee in 1979 to build support for the Republican prisoners then on the " blanket protest " in support of political status and the subsequent death of Bobby Sands and nine of his comrades during the H-Block hunger strikes, a number of members of the organisation, led by Vincent Doherty-then a member of the Political Committee and a former party general election candidate-argued that PD should join Sinn Féin, which had moved openly to the left in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

He also officiated in five National League Championship Series ( 1971, 1974, 1978, 1983, 1986, as crew chief in 1978 ), the 1981 National League Division Series ( Western Division ), and four All-Star games ( 1965, 1972, 1979, 1984 ), calling balls and strikes for the last of these.

He also umpired in a record 7 American League Championship Series ( 1972, 1976, 1979, 1982, 1986, 1991, 1996 ), and in 4 All-Star games ( 1973, 1980, 1988, 1997 ), calling balls and strikes for the last contest.