* In 1979, an asteroid — 1979 Sakharov — was named after him.

Walsh doubted his abilities to turn around such a miserable situation — but earlier in 1979, Walsh drafted quarterback Joe Montana from Notre Dame in the third round.

1979 — Sir Albert Henry is found guilty of electoral fraud and stripped of his premiership and his knighthood.

The rich orchestral accompaniment that became identified with the disco era conjured up the memories of the big band era — which brought out several artists that recorded and disco-ized some big band arrangements including Perry Como, who re-recorded his 1929 and 1939 hit, " Temptation ", in 1975, as well as Ethel Merman, who released an album of disco songs entitled The Ethel Merman Disco Album in 1979.

* Animal Days ( 1979 ) — Autobiographical

In 1974, Technics released the first SL-1200 turntable, which evolved into the SL-1200 MK2 in 1979 — which, as of the early-2010s, remains an industry standard for DJing.

In 1979 the American feminist writer Fran Hosken ( 1920 – 2006 ) presented research about it — The Hosken Report: Genital and Sexual Mutilation of Females — to the first Seminar on Harmful Traditional Practices Affecting the Health of Women and Children, sponsored by the WHO.

* 1979 — Richard F. Post ( Deputy Associate Director of Magnetic Fusion Energy at UC Lawrence Livermore Laboratories )

In an interview in Playboy magazine in January 1979, Brando said: " You've seen every single race besmirched, but you never saw an image of the kike because the Jews were ever so watchful for that — and rightly so.

Stephen KingKing dedicated Bachman's early books — Rage ( 1977 ), The Long Walk ( 1979 ), Roadwork ( 1981 ), and The Running Man ( 1982 ) — to people close to him, and worked in obscure references to his own identity.

The oldest hominid fossils ever discovered in Tanzania also come from Laetoli and are the 3. 6 to 3. 8 million year old remains of Australopithecus afarensis — Louis Leakey had found what he thought was a baboon tooth at Laetoli in 1935 ( which was not identified as afarensis until 1979 ), a fragment of hominid jaw with three teeth was found there by Kohl-Larsen in 1938 – 39, and in 1974 – 75 Mary Leakey recovered 42 teeth and several jawbones from the site.

In 1979, IBM introduced TPF as a replacement for ACP — and as a priced software product.

* Germs Rock ' N ' Rule — Recorded Live At The Masque Christmas Party — Whisky A-Go-Go, December 1979, Hollywood, 1986, Xes Records

In the case of the Equal Rights Amendment, however, it was argued that since the original March 22, 1979, deadline was contained in only the resolving clause of the joint resolution proposing the amendment — rather than in the actual text of the amendment itself — that the deadline could be altered.

* Apocalypse Now ( 1979 ) — winner of two Academy Awards, directed by Francis Ford Coppola.

He has received two Laurence Olivier Theatre Awards — for playing Willy Loman in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman ( National Theatre, 1979 ) and as best supporting actor in a 2003 performance of The Price, also by Miller.

After the communist victory, two wars between communist states — the Cambodian-Vietnamese War of 1975-1989 and the Sino-Vietnamese War of 1979 — were fought in the region.

* 1979 – Soviet dancer Alexander Godunov defects to the United States.

* 1979 – Alexander Frei, Swiss footballer

* 1979 – Ericson Alexander Molano, Colombian gospel singer

First performed in 1979, Amadeus was inspired by a short 1830 play by Alexander Pushkin called Mozart and Salieri ( which was also used as the libretto for an opera of the same name by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov in 1897 ).

* Jupiter performed by the Royal Scottish National Orchestra with Alexander Gibson in the Henry Wood Hall in Glasgow in July 1979

Wellington, NZ, Alexander Turnbull Library, 1979.

Alexander Haig retired as a four-star general from the Army in 1979, and moved on to civilian employment.

* Time After Time ( Alexander novel ), a 1979 science fiction novel by Karl Alexander

* Time After Time ( 1979 film ), an American time travel film involving H. G. Wells based on the Alexander novel

The statue of Alexander Suvorov was erected in the central square in 1979 in commemoration of his 250th anniversary.

* Alexander Gemignani ( born 1979 ), Broadway performer.

* On July 24, 1979, Prinair Flight 610 crashed shortly after takeoff from Alexander Hamilton Airport.

Gold won the John Frederick Lewis Prize from the American Philosophical Society in 1972 for his paper " The Nature of the Lunar Surface: Recent Evidence " and the Humboldt Prize from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in 1979.

* Concertmasters: Steven Staryk ( 1960 – 1962 ), Herman Krebbers ( 1962 – 1979 ), Jaap van Zweden ( 1979 – 1995 ), Rudolf Koelman ( 1996 – 1999 ), Alexander Kerr ( 1996 – 2006 )

* Alexander Pushkin, Penguin 1979 Eugene Onegin a novel in verse.

## Lincoln Alexander ( June 4, 1979 )

His great-niece and biographer, Jean, Lady Polwarth, published a collection of his short stories ( or sketches ) entitled Beattock for Moffatt and the Best of Cunninghame Graham ( 1979 ) and Alexander Maitland added his selection under the title Tales of Horsemen ( 1981 ).

These included a full week of stories by an American writer, ( Edgar Allan Poe in 1975, Mark Twain in 1976 ); week-long adaptations of classic novels ( The Last Days of Pompeii in 1980, Les Miserables in 1982 ); and original dramas about historical figures ( Nefertiti in 1979, Alexander the Great in 1981 ).

* Carl Perkins-Sing A Song With Me ( 1979 ) Label: Koala ( four demos by Alexander )

20th century erotic fiction includes such classics of the genre as: Suburban Souls ( 1901 ), published by Carrington and possibly written by him also ; The Confessions of Nemesis Hunt ( issued in three volumes 1902, 1903, 1906 ), probably by George Reginald Bacchus, printed by Duringe of Paris for Leonard Smithers in London ; Josephine Mutzenbacher ( 1906 ) by Felix Salten ; Sadopaideia ( 1907 ) by Anon ( possibly Algernon Charles Swinburne ); Les Mémoires d ' un jeune Don Juan ( 1907 ) and the somewhat disturbing Les onze mille verges ( 1907 ) by Guillaume Apollinaire ; The Way of a Man with a Maid ( 1908 ) and A Weekend Visit by Anon ; Pleasure Bound Afloat ( 1908 ), Pleasure Bound Ashore ( 1909 ) and Maudie ( 1909 ) by Anon ( probably George Reginald Bacchus ); Manuel de civilité pour les petites filles à l ' usage des maisons d ' éducation ( 1917 ) and Trois filles de leur mère ( 1926 ) by Pierre Louys ; Story of the Eye ( 1928 ) by Georges Bataille ; Tropic of Cancer ( 1934 ) and Tropic of Capricorn ( 1938 ) by Henry Miller ; The Story of O ( 1954 ) by Pauline Réage ; Helen and Desire ( 1954 ) and Thongs ( 1955 ) by Alexander Trocchi ; Ada, or Ardor ( 1969 ) by Vladimir Nabokov ; Journal ( 1966 ), Delta of Venus ( 1978 ) and Little Birds ( 1979 ) by Anaïs Nin and The Bicycle Rider ( 1985 ) by Guy Davenport.

Since 1979 he has referred to himself as " HRH Prince Michael James Alexander Stewart, 7th Count of Albany ", stating that an ancestor used the title " Count of Albany ".

She was elected as Member of Parliament for Newark-on-Trent in the 1997 general election, ousting Conservative MP Richard Alexander, who had held the seat since the 1979 general election.

Stroustrup began developing C ++ in 1979 ( then called " C with Classes "), and, in his own words, " invented C ++, wrote its early definitions, and produced its first implementation ... chose and formulated the design criteria for C ++, designed all its major facilities, and was responsible for the processing of extension proposals in the C ++ standards committee.

He earned his master's degree in theater from The Catholic University of America ( CUA ) in Washington, D. C., where he met his first wife, actress Susan Sarandon ; they divorced in 1979.

Krulak's staff assignments included: operations officer, 2nd Battalion 9th Marines ( 1977 – 1978 ); chief of the Combat Arms Monitor Section at Headquarters Marine Corps, Washington, D. C. ( 1978 – 1979 ); executive assistant to the Director of Personnel Management, Headquarters Marine Corps ( 1979 – 1981 ); Plans Office, Fleet Marine Forces Pacific, Camp H. M. Smith, Hawaii ( 1982 – 1983 ); executive officer, 3rd Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Expeditionary Brigade ; assistant chief of staff, maritime pre-positioning ships, 1st MEB ; assistant chief of staff for operations, 1st Marine Expeditionary Brigade ; and the military assistant to the assistant secretary of defense for command, control, communications and intelligence, Office of the Secretary of Defense.

In 1979, Parton hosted the NBC special The Seventies: An Explosion of Country Music, performed live at the Ford Theatre in Washington, D. C., and whose audience included President Jimmy Carter.

* Rivet, A. L. F. and Smith, C. 1979.

* Hardcore ( 1979 film ), an American drama film starring George C Scott

* 1979 – C. J. Hobgood, American surfer

From January 1976 to August 1979, Jones served in the Officer Assignments Section at Headquarters Marine Corps, Washington, D. C. During this assignment, he was promoted to major in July 1977.

Those KAM tori that are not destroyed by perturbation become invariant Cantor sets, named Cantori by Ian C. Percival in 1979.

Gödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hofstadter, published in 1979, discusses the ideas of self-reference and strange loops, drawing on a wide range of artistic and scientific work, including the art of M. C. Escher and the music of J. S. Bach, to illustrate ideas behind Gödel's incompleteness theorems.

* 1979 – The first Gay Rights March on Washington, D. C., the National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights, demands " an end to all social, economic, judicial, and legal oppression of lesbian and gay people ", and draws 200, 000 people.

* C. Gordon Bell, Alan Kotok, Thomas N. Hastings, Richard Hill, The Evolution of the DECsystem-10, in C. Gordon Bell, J. Craig Mudge, John E. McNamara, Computer Engineering: A DEC View of Hardware Systems Design ( Digital, Bedford, 1979 )

* C. Gordon Bell, Alan Kotok, Thomas N. Hasting, Richard Hill, " The Evolution of the DECsystem-10 ", in C. Gordon Bell, J. Craig Mudge, John E. McNamara, Computer Engineering: A DEC View of Hardware Systems Design ( Digital Equipment, Beford, 1979 )

The Fountains of Paradise is a Hugo and Nebula Award – winning 1979 novel by Arthur C. Clarke.

* Richard C. Clark, former United States Senator from Iowa, 1973 – 1979

On Gretzky's 18th birthday, January 26, 1979, Pocklington signed him to a 10-year personal services contract ( the longest in hockey history at the time ) worth C $ 3 million, with options for 10 more years.

By the time of the Lancaster House Agreement in 1979 Rhodesia only had representative offices in London, Bonn, Pretoria, Washington, D. C. and Tokyo.

A 1979 study from the University of Waikato found that " Temperatures derived from an < sup > 18 </ sup > O /< sup > 16 </ sup > O profile through a stalagmite found in a New Zealand cave ( 40. 67 ° S, 172. 43 ° E ) suggested the Medieval Warm Period to have occurred between AD 1050 and 1400 and to have been 0. 75 ° C warmer than the Current Warm Period.