* Chicago Blizzard of 1979

Costas later did play-by-play for Chicago Bulls broadcasts on WGN-TV during the 1979 – 1980 NBA season.

Pope John Paul II visited Chicago in 1979 during his first trip ever to the United States after being elected to the Papacy in 1978.

On July 12, 1979, an anti-disco protest in Chicago called " Disco Demolition Night " had shown that an angry backlash against disco and its culture had emerged in the United States.

The Eagles gave nods to disco with " One of These Nights " ( 1975 ) and " Disco Strangler " ( 1979 ), Paul McCartney & Wings did " Goodnight Tonight " ( 1979 ), Queen did " Another One Bites the Dust " ( 1980 ), The Rolling Stones did " Miss You " ( 1978 ), Chicago did " Street Player " ( 1979 ), The Beach Boys did " Here Comes the Night " ( 1979 ), The Kinks did "( Wish I Could Fly Like ) Superman " ( 1979 ), and the J. Geils Band did " Come Back " ( 1980 ).

July 12, 1979 became known as " the day disco died " because of Disco Demolition Night, an anti-disco demonstration at Comiskey Park in Chicago.

With the assistance of Seiichi Tanaka, Kinnara and Chicago taiko, the New York Buddhist church established the first taiko group on the East Coast, Soh Daiko, in 1979.

* 1979 – American Airlines Flight 191: In Chicago, a McDonnell Douglas DC-10 crashes during takeoff at O ' Hare International Airport killing 271 on board and two people on the ground.

* 1979 – A package from the Unabomber Ted Kaczynski begins smoking in the cargo hold of a flight from Chicago to Washington, forcing the plane to make an emergency landing.

* On May 25, 1979, the American Airlines Flight 191 from O ' Hare International Airport in Chicago, Illinois, to Los Angeles International Airport, crashed during take-off, killing all 271 on board and 2 people on the ground.

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* Kuhn, T. " A Function for Thought Experiments ", in The Essential Tension ( Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1979 ), pp. 240 –

* 1979: Paul Gapp, Chicago Tribune, architecture

Barbara Harlow ( Chicago & London: University of Chicago Press, 1979, ISBN 978-0-226-14333-0 ).

( Reprinted Chicago: Ares Publishers inc., 1979 ).

Former players for the Dutch Masters include Scott Garrelts, pitcher for the San Francisco Giants ( was supposed to pitch the opener in the 1989 World Series, but an earthquake had other ideas ); Mark Scheiwe, drafted by the Chicago Cubs in 1979 ( the same year Scott was drafted by the Giants ), but never making it to the big league because of injury ; and Ernie Westfield, who played in the Negro League and still represents them publicly.

* David DeJesus ( born 1979 ), right fielder for the Chicago Cubs.

* Neill Armstrong, Chicago Bears Head Coach, 1979 – 1982

* Jerry Don Gleaton, Major League Baseball pitcher from 1979 to 1992 for the Texas Rangers, Seattle Mariners, Chicago White Sox, Kansas City Royals, Detroit Tigers, and Pittsburgh Pirates.

The European Greenpeace paid the debt of the Canadian Greenpeace office and on October 14, 1979, Greenpeace International came into existence.

He finished out the decade of the 1970s with his controversial performance as Colonel Walter Kurtz in another Coppola film, Apocalypse Now ( 1979 ), a box office hit for which he was highly paid and that helped finance his career layoff during the 1980s.

In 1979, the Phillies front office modified the uniform into an all-burgundy version with white trimmings, to be worn for Saturday games.

There were around 3, 000, 000 shareholders in Britain when Thatcher took office in 1979, but the subsequent sale of state-run firms saw the level of shareholders double to 6, 000, 000 by 1985 and by the time of her resignation as prime minister in 1990 there were more than 10, 000, 000 shareholders in Britain.

After two years in power, Yhombi-Opango was accused of corruption and deviation from party directives, and removed from office on February 5, 1979, by the Central Committee of the PCT, which then simultaneously designated Vice President and Defense Minister Col. Denis Sassou-Nguesso as interim President.

The first female to hold the office, Halonen had previously been a member of the parliament from 1979 to 2000 until her election to the presidency.

Further stock footage was taken from news events ( fires and explosions ) and the 1979 theatrical film Meteor ( such as a bridge collapsing and the destruction of a tall office building originally used to depict the destruction of the World Trade Center in that film ).

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Many empty office buildings have been converted to lofts and apartments ; for example, the office building of Harry Sinclair, the oil magnate involved with the Teapot Dome scandal, was converted to a co-op in 1979.

After director Francis Ford Coppola's film The Godfather was a success, he hired Ford to expand his office and gave him small roles in his next two films, The Conversation ( 1974 ) and Apocalypse Now ( 1979 ); in the latter film he played a smarmy officer named " G.

Judge Cesare Terranova, a former parliamentary deputy and Antimafia reformer who had been the main prosecutor of the Mafia in the 1960s, was to have headed this office, but he was killed on September 25, 1979.

Hawn's next film, Mario Monicelli's Lovers and Liars ( 1979 ), was a box office bomb.

As the longest-serving British Columbia MP of his time, in office from 1979 to 2004, Svend Robinson is notable for having been the first Canadian MP to come out as gay, in the spring of 1988.

Margaret Thatcher came to office in 1979 believing in free markets as a better social system in many areas than the state: government should be small but active.

She was convicted and imprisoned for her actions in the robbery, though her sentence was commuted in February 1979 by President Jimmy Carter, and she received a Presidential pardon from President Bill Clinton on January 20, 2001 ( among his last official acts before leaving office ).

Alan Arkin, the father of the bride in the 1979 film The In-Laws, mutters when he sees the squalor-filled office of Peter Falk ( the father of the groom ), " Four years at Mount Holyoke so she could marry into this.

No Lieutenant Governor of Maryland has yet been elected as the Governor in future elections, or permanently succeeded to the Governor's office due to a vacancy ( which would be created by the resignation, death, or removal of the sitting Governor ), although Blair Lee III served as acting Governor from June 4, 1977 until January 15, 1979 while Governor Marvin Mandel was serving a sentence for mail fraud and racketeering ( consequently, in a modern example of Damnatio memoriae, Mandel's official gubernatorial portrait was not hung in the Maryland State House Governor's Reception Room until 1993 ).

The BSA national office was moved to Irving in 1979.

* George F White, North East based company with its head office in the centre of Alnwick since 1979

John Mary " Jack " Lynch ( 15 August 1917 – 20 October 1999 ) was the Taoiseach of Ireland, serving two terms in office ; from 1966 to 1973 and 1977 to 1979.

Rocky II was an enormous box office success, and finished in the top three highest-grossing films of 1979, in both the North American market and worldwide.

A standalone post office was built in 1976 at Boones Ferry and Wilsonville roads, with city police protection added in 1979.

During his time in office, he held the Political Department in 1978 and from 1979 to 1987 after it was renamed to " Federal Department of Foreign Affairs ".

During his office time he held the Federal Department of Home Affairs and was President of the Confederation in 1979.