* 1979 – Robin Peterson, South African cricketer

A lifelong chain smoker, Capp died in 1979 from emphysema at his home in South Hampton, New Hampshire.

A further trial conducted in South India and published in 1979 ( the " Chingleput trial "), showed no protective effect.

After performing for Queen Elizabeth II at a command performance in 1979, Haley made his final performances in South Africa in May and June 1980.

* 1979 – Trevor Immelman, South African golfer

* 1979 – Lee Na-young, South Korean actress

* 1979 – Don Dunstan resigns as Premier of South Australia, ending a decade of sweeping social liberalisation.

* 1979 – Srikanth, South Indian film actor

* 80 Blocks from Tiffany's ( 1979 ) – A rare glimpse into late ' 70s New York towards the end of the infamous South Bronx gangs.

* 1979 – The Ghost Train Fire at Luna Park Sydney ( New South Wales, Australia ) kills seven.

* 1979 – Lee Si-yeon, South Korean actress

* 1979 – Seol Ki-Hyeon, South Korean footballer

Prior to 1979, the symbol < span style =" font-size: 112 %"></ span > ( script small l, U + 2113 ), came into common use in some countries ; for example, it was recommended by South African Bureau of Standards publication M33 and Canada in the 1970s.

By the end of 1979 per capita GNP in North Korea was about one-third of that in the South.

Although officially denied by the Nigerian government, Nigeria is known to have also provided secret military training at the Kaduna first mechanized army division and provided other material support to Joshua Nkomo and Robert Mugabe's guerrilla forces during the Rhodesian Bush War ( Renamed Zimbabwe in 1979 ) of independence against white minority rule of Prime Minister Ian Douglas Smith which was armed and financed by the regime in South Africa.

As a result of this journey, which formed a section of the three-year Transglobe Expedition 1979 – 1982, Fiennes and Burton became the first people to complete a circumnavigation of the world via both North and South Poles, by surface travel alone.

* 1979 – Ahn Chil-Hyun ( Kangta ), lead singer of the former South Korean group H. O. T.

* 1979 – Park Chung-hee, President of South Korea is assassinated by Korean Central Intelligence Agency head Kim Jae-kyu.

* 1979 – Bae Doona, South Korean model and actress

* Hazlehurst, Cameron ( 1979 ), Menzies Observed, George Allen and Unwin, Sydney, New South Wales.

* The Last Place on Earth: Scott and Amundsen's Race to the South Pole by Roland Huntford, 1979.

* 1979 – Alex Chu, South Korean-Canadian singer and actor ( Clazziquai )

* 1917 – Park Chung-hee, South Korean general and politician, 3rd President of South Korea ( d. 1979 )

in South Asian Archaeology 1975: Papers from The Third International Conference of The Association of South Asian Archaeologists In Western Europe, Held In Paris ( December 1979 ) edited by J. E. van Lohuizen-de Leeuw.

* 1979 – The Vela Incident ( also known as the South Atlantic Flash ) is observed near Bouvet Island, thought to be a nuclear weapons test.

A few months later Numan found success in the charts on both sides of the Atlantic with " Cars ", which peaked at No. 1 in the UK in 1979 and No. 1 in Canada and No. 9 in US in 1980.

After changes in membership that saw charter members Pittsburgh and Villanova leave and new members St. Bonaventure ( 1979 ), Rhode Island ( 1980 ), Saint Joseph's ( 1982 ) and Temple ( 1982 ) enter, establishing the league with 10 members, the conference adopted the current Atlantic 10 name in 1982.

He went to three different high schools: the Baarns Lyceum in Baarn from 1979 to 1981, the Eerste Vrijzinnig Christelijk Lyceum in The Hague from 1981 to 1983, and the United World College of the Atlantic in Wales near Llantwit Major ( 1983 to 1985 ), where the prince had friends, and from where he received his International Baccalaureate.

Gjedrem ( 1979 ) showed that selection of Atlantic salmon ( Salmo salar ) led to an increase in body weight by 30 % per generation.

* The French Atlantic Affair ( 1979 ) ( miniseries )

Through the building of several locks and dams, and upstream reservoirs like Lake Hartwell, also, the Savannah River was once navigable by freight barges between Augusta, Georgia ( on the Fall Line ) and the Atlantic Ocean ; maintenance of this channel for commercial shipping ended in 1979, and the one lock below Augusta has been deactivated.

* 1979: Honourable Mention, Atlantic Writing Competition ( Adult Poetry ), Writers ' Federation of Nova Scotia

* Alan Davidson, North Atlantic Seafood, 1979, ISBN 0-670-51524-8.

She appeared on American television in the miniseries The French Atlantic Affair ( 1979 ), and Scruples the following year.

This was followed by Seafood Of South East Asia ( 1976 ) and North Atlantic Seafood ( 1979 ), for which he travelled throughout the region, gathering thousands of recipes from Portugal to Iceland.

* Alan Davidson, North Atlantic Seafood, 1979, ISBN 0-670-51524-8.

Targeted for a North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO ) role, the 24th Division was reorganized as a mechanized division in 1979.

According to writers on organized crime, the Syndicate was born from an idea of Johnny " The Fox " Torrio and was founded or established at a May 1929 conference in Atlantic City, attended by leading underworld figures throughout the United States, including Torrio, Lucky Luciano, Al Capone, Meyer Lansky, Frank Costello, Joe Adonis, Benjamin " Bugsy " Siegel, Dutch Schultz, Abner " Longy " Zwillman, Louis " Lepke " Buchalter, Vince Mangano, gambler Frank Erickson, Frank Scalice and Albert " Mad Hatter " Anastasia .< ref > Carl Sifakis, < cite > The Mafia Encyclopedia: second edition </ cite >, ( Checkmark Books )</ ref > Others describe the Atlantic City meeting as a coordination and strategy conference for bootleggers .< ref > Dennis Eisenberg, Uri Dan, Eli Landau ,< cite > Meyer Lansky: Mogul of the Mob </ cite > Paddington Press, 1979 </ ref >

* Gloria Dunwich, 1966 ; UK issue featuring tracks from Back Door Men Radar, 1979 ; CD Issue Sundazed 1998 ; Original Edition Atlantic, 2005.

* Christopher Columbus sculpture ( 1979 )-located in the Christopher Columbus Waterfront Park, near Atlantic Avenue.

The conference was known as the ECAC North from 1979 to 1988 and the North Atlantic Conference from the fall semester of 1988 to the end of the spring 1996 semester.

* Flee ( Atlantic, 1979 )

* The French Atlantic Affair ( 1979 ; miniseries )

Gilbert made landfall for a second time on the island of Cozumel, and subsequently made landfall on Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula on September 14 as a Category 5 hurricane, making it the first Category 5 to make landfall in the Atlantic basin since Hurricane David hit Hispanola in 1979 ; the minimum pressure at landfall in Cozumel was estimated to be 900 mbar ( 26. 6 inHg ).

Pacheco first crewed with Captain Paul Watson in 1979 on the ship Sea Shepherd across the Atlantic Ocean, during a campaign of opposition to the Sierra, a Portuguese pirate whale-killing ship.

In 1979 Motown released a compilation album on both sides of the Atlantic ; " From the Vaults ", US Natural Resources label NR 4014 & in the UK on Tamla Motown STMR 9001, on this Album was The Spinners ; " What More Could a Boy Ask For " ( Fuqua & Bristol ) circa 1965, this Northern Soul track, only commercially available in this form, reignited existing Motown and Spinners fans.

Determined to put their newly discovered knowledge to work, the group traveled to Atlantic City during spring break of 1979 to win their fortunes.

In late November 1979, a professional blackjack player contacted J. P. Massar after seeing a notice in the IAP Guide for a blackjack course to be taught in January at MIT, and proposed forming a new group to travel to Atlantic City to take advantage of the New Jersey Casino Control Commission's recent ruling that made it illegal for the Atlantic City casinos to ban card counters in general, but rather they would need to ban the players individually from the property.