The film was overwhelmingly lauded by critics when it finally appeared in 1979, and was selected at the 1979 Cannes Film Festival and won the Palme d ' Or, along with The Tin Drum, directed by Volker Schlöndorff.

The work of post-war Germany's leading novelists Heinrich Böll and Günter Grass provided source material for the adaptations The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum ( 1975 ) ( by Schlöndorff and Margarethe von Trotta ) and The Tin Drum ( 1979 ) ( by Schlöndorff alone ) respectively, the latter becoming the first German film to win the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

* He has three sons and a daughter, Timmy Hung Tin Ming ( 洪天明 ; born 1974 ), Jimmy Hung Tin Cheung ( 洪天祥 ; born 1977 ), Sammy Hung Tin Chiu ( 洪天照 ; born 1979 ) and Stephanie Hung Chao Yu ( 洪煦榆 ; born 1983 ) with Jo Yun Ok ( 曹恩玉 ), whom he grew up with in martial arts training school.

The work of post-war Germany's leading novelists Heinrich Böll and Günter Grass provided source material for the adaptations The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum ( 1975 ) ( by Schlöndorff and Margarethe von Trotta ) and The Tin Drum ( 1979 ) ( by Schlöndorff alone ) respectively, the latter becoming the first German film to win the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

* 1979: De toverhoed, translated as The Tin Can Beast and other stories ( 1980, Glover & Blair )

He won an Oscar as well as the Palme d ' or at the 1979 Cannes Film Festival for The Tin Drum ( 1979 ), the film version of the novel by Nobel Prize-winning author Günter Grass.

Schlöndorff's next film was the most successful and ambitious of his career, and perhaps the most important film of post-war Germany: The Tin Drum, released in 1979.

* 1979 The Tin Drum

* 1979 Palme d ' Or Cannes Film Festival The Tin Drum

John Joseph " Jack " Haley ( August 10, 1898 – June 6, 1979 ) was an American stage, radio, and film actor best known for his portrayal of the Tin Man in The Wizard of Oz.

These nominations stemmed from his performances in films and television series like Network ( 1976 ), Friendly Fire ( 1979 ), Last Train Home ( 1990 ), Hear My Song ( 1991 ), the adaptation film Cat on a Hot Tin Roof ( 2004 ) and Toy Story 3 ( 2010 ).

* Lester Piggott – Right Boy ( 1958, 1959 ), Tin Whistle ( 1960 ), El Gallo ( 1963 ), Mountain Call ( 1968 ), Welsh Saint ( 1970 ), Saritamer ( 1974 ), Thatching ( 1979 ), College Chapel ( 1993 )

* Lester Piggott – Vigo ( 1957 ), Right Boy ( 1958, 1959 ), Tin Whistle ( 1960 ), Thatch ( 1973 ), Saritamer ( 1974 ), Solinus ( 1978 ), Thatching ( 1979 ), Moorestyle ( 1980 ), Mr Brooks ( 1992 )

* Cork and Orrery Stakes ( Golden Jubilee Stakes )-( 9 )-Right Boy ( 1958 & 1959 ), Tin Whistle ( 1960 ), El Gallo ( 1963 ), Mountain Call ( 1968 ), Welsh Saint ( 1970 ), Saritamer ( 1974 ), Thatching ( 1979 ), College Chapel ( 1993 )

* July Cup-( 10 )-Vigo ( 1957 ), Right Boy ( 1958 & 1959 ), Tin Whistle ( 1960 ), Thatch ( 1973 ), Saritamer ( 1974 ), Solinus ( 1978 ), Thatching ( 1979 ), Moorestyle ( 1980 ), Mr Brooks ( 1992 )

# Mr Wee Heng Tin ( 1977 – 1979 )

* The Tin Drum ( 1979, by Volker Schlöndorff ), with Mario Adorf, Angela Winkler, David Bennent, Daniel Olbrychski, Katharina Thalbach.

* Tin Woodman ( novel ), a short sci-fi book written by Dennis Bailey and David Bischoff in 1979

* 1979: The Tin Drum

He also wrote screenplays for The Tin Drum ( 1979 ), Danton ( 1983 ), The Return of Martin Guerre ( 1982 ), La dernière image ( 1986 ), The Unbearable Lightness of Being ( 1988 ), Valmont ( 1989 ), Cyrano de Bergerac ( 1990 ), Birth ( 2004 ), and Goya's Ghosts, and co-wrote Max, Mon Amour ( 1986 ) with director Nagisa Oshima.

* Huey Lewis ( born Hugh Anthony Cregg, III on July 5, 1950 in New York, New York ) – lead vocals, harmonica ( 1979 – present )

In 1979 Hartman was replaced by ace session drummer Chet McCracken and Baxter by multi-instrumental string player John McFee ( late of Huey Lewis ' early band Clover ); Cornelius Bumpus ( who had been part of a recent reunion of Moby Grape ) was also recruited to add vocals, keyboards, flute and saxophone to the lineup.

Asteroids Hyper 64 is an update to the 1979 arcade shooter Asteroids released for the Nintendo 64 on December 14, 1999.

* 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.

There are also sight-seeing overflights from Australia which fly nonstop over Antarctica and return, although overflights from New Zealand stopped after the fatal crash of Air New Zealand Flight 901 on Mount Erebus in late 1979.

: Section 16 ( 1 )( a ) of the Customs and Excise Management Act 1979 ( c. 2 ) provided that it was an offence to, amongst other things, assault any person duly engaged in the performance of any duty or the exercise of any power imposed or conferred on him by or under any enactment relating to an assigned matter, or any person acting in his aid.

* 1979 – An IRA bomb explodes on the Grand Place in Brussels.

Having ascertained that an uprising against the Soviet-backed communists would be supported by the people, Massoud, on July 6, 1979, started an insurrection in the Panjshir which initially failed.

The dawning of a newly successful era in Roma's footballing history was brought in with another Coppa Italia victory, they beat Torino on penalties to win the 1979 – 80 cup.

Sakharov was arrested on January 22, 1980, following his public protests against the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan in 1979, and was sent to internal exile in the city of Gorky, now Nizhny Novgorod, a city that was off-limits to foreigners.

In a 1979 interview on NPR's All Things Considered, Lerner went into some depth about his lyrics for My Fair Lady.

* 1979: A concert with Jean Michel Jarre on the Place de la Concorde in Paris attracted one million people, securing an entry in the Guinness Book of Records for the largest crowd at an outdoor concert.

Karmal was made Chairman of the Revolutionary Council and Chairman of the Council of Ministers on 27 December 1979.

It merged with The Beezer on 24 February 1979.

* St Nicholas Lodge of Royal Ark Mariners No. 1188 was consecrated on the 2 June 1979, it currently meets on the second Thursday in March, May, September & November

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

Building on this first edition, in 1979, B. Dennis Sustare wrote " Different Worlds Present the World of Druid's Valley: A Bunnies & Burrows Campaign " in Different Worlds, a magazine published by Chaosium.

Since the 16th General Conference on Weights and Measures ( CGPM ) in 1979, the candela has been defined as:

The original companies that spawned Capcom's Japanese branch were I. R. M Corporation founded on May 30, 1979, as well as its subsidiary Japan Capsule Computers Co., Ltd., both of which were devoted to the manufacturing and distribution of electronic game machines.

In late December 1978, Vietnamese forces launched a full invasion of Cambodia, capturing Phnom Penh on January 7, 1979 and driving the remnants of Democratic Kampuchea's army westward toward Thailand.

New York: Facts on File Inc., 1979.

So began her 40 years of research on Peirce the mathematician and scientist, culminating in Eisele ( 1976, 1979, 1985 ).

Claudius has been portrayed in film on several other occasions, including in the 1979 motion picture Caligula, the role being performed by Giancarlo Badessi in which the character was depicted as an idiot, in contrast to Robert Graves ' portrait of Claudius as a cunning and deeply intelligent man who is perceived by others to be an idiot.

Since 1979 the Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution has addressed some of the major environmental problems of the UNECE region through scientific collaboration and policy negotiation.

Technical details of Sony's digital audio disc were presented during the 62nd AES Convention, held on March 13 – 16, 1979, in Brussels.

Just before that, on March 8, 1979 Philips publicly demonstrated a prototype of an optical digital audio disc at a press conference called " Philips Introduce Compact Disc " in Eindhoven, Netherlands.