In 1977, Scully began his first of two spells calling baseball for CBS Radio, broadcasting the All-Star Game through 1982, and the World Series from 1979 – 1982 alongside Sparky Anderson.

After being fired by the Cincinnati Reds in, Sparky Anderson was hired by the Tigers in June, 1979.

* Sparky Anderson was Rodriguez's manager in 1979, the player's last year in Detroit.

The execution was finally carried out on May 25, 1979 in " Old Sparky ", the Florida State Prison electric chair.

One of these jobs was drawing Peter Parker, the Spectacular Spider-Man # 27 – 28 ( Feb .– March 1979 ), which guest-starred Daredevil.

She guest-starred in episodes of the television series Buck Rogers and Fantasy Island, along with a small role in the 1979 roller disco comedy Skatetown, U. S. A ..

In 1979, Selby also turned down the role of Gary Ewing on Knots Landing, hence, the role was ultimately given to Ted Shackelford, who guest-starred on Dallas, with Joan Van Ark.

In 1979, she guest-starred as Siress Blassie in the Battlestar Galactica episode " The Man With Nine Lives " as a love interest of Chameleon, a part played by Fred Astaire.

In 1979 Sonia brought a High Court action against Harrison who had in the meantime transferred 75 % of the company's voting stock to himself and had dissipated much of the value of the company.

On March 13, 1979, the New Jewel Movement launched an armed revolution which removed Gairy, suspended the constitution, and established a People's Revolutionary Government ( PRG ), headed by Maurice Bishop who declared himself prime minister.

* Saturday Night Live ( 1979 ) ( himself – host )

* In the Not The Nine O ' Clock News sketch on the new film The Life of Christ ( itself a reference to Python's 1979 Life of Brian ), the Bishop ( Rowan Atkinson ) who is being harangued for this parody of Pythonism professes himself surprised at the furor, saying: " Well, I didn't expect the Spanish Inquisition.

In 1979, before the end of the anime, Yoshiyuki Tomino himself created the first novelizations of the original Gundam anime series.

He was succeeded by his former deputy, Paul Southwell, but Southwell himself passed a few months later, in 1979.

Callaghan himself had adopted policies echoing monetarism while serving as prime minister from 1976 to 1979, adopting deflationary policies and reducing public spending in response to high inflation and national debt.

After the Islanders ' regular season dominance and playoff disappointment in 1979, Arbour decided that he would no longer concern himself too greatly with his team's finish in the regular season.

He also had a small role in Steven Spielberg's 1941 ( 1979 ) in scenes with Toshirō Mifune and Christopher Lee ; during one scene, he names the objects that he has with himself, and sounds like he does in Dr. Strangelove during the " Survival Kit Contents Check " scene.

In 1979, a mini-series entitled World of Krypton was published, providing a great amount of detail into Krypton's history just before its destruction, along with the life story of Jor-El himself.

Macmillan found himself drawn more actively into politics after Margaret Thatcher became Conservative leader in February 1975, and Prime Minister in May 1979 when the Tories ended Labour's five-year rule with an election win, and the record of his own premiership came under attack from the monetarists in the party, whose theories she supported.

By the time the Janata government crumbled in 1979, Vajpayee had established himself as an experienced statesman and a respected political leader.

The most devastating development since Walt's death occurred in September 1979, when studio animator Don Bluth led a walkout of himself and 11 of his supporters ( a large chunk of the studio's animation department at the time ), including Gary Goldman and John Pomeroy.

Wiesel's 1979 play The Trial of God is about a trial in which God is the defendant, and is reportedly based on events that Wiesel himself witnessed as a teenager in Auschwitz.

In 1979, with the encouragement of longtime BS & T manager Fred Heller, who had numerous requests for the band to play more shows, David Clayton-Thomas decided to continue Blood, Sweat & Tears with an entirely new lineup that consisted of himself and other Canadian musicians ( Kenny Marco-guitar, David Piltch-bass, Joe Sealy-keyboards, Bruce Cassidy-trumpet, flugelhorn, Earl Seymour-sax, flute, Steve Kennedy-sax, flute and Sally Chappis-drums, with Harvey Kogan soon replacing Kennedy and Jack Scarangella succeeding Chappis ).

A 1979 episode of The Mary Tyler Moore Hour featured Van Dyke and Moore reprising their roles as the Petries in a short sketch presented as the brainstorming of Van Dyke ( guest-starring as himself ) and the writers of Mary McKinnon's ( Moore ) variety series, who noted McKinnon's resemblance to " the gal who played Laura Petrie ".

In 1979, he guest-hosted on Saturday Night Live, in which he spoofed his television sitcom image by appearing in a Twilight Zone send-up, in which, always trying to go " home ", he finds himself among the characters from other 1950s / early 1960s-era sitcoms, Leave It to Beaver, Father Knows Best, Make Room for Daddy, and I Love Lucy.

In 1979 Mark Zakharov shot a Russian film, based on a play by Grigori Gorin, The Very Same Munchhausen, relaying the story of the Baron's life after the adventures portrayed in the book, particularly his struggle to prove himself sane.

During the Brazilian military dictatorship, which imposed a two-party system, Sarney affiliated himself with the government party, ARENA, becoming the president of the party in 1979.

He is credited with founding the Church with friend Philo Drummond in 1979, though Stang himself denies this and claims the organization was founded in 1953 by J. R. " Bob " Dobbs.

In his 1979 autobiography, Jack Kramer, the long-time tennis promoter and great player himself, ranked Connors as one of the 21 best players of all time.

" Chuck Jones particularly disliked Clampett, and made no mention of his association with him in either his 1979 compilation film The Bugs Bunny / Road Runner Movie ( in which Jones lists himself and other Warners directors ) or his 1989 autobiography Chuck Amuck.

As the music director of the Berlin Philharmonic, Karajan cultivated warm, blended beauty of tone, which has sometimes been criticized as too uniformly applied ; by contrast, in Bernstein's only appearance with the Berlin Philharmonic in 1979 – in the Mahler's Symphony No. 9 – he tried to get the orchestra to produce an " ugly " tone in a certain passage in which he believed it suited the expressive meaning of the music ( the first horn player refused, and finally agreed to let an understudy play instead of himself ).

The Iranian Revolution of 1979 caught the CIA and the US very much off guard ( as CIA reporting a mere month earlier predicted no imminent insurrectionary turbulence whatsoever for the Shah's regime ), and resulted in the overthrow of the Shah ( himself a non-democratic ruler ) by a fundamentalist, non-democratic faction opposed to the US, headed by Ayatollah Khomeini.

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.