Brearley retired from Test cricket in 1979 and was succeeded by Ian Botham, who started the 1981 series as England captain, by which time the WSC split had ended.

: 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.

In 1979, the USSR removed the term " Ainu " from the list of living ethnic groups of Russia, an act by which the government proclaimed that the Ainu as an ethnic group was extinct in its territory.

The game was short-listed for the first Spiel des Jahres board game awards in 1979.

In 1979, the film was remade for CBS television by Delbert Mann, starring Richard Thomas of The Waltons as Paul Bäumer and Ernest Borgnine as Kat.

He was a central figure in the resistance against the Soviet occupation between 1979 and 1989 and in the following years of civil war.

An airport security guard and Imam, Abdulaziz al-Omari (,, also transliterated as Alomari or al-Umari ) ( May 28, 1979 – September 11, 2001 ) was one of five hijackers of American Airlines Flight 11 as part of the September 11 attacks.

This revival was due to the dramatic and highly fictionalized depiction of Salieri in Peter Shaffer's 1979 play Amadeus, which was given its greatest exposure in its 1984 film version, directed by Miloš Forman.

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.

In 1979, the Walkman was introduced, making it the world's first portable music player.

An orchestration was therefore commissioned in secret from Friedrich Cerha and premièred in Paris ( under Pierre Boulez ) only in 1979, soon after Helene Berg's own death.

In 1979, the Yale biologist Arthur Galston, who specialized in herbicide research, published a review of what was known at the time about the toxicity of TCDD.

Atari's management decided to enter this market, and the new technology was repackaged into the Atari 400 and 800, hitting the market in 1979.

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

The WHO calls alcoholism " a term of long-standing use and variable meaning ", and use of the term was disfavored by a 1979 WHO Expert Committee.

Alfred Gerald Caplin ( September 28, 1909 – November 5, 1979 ), better known as Al Capp, was an American cartoonist and humorist best known for the satirical comic strip Li ' l Abner.

; AIM-54A: The original model that became operational with the U. S. Navy in about 1974, and it was also exported to Iran in modest numbers before the Iran hostage crisis beginning in 1979.

Bronx gang life was depicted in the 1974 novel The Wanderers by Bronx native Richard Price and the 1979 movie of the same name.

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.

Stroustrup has a master's degree in mathematics and computer science ( 1975 ) from the University of Aarhus, Denmark, and a Ph. D. in computer science ( 1979 ) from the University of Cambridge, England, where he was a student at Churchill College.

The origin of the party can be traced back to the ideological divisions in the Labour Party in the 1950s ( with its forerunner being the Campaign for Democratic Socialism established to support the Gaitskellites ), but publicly lies in the 1979 Dimbleby Lecture given by Roy Jenkins as he neared the end of his presidency of the European Commission.

The contras ( some references use the capitalized form, " Contras ") is a label given to the various rebel groups opposing the Sandinista Junta of National Reconstruction government in Nicaragua that were active from 1979 through to the early 1990s.

Tale of Tales ( 1979 ) by Yuriy Norshteyn was twice given the title of " Best Animated Film of All Eras and Nations " by animation professionals from around the world, in 1984 and 2002.

In 1979, graffiti artist Lee Quinones and Fab 5 Freddy were given a gallery opening in Rome by art dealer Claudio Bruni.

Further support for these resting positions is given from experiments watching captive moths taking up resting positions in both males ( Mikkola, 1979 ; 1984 ) and females ( Liebert and Brakefield, 1987 ).

* Rock band Toto's 1979 single release " 99 " is a song whose content is inspired by THX-1138s society, where people are given numbers instead of names, as well as having a music video featuring the band in an all-white room dressed in white, a set piece designed around the film.

More recent authors who have used damnatio memoriae as a plot device include Milan Kundera in his 1979 novel The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, R. A. Salvatore in the 1990 novel Homeland, Lois Lowry in her 1993 novel The Giver ( a version in which the damned name is never given to any new baby ever again ), and Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson in their 1999 Prelude to Dune trilogy.

The largest one was held in New York City in September 1979 and involved 200, 000 people ; speeches were given by Jane Fonda and Ralph Nader.

A distinct name has been given to many of the various presentations of androgen insensitivity syndrome, such as Reifenstein syndrome ( 1947 ), Goldberg-Maxwell syndrome ( 1948 ), Morris ' syndrome ( 1953 ), Gilbert-Dreyfus syndrome ( 1957 ), Lub's syndrome ( 1959 ), " incomplete testicular feminization " ( 1963 ), Rosewater syndrome ( 1965 ), and Aiman's syndrome ( 1979 ).

* Part of a speech detailing the " Short, sharp shock " concept of juvenile offender incarceration given by Whitelaw during 1979 is excerpted in the fadeout at the end of Gerry Rafferty's 1980 song " The Garden of England ", from the album Snakes and Ladders:

In 1979 Monsanto established the Edgar Monsanto Queeny safety award in honor of its former CEO ( 1928 &# 8209 ; 1960 ), an annual $ 2, 000 prize given to a member of the American Society of Safety Engineers to encourage accident prevention.

The protection given to scheduled monuments is given under the Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Areas Act 1979, which is a different law from that used for listed buildings ( which fall within the town and country planning system ).

In England, Scotland and Wales, protection of monuments can also be given by another process, additional to or separate from scheduling, taking the monument into state ownership or placing it under guardianship, classifying it as a Guardianship Monument under the terms of Section 12 of the 1979 Act ( as amended by the National Heritage Act 1983 in England, and by the Historic Environment ( Amendment ) ( Scotland ) Act 2011 ( reference below )) ( e. g. St Rule's Church in St Andrews ).

On 1 October 1979, the Center was given division status.

The largest demonstration was held in New York City in September 1979 and involved 200, 000 people, with speeches given by Jane Fonda and Ralph Nader.

The Australian Capital Territory refused self-government in a 1978 referendum, but was given limited self-government by a House of Assembly from 1979, and a Legislative Assembly with wider powers in 1988.

Rocky II is a 1979 American film that is the sequel to Rocky, a motion picture in which an unknown boxer had been given a chance to go fight the World Heavyweight Champion.

In December 1979, he was named as the recipient of the Hutch Award, given to the player who best exemplifies the fighting spirit and competitive desire of Fred Hutchinson.

In 1979, Schwimmer went to a Shakespeare workshop given by English actor Ian McKellen in Los Angeles.

In the history of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry awards have been given for the invention of specific organic reactions such as the Grignard reaction in 1912, the Diels-Alder reaction in 1950, the Wittig reaction in 1979 and olefin metathesis in 2005.

In later books Zuckerman is given a less indentured form of existence, starting with the 1979 novel The Ghost Writer, where he is the story's protagonist, a writing apprentice on a pilgrimage to cull the wisdom of the reclusive author E. I. Lonoff.

He became the first English winner of the European Footballer of the Year award since Kevin Keegan was given the honour in 1979.