* 1979: Scott Olson and Brennan Olson of Minneapolis, Minnesota came across a pair of inline skates created in the 1960s by the Chicago Roller Skate Company and, seeing the potential for off-ice hockey training, set about redesigning the skates using modern materials and attaching ice hockey boots.

In Davis v. Passman ( 1979 ), Brennan extended this rationale to the equal protection component of the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment, in a suit for gender-discrimination in employment against a former Congressman ( Congressional staffers were explicitly excluded from Title VII of the Civil Rights Act ).

Brennan was reelected in 1982, serving as Governor from 1979 to 1987.

The Hemingway story was later adapted for a 1979 CBS television movie, My Old Man, starring Kristy McNichol, Warren Oates, and Eileen Brennan.

The others were Archbishop Peter Paul Brennan of the African Orthodox Church and the Ecumenical Catholic Diocese of the Americas, who according to one website was first consecrated a bishop on June 10, 1978, and subsequently reconsecrated in October 1979 and twice more in March 1987 ; Archbishop Patrick E. Trujillo of the Old Catholic Church in America and Archbishop Joseph J. Gouthro of Las Vegas, presiding bishop of the Catholic Apostolic Church International ( CACI ).

Her son Brennan was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes in 1979.

He then graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School in 1978, going on to clerk for appellate judge Murray Gurfein for a year before clerking for United States Supreme Court Justice William Brennan from 1979 to 1980.

* Act of Providence, by Joseph Payne Brennan and Donald M. Grant ( 1979 )

He was a law clerk for James Skelly Wright, U. S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, 1979 – 1980, and for Associate Justice William Brennan, Supreme Court of the United States, 1980-1981.

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.

When the Soviets supported the 1979 coup, Rabbani helped lead Jamiat-e Islami in resistance to the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan regime.

Egyptian president Sadat in 1979 after signing of Camp David peace accord severed military and economic relations with the USSR ( by that time the USSR provided a lot of assistance to Egypt and supported it in all its military operations against Israel ).

Daniel Ortega of the Marxist-Leninist movement called the Sandinista National Liberation Front seized power in Nicaragua in 1979 and faced armed opposition from the Contras supported by the United States.

It supported the 1979 Camp David accords and was one of three Arab League states, along with Somalia and Sudan, which did not break relations with Egypt after the signing of the Egyptian-Israeli Peace Treaty in 1979.

Russo-Sudanese relations were minorly damaged when, in 1971 members of the Sudanese Communist Party attempted to assassinate then-president Gaafar Nimeiry, and Nimeiry pegged the blame on the USSR, thus enhancing Sudanese relations with the West, and were damaged again when Sudan supported the Mujahadeen in Afghanistan when the USSR invaded in 1979.

In early 1979, President Jimmy Carter and the United States no longer supported the Somoza regime, but did not want a left-wing government to take power in Nicaragua.

The Cray-1S, announced in 1979, was an improved Cray-1 that supported a larger main memory of 1, 2, or 4 million words.

The Democratic Republic of Afghanistan can also be considered a Soviet satellite ; from 1978 until 1992 the central government in Kabul was aligned with the Communist bloc, and was directly supported by Soviet military power between 1979 and 1989.

The Soviet Union intervened, supported by the Afghan government, in December 1979, and on 27 December Amin was assassinated by Soviet military forces.

His work in the field of semiology was recognized and supported by commissions and led to the publication of the ' Graduale Triplex ' in 1979, which was based on Cardine's personal Roman Gradual in which, over the years, he had copied many neumes from Sankt Gallen school manuscripts.

Since 1979, Passive Solar Building Design has been a critical element of achieving zero energy by educational institution experiments, and governments around the world, including the U. S. Department of Energy, and the energy research scientists that they have supported for decades.

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.

This process has been supported by strategic acquisitions and dispositions ; one the most important was the take-over of the truck and bus division of the commercial vehicles manufacturer Büssing ( 1971 ), the disposition of the shares of the shipyard Deutsche Werft ( 1966 / 67 ) and the acquisition of the printing machine producer Faber & Schleicher as well as its fusion to MAN Roland Druckmaschinen AG ( 1979 ).

He supported George Colley for Taoiseach in the Fianna Fáil leadership contest of 1979, but after Colley's opponent Charles Haughey won out, Haughey still retained Burke in his government position.

In June 1979 The Human League supported Iggy Pop on his European tour before settling into recording their first single for Virgin.

Jody Scheckter replacing the Lotus bound Argentinian in 1979, took the title, supported by Gilles Villeneuve ( who dutifully followed the South African home at Monza, having been ordered to do so ), and won the last World Drivers ' Championship in a Ferrari until Michael Schumacher twenty one years later.

During late 1979, the band recorded a 5-song demo at Gold Star Studios in Los Angeles, and in 1980 supported the British ska revival group Madness in both Los Angeles and England.

* The Indochina Wars, wherein rebel Vietnamese forces fought from 1941 until 1979 against a variety of invading forces ( including Japan, France, the United States, Cambodia, and China ), as well against indigenous Vietnamese factions including ethnic Vietnamese of South Vietnam and various " hill tribes " ( such as the Hmong ) supported by and allied to the U. S., but largely hostile to the ethnic Vietnamese.

Weygoldt ( 1979 ) suggested the existence of two families was not supported by the available data, and Haupt & Song ( 1996 ) formally reduced the Hypoctonidae to a subfamily as there was little support for a monophyletic Hypoctonidae.

However, even though the party supported Kekkonen for president in 1978 and became the second biggest party in the country in the 1979 parliamentary election, a place in the government continued to elude it until the end of Kekkonen's time in office.

Geoghegan-Quinn supported Charles Haughey in the 1979 Fianna Fáil leadership election, she was subsequently appointed to the cabinet post of Minister for the Gaeltacht.

The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in late 1979, which Bulgaria supported vigorously, renewed tension between Bulgaria and the West.

In 1979 Sturgis traveled to Angola to help rebels fighting the communist government, which was supported by Cuba and the Soviet Union, and to teach guerrilla warfare.

George did it between the 1952 and 1965 seasons and Buffone during the 1966 through 1979 seasons.

" ( 1979 ), Electric Light Orchestra ’ s " Shine a Little Love ", " Don't Bring Me Down ", and " Last Train to London " ( all 1979 ), George Benson's " Give Me the Night " ( 1980 ), Elton John and Kiki Dee's " Don't Go Breaking My Heart " ( 1976 ), and Diana Ross ' " Upside Down " ( 1980 ).

In the experimental post 1960s eras, which saw the development of free jazz and jazz-rock fusion, some of the influential bassists included Charles Mingus ( 1922 – 1979 ), who was also a composer and bandleader whose music fused hard bop with black gospel music, free jazz and classical music ; free jazz and post-bop bassist Charlie Haden ( born 1937 ) is best known for his long association with saxophonist Ornette Coleman and for his role in the 1970s-era Liberation Music Orchestra, an experimental group ; Eddie Gomez and George Mraz, who played with Bill Evans and Oscar Peterson, respectively, and are both acknowledged to have furthered expectations of pizzicato fluency and melodic phrasing, fusion virtuoso Stanley Clarke ( born 1951 ) is notable for his dexterity on both the upright bass and the electric bass, and Terry Plumeri, noted for his horn-like arco fluency and vocal tone.

* 1979 – George Lamb, English radio and TV presenter

Admiral of the Fleet Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas George Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma ( born Prince Louis of Battenberg ; 25 June 1900 – 27 August 1979 ), was a British statesman and naval officer, an uncle of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh and second cousin once removed to Elizabeth II.

These include the 1979 energy crisis, the election of Ronald Reagan, the 1984 Summer Olympics, the Chernobyl disaster, the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster, the Baby Jessica rescue, Black Monday, the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Cold War, the election of George H. W.

In March 1979 the Virginia General Assembly authorized the establishment of the George Mason University School of Law ( GMUSL ) – contingent on the transfer of the Kann's building to George Mason University.

* Hardcore ( 1979 film ), an American drama film starring George C Scott

* 1979 – George Brent, English actor ( b. 1899 )

* 1979 – White Night riots in San Francisco following the manslaughter conviction of Dan White for the assassinations of George Moscone and Harvey Milk.

In 1979, Occidental installed Water Forms II ( see image below ), a kinetic fountain designed by professor George Baker.

As a result of that effort, the Puerto Rico Legislature approved a law regulating presidential primaries in 1979, the first of which was held in 1980, with George H. W. Bush winning the Republican primary and President Carter beating Senator Edward " Ted " Kennedy in a hard-fought Democratic primary.

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

* 1979 – George O ' Callaghan, Irish footballer

* Backstairs at the White House: Television episode 1. 2, Warren G. Harding played by George Kennedy, 1979.

* July 28 – George Cisar, American actor ( d. 1979 )

* November 17 – George Dunning, cartoon director and animator ( d. 1979 )

Anderson postponed his decision to run, lost his campaign manager, and struggled to raise money, but in late April 1979 he made the decision to enter the Republican primary anyway, joining a crowded field that included Robert Dole, John Connally, Howard Baker, George H. W. Bush and Ronald Reagan.

* Mirror Friend, Mirror Foe ( 1979 ) with George Takei

* Lowell George ( 1945 – 1979 ), songwriter, guitarist and late member of the band Little Feat

The 1970s and 80s are regarded by many as a ' golden age ' of Australian cinema, with many successful films, from the dark science fiction of Mad Max ( George Miller, 1979 ) to the romantic comedy of Crocodile Dundee ( Peter Faiman, 1986 ) and the emergence of such film directing auteurs as Gillian Armstrong, Phillip Noyce and Bruce Beresford.

* George Gervin – 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982

Engineer Leslie George Frise ( 1897 – 1979 ) developed an aileron shape that is often used due to its ability to counteract adverse yaw.