* Chicago Blizzard of 1979

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

Pope John Paul II visited Chicago in 1979 during his first trip ever to the United States after being elected to the Papacy in 1978.

On July 12, 1979, an anti-disco protest in Chicago called " Disco Demolition Night " had shown that an angry backlash against disco and its culture had emerged in the United States.

The Eagles gave nods to disco with " One of These Nights " ( 1975 ) and " Disco Strangler " ( 1979 ), Paul McCartney & Wings did " Goodnight Tonight " ( 1979 ), Queen did " Another One Bites the Dust " ( 1980 ), The Rolling Stones did " Miss You " ( 1978 ), Chicago did " Street Player " ( 1979 ), The Beach Boys did " Here Comes the Night " ( 1979 ), The Kinks did "( Wish I Could Fly Like ) Superman " ( 1979 ), and the J. Geils Band did " Come Back " ( 1980 ).

July 12, 1979 became known as " the day disco died " because of Disco Demolition Night, an anti-disco demonstration at Comiskey Park in Chicago.

With the assistance of Seiichi Tanaka, Kinnara and Chicago taiko, the New York Buddhist church established the first taiko group on the East Coast, Soh Daiko, in 1979.

* 1979 – American Airlines Flight 191: In Chicago, a McDonnell Douglas DC-10 crashes during takeoff at O ' Hare International Airport killing 271 on board and two people on the ground.

* 1979 – A package from the Unabomber Ted Kaczynski begins smoking in the cargo hold of a flight from Chicago to Washington, forcing the plane to make an emergency landing.

* On May 25, 1979, the American Airlines Flight 191 from O ' Hare International Airport in Chicago, Illinois, to Los Angeles International Airport, crashed during take-off, killing all 271 on board and 2 people on the ground.

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* Kuhn, T. " A Function for Thought Experiments ", in The Essential Tension ( Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1979 ), pp. 240 –

* 1979: Paul Gapp, Chicago Tribune, architecture

Barbara Harlow ( Chicago & London: University of Chicago Press, 1979, ISBN 978-0-226-14333-0 ).

( Reprinted Chicago: Ares Publishers inc., 1979 ).

Former players for the Dutch Masters include Scott Garrelts, pitcher for the San Francisco Giants ( was supposed to pitch the opener in the 1989 World Series, but an earthquake had other ideas ); Mark Scheiwe, drafted by the Chicago Cubs in 1979 ( the same year Scott was drafted by the Giants ), but never making it to the big league because of injury ; and Ernie Westfield, who played in the Negro League and still represents them publicly.

* David DeJesus ( born 1979 ), right fielder for the Chicago Cubs.

* Neill Armstrong, Chicago Bears Head Coach, 1979 – 1982

* Jerry Don Gleaton, Major League Baseball pitcher from 1979 to 1992 for the Texas Rangers, Seattle Mariners, Chicago White Sox, Kansas City Royals, Detroit Tigers, and Pittsburgh Pirates.

In 1979, Jane Byrne, the city's first female mayor, was elected.

Since then, the country has had two presidents: Francisco Macías Nguema, the former mayor of Mongomo under the Spanish colonial government, and Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo ( Macías's nephew ), who has ruled since 1979 when he staged a military coup d ' état and executed Macías.

In 1964, the first elections were held for a community council, and in 1979 for the first mayor.

His last dramatic role before portraying mainly comedy roles was the 1979 Canadian disaster film City on Fire in which he played a corrupt mayor.

After entering politics, he was successively named mayor of Alagoas ' capital Maceió in 1979 ( National Renewal Alliance Party ), elected a federal deputy ( Democratic Social Party ) in 1982, and eventually elected governor of the small Northeastern state of Alagoas ( Brazilian Democratic Movement Party ) in 1986.

In 1979 Birmingham elected Dr. Richard Arrington Jr. as its first African-American mayor.

State Representative Leo Berman of Tyler formerly resided in Arlington and served on the city council, including a stint as mayor pro tempore from 1979 to 1985.

In 1979, when Carl Officer was elected as mayor ( the youngest in the country at that time at age 25 ), many said the city had nowhere to go but up, yet things grew worse.

The park in Oil City is named for Earl Williamson, who served for forty years on the Caddo Parish police jury ( 1933 – 1972 and again from 1979 – 1980 and as mayor of Vivian from 1938 – 1946 and again from 1962-1966.

The city's first mayor was Peter M. Lamberts, who served in that post until 1979.

He defeated Robert Fava, the mayor since 1979.

The community was incorporated in 1979 with an estimated population of 2, 445 and elected a mayor and city council.

The Town of Annetta North was incorporated on August 11, 1979, and Phyllis M. Studer was elected as its first mayor.

A notable local politician is Olaf Gjedrem, mayor from 1979 to 1993 and later a member of the national parliament.

The new riding of Timmins — Chapleau was represented by Roy's Liberal successor Ray Chénier from 1979 to 1984 and then Aurèle Gervais, a former mayor of Iroquois Falls, who was swept in to office as a PC in the Mulroney landslide of September 1984.

According to a 1998 interview with Hinderaker, the city of Riverside received negative press coverage for smog after the mayor asked Governor Ronald Reagan to declare the South Coast Air Basin a disaster area in 1971 ; subsequent student enrollment declined by up to 25 % through 1979.

From 1977 to 1979, Kucinich served as the 53rd mayor of Cleveland, Ohio, a tumultuous term in which he survived a recall election and was successful in a battle against selling the municipal electric utility before being defeated for reelection by George Voinovich.

Barry served as the second elected mayor of the District of Columbia from 1979 to 1991, and again as the fourth mayor from 1995 to 1999.

Jackson was mayor when the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority ( MARTA ) obtained a large amount of Federal funding for a rapid-transit rail-line system, when its construction began, and when MARTA began its first rail transit service in Atlanta and in DeKalb County in 1979, and during its continual expansion thereafter.

Jerome Patrick Cavanagh ( June 16, 1928 – November 27, 1979 ) was the mayor of Detroit, Michigan from 1962 to 1970.

Prior to his term as mayor, Hahn served in several other capacities for the city of Los Angeles, including Deputy City Attorney ( 1975 – 1979 ), City Controller ( 1981 – 1985 ) and City Attorney ( 1985 – 2001 ).

By 1979, elections in Cleveland had become nonpartisan, and with then-Mayor Dennis J. Kucinich ( D ) about to enter a tough re-election campaign, Voinovich began to consider running for mayor again.

She joined the Labour Party in 1979 and was elected to Crawley Borough Council in 1984, remaining as a councillor until 1997 and serving as the town's mayor in 1990.

From 1978 to 1979 Meehan served on the staff to the mayor of Lowell.