* Cuddalore District ( South Arcot ) won the PR Thevar U-19 Trophy in 1979 and Runners-up in 1980.

* 1979 – The United States Department of Education receives final approval from the U. S. Congress to become the 13th US Cabinet agency.

NASA discouraged any discussion of additional visits due to the station's age, but in 1977 and 1978, when the agency still believed the Space Shuttle would be ready by 1979, it completed two studies on reusing the station.

In 1979 Riboud left the Magnum agency.

Egyptian Defense Minister Abdel Fattah al-Sisi affirmed during a phone call with his Israeli counterpart Egypt's commitment to maintaining the 1979 Camp David peace treaty with Israel according to Arabic-language news agency Al-Hayat.

In 1979, the agency was renamed the Minority Business Development Agency.

Salgado initially worked with the photo agency Sygma and the Paris-based Gamma, but in 1979 he joined the international cooperative of photographers, Magnum Photos.

Noted work included their campaign " Labour isn't working " on behalf of the Conservative Party before the 1979 UK general election and ongoing campaigns for British Airways, and Silk Cut with whom the agency had long relationships.

Podesta worked as a trial attorney for the Department of Justice's Honors Program in the Land and Natural Resources Division ( 1976 – 1977 ), and as a Special Assistant to the Director of ACTION, the Federal volunteer agency ( 1978 – 1979 ).

On July 23, 1979, President Ferdinand Marcos issued Executive Order No. 546, which designated the Philippine National Railways as an attached agency of the Department of Transportation and Communications.

In 1979, Radio-Québec's agency was restructured as a provincial crown corporation, Société de radio-télévision du Québec (" Quebec Radio and Television Broadcasting Corporation ").

* Pars News Agency and Pars Agency, names of the national Iranian news agency prior to the Iranian Revolution in 1979

* The agency also preceded the CIA in anticipating the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in December 1979.

Intramuros is administered by the Intramuros Administration, a national government agency created on April 10, 1979 under Presidential Decree 1616 whose task is to restore and develop Intramuros into a tourist destination.

He received his law degree in 1979 and began practicing at the West Tennessee Legal Services agency in Jackson, Tennessee.

* 1979 The news agency Dong a Ilbo joined forces with the KKA in sponsoring the President ’ s Cup National Championships

Environment Australia ( an agency of the Government of Australia ) have documented over 200 environmental incidents since 1979.

Executive Order 12148 was an executive order enacted by President Jimmy Carter on July 20, 1979 to transfer and reassign duties to the newly formed agency, known as the Federal Emergency Management Agency ( FEMA ), created by Executive Order 12127.

In 1979, with the establishment of New Jersey Transit, NJDOT's rail division ( which funded and supported State-sponsored passenger rail service ) was folded into the new agency.

In 1979, the commuter lines were acquired by a new state agency, New Jersey Transit.

From 1979 to 1982, Goldhaber worked in Pennsylvania politics as special assistant to the lieutenant governor William Scranton III and later as the interim director of the state's energy agency.

However in 1979, the U. S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of Midwest Video Corp. stating that the FCC ’ s new requirements exceeded the agency ’ s statutory powers as granted to them by Congress and as required by cable operators to provide Public-access television.

General Nematollah Nassiri ( 1911 in Semnan — February 16, 1979 ), was the director of SAVAK, the Iranian intelligence agency during the rule of Mohammad Reza Shah.

In May 1979 he arranged for Jules Horowitz, chief of research and development for France's atomic energy agency, to visit the lab and examine " Omega ".

During the significant formative period of the Merits Systems Protection Board ( 1979 – 1984 ), Ms. Koch participated in the development of the adjudicatory agency ’ s procedural and substantive precedents.

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.