During the 1979 Commonwealth Conference, Fraser, together with his Nigerian counterpart, convinced newly-elected British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher to withhold recognition of the internal settlement Zimbabwe Rhodesia government ( Thatcher had earlier promised to recognise it ).

Norden's first partner was the journalist Nancy Spain ; after her death in 1964 she was succeeded by journalist Anne Scott-James, and then in 1979 by writer and historian Antonia Fraser.

## John Allen Fraser ( June 4, 1979 )

His wife succeeded her father as the 21st Lady Saltoun and chief of the Name of Fraser in her own right in 1979.

* Fraser, Antonia ( 1979 ) King Charles II, Weidenfeld and Nicholson.

The Victorian council was singularly unimpressed that a rival Australia Day organisation had copied its idea – in 1978 it described its own winner, Dame Rae Roe, as ‘ the real Australian of the Year .’ The impasse was only resolved when the Fraser Government created the National Australia Day Council ( NADC ) in 1979.

* Alexander Arthur Fraser, 20th Lord Saltoun ( 1886 – 1979 )

* Dawn !, a 1979 biopic of Australian Olympic swimmer Dawn Fraser

P. Fraser ), The Social and Economic History of the Roman Empire, Clarendon Press: Oxford, 1979.

In an interview with Al Fraser ( 1979 ), Dizzy Gillespie told his recollection of Monday nights at Minton ’ s:

Even an award-winning Canadian journalist John Fraser put up his own " dazibao ," whose notice about a lost gold signet ring that concluded in vague political sentiment bizarrely resulted in his addressing the 1979 summer masses in Tiananmen Square.

He decided to leave the company during the 1979 Australasian tour, and author Ian Bradley relates one of the incidents that served as a tipping point: " At the end of their first rehearsal Australia, conductor Fraser Goulding asked the chorus to stay on for a few minutes just to polish the act 2 finale.

Fraser was elected as a Conservative & Unionist Member of Parliament for South Angus in 1979, where he remained in the House of Commons until June 1987 ( from 1983 representing East Angus ).

Her husband had been created a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath in 1979 ( and subsequently elevated within the order to Knight Grand Cross ), entitling her to be addressed as Lady Fraser, however she now became Lady Marion Fraser in her own right.

He has taught at the University of Cambridge ( 1956 – 68 ), Simon Fraser University ( 1968 – 70 ), the University of British Columbia ( 1970 – 79 ), and Syracuse University ( 1979 – 97 ).

From that highly successful show, Fraser was once again called upon in 1979 to organize a Tattoo to mark the visit of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother to Nova Scotia for the International Gathering of the Clans.

He was taught by fellow Vancouver school artist Ian Wallace while at Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, from 1979 to 1980.

Sir Frank Fraser Darling ( born Frank Darling, 23 June 1903-22 October 1979 ) was an English ecologist, ornithologist, farmer, conservationist and author, who is strongly associated with the highlands and islands of Scotland.

The Tattoo has been produced since 1979 by Colonel Ian Fraser, who also produced the 1967 Canadian Centennial Tattoo, the world's largest travelling show.

* Sir Frank Fraser Darling ( 1903 – 1979 ), English ecologist, ornithologist, farmer, conservationist and author

; 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.

Indeed, in the largest biological weapons accident known – the anthrax outbreak in Sverdlovsk ( now Yekaterinburg ) in the Soviet Union in 1979, sheep became ill with anthrax as far as 200 kilometers from the release point of the organism from a military facility in the southeastern portion of the city ( known as Compound 19 and still off limits to visitors today, see Sverdlovsk Anthrax leak ).

After initial Conservative opposition to Keynesian fiscal policy, this settlement was broadly accepted by all parties until Margaret Thatcher became Prime Minister in 1979.

In 1979, the CUNY Financing and Governance Act was adopted by the State and the Board of Higher Education officially became The City University of New York Board of Trustees.

Progressive rock group Pink Floyd, when creating their rock opera The Wall, used disco-style components in their song, " Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2 " ( 1979 )— which became the group's only # 1 hit single ( in both the US and UK ).

The rich orchestral accompaniment that became identified with the disco era conjured up the memories of the big band era — which brought out several artists that recorded and disco-ized some big band arrangements including Perry Como, who re-recorded his 1929 and 1939 hit, " Temptation ", in 1975, as well as Ethel Merman, who released an album of disco songs entitled The Ethel Merman Disco Album in 1979.

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

It became a member of the United Nations and the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) in 1978 and of the World Bank and Organization of American States ( OAS ) in 1979.

Following the fall of the Shah of Iran and the Iran Hostage Crisis in 1979 – 1980, the West became concerned with ensuring the flow of oil from the Persian Gulf through the Strait of Hormuz, and the US received permission for a $ 400 million expansion of the military facilities on Diego Garcia consisting of two parallel runways, expansive parking aprons for heavy bombers, 20 new anchorages in the lagoon, a deep water pier, port facilities for the largest naval vessels in the US or British fleet, aircraft hangars, maintenance buildings and an air terminal, a fuel storage area, and billeting and messing facilities for thousands of sailors and support personnel.

She continued to have hits with " Heartbreaker " ( 1978 ), " Baby I'm Burning " and " You're the Only One " ( both 1979 ), all of which charted in the pop singles Top 40, and all of which also topped the country-singles chart ; 1979's " Sweet Summer Lovin '" became the first Parton single in two years to not top the country singles chart ( though it still nonetheless reached the top ten ).

After the Nicaraguan Revolution resulted in the overthrow and exile of the Somoza's government in 1979, Ortega became a member of the ruling multipartisan Junta of National Reconstruction and was later elected president, serving from 1985 to 1990.

Again in second-wave feminism in the U. S., as well as in many European and other countries, religion became the focus of some feminist analysis in Judaism, Christianity, and other religions, and some women turned to ancient goddess religions as an alternative to Abrahamic religions ( Womanspirit Rising 1979 ; Weaving the Visions 1989 ).

She was Norwegian Minister for Environmental Affairs from 1974 to 1979 and became Norway's first, and to date only, female Prime Minister.

Heiner Müller's cutting-edge drama " The Hamletmachine " was first produced in Paris by director Jean Jourdheuil in 1979 and swiftly became a classic of postmodern drama.

He became CEO in 1979 and chairman in 1987, succeeding Jack and becoming the first non-family member to hold that post.

Botham did this in the Centenary Test in Bombay in 1979 – 80 ( 114, 6 / 58 and 7 / 48 ), the last match before he became England captain.

In 1979, Falwell founded the Moral Majority, which became one of the largest political lobby groups for evangelical Christians in the United States during the 1980s.

During the 1970s, he became a Hollywood star with his portrayals of a businessman mixed up with murder in Deliverance ( 1972 ), a paraplegic Vietnam veteran in Coming Home ( 1978 ), for which he won an Academy Award for Best Actor, and a penniless ex-boxing champion in The Champ ( 1979 ).

In 1979, aged twenty, Kurtis Blow became the first rapper to be signed by a major label, Mercury, which released " Christmas Rappin '".

The islands formally became an independent nation on 12 July 1979 under the name of Kiribati.

Malden was incorporated in the British Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony in 1972, and included in the portion of the colony which became the Republic of Kiribati in 1979.

In 1979, the Government of the Marshall Islands was officially established and the country became self-governing.

Mobile phones were introduced in Japan in 1979 but became a mass media only in 1998 when the first downloadable ringing tones were introduced in Finland.

Angola, Benin, Congo-Brazzaville, Ethiopia, Mozambique, Somalia and Zimbabwe ( formerly Rhodesia ) all became Marxist-Leninist states between 1969 and 1979.

For higher education, the city has only one university, Umm al-Qura University, which was established in 1949 as a college and became a public university in 1979.