He was also employed by CBS Sports as a regional CBS NFL and CBS NBA announcer from 1976 to 1979, when he moved to NBC.

For the 1927 – 28 season, the Cougars moved into the new Detroit Olympia, which would be their home rink until December 27, 1979.

The band followed up with Duty Now for the Future in 1979, which moved the band more towards electronic instrumentation.

She later moved to Russellville, Arkansas with her family, where she graduated from Russellville High School in 1979.

Also, in 1979, the university moved all of its athletic programs to NCAA Division I. Enrollment that year passed 11, 000.

* 1735 – Mathematical calculations suggest that it is on this day that dwarf planet Pluto moved inside the orbit of Neptune for the last time before 1979.

In 1979 RTÉ long running TV soap The Riordans moved to Radio until December 24, 1985.

In 1979, a group of settlers led by Miriam Levinger moved into the Dabouia, the former Hadassah Hospital in central Hebron, then under Arab administration.

In 1979, Hanks moved to New York City, where he made his film debut in the low-budget slasher film He Knows You're Alone ( 1980 ) and got a part in the television movie Mazes and Monsters.

He moved on to contemporary themes with a remake of the boxing picture The Champ ( 1979 ) and the critically panned Endless Love.

After Gulf Winds ( 1976 ), an album of entirely self-composed songs, and From Every Stage ( 1976 ), a live album that had Baez performing songs " from every stage " of her career, Baez again parted ways with a record label when she moved to CBS Records for Blowin ' Away ( 1977 ) and Honest Lullaby ( 1979 ).

Edwards moved back to the U. S. in 1979, to New Hampshire, and then two years later back to the northern Virginia area where he grew up.

The Novoselic family moved to Aberdeen, Washington in 1979, due to rising property prices in California.

In the late 1970s and during the 1980s, Lichtenstein received major commissions for works in public places: the sculptures Lamp ( 1978 ) in St. Mary ’ s, Georgia ; Mermaid ( 1979 ) in Miami Beach ; the 26 feet tall Brushstrokes in Flight ( 1984, moved in 1998 ) at Port Columbus International Airport ; the five-storey high Mural with Blue Brushstrokes ( 1984 – 85 ) at the Equitable Center, New York ; and El Cap de Barcelona ( 1992 ) in Barcelona.

In 1979, Clarke moved from New Zealand to Australia.

The franchise began in 1974 as the New Orleans Jazz in New Orleans, Louisiana, but the team moved to Utah in 1979 after just five seasons.

In October 1979, the band moved to London, where they recorded some demos with RKO records.

Alexander Haig retired as a four-star general from the Army in 1979, and moved on to civilian employment.

In 1979, the band wooed guitarist Chris Hayes and moved to Chrysalis Records.

Following rehearsals, production moved to BBC Television Centre where the remaining scenes were recorded in two blocks ; the first between 21 May 1979 and 22 May 1979 and second between 3 June 1979 and 5 June 1979.

The Keaggy family then moved to Leawood, Kansas in August, 1979.

Its first county seat was Jacobsville in 1862 which was soon after moved to Austin in 1863 and finally Battle Mountain in 1979.

There are also sight-seeing overflights from Australia which fly nonstop over Antarctica and return, although overflights from New Zealand stopped after the fatal crash of Air New Zealand Flight 901 on Mount Erebus in late 1979.

* 1979 – Daniel Browne, New Zealand rugby player

* 1979 – Ross Filipo, New Zealand rugby player

A lifelong chain smoker, Capp died in 1979 from emphysema at his home in South Hampton, New Hampshire.

New York: Facts on File Inc., 1979.

In 1961, Governor Nelson Rockefeller signed the bill that formally created the City University of New York to integrate these institutions, and a new graduate school, together into a coordinate system of higher education for the city, and by 1979, the Board of Higher Education had become the Board of Trustees of the CUNY.

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.

Two of the earliest commercial digital synthesizers were the Fairlight CMI, introduced in 1979, and the New England Digital Synclavier II.

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.

) With Gypsy Fever, Parton toured as a headline act in 1977, 1978 and 1979, to promote her albums, New Harvest-First Gathering, Here You Come Again, Heartbreaker, and Great Balls of Fire.

New title: Body Magic, London: Granada Publishing, “ Paladin Books ”, 1979, 478 p. ISBN 0-586-08323-5.

The 1979 film La Cage aux Folles ran for well over a year at the Paris Theatre, an art house cinema in New York City, and was a commercial success at theaters throughout the country, in both urban and rural areas.

New wave filmmakers Susumu Hani and Shōhei Imamura retreated to documentary work, though Imamura made a dramatic return to feature filmmaking with Vengeance Is Mine ( 1979 ).

* 1894 – Eric Partridge, New Zealand lexicographer ( d. 1979 )

* 80 Blocks from Tiffany's ( 1979 ) – A rare glimpse into late ' 70s New York towards the end of the infamous South Bronx gangs.

On March 13, 1979, the New Jewel Movement launched an armed revolution which removed Gairy, suspended the constitution, and established a People's Revolutionary Government ( PRG ), headed by Maurice Bishop who declared himself prime minister.

* Hunter, Robert Warriors of the Rainbow: A Chronicle of the Greenpeace Movement ( New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1979 ).

King was honored at New York's " Disco Masters Awards Show " for 3 consecutive years ( 1979 – 1981 ) in recognition of his relentless push of the song.

Oxford: Clarendon Press ; New York: Oxford University Press, 1979.

* Gilbert, Sandra M., and Gubar, Susan, The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination, New Haven, Connecticut, Yale University Press, 1979, ISBN 0-300-08458-7.

* John-Ford Griffin ( born 1979 ), American Major League Baseball outfielder ; drafted by New York Yankees in 2001 ; with Oakland Athletics in 2002

* 1979 – Adine Wilson, New Zealand netball player

* 1979 – The Ghost Train Fire at Luna Park Sydney ( New South Wales, Australia ) kills seven.

* 1979 – Daniel Vettori, New Zealand cricketer