Honda also experimented with a monocoque Grand Prix racing motorcycle named the NR500 in 1979.

The first production facilities opened by Honda in the United States were the Marysville Motorcycle Plant ( 1979 ) and the Marysville Auto Plant ( 1982 ), located about six miles ( 10 km ) northwest of the city.

In 1979 BL struck a collaboration deal with Honda to share the development and production of a new mid-sized car ( Triumph Acclaim / Honda Ballade ).

Although the UK political scene changed in 1979 with the election of the Thatcher government, the Government continued to support BL with funds for the development of a new mass-market model range ( Mini Metro, Maestro, Montego and another Honda collaboration the Rover 800 ).

1979 – 1981 Honda Accord hatchback ( Japan )

The Honda XR 500 debut in 1979 with the first of the twin shock models ( 1979 XR 500Z ).

Honda added the ‘ R ’ to represent the Pro-Link which distinguishes it from the twin shock models of the previous two years, however, they still kept the letter ’ s of the alphabet to be consistent with the years made, e. g.: ‘ Z ’ for 1979, ‘ A ’ for 1980, ‘ B ’ for 1981 etc.

During the final run of the GL1000 in 1979, Honda included their own saddlebags and trunk, but still did not offer a fairing.

Honda sold more than 97, 000 units of the GL1000 in the United States between 1975 and 1979.

Rare 8-valve-per-cylinder arrangement of 1979 Honda NR500 V4 GP motorcycle engine with oval pistons and dual piston rods.

In 1979, Honda introduced a very successful series of light motorcycles in the US and in Europe.

* ITA: Honda CR-X ( 1989 – 1991 ), Mazda RX-7 ( 12A engine, 1979 – 1985 ), Acura Integra ( 1. 6-liter engine, 1986 – 1989 )

At Springfield Elementary School, Superintendent Chalmers visits Principal Skinner to show off his newly purchased 1979 Honda Accord.

* Honda Motor Company, 1969 – 1979, engineer ;

* Honda R & D Company, 1979 – 1982, chief engineer ;

The MB50 was a Honda motorcycle known as the MB5 in the US, produced from 1979 into the late 1980s.

The first US Honda factory that opened in 1979 in Marysville, Ohio built CR250Ms.

Asteroids Hyper 64 is an update to the 1979 arcade shooter Asteroids released for the Nintendo 64 on December 14, 1999.

* 1979 – A Provisional Irish Republican Army bomb kills British World War II admiral Louis Mountbatten and three others while they are boating on holiday in Sligo, Republic of Ireland.

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.

: 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.

* 1979 – An IRA bomb explodes on the Grand Place in Brussels.

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.

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.

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 a 1979 interview on NPR's All Things Considered, Lerner went into some depth about his lyrics for My Fair Lady.

* 1979: A concert with Jean Michel Jarre on the Place de la Concorde in Paris attracted one million people, securing an entry in the Guinness Book of Records for the largest crowd at an outdoor concert.

Karmal was made Chairman of the Revolutionary Council and Chairman of the Council of Ministers on 27 December 1979.

It merged with The Beezer on 24 February 1979.

* St Nicholas Lodge of Royal Ark Mariners No. 1188 was consecrated on the 2 June 1979, it currently meets on the second Thursday in March, May, September & November

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

Building on this first edition, in 1979, B. Dennis Sustare wrote " Different Worlds Present the World of Druid's Valley: A Bunnies & Burrows Campaign " in Different Worlds, a magazine published by Chaosium.

Since the 16th General Conference on Weights and Measures ( CGPM ) in 1979, the candela has been defined as:

The original companies that spawned Capcom's Japanese branch were I. R. M Corporation founded on May 30, 1979, as well as its subsidiary Japan Capsule Computers Co., Ltd., both of which were devoted to the manufacturing and distribution of electronic game machines.

In late December 1978, Vietnamese forces launched a full invasion of Cambodia, capturing Phnom Penh on January 7, 1979 and driving the remnants of Democratic Kampuchea's army westward toward Thailand.

New York: Facts on File Inc., 1979.

So began her 40 years of research on Peirce the mathematician and scientist, culminating in Eisele ( 1976, 1979, 1985 ).

Claudius has been portrayed in film on several other occasions, including in the 1979 motion picture Caligula, the role being performed by Giancarlo Badessi in which the character was depicted as an idiot, in contrast to Robert Graves ' portrait of Claudius as a cunning and deeply intelligent man who is perceived by others to be an idiot.

Since 1979 the Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution has addressed some of the major environmental problems of the UNECE region through scientific collaboration and policy negotiation.

Technical details of Sony's digital audio disc were presented during the 62nd AES Convention, held on March 13 – 16, 1979, in Brussels.

Just before that, on March 8, 1979 Philips publicly demonstrated a prototype of an optical digital audio disc at a press conference called " Philips Introduce Compact Disc " in Eindhoven, Netherlands.