* 1921 – John Herbert Chapman, Canadian physicist ( d. 1979 )

In November 1979 it debuted at the Metropolitan Opera in a John Dexter production conducted by James Levine.

The award has been shared twice: once by Butch Metzger and Pat Zachry of the National League in 1976 ; and once by John Castino and Alfredo Griffin of the American League in 1979.

Throughout the 1970s and early 1980s, De Palma worked repeatedly with actors Jennifer Salt, Amy Irving, Nancy Allen ( his wife from 1979 to 1983 ), Gary Sinise, John Lithgow, William Finley, Charles Durning, Gerrit Graham, cinematographers Stephen H. Burum and Vilmos Zsigmond ( see List of noted film director and cinematographer collaborations ), set designer Jack Fisk, and composers Bernard Herrmann, John Williams and Pino Donaggio.

* Tobler, John ( 1979 ).

* John Pardoe 1976 – 1979

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.

* John E. Hopcroft and Jeffrey D. Ullman, Introduction to Automata Theory, Languages and Computation, Addison-Wesley Publishing, Reading Massachusetts, 1979.

Notable examples include Mike Oldfield's " Guilty " ( 1979 ) Blondie's " Heart of Glass " ( 1978 ), Cher's " Hell on Wheels " and " Take Me Home " ( both 1979 ), Barry Manilow ’ s " Copacabana " ( 1978 ), David Bowie's " John I'm Only Dancing ( Again )" ( 1975 ), Rod Stewart's " Da Ya Think I'm Sexy?

" ( 1979 ), Electric Light Orchestra ’ s " Shine a Little Love ", " Don't Bring Me Down ", and " Last Train to London " ( all 1979 ), George Benson's " Give Me the Night " ( 1980 ), Elton John and Kiki Dee's " Don't Go Breaking My Heart " ( 1976 ), and Diana Ross ' " Upside Down " ( 1980 ).

In January 1979, rock critic Robert Christgau argued that homophobia, and most likely racism, were reasons behind the backlash, a conclusion seconded by John Rockwell.

* In John Barth's epistolary work, Letters ( 1979 ), the author interacts with characters from his other novels.

John Backus said during a 1979 interview with Think, the IBM employee magazine, " Much of my work has come from being lazy.

Between 1979 and 1985, under John Negroponte's appointment as U. S. diplomat from 1981 to 1985, U. S. military and economic aid to Honduras jumped from $ 31 million to $ 282 million.

In May 1979, Dr. John McMullen had agreed to buy the Astros.

John R. Miller, was Hearst president and chief executive officer from 1975 to 1979.

In August 1979, Shearer was hired as a writer and cast member on Saturday Night Live, one of the first additions to the cast, and an unofficial replacement for John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd, who were both leaving the show.

In 1979 John Elk brought Short-Form to England, teaching workshops at Jacksons Lane Theatre and was the first American to perform at The Comedy Store, London, above a Soho strip club.

The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum was dedicated on October 20, 1979.

* John Ford Noonan ( born 1943 ), American actor and writer for theater, film and television ; authored over 30 plays during 1970s, 1980s and 1990s ( A Coupla White Chicks Sitting Around Talking, 1979 )

* 1979 – Pope John Paul II first official visit to his native Poland, becoming the first Pope to visit a Communist country.

* 1898 – John Stuart, Scottish actor ( d. 1979 )

* David Hatton 1978 – 1979

In 1979, he completed his doctorate at Pembroke College, Oxford with a thesis on English Grand Strategy in the War of the Spanish Succession, 1702 – 12, supervised by N. H. Gibbs and complemented by studies under Ragnhild Hatton, Sir Michael Howard and Piers Mackesy.

Some independent Social Democrats contested the October 1974 and 1979 General Elections, but none were elected.

The rise of comic book specialty stores in the late 1970s created / paralleled a dedicated market for " independent " or " alternative comics " in the U. S. The first such comics included the anthology series Star Reach, published by comic book writer Mike Friedrich from 1974 to 1979, and Harvey Pekar's American Splendor, which continued sporadic publication into the 21st century and which Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini adapted into a 2003 film.

In the United Kingdom, the 1979 Mod revival brought with it a burst of fresh creativity from fanzines, and for the next decade, the youth subculture inspired the production of dozens of independent publications.

Eric Gairy was independent Grenada's first prime minister serving from 1974 until his overthrow in 1979.

Infocom was founded on June 22, 1979 by MIT staff and students led by Dave Lebling, Marc Blank, Albert Vezza, and Joel Berez and lasted as an independent company until 1986 when it was bought by Activision.

After he left Dead Kennedys, he took over the influential independent record label Alternative Tentacles, which he had co-founded in 1979 with Dead Kennedys bandmate East Bay Ray.

* 1979 – The island nation of Kiribati becomes independent from United Kingdom.

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

Moss led an independent and unsupported parapsychology laboratory that was shut down by the university in 1979.

However, the change had not yet been officially ratified by Britain when Rhodesia declared itself independent, and as a result, the British Government continued to refer to the breakaway colony as " Southern Rhodesia " throughout its existence, a stance it maintained regarding the June – December 1979 successor state of Zimbabwe Rhodesia.

It was created by the Chinese government to alleviate social, economic, and environmental problems in China, and authorities claim that the policy has prevented more than 250 million births between 1980 and 2000, and 400 million births from about 1979 to 2011 ; this claim is disputed by two independent scholars, who put the number of prevented births from 1979 to 2009 at 100 million | author = Chen Wei | title = Sex Ratios at Birth in China | year = 2005 | accessdate = 2 March 2009

Saint Lucia became independent in 1979.

Tuvalu became fully independent in 1978 and in 1979 signed a treaty of friendship with the United States, which recognized Tuvalu's possession of four small islands formerly claimed by the United States.

Historically, there have been three major periods of declaring independence: the years from 1776 to the Revolutions of 1848 in Europe ; the immediate aftermath of the First World War with the breakup of the Ottoman and Austro-Hungarian empires ; and the decades from to 1945 to 1979, when seventy newly independent states emerged from the wreckage of the European colonial empires.

However North Vietnam was largely independent from the Soviet Union and China, in 1979 Vietnam fought against China in a brief war.

* Perennial Pictures Film Corporation, an independent American animated cartoon studio founded in 1979

Founded in 1979 by Bob and Harvey Weinstein and headquartered in New York City and Cambridge, Massachusetts, Miramax was a leading independent film motion picture distribution and production company before it was acquired by The Walt Disney Company in 1993.

Founded by the brothers Harvey and Bob Weinstein in Buffalo, New York in 1979, the company was named by combining the first names of their parents Max and Miriam, and was originally created to distribute independent films deemed commercially unfeasible by the major studios.

Oklahoma is a 1979 independent 16mm film by James Benning, an instructor at the California Institute of the Arts.

Between December 25, 1979, and February 15, 1989, a total of 620, 000 soldiers served with the forces in Afghanistan ( though there were only 80, 000 – 104, 000 serving at one time ): 525, 000 in the Army, 90, 000 with border troops and other KGB sub-units, 5, 000 in independent formations of MVD Internal Troops, and police forces.

As a result 1979 saw the first independent ( non-PRI ) communist deputies in the Congress of Mexico.

Alternative Tentacles is an independent record label originally based in San Francisco, California and was established in 1979.

Among his most important works are Metastaseis ( 1953 – 4 ) for orchestra, which introduced independent parts for every musician of the orchestra ; percussion works such as Psappha ( 1975 ) and Pléïades ( 1979 ); compositions that introduced spatialization by dispersing musicians among the audience, such as Terretektorh ( 1966 ); electronic works created using Xenakis's UPIC system ; and the massive multimedia performances Xenakis called polytopes.

In 1967 a much more up to date car, the 1100, appeared with front wheel drive and independent suspension all round, and continued in production until 1979.