* 1979 – Park Chung-hee, President of South Korea is assassinated by Korean Central Intelligence Agency head Kim Jae-kyu.

In 1979, mass anti-government demonstrations occurred nationwide, in the midst of this political turmoil, Park Chung-hee was assassinated by the director of the KCIA, Kim Jae-kyu, thus bringing the 18-year rule of military regime to an end.

* 1979 – Kim Jong-min, South Korean singer ( Koyote )

* Kim Dae Jung served one term ( 1976 – 1979 ) and in 1980 was exiled to the United States, but returned in 1985 and became President of South Korea in 1998.

Since the adoption of this form of government, Bay County has had three County Executives: Gary Majeske ( R ) ( 1979 – 1989 ), Kim Higgs ( D ) ( 1989 – 1993 ), and Thomas Hickner ( D ) ( 1993 – Present ).

While visiting North Korea in 1979 he noted that nearly all music, art, and sculpture that he observed glorified " Great Leader " Kim Il-sung, whose personality cult was then being extended to his son, " Dear Leader " Kim Jong-il.

Kim had his political rights restored in 1979 after Park was assassinated.

It was designed in 1979 by the founders of Fairlight, Peter Vogel and Kim Ryrie, and based on a dual-6800 microprocessor computer designed by Tony Furse in Sydney, Australia.

In 1979, Kim won the gold medal in the flyweight division at the CISM Amateur Boxing Championships in Caracas, Venezuela, beating Oudahi Mohammad Amin of Algeria via first round knockout in the final bout.

* Kim, Samuel S. ( 1979 ).

When the Communists came to South Vietnam, Kim and her family fled Vietnam in 1979 to Malaysia.

In May 1979, Kim Young Sam was elected as the chairman of New Democratic Party ( NDP ) despite intense behind-the-scene manueverings by KCIA to back a more pliable candidate Yi Chul-seung.

On October 3, 1979, Director Kim met the DNP Chairman Kim, hoping to find a way to avoid such development.

In the NDP's election for its chairman in 1979, KCIA backed Yi Chul-seung to prevent the election of hardliner Kim Young Sam, but Cha Ji-chul interfered in KCIA's political sabotage with its own behind-scene manueverings.

Formed in 1979 by songwriter / guitarist Kurt Bloch ( born August 28, 1960 ), and friends Lulu Gargiulo ( guitar and vocals, born October 12, 1960 ) and Kim Warnick ( bass and vocals, born April 7, 1959 ), they disbanded in 2001.

; Kim Lankford ( Original cast ) as Ginger Ward ( 1979 – 1983 ).

On October 26, 1979, Park was shot by Kim Jae-kyu, the director of the KCIA.

Devane appeared in the films McCabe & Mrs. Miller ( 1971 ) with Julie Christie and Warren Beatty ; Lady Liberty ( 1971 ) with Sophia Loren ; Family Plot ( 1976 ) directed by Alfred Hitchcock ; Marathon Man ( 1976 ) with Dustin Hoffman and Laurence Olivier ; Rolling Thunder ( 1977 ) with Tommy Lee Jones ; Red Alert ( 1977 ) with Ralph Waite, based on a novel by Harold R. " Hal " King ; The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training ( 1977 ) with Jackie Earle Haley ; Yanks ( 1979 ) with Richard Gere ; Testament ( 1983 ) with Jane Alexander ; Timestalkers ( 1987 ) with Lauren Hutton and Klaus Kinski ; Forgotten Sins ( 1996 ) with John Shea ; Exception to the Rule ( 1997 ), with Kim Cattrall and Sean Young ; Payback ( 1999 ) with Mel Gibson ; Hollow Man ( 2000 ), with Elisabeth Shue and Kevin Bacon ; and Space Cowboys ( 2000 ) with Clint Eastwood, Tommy Lee Jones, James Garner, and Donald Sutherland.

In 1979, the debut single from The Scientists was released, " Frantic Romantic ", the original line-up was Kim Salmon and Roddy Radalj on guitars and vocals, James Baker on drums and Boris Sujdovic on bass.

* 1978: Good Times .... Kim ( 2 episodes, 1978 – 1979 )

The Crocodiles evolved from The Spats, under the mentorship of US producer Kim Fowley, and were founded in 1979 in Auckland with Backhouse, Dasent, Flaws, Lawrence and Mark Hornibrook on bass guitar and songwriter Arthur Baysting.

Of many involved in various traditional cultural efforts, Myung Won, Kim Mi-Hee held the first ever Korean tea culture research and academic conference in 1979, and in the subsequent year of 1980, Myung Won held the first ever public presentation of the comprehensive procedures of traditional Korean tea ceremonies at the Sejong cultural center.

Brian Crozier claimed in his book Free Agent: The Unseen War 1941-1991 ( Harper Collins, 1993 ) that The 61 infiltrated a mole into CND in 1979.

In a 1979 interview, Townshend claimed that Moon had consumed Ketamine pills.

The nickname stuck and in 1979 Labatt Blue claimed top spot in the Canadian beer market.

In 1979 it was claimed to be a picture of an elephant ( see below ).

In a 1979 article, California biologist Dennis Power and geographer Donald Johnson claimed that the Surgeon's Photograph was in fact the top of the head, extended trunk and flared nostrils of a swimming elephant, probably photographed elsewhere and claimed to be from Loch Ness.

Powell returned to the same region in 1979, and claimed to receive further stories about " n ' yamala " from additional natives.

Sources from Pakistan claimed that Musharraf and his military government's officers were in full mood to exercise tough conditions on Sharif, was intended to sent Navaz Sharif to gallows to face similar fate as Zulfikar Ali Bhutto in 1979.

In 1979 Edward Teller contributed to a Hoover Institution publication where he claimed that the US would be facing an emboldened USSR due to their work on civil defense.

He claimed that in the fall of 1979, he and a friend were hitchhiking near Sydney, Nova Scotia, when they were picked up by Chris Haney.

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.

Caine was averaging two films a year, but these included such failures as the BAFTA Award-nominated The Magus ( 1968 ), the Academy Award-nominated The Swarm ( 1978 ), Ashanti ( 1979 ) ( which he claimed were the worst three films of all the other worst films he ever made ), Beyond the Poseidon Adventure ( 1979 ), The Island ( 1980 ), The Hand ( 1981 ) and a reunion with his Sleuth co-star Laurence Olivier in The Jigsaw Man ( 1982 ).

The case involved a group of plaintiffs who claimed to have been poisoned by dioxin in 1979 when a train derailed in Sturgeon, Missouri.

Despite often being claimed as not being released as a single, " Rosalita ( Come Out Tonight )" was in fact released as a single in the Netherlands and some other European countries in 1979.

Although he later credited Soviet research, it is claimed that he first published a paper on the abiogenic theory in 1979 without citing any of the Soviet literature on the subject.

Throughout 1979, the band developed a loyal following among British hard rock and heavy metal fans and were even initially considered the leaders of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal ( a status eventually claimed by Iron Maiden ).

King Hassan II of Morocco immediately claimed the area of Western Sahara evacuated by Mauritania ( Tiris al-Gharbiya, roughly corresponding to the southern half of Río de Oro ), which was unilaterally annexed by Morocco in August 1979.

* British author Hugh Thomas claimed ( 1979 ) that war criminal Rudolf Hess, who supposedly committed suicide in Spandau Prison, was a look-alike.

He built a home in the riding on Buffalo Lake, and was later accused of arranging for the lake to be risen so it would be better-suited for fishing ( though Adair claimed that the arrangements had been in place since 1979, when he had been Minister of Recreation, Parks and Wildlife ).

The group has been reported to have been founded by Adam Busby, a former soldier from Paisley after the 1979 devolution referendum, which the organisation claimed was fixed.

In 1979, an employee of the LDC claimed he was knocked unconscious after an alleged conflict with activities from a UFO.

The FBI considered it one of the most dangerous terrorist organizations in the United States at the time, given that it was the same organization that claimed responsibility for an attack on a Navy bus in Puerto Rico on December 3, 1979 where two Navy men were killed and 10 people injured, as well as an attack on a U. S. National Guard base on January 12, 1981 where six fighter-jet planes were destroyed.

In an open letter to Shevardnadze, dated April 19, 1992, Gamsakhurdia claimed that " my so-called confession was necessitated ... if there had been no ' confession ' and my release from the prison in 1979 had not taken place, then there would not have been a rise of the national movement.

National Front deputy leader Martin Webster claimed two decades later that the activities of the Anti-Nazi League played a key part in the NF's collapse at the end of the 1970s, but this claim seems counter-intuitive, for the Anti-Nazi League collapsed early in 1979 amid claims of financial impropriety, with former celebrity supporters such as Brian Clough disowning the organisation.