Monsanto had working along the same lines and struck a deal with Genentech in 1979 to license Genentech's patents and collaborate on development of a recombinant version of BST-a process on which Monsanto would invest $ 300 million.

Nevertheless Thom's legacy remains strong, Krupp wrote in 1979, " Almost singlehandedly he has established the standards for archaeo-astronomical fieldwork and interpretation, and his amazing results have stirred controversy during the last three decades.

The origin of the party can be traced back to the ideological divisions in the Labour Party in the 1950s ( with its forerunner being the Campaign for Democratic Socialism established to support the Gaitskellites ), but publicly lies in the 1979 Dimbleby Lecture given by Roy Jenkins as he neared the end of his presidency of the European Commission.

On January 10, 1979, after the Vietnamese army and the KUFNS invaded Cambodia, the new People's Republic of Kampuchea ( PRK ) was established with Heng Samrin as head of state.

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.

In the year of the 60th anniversary of the Soviet cinema ( 1979 ), on April 25, a decision of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR established a commemorative " Day of the Soviet cinema ".

In the 1970s and 1980s, British studios established a reputation for great special effects in films such as Superman ( 1978 ), Alien ( 1979 ), and Batman ( 1989 ).

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.

The Arlington campus was established in 1979 by the Virginia General Assembly for the newly founded law school.

In 1979 an uneasy peace was established with Egypt, based on the Camp David Accords and in 1993 peace treaties were signed with the PLO and in 1994 with Jordan.

Category: Companies established in 1979

A presence was re-established on the mainland in 1979 following China's reform and opening up and a year later the firm established the Beijing Air Catering Company Ltd., the first foreign joint venture in the country.

By 1979, the Khmer Rouge had fled the country, while the People's Republic of Kampuchea was being established.

The history of the communist movement in Cambodia can be divided into six phases: the emergence of the Indochinese Communist Party ( ICP ), whose members were almost exclusively Vietnamese, before World War II ; the 10-year struggle for independence from the French, when a separate Cambodian communist party, the Kampuchean ( or Khmer ) People's Revolutionary Party ( KPRP ), was established under Vietnamese auspices ; the period following the Second Party Congress of the KPRP in 1960, when Saloth Sar ( Pol Pot after 1976 ) and other future Khmer Rouge leaders gained control of its apparatus ; the revolutionary struggle from the initiation of the Khmer Rouge insurgency in 1967 – 68 to the fall of the Lon Nol government in April 1975 ; the Democratic Kampuchea regime, from April 1975 to January 1979 ; and the period following the Third Party Congress of the KPRP in January 1979, when Hanoi effectively assumed control over Cambodia's government and communist party.

In 1979 another campus was established at the Zambia Institute of Technology in Kitwe.

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

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.

In 1937, Somoza assumed the presidency, while still in control of the National Guard, and established a dictatorship that his family controlled until 1979.

L. Neil Smith established the award in 1979, but it was not awarded regularly until the newly founded Libertarian Futurist Society revived it in 1982.

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The RSLMF remained a single service organisation until 1979 when the Sierra Leone Navy was established.

The FSLN overthrew Anastasio Somoza Debayle in 1979, ending the Somoza dynasty, and established a revolutionary government in its place.

In December 1979 special courts called " Tribunales Especiales " were established to speed up the processing of 7, 000-8, 000 National Guard prisoners.

Tunisia served as the headquarters of the Arab League from 1979 to 1990 and hosted the Palestine Liberation Organization's ( PLO ) headquarters from 1982 to 1993, when the PLO Executive Committee relocated to Jericho and the Palestinian Authority was established after the signing of the Oslo Accords.

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* 1979 – Edgar Sosa, Mexican boxer

* March 20 – Edgar Buchanan, American actor ( d. 1979 )

* Edgar Buchanan ( 1903 – 1979 ), who had a long career in movies and television.

* Stuntman ( Edgar Froese album ), 1979

In 1979, when Klutznick was named US secretary of commerce by President Jimmy Carter, the Canadian-American businessman Edgar Bronfman Sr. took over as acting head of the organization.

In 1979, Philip Klutznick met with Pope John Paul II, and Klutznick's successor Edgar Bronfman, Sr. was received by John Paul II in 1992 and 2003.

These included a full week of stories by an American writer, ( Edgar Allan Poe in 1975, Mark Twain in 1976 ); week-long adaptations of classic novels ( The Last Days of Pompeii in 1980, Les Miserables in 1982 ); and original dramas about historical figures ( Nefertiti in 1979, Alexander the Great in 1981 ).

Edgar Buchanan ( 1903 – 1979 ) portrayed Bean ; Jackie Loughery co-starred as Bean's niece, Letty ; Jack Buetel, who had played Billy the Kid in the film The Outlaw, appeared as Jeff Taggert ; and series producer Russell Hayden appeared as Steve, a Texas Ranger.

*" It ’ s Alright " / " Edgar Allan Poe " / " Twist and Turn " / " UFO " ( TJM, March 1979 )

* Till Death Us Do Part: A True Murder Mystery ( with Ken Hurwitz ) ( 1978 ) ( Edgar Award, 1979, Best Fact Crime book )

Previously known as Babyface with a line-up of vocalist Edgar Riley, guitarist Bobby Barth, bassist Mike Turpin and drummer Teddy Mueller, the group adopted the new title of Axe in 1979 when the band added second guitarist Michael Osborne.

In April 1979, Edgar resigned his state House seat to accept an appointment from Governor Jim Thompson as his legislative liaison.

Bea Benaderet was born April 4, 1906, Edgar Buchanan died April 4, 1979.

This novel was Follett's first successful, bestselling effort as a novelist, and it earned him the 1979 Edgar Award for Best Novel from the Mystery Writers of America.

In 1976, having recorded the live album Live Hits Harder ( which was not released until 1979 ), the Edgar Broughton Band dissolved.

* Edgar Brookes ( 1897 – 1979 )

A story told by syndicated columnists Frank Colby in 1949 and L. M. Boyd in 1979 holds that " cellar door " was Edgar Allan Poe's favorite phrase, and that the refrain Nevermore in " The Raven " was chosen as " the closest word to ' cellar door ' he could think of.

Goldman received a 1979 Edgar Award, from the Mystery Writers of America, for Best Motion Picture Screenplay.

On 12 February 1979 at St. Mary's Church, Paddington, London, he married Margaret Rosalind Messenger ( born 15 April 1948 ), daughter of Edgar Frank Messenger and Margaret Alice Black: they were divorced in 1989.

Edgar Buchanan ( March 20, 1903April 4, 1979 ) was an American actor with a long career in both film and television, most familiar today as Uncle Joe Carson from the Petticoat Junction, Green Acres and The Beverly Hillbillies television sitcoms of the 1960s.

Owens was the winner of the Mystery Writers of America Best Short Story Edgar Award for 1979 for her story " The Cloud Beneath The Eaves ", which originally appeared in the January 1978 issue of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine.

* A Year or So with Edgar ( 1979 )