In 1979, the title to the landfill was transferred from the city to the Battery Park City Authority, which financially restructured itself and created a new, more viable master plan, designed by Alex Cooper and Stanton Eckstut.

Another teaching method is a bilingual approach by Div Yezh (" Two Languages ") in the State schools, created in 1979, and Dihun (" Awakening ") in the Catholic schools, created in 1990.

In November 1979, the Transitional Government of National Unity ( GUNT ) was created with a mandate to govern for 18 months.

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.

* Axel Pressbutton created by Steve Moore in ( 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.

Sylvester Stallone created one of the most successful sports drama franchises with Rocky ( 1976 ) and also directed the sequel Rocky II ( 1979 ).

The series was loosely based on the original 1979 series, Mobile Suit Gundam, created by Yoshiyuki Tomino and Hajime Yatate.

In 1979, after writing multiple short-stories for the magazine Action, Otomo created his first science-fiction work, titled Fireball.

In 1979, before the end of the anime, Yoshiyuki Tomino himself created the first novelizations of the original Gundam anime series.

It is created by article 3 ( 1 ) of the Perjury ( Northern Ireland ) Order 1979 ( S. I.

In Iran, the 1979 revolution overthrew the monarchy and created an Islamic Republic based the ideas of Islamic democracy.

# The Kingdom of Ansteorra was created in 1979 from the Kingdom of Atenveldt.

Button Badge created by Cook ( circa 1979 ) for his band Disque Attack in which he played drums and for whom he was later lead vocalist.

The instrument's development picked up speed in late 1978 / early 1979, when NED created system upgrades, advanced capabilities, and unique sounds that were tailored to fit the needs of the product for the commercial music industry.

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

When the canton of Jura was created in 1979, the district of Laufental became an enclave of the canton of Bern.

** HIH Princess Fatma Neslişah Osmanoğlu Sultan ( Istanbul, Nişantaşı, Nişantaşı Palace, 4 February 1921 – 1 April 2012 ), married in Heliopolis Palace, Cairo, on 26 September 1940 to her cousin HE Damat HH Prince / HRH Prince Muhammad Abdel Moneim Beyefendi ( Alexandria, Montaza Palace, 20 February 1899 – Istanbul, 1 / 2 December 1979, buried in Cairo ), Heir Apparent to the Throne of Egypt from 1899 to 1914, created HH in 1922, created HRH in 1952, Regent of Egypt from 1952 to 1953, and had issue.

The game was created in 1979 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, by Canadian Chris Haney, a photo editor for Montreal's The Gazette and Scott Abbott, a sports editor for The Canadian.

Palitoy created a heavy card version of the Death Star as a playset for the vintage range of action figures in 1979 in the UK, Australia and Canada.

In 1979 Prince created a band which included André Cymone on bass, Dez Dickerson on guitar, Gayle Chapman and Doctor Fink on keyboards, and Bobby Z. on drums.

Before the separate federal Department of Education was created in 1979, it was called the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare ( HEW ).

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 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