However, a referendum on devolution in 1979 was unsuccessful as it did not achieve the support of 40 % of the electorate ( despite a small majority of those who voted supporting the proposal.

However, a referendum on devolution in 1979 was unsuccessful as it did not achieve the necessary support of 40 per cent of the electorate ( despite a small majority of those who voted supporting the proposal ) and the SNP went into electoral decline during the 1980s.

It was also voted the " Best Japanese Film ever " in a 1979 Kinema Junpo critics ’ poll.

Though he voted with the Conservatives in a vote of confidence that brought down the Labour government on 28 March, Powell did not welcome the victory of Margaret Thatcher in the May 1979 election.

Powell voted against the reinstitution of the death penalty in 1969, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1979, 1983 and 1987.

He continued to argue his own causes: in 1978 to 1979 he voted against his own government over 100 times, despite a three-line whip.

Suwanee was the practicing home of the Atlanta Falcons football team from 1979 to 2001 and was voted among the Top 10 Best Places to Live by Money in 2007.

On December 6, 1979 the village board voted to accept the lower priority status and the sewer project was abandoned.

The town's new owners wanted the utilities to be in public ownership, so local residents voted to incorporate in 1979.

The town voted to incorporate in 1979.

A box office hit earning over $ 73 million ( making the movie the 9th highest-grossing of 1979 ), The Jerk has been praised as not only one of Steve Martin's best comedic efforts, but also one of the funniest of all motion pictures: In 2000, readers of Total Film magazine voted The Jerk the 48th greatest comedy film of all time.

Dana also performed extensively in cabaret venues and was voted Top Female Vocalist at the National Club Acts Awards in 1979.

At the end there is a caption stating that in the 1979 General Election Howard Kirk voted Conservative.

NHL owners voted down a 1977 plan to merge six WHA teams ( the Edmonton Oilers, New England Whalers, Quebec Nordiques, Cincinnati Stingers, Houston Aeros, and Winnipeg Jets ) into the NHL before a 1979 merger was approved.

In 1978 the split was made official when the Swiss people voted in favour of it, and in 1979 the Jura joined the Swiss Confederation as a full member.

He was voted to the 1970s All-Decade First Team after the 1979 season.

In the mid 1970s, seminal British comedy team Monty Python switched their attention to films, beginning with Monty Python and the Holy Grail ( 1975 ), followed by Monty Python's Life of Brian ( 1979 ), the latter regularly voted the funniest film of all time by the British public.

" Mary Lee Settle was also one of the founders after controversy at the 1979 National Book Award, when PEN voted a boycott on the ground that they were too commercial.

In 1979, with Sheila Horne & Jeanette McGruder, she released the top single " Never Buy Texas From A Cowboy ," voted by Rolling Stone 2001 as one of the top 50 coolest albums ever released.

Iran voted by national referendum to become an Islamic Republic on April 1, 1979, and to approve a new democratic-theocratic hybrid constitution whereby Khomeini became Supreme Leader of the country, in December 1979.

In 1976, the General Convention of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America voted to approve the ordination of women to the priesthood and to the episcopate and also provisionally adopted a new and doctrinally controversial Book of Common Prayer, later called the 1979 version.

Track & Field News and Athletics Weekly magazines voted Coe Athlete of the Year, an honour he had also won in 1979.

Although Scotland voted in favour of the Act in a referendum on 1 March, 1979, the Labour Government in London refused to accept the result, and repealed the Act, inadvertently causing its own downfall when the Scottish National Party refused to support it in a later vote of no confidence.

Some of these have explored and offered accounts of Christie's disappearance in 1926, including the 1979 film Agatha ( with Vanessa Redgrave, where she sneaks away to plan revenge against her husband ) and the Doctor Who episode " The Unicorn and the Wasp " ( with Fenella Woolgar, her disappearance being the result of her suffering a temporary breakdown due to a brief psychic link being formed between her and an alien ).

He was a central figure in the resistance against the Soviet occupation between 1979 and 1989 and in the following years of civil war.

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.

She contested the seat of Burnley in Lancashire in the 1979 general election and then, against David Owen, the Plymouth Devonport seat in the 1983 general election.

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.

Internal dissent within the government led Prime Minister Habré to send his forces against Malloum's national army in the capital in February 1979.

Between April 17, and April 19, 1979 a number of elementary school students were arrested after they had protested against wearing the expensive, government-required school uniforms.

Egyptian president Sadat in 1979 after signing of Camp David peace accord severed military and economic relations with the USSR ( by that time the USSR provided a lot of assistance to Egypt and supported it in all its military operations against Israel ).

On July 12, 1979, an anti-disco protest in Chicago called " Disco Demolition Night " had shown that an angry backlash against disco and its culture had emerged in the United States.

In 1979 Sonia brought a High Court action against Harrison who had in the meantime transferred 75 % of the company's voting stock to himself and had dissipated much of the value of the company.

Banks had a short career in management with Alliance Premier League side Telford United, he spent the 1979 – 80 season before being sacked after losing to a cup match against a team lower down the table.

In 1980 and again in 1981, Gaynor released two disco albums which were virtually ignored in the United States due to the backlash against disco, which began late in 1979.

Years later, in a 1997 CNN / National Security Archive interview, Brzezinski detailed the strategy taken by the Carter administration against the Soviets in 1979:

In 1979 the Soviet Union deployed its 40th Army into Afghanistan, attempting to suppress an Islamic rebellion against an allied Marxist regime in the Afghan Civil War.

In 1979, they advanced to the final of the European Cup defeating AS Monaco, Dynamo Kiew, Wisla Krakow and Austria Vienna but lost in the final at the Munich Olympic Stadium against Nottingham Forest by a single goal just before half time scored by Trevor Francis.

Although officially denied by the Nigerian government, Nigeria is known to have also provided secret military training at the Kaduna first mechanized army division and provided other material support to Joshua Nkomo and Robert Mugabe's guerrilla forces during the Rhodesian Bush War ( Renamed Zimbabwe in 1979 ) of independence against white minority rule of Prime Minister Ian Douglas Smith which was armed and financed by the regime in South Africa.

Post-independence, it has fought three wars against India, several border skirmishes with Afghanistan and against the Soviet Union which occupied Afghanistan in 1979, and an extended border skirmish with India in 1999 ( Kargil War ) and is currently conducting anti-terrorist operations along the border areas of Afghanistan.

In 1979, Kamal began a campaign against Soviet forces and the Soviet-supported government of Afghanistan.

In 1979 the Center brought the first of its many cases against various Ku Klux Klan type organizations.

New elections were called in 1979 with Rene against barriester Robert Frichot.

Engagements since 1979 have included the Islamic uprising in Syria ( 1979 – 82 ), notably including the Hama Massacre, the 1982 Lebanon War ( against Israel ), and the despatch of the 9th Armoured Division to Saudi Arabia in 1990-91, ahead of the 2.

They opened the 1979 season 6 – 2 and were 10 – 5 heading into the season finale at Texas Stadium, against whom a win would assure a playoff spot and a possible NFC East title.